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Aug 29 2018

Rural Partners in Medicine, which arranges for primary care and specialty physicians to provide care in rural areas, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from a PE firm.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/08/lcm-invests-in-rural-partners-in-medicine/
Aug 27 2018

One Medical, which offers a technology-based platform for health care, including virtual visits and in-person provider offices, garners a massive new investment of $350 million.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/one-medical-raises-350-million-from-carlyle-group-to-help-double-up-offices-and-offerings/
Aug 27 2018

Paladina Health gathers a whopping $165 million in capital to support its direct primary care model of providing health benefits.  Any pal a Dina is a pal of mine with that kind of checkbook.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paladina-health-receives-165m-investment-from-nea-and-new-investors-300701392.html
Aug 23 2018

RDMD, which has a data platform to help with research on rare diseases and to manage patients with those diseases, gets some initial financing of $3 million.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/rare-disease-cro-and-health-record-startup-rdmd-raises-3m-funding?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTldNd1lUSXpabVF5TURjNCIsInQiOiJcLzYwM0R6SHBcL2lESXFYbkF1U0FZdmpsN0VyUk1DdlZJWU1wUTkrWFZib3NoOE5xUVFJVVlNNVFCY3phVmVRN2toVDV2MUJQbHhDelR2QjFWVmJzUUR5bkVQa2t4cTVSUUp5NFlMR3lrVFNvbFRyMnVXejMyb3YzdHVZQ3FoYnlYIn0%3D&mrkid=635530
Aug 22 2018

InquisitiHealth has asked for and received about $4 million in funding to create peer mentors to help people manage their health and wellness.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/08/inquisithealth-funding-population-health/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=65369320&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_ajETvdFk0mLm984JySRT1SyyuoHMbvis0BHzG84n4ooT4iKPcR_n31Anj02hSPljhDUzzGlgs3A37M6Zw1LF7rWotMnW2AbQJmSjjqNvaGSVaxv4&_hsmi=65369320&rf=1
Aug 21 2018

WellBrain is acquiring Mevoked, and investors will hopefully combine the names and get "Woked".  WellBrain has apps to help with chronic pain management and Mevoked has apps to help women with pregnancy, a natural fit since the product of pregnancy often creates pain for the parents.  Well, Brainy investors, Me has joked enough.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wellbrain-founded-by-3-harvard-stanford-and-mayo-clinic-trained-physicians-expands-its-reach-as-one-of-the-largest-clinically-validated-digital-chronic-pain-management-and-addiction-prevention-tools-with-recent-mevoked-acquis-300697724.html
Aug 21 2018

Olive (formerly known as CrossChx) gets out of the pits, oiling its way to $32.8 million in fresh funding for its artificial intelligence solution to automate certain health care provider tasks.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/30/olive-f-k-a-crosschx-closes-32-8-million-series-d-financing/
Aug 20 2018

HealthMyne has secured $15 million in new capital for its clinical decision support system for radiology and oncology.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180801005016/en/HealthMyne-Raises-15-Million-Series-Expand-Commercialization?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRNeU5EazJNbVF5T0RZMiIsInQiOiJQNEk2ZmFsRGlWOFhJdDlBOXRHUUFDN0xnUlJwTThhMHFNUXN3NlM3MFVsRTBHUkVTcWhlZXU1MjVMU2FhUWZuYlptbEtyRFwvNkdnS1FESmVWYWdSMEc1VUpha1Y2aFhwWFRhbldMQlNJQXFNaFRcL0pIaFwvZkdyMU0zb1orZ0I2ZSJ9
Aug 20 2018

AxiaMed, which offers point-of-care patient payment software, finds $12.4 million in new funding.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180814005734/en/AxiaMed-Announces-12.4-Million-Capital-Investment-Led
Aug 20 2018

Medisys, a Canadian provider of health and wellness services through employers, has been sold to the Telus Corporation, a large Canadian telecommunications company.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/08/pcp-sells-medisys-to-telus/
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