IMS Health Holdings had a successful initial public offering, returning to the public markets with a 15% gain over the offering price of $20 per share.
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Great Hill Partners has made a $51 million investment in bSwift which builds public and private health insurance exchanges.
Sherpaa, which plans to offer employers consultations with providers by phone and text for their employees, has raised $500,000 from Tumblr's founder and is working on finding additional capital.
Kannact, which intends to provide tablet-based apps to facilitate care in the home and monitoring and coordination of that care, has raised $3 million in financing.
According to a study in the National Academy of Sciences venture capitalists are most likely to fund companies pitched by good-looking guys, and are about equally likely to fund companies of unattractive men and any woman. So the lessons are, find a good-looking guy to front for your business and if you are a vc, be aware of your own irrational tendencies!
Prime Health has received $8 million in debt financing to support its cost containment service business for the workers' comp, auto and corrections industries.
Procured Health's goal is to help doctors and institutions understand what medical equipment and devices cost and make better informed buying decisions and it has received $4 million in financing to help reach that goal.
WelVu, which aims to make it easier for patients to remember and follow doctor's orders, has received $1.25 million in seed money. Now if I could just remember where I put that app.
The 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.