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Feb 21 2019

PursueCare gets an undisclosed amount of funding to build a telehealth service to treat opioid addiction.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/pursuecare-raises-growth-round-to-launch-telehealth-opioid-addiction-treatment-network-1027945125
Feb 21 2019

PatientOne reels in investor one, getting $1.2 million in seed money for remote surgical patient monitoring.

https://missoulian.com/news/local/missoula-health-care-execs-get-m-in-venture-capital-for/article_68fc851d-6f9d-59f9-9f7f-8fd2accd169f.html
Feb 21 2019

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.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/02/bpoc-invests-in-health-e-commerce/
Feb 21 2019

Simplyr, which offers health care governance and compliance software, is buying API Healthcare, which provides human capital software for health care companies.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/02/clearlake-backed-symplr-to-buy-api-healthcare/
Feb 20 2019

Covera Health, which uses analytics to help ensure appropriate diagnoses, gets $8.5 million in new financing.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190219005318/en/Covera-Health-Announces-Series-Financing-8.5-Million
Feb 20 2019

NarrativeDx talks investors into handing over $3 million for its software that helps hospitals analyze patient reviews, comments and complaints.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/02/narrativedx-raises-3m/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=70077312&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--deXJxO8g8G9MEvPRYtCc2kvuCmsJrkWHLbapplCaET4Kmbcf3drZd2fvU_tuefk2KvMq4c3wnLoAfXHmHXSD2yXOA3VpaigYMU2uQTobDyS7eg3g&_hsmi=70077312&rf=1
Feb 12 2019

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.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/02/qualcomm-sells-off-its-connected-health-business-to-private-equity-firm/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=69816381&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8IcliRcXsY0jNP0HJb5oqq3Rh1UA1bbJo8fFgk5wv-H89V9s6g9Td1A5henM_6UcPH-wP24tn8egbjcG1en83bDkmjVJXSlDA5nRPsYxTztndP8mI&_hsmi=69816381&rf=1
Feb 11 2019

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.

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20190209/NEWS/190209929?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20190209-NEWS-190209929&utm_campaign=am
Feb 08 2019

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.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190206005206/en/Ideal-Option-Secures-Minority-Investment-BlueCross-BlueShield
Feb 08 2019

Physician social media platform Sermo has been recapped, i.e. acquired, by a PE firm.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/02/abry-recaps-physicians-social-platform-sermo/
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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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