A PE firm is acquiring the majority interest in Health-E Commerce, which operates pre-tax dollar shopping sites for health care and wellness products and services.
Simplyr, which offers health care governance and compliance software, is buying API Healthcare, which provides human capital software for health care companies.
Qualcomm is the latest non-health care company to realize maybe it doesn't know what it is doing in the space, selling its connected health businesses to a PE firm, which will call them Capsule Technologies and 2net.
Hospital chain Providence St. Joseph is buying Lumedic, a revenue cycle management vendor which uses blockchain technology. Hope they don't end up feeling like blockheads.
Ideal Option achieves the best choice of financing, securing an undisclosed amount of new capital from the Blue Cross Venture fund for its opioid addiction treatment services.
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