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Feb 27 2019

Crossover Health, which operates worksite clinics for employers, seeks further guidance, acquiring Sherpaa, which provides telemedicine-based primary care.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/02/employee-clinic-company-crossover-health-snaps-up-telemedicine-startup-sherpaa/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=70296852&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8nM53kqxDwaS9QkCIxRdIRAKO4JIfRwOkos2d_CvMZM24HqJB9piSbmvVY6vYoA1rKjrASkxCZJJonPq7F76GqtICpOtPdiqwQORxawbQ6Kc1-Cn0&_hsmi=70296852&rf=1
Feb 22 2019

Just in time for Oscars weekend, we have a new winner in the category of Press Release with the Most Gibberish, as Clareto announces a new round of financing for its health information exchange product that helps with medical underwriting, or something.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190221005803/en/Clareto-Closes-Series-Financing
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
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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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