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May 11 2018

Suki gets $20 million in new capital to provide a digital assistant to help doctors treat patients.

https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2018/suki-funding-voice-assistant-doctors-investment/
May 10 2018

Coviu gets $1 million in a financing round aimed at providing in-home video consultations for patients.

https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2018/Coviu-raises-1m-interactive-digital-consultations-healthcare-sector
May 10 2018

mPulse Mobile has a heartbeat, securing another $11 million in capital for its mobile app that supposedly engages and motivates consumers around health.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/05/prweb15466485.htm
May 10 2018

Allocate Software garners an undisclosed amount of investment from a PE firm to support growth of its health care staffing business.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/04/vista-invests-allocate-software/
May 10 2018

Owlet wisely hoots up a fresh $24 million in capital to support its baby sleep monitoring and biometric information provision to helicopter parents.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/05/prweb15471693.htm
May 09 2018

Casetabs reels in $6 million in fresh capital for its surgery coordination software.

https://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2018/05/03/health-care-startup-casetabs-raises-funding.html
May 09 2018

Lyra Health pulls in another $45 billion for its service of helping coordinate mental health care.

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/05/07/1497386/0/en/Lyra-Health-Secures-45-Million-In-Series-B-Financing-To-Deliver-Effective-Mental-Health-Care-To-Employees.html
May 09 2018

Relax, just dial up a massage from Soothe, which raises $32 million to provide on-demand massage therapy from a network.  Keep your dirty thoughts to yourself.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/massage-on-demand-company-soothe-raises-31-million/
May 09 2018

Wellist connects patients to non-medical support services (using guess what, an app!  who would have thought?) and raises $10 million in a new funding round.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wellist-closes-10-million-series-a-funding-300644611.html
May 09 2018

Johnson & Johnson is acquiring C-SATS, a startup which provides performance grades skills training technology for surgeons.

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/johnson-johnson-acquires-c-sats-university-washington-spinout-grades-surgeon-performance/
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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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