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May 28 2019

Cardinal Analytx garners $22 million to support its high-cost patient predictive software.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/23/cardinal-analytx-raises-22-million-to-predict-high-cost-health-plan-members/
May 22 2019

Health Monitor Network receives an undisclosed amount of additional capital to support its print and digital patient education business.

https://www.healthmonitornetwork.com/images/HM-WestView-Press-Release-5-15-19.pdf
May 22 2019

Children's behavioral health company Mightier gets stronger with an infusion of $6.6 million in capital.  Hope I won't be writing soon about how the Mightier have fallen.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/05/childrens-behavioral-health-firm-mightier-fetches-6-6-mln-series-a/
May 21 2019

Health information publisher Remedy Health Media is acquiring Vertical Health, which focuses on specialty publications for providers.

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/335991/remedy-health-media-acquires-vertical-health-crea.html
May 21 2019

Phil, Inc, which ophphers a sophtware platphorm to manage specialty farmaceuticals, garners $25 million in new phunding.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/specialty-prescription-management-provider-phil-secures-25mm-in-series-b-funding-300850546.html
May 20 2019

Discovery Health Partners, which assists health plans and others with payment solutions, is acquiring HealthMind, which offers similar services.

https://www.discoveryhealthpartners.com/discovery-health-partners-acquires-healthmind-llc/
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/
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