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Aug 15 2019

Aspirion, which aspires to get larger, is buying Specialized Healthcare Partners, which helps providers collect on complex claims.  Aspirion provides other revenue cycle management services to providers.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/08/pe-backed-aspirion-merges-with-specialized-healthcare-partners/
Aug 15 2019

Buoy Health floats a fresh $15 million in financing for its website that uses, guess what, AI, to help consumers find health information, because there just aren't enough websites like that already.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/08/buoy-health-raises-15-mln/
Aug 12 2019

Medstreaming, a vendor of software and analytics to improve hospital workflows, raised $22.6 million in new funding.

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/healthcare-software-maker-medstreaming-raises-cash-help-hospitals-researchers-analyze-data/
Aug 09 2019

Experian Healthcare, a subsidiary of the credit reporting giant, has acquired MyHealthDirect, a provider of patient scheduling software.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/08/experian-healthcare-acquires-scheduling-services-company-myhealthdirect/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=75529340&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_CPVQ6T6VuGh1tcHmBDrunc2x1fWmQXndL6jBzmgEIBSI872n8VW--SYpsXFcyqGT3n87w6EwXP9m2SBkWTpks_I3W5BC_5KVXfHPIf8EWE8Wxc40&_hsmi=75529340&rf=1
Aug 07 2019

Sidecar Health motors along, raising $18 million in new capital for its health insurance plan that will begin operations in Texas.  The company claims that its plans will cost 40% less and let consumers see any provider, etc., etc.  Sounds too good to be true and it undoubtedly is.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190806005764/en/Sidecar-Health-Raises-18-Million-Financing-Launches
Aug 05 2019

Accolade, which supposedly helps patients "navigate" the medical care system, wins plaudits for acquiring MD Insider, which offers data on provider quality and cost.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/08/care-navigation-company-accolade-acquires-provider-data-startup-md-insider/
Aug 05 2019

UK-based Babylon Health shows that digital health investment derangement syndrome is apparently worldwide, as the telehealth firm raises $550 million in new capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/08/babylon-health-rakes-in-550-mln/
Aug 01 2019

Shields, a provider of on-site specialty pharmacies for health systems, has received an undisclosed amount of financing from a group that includes Walgreens.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190731005125/en/Shields-Health-Solutions-Receives-Equity-Investments-Welsh
Jul 31 2019

Physician staffing firm Sound Physicians hears the market and calls an audible, acquiring iNDIGO Partners, a Michigan telemedicine and hospitalist staffing firm.

https://soundphysicians.com/press/sound-physicians-acquires-indigo-health-partners/
Jul 31 2019

Hello Heart, a vendor of another digital heart health tracker, raises $12 million in new financing.  I have no clue why investors think we need the 400th iteration of this digital tracking crap that no one is going to find long-term value in.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/30/hello-heart-raises-12-million-to-improve-employees-heart-disease-outcomes/
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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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