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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/
Feb 07 2019

Health Catalyst, which offers data warehousing and analytics for health plans and providers, has raised another $100 million in financing.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/02/health-catalyst-racks-up-100-mln-in-orbimed-led-round/
Feb 07 2019

A study in the Annals of Surgery focuses on improving handoffs from surgery and studied the use of standardized handoff forms and processes.  While the completeness of information improved, handoff took longer, i.e., cost more, and there was no improvement in mortality or length of stay.  Costs more and no real improvement in outcomes; sound like a lot of so-called quality improvement.

https://insights.ovid.com/crossref?an=00000658-900000000-95308
Feb 07 2019

Aetion, a provider of analytics and software to help providers with value-based reimbursement, raises an addition $27 million in financing.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-health-care-leaders-back-aetion-with-27-million-strategic-investment-300789385.html
Feb 06 2019

Meditation app vendor Calm calls up a collected $88 million in new capital, apparently valuing the firm at around $1 billion.  How can I stay calm when I have to read about crap like this.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/05/calm-raises-88-million-valuing-the-meditation-app-at-1-billion.html
Feb 06 2019

Healthy.io pees itself with excitement, as it raises $18 million for an app that uses a smartphone to help do urinalysis.  So don't we be surprised when you see people using their phones to take pictures of their pee.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/02/healthy-io-raises-18m-to-bring-smartphone-urinalysis-tech-to-u-s/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=69644103&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_mA-3zRDFNPg8CWTNmmnjvpBMIbqtbi0pPi7M67WeZuBgc_iNzYBVAatKHO0CJjrJX-BkKbxagxyNtG6m9D0F65Smlpabfku1YVHFzaiHva4Mvx4g&_hsmi=69644103&rf=1
Feb 06 2019

Clinical communication and collaboration software vendor Perfect Serve hopes it aces M & A, acquiring two firms, one is Lightning Bolt which does physician shift scheduling, and the other is CareWire, which does text messaging for patient engagement.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/02/perfectserve-acquires/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=69644103&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_mA-3zRDFNPg8CWTNmmnjvpBMIbqtbi0pPi7M67WeZuBgc_iNzYBVAatKHO0CJjrJX-BkKbxagxyNtG6m9D0F65Smlpabfku1YVHFzaiHva4Mvx4g&_hsmi=69644103
Feb 05 2019

Health insurance broker and agent software platform Limelight Health steals the spotlight, getting $33 million in new capital.

https://limelighthealth.com/series-c-funding-announcement/
Feb 05 2019

Bioinformatics company Qiagen is acquiring N-of-one, giving a trial to its oncology genomics and treatment pathways business.

https://corporate.qiagen.com/newsroom/press-releases/2019/20190107_qiagen_acquires_n_of_one
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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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