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Feb 14 2018

Health care staffing vendor Medical Solutions is acquiring PPR, which provides travel nurse staffing.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180209005321/en/Medical-Solutions-Acquire-PPR
Feb 14 2018

Physical therapy provider Agility Health is selling its US business to Alliance Physical Therapy Partners.

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/02/05/1332998/0/en/Agility-Health-Announces-Definitive-Agreement-to-sell-U-S-Based-Operations.html
Feb 14 2018

Workers' comp managed care vendor Genex is being sold by one PE firm to another one.

http://www.apax.com/news/apax-news/2018/stone-point-capital-to-acquire-genex-services-from-funds-advised-by-apax-partners/
Feb 14 2018

Tract Manager, which helps health systems with purchasing and contract management, is acquiring Equipment Management, which offers the same customers capital equipment and servicing.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/02/pe-backed-tractmanager-buys-emts/
Feb 14 2018

Health and fitness tracking wristband firm Fitbit is fit to be tied up, stringing along investors and roping them in with an acquisition of wellness firm Twine Health.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180213/NEWS/180219972?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20180213-NEWS-180219972&utm_campaign=dose
Feb 13 2018

Two urgent care chains in the NYC area are merging, as CityMD buys STAT Health.

https://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/CityMD+to+Acquire+STAT+Health+Urgent+Care/13802844.html
Feb 13 2018

Investors compulsively give $1 million in financing to nOCD, which has a mental health app to deal with obsessive compulsive disorder.

https://blog.treatmyocd.com/big-news-at-nocd-e8d78cf64b0e
Feb 13 2018

Lindacare has raised a beautiful $8.6 million to support its remote patient monitoring business.

http://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/remote-patient-monitoring-startup-lindacare-lands-86m-phillips-others
Feb 12 2018

$11 million in new capital flows to Protenus, which has software designed to help providers prevent data breaches.

https://www.protenus.com/press/press-release/protenus-raises-11m-dollars-from-f-prime-capital-kaiser-permanente-ventures
Feb 12 2018

Edaris Health, which sells software for emergency room operations, has raised an additional $3 million in capital.

https://www.whoisraisingmoney.com/edaris-health-inc
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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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