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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/
Jul 29 2019

Ciox Health, which offers software to organize and exchange health data, has raised $30 million.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190725005103/en/Ciox-Secures-Equity-Investment-Merck-Global-Health
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