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Jun 24 2019

Health care provider payments vendor Equian is apparently being acquired by UnitedHealth Group for $3.2 billion.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/06/report-unitedhealth-picks-up-healthcare-payments-company-equian-in-3-2b-deal/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73941832&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_piS23xfyeAoq8ijveZY1dXqENe9pn4YXXw-OTyDvF2JjMBz1-qVOBPmWo29_PGbC3zpREwFLB-9ZdUB6l9NcGUZlfNU0R2g4xgG5xRe7XFschylo&_hsmi=73941832&rf=1
Jun 20 2019

Medxoom, a health care payments technology vendor, speeds up its business with $3.2 million in fresh funding.

https://www.prdistribution.com/news/medxoom-raises-32mm-to-build-healthcare-marketplaces.html
Jun 20 2019

Apricity, which says it is a virtual fertility clinic, and aren't you curious how that works, raised 6 million euros in new capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/06/virtual-fertility-clinic-apricity-lands-series-a-funding/
Jun 20 2019

Vida Health garners $3 million in a new financing round to support its digital health coaching business.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/06/vida-health-raises-30m-series-c-from-guidewell-teladoc-and-workday/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73875825&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--QSGtMCznHp3BMMURWURpDPdv5pmL4qMcgsXGgZ4vNk8aM4bFrGzFUAPM4M7OO9SrF8x3-iRQdivT9MnVk0Q9QUydGX-JCf8ePDG3N0OOhw1RRR7Q&_hsmi=73875825&rf=1
Jun 19 2019

SubjectWell, a vendor of services to help with patient recruitment for clinical trials, has raised $10 million in new capital.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190618005161/en/SubjectWell-Raises-10M-Expand-Risk-Free-Patient-Recruitment
Jun 19 2019

Cara Care, a German digital health company focused on digestive system care (if its digital does that mean stick a finger in one or the other end of your alimentary canal?) gets a $7 million financing round that includes pharma giant J & J.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/j-j-leads-7m-round-for-german-digital-health-co-cara-care?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdJNU9XVmlaVEExTXpOaSIsInQiOiJ1SzBseUhZXC9ZczNwME5RczhUMm9kVndycGNhcFdpYlFhWUp5aVhhNmRMKytVbTBsbWQ1K3FKczNNbVlOWHRYTGQ4cFRERDVDTkJMa3BLb1JrUG1nMW5TN0dwaXhYQURwWFpvK3NGZHlUZHBWRGl1TTJMNWZJK3BuVkduV3BEUGoifQ%3D%3D&mrkid=635530
Jun 18 2019

Collective Health has raised a massive $205 million round of new capital, as it grows its third-party administrator business for employee health benefit plans.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/06/collective-health-raises-205m-series-e-led-by-softbank-to-reduce-healthcares-complexity/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73783870&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_tjGzl-utagM4KIZ_Jv-0bTp6DwltxSQADw2Q55A6KJSbLbOiz4RZqY-3sSeE8Qo4_C5yT30p8ewBgTJuPN8NkLBa4ToBk0DivI-GU7HocLhjmMGQ&_hsmi=73783870&rf=1
Jun 18 2019

Accumen, which helps health systems with laboratories, blood collection and other services, is acquiring Halfpenny Technologies, a firm engaged in clinical data exchange software.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/06/accumen-buys-halfpenny-technologies/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73783870&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_tjGzl-utagM4KIZ_Jv-0bTp6DwltxSQADw2Q55A6KJSbLbOiz4RZqY-3sSeE8Qo4_C5yT30p8ewBgTJuPN8NkLBa4ToBk0DivI-GU7HocLhjmMGQ&_hsmi=73783870
Jun 17 2019

Large insurer Centene has led a $60 million investment in Quartet, which offers a comprehensive technology platform to coordinate and deliver behavioral health care.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/06/quartet-raises-60m-series-d-led-by-centene/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73711228&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_m1VUAa4IijVIR2Kv8pWgryyrustdQqqjl5P_RRG_5O9_zZr0aqWOEYHJ1z8nPYPLZlZNlCkY8qnUZoJNoUJ-gzc7qiRSrLc_-jlcHsUPkJErWYq4&_hsmi=73711228&rf=1
Jun 17 2019

EHR vendor Allscripts is buying ZappRx, apparently for less than the $40 million that venture investors put into the company.  ZappRx is supposed to help providers perform prior authorization faster.

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/information-technology/allscripts-buys-prescription-drug-startup?utm_source=modern-healthcare-daily-finance-friday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190614&utm_content=article6-headline
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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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