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Aug 01 2018

Patient Wisdom gets $1 million in new financing to support its patient engagement programs.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/07/patientwisdom-1m/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=64886494&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_hVbB_iSlpy9DMMUG73_lWCrhVYuUPYS7HuxND2b0h1JW0Adtxsl_ljT335037GtG-ALMyDSTbZAHkpRpeychBKFVAok66toqkZ8rC58N4OKVbOBw&_hsmi=64886494&rf=1
Jul 30 2018

Health Gorilla, which is creating a nationwide clinical information sharing network, isn't monkeying around as it apes the SureScript capability, raising $8.2 million.

https://www.pr.com/press-release/757601?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1Oak9USTNNak00WldZMSIsInQiOiJJYjBlMVdRSFBSTUNlc0w1ckRyZVdKUVk2c01rMVZMNmtSYzYwcEFKbExDaldwRGlNRzVkYWJ1SmN4NWFYR3NcL2NIejhUUWRTR2JHUzdFSGNKckZIeG5XKytjQWpLSUZaRm5OR21id1E1TUxmMGNCS1JRVXRabFo5aGdyeUNuc0YifQ%3D%3D
Jul 26 2018

HealthCrowd secures $7 million in fresh financing for its communications as a service platform, which helps health plans and providers engage patients or something like that.

https://www.prweb.com/releases/healthcrowd_lands_7_million_in_growth_equity_to_become_the_de_facto_healthcare_communications_platform/prweb15648476.htm
Jul 26 2018

$28 million gets poured into Patientco, which offers software to help providers collect payments from patients.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/07/patientco-nets-28-mln-series-b-in-accel-kkr-led-round/
Jul 26 2018

TwelveStone Health Partners gets a heavy $4.3 investment for its chronic care medication services, including infusion centers.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/07/claritas-capital-invests-4-3-mln-in-twelvestone/
Jul 25 2018

After just raising over $290 million, telehealth vendor American Well adds another $75 million in capital and announces deals with Samsung and Anthem.  Given the astonishing amount of total capital that has gone into the firm, there is no way new investors get a decent return.

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2018/07/19/american-well-discloses-75m-investment-as-it.html
Jul 25 2018

Investors join the League team, as the firm raises $62 million (that's Canadian dollars) for expansion of its health benefits infrastructure for employers.  Apparently a fair amount of that money went to a PR firm that wrote one of the most hype-filled releases ever.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/league-inc-raises-c62m-to-transform-health-benefits-market-300685191.html
Jul 25 2018

Beddr (get it, oh that is soooo clever) raises $5.6 million to support development and commercialization of a wearable that measures sleep-related variables and provides analytics.  The investors need to wake up.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/07/beddr-product-sleep/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=64708403&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_Jzzvoipt-dkYnCMH0CASFpjU2iC69_9VWMpkXrX22wK5JmyxE5tINqKC5tAGTEE1Rs8EeQpCga4ux9aDKrkb2EV2P1ZiVKhFZFoDMtpBZh5hwajI&_hsmi=64708403&rf=1
Jul 24 2018

Madaket Health reels in $10 million in new capital for its software to smooth provider/payer data interchange.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/07/madaket-health-10m-data-exchange/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=64672115&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_8Rt9iPxUeA0WH3VUxq2Mly888G5VZpP4izSgVg6YxY_OEVZTM2TQTl1GsfjLX-L6Z8NSQKQ9JxJ-y3hITcURQDlWRnu29vYg6aXEJONs-eyXmXwY&_hsmi=64672115&rf=1
Jul 23 2018

PE firm Apollo is buying hospital chain LifePoint Health for around $5.6 billion, and will merge it with RCCH Healthcare Partners, which also operates a set of health systems.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180723005205/en/LifePoint-Health-Merge-RCCH-HealthCare-Partners
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