Evidation Health has raised $11.6 million in new funding to help provide clinical evidence on new digital health and app products, which I thought were so obviously wonderful that they didn't need any evidence that they actually make a difference.
PE-owned MedAssets-Precyse, formed in a complex transaction, is acquiring Equation, a health care provider financial and clinical outcomes consulting firm.
$25 million in new capital flows to EarlySense, a vendor of "contact-free" vital sign and other health data monitoring products.
https://www.pehub.com/2016/06/3336712/
Jun022016
Fruit Street Health raises a zany $5.4 million from physicians in a crowdfunding for something or other, maybe having to do with wearables, data, population health, a real fruit salad.
Covtiviti, which audits health care payments on behalf of CMS and commercial insurers, did an IPO raising over $230 million, but its stock closing off the offering price.
Hopefully large software vendor SAP isn't being played for a sap by making an $18 million investment in health care price transparency firm Castlight, whose shares are down mightily following its IPO and which apparently still needs capital after blowing through tens of millions of dollars.
Decisio Healt raise $4.5 millio fo it softwar tha help hospital improv clinica processe.
http://hitconsultant.net/2016/05/18/33883/
May192016
Healthify, which helpifys health plans and health systemifys manage the socialify needs of their populationifys, does an iffy deal, raising $2.5 millionify.
A study in Annals of Internal Medicine reveals that few consumers who engage in direct-to-consumer genetic testing share the results with their physicians.
http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2498491
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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.