Diversified medical device and medical equipment firm Hill-Rom is acquiring Voalte, which offers a clinical communication platform for hospitals, for $180 million.
Complex care management provider for MA members Signify Health is acquiring TAVHealth, which works with community organizations to improve social determinants of health.
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.
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