PointClickCare, which offers software for long-term care institutions, is acquiring QuickMar, which has software for medication management in those facilities.
Crossover Health, which operates worksite clinics for employers, seeks further guidance, acquiring Sherpaa, which provides telemedicine-based primary care.
A PE firm is acquiring the majority interest in Health-E Commerce, which operates pre-tax dollar shopping sites for health care and wellness products and services.
Simplyr, which offers health care governance and compliance software, is buying API Healthcare, which provides human capital software for health care companies.
Qualcomm is the latest non-health care company to realize maybe it doesn't know what it is doing in the space, selling its connected health businesses to a PE firm, which will call them Capsule Technologies and 2net.
Hospital chain Providence St. Joseph is buying Lumedic, a revenue cycle management vendor which uses blockchain technology. Hope they don't end up feeling like blockheads.
Clinical communication and collaboration software vendor Perfect Serve hopes it aces M & A, acquiring two firms, one is Lightning Bolt which does physician shift scheduling, and the other is CareWire, which does text messaging for patient engagement.
Practice management software vendor eMDs doctors up its offerings, adding Aprima Healthcare, which offers EHR and practice management services to ambulatory care providers.
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