May 26 2015

ABRY Partners is buying FastMed, an urgent care center provider in North Carolina and Arizona.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/05/abry-partners-to-acquire-fastmed-urgent-care/
May 26 2015

Its private equity owner has sold specialty pharmacy firm Aureus Health Services to grocery company Meijer.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/05/belhealth-sells-aureus-to-meijer/
May 26 2015

Not long ago UnitedHealth paid $600 million for Alere's population health management division.  Now supposedly that group has been purchased by a startup called Persivia and will be given a precision medicine focus.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150522005019/en/Chronic-Care-Population-Health-Company-Persivia-Acquires#.VWHCXUtFoVQ
May 22 2015

A Frost & Sullivan report says the care coordination software market will grow 28% annually through 2020.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/care-coordination-it-market-poised-for-rapid-growth-3-things-to-know.html
May 22 2015

A RNCOS report says the global telemedicine market had revenues of over $18 billion in 2014 and will grow at almost 20% annually in the next five years.

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/qn3csn/global
May 22 2015

Buyer's remorse?, er, seller's remorse?, deja vu?, who knows but PE firm Riverside Company is buying the Healthcare Safety Institute for the second time.  HSI offers workplace health and safety training.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/05/riverside-invests-in-hsi-again/
May 21 2015

A survey of health plans by Wells Fargo Insurance finds that most anticipate high cost trends of 7% to 10% over the next year and a half, indicating that premiums will continue to rise rapidly.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150519005507/en/Survey-Inflation-Employers-Expect-Health-Care-Premiums#.VV4AhEtFoVR
May 21 2015

Stride Health has raised a lucky $13 million to help consumers find appropriate health insurance.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/20/stride-health-raises-another-13m-to-take-health-plan-recommendations-national/
May 21 2015

CVS is buying long-term care pharmacy operator Omnicare for $12.7 billion.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150521/NEWS/305219978?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=externalURL&utm_campaign=am
May 20 2015

Population health management company WellTok has purchased Predilytics, which uses data to segment health consumers and develop targeted approaches to engaging them.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/welltok-acquires-leading-healthcare-analytics-company-predilytics-300085640.html
May 18 2015

Workers comp pharmacy benefit manager Helios has warmed up by acquiring Ringler Medicare Solutions, which provides Medicare secondary payer services.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/05/prweb12726889.htm
May 17 2015

In stately Scanadu investors did a palace build, $35 million worth, to support its at home health monitoring device business.

https://www.scanadu.com/pr/scanadu-secures-35-million-in-series-b-funding-to-advance-go-to-market-plans/
May 17 2015

Mee thinks MeeDoc has gained 3.5 million euros of investment from XLHealth to support its app-based telemedicine business.

https://www.meedoc.com/files/press/press-release-28-04-2015.pdf
May 17 2015

$9.5 million in series A capital comes MD Insider's way for its "disruptive" "big data" solution to help employers identify cost-effective providers.  Yawn.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/md-insider-accelerates-growth-with-95-million-in-series-a-funding-300074338.html
May 17 2015

Kura MD has cured a problem by acquiring The Telemedine Group's assets.  Both firms are involved in telemedicine.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/05/prweb12701367.htm