In a somewhat complex maneuver, publicly health population health company ApolloMed and Network Medical Management, an IPA management company, are merging. The combined company will have revenues over $300 million and NMM shareholders will end up with over 80% of the merged entity.
GreatCall, which monitors health information in a patient's home, is buying HealthSense, which wires up elderly patient's homes and does monitoring in assisted living and nursing home facilities.
Trendshift, which provides general decision analytics software, is joining the trend and shifting to health care by acquiring Health Data Intelligence, which sells, ooohhh, this is new, a population health management software platform.
Behavioral health IT vendor Netsmart Technologies is making what it hopes is an intelligent acquisitions, buying long-term care software firm HealthMEDX.
Casamba, HealthWyse and TherapySource, all post-acute care software providers, are merging, with the new company to be called CasaWyseSource or WyseSambaTherapy or Wyseasarap, or something like that.
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