OODA Health, which claims it will upend the current system for health care payment, has received an unusual $40.5 million dollars from quirky investors. Oh, but wait, the CEO is the ex-CEO of Castlight Health, it is certainly OOD that anyone would invest in that guy. If you don't believe there is too much capital floating around looking for a home, stuff like this proves it for sure.
Wellth garners some wealth, getting $5.1 millionth in new fundingth to build a businessth to use behavioral ecomomicsth to support adherenceth to care plansth. Here's to your healthth!!
Clarify Health clearly attracts investors, getting $57 million in new funding for its somewhat murky business of the usual data analytics, patient engagement, etc. for creating better patient care plans.
Note this, Notable Health notably gets not debt in the form of notes but real cash financing of $13.5 million, and I would note that the company notes that it digitizes and automates physician patient communication, including notes.
Cricket Health chirps along, gathering $24 million in a new funding round to support better care for ESRD patients, including starting new dialysis centers.
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Tempus, which uses data analytics to improve cancer care, secures $110 million in fresh funding.
Sempre Health gets a new round of financing, $8 million, for its software that interacts between health care providers and drug manufacturers to help adjust prices for behavioral health medications.
Bridge Connector, which helps health care firms integrate information and functionality across disparate software systems, has raised additional capital in the amount of $5.5 million.
Rural Partners in Medicine, which arranges for primary care and specialty physicians to provide care in rural areas, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from a PE firm.
One Medical, which offers a technology-based platform for health care, including virtual visits and in-person provider offices, garners a massive new investment of $350 million.
Paladina Health gathers a whopping $165 million in capital to support its direct primary care model of providing health benefits. Any pal a Dina is a pal of mine with that kind of checkbook.
RDMD, which has a data platform to help with research on rare diseases and to manage patients with those diseases, gets some initial financing of $3 million.
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