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Feb 16 2018

Pharmaceutical giant Roche is buying Flatiron Health, which has an oncology specific EHR and analytic platform, for an astounding $1.9 billion.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/15/roche-buying-flatiron-health-backed-by-alphabet.html
Feb 15 2018

Signallamp, which provides nurse case managers to help doctors with care management, has raised an undisclosed amount of expansion capital.

https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/prnewswire/press_releases/Pennsylvania/2018/02/13/PH13312
Feb 15 2018

BurstIQ, gets a smart $5 million investment to support its health care data blockchain technology.  We knew that new hype word would get to health care eventually.

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/02/08/1336372/0/en/Healthcare-Blockchain-Data-Company-BurstIQ-Secures-5-Million-Investment-by-Millennium-Blockchain-at-DAVOS2018.html
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
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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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