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May 20 2019

Health at Scale gets a weighty $16 million round of financing, all coming from the Optum division of UnitedHealth, to fund its artificial intelligence software to match patients with treatments.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/17/healthatscale-lands-16m-series-a-to-use-machine-learning-for-more-precise-healthcare/
May 20 2019

Financial giant JP Morgan is acquiring InstaMed, which helps providers collect cost-sharing amounts from patients and coordinates payments with insurers.  The price is supposedly around $500 million.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/05/jpmorgan-chase-acquires-healthcare-payments-fintech-instamed/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=72811050&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8zwAN8qxr5Xs3xJZhJhHqYiA5KWkIRpChLrh7aSH4w0LRw-eX1NzetwWQK2M2mzE4jZKXEiQUIPufK0OlP9tdE5pLwVwhSMzgWUXjZopG6FEKZDPU&_hsmi=72811050
May 20 2019

Meditation training company Core calmly acquires $4 million in initial capital.

https://www.hellocore.com/press.html
May 17 2019

Another of those deals where a company gets traded from one PE to another, in this case AccentCare, which helps manage post-acute care services.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/05/oak-hill-capital-to-exit-accentcare/
May 17 2019

BHE, which provides data analytics for life sciences firms, has raised a fresh $78 million in capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/05/healthcare-analytics-firm-bhe-racks-up-78-mln/
May 17 2019

MDmetrix, a spinout from Seattle Children's Hospital, garners $3 million in fresh capital for its data analytics and visualization business.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/05/seattle-childrens-hospital-spinout-mdmetrix/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=72785413&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9llMb-8d1DVe85-5cMtZqOYTggUPcoJnQTSybtdZvqFIqp6Ko7Ks_3ro4_p1X8XqZG5n11yBEO2a2lsKDm68JazV_nmdxU9tWJJ3nAJHMI3FsKSgI&_hsmi=72785413&rf=1
May 17 2019

Solera Health won't be going it alone, raising $42 million in new capital to support matching patients with providers and treatment plans for chronic diseases.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/15/solera-health-raises-42-million-to-match-patients-with-chronic-conditions-to-treatment-plans/
May 16 2019

You literally cannot make some of this stuff up.  Listen to this gibberish.  Hu-manity.co (yes, that is some marketer's idea of a good company name), wait it gets better, which describes itself as "bringing individuals and corporations into a consumer inclusive data economy", huh?, but actually does something around blockchain and authentication for health care companies, is acquiring Betterpath, which says it can access currently inaccessible health-related data to help with research.  The end result, we are told, will be a company that creates "a powerful combination of Consumer Consent as a Service and healthcare's untapped datasets."  Fire your PR firm right now, don't think about, don't delay, just fire them.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190430005283/en/Hu-manity.co-Acquires-Betterpath-Health-Empowering-Patients-Access
May 15 2019

RLDatix and iContracts are merging to become RLiD (no, they aren't using a silly name like that), to create a company that offers patient safety, quality improvement, compliance and risk management software.

http://www.rldatix.com
May 15 2019

Trusted Health secures $20 million in new funding for a nurse career platform.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trusted-health-secures-20-million-in-series-a-funding-to-reinvent-employment-marketplace-for-nursing-professionals-300843853.html
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