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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/
May 08 2018

Takeda is buying Shire for $62 million, uniting two large drugmakers and probably ensuring even higher drug prices as a result.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/takeda-pharmaceutical-agrees-to-buy-shire-in-62-billion-deal-1525761607
May 08 2018

Home health care vendor Cera, which is based in the UK, has raised $17 million in a funding round.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/homecare-services-startup-cera-announces-17m-series-a/
May 08 2018

Telemedicine startup DashMd quickly speeds to funding, getting $500,000 to help hospitals help patients with care after discharge.

https://betakit.com/dash-md-raises-500000-to-help-hospitals-communicate-aftercare-to-patients/
May 08 2018

Wellness technology vendor GlobalFit has acquired a majority interest in WalkMyMind, which offers "walkcasts" through a mobile app.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/globalfit-acquires-majority-stake-in-walkmymind-300634098.html
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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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