Health at Scale gets a weighty $16 million round of financing, all coming from the Optum division of UnitedHealth, to fund its artificial intelligence software to match patients with treatments.
Financial giant JP Morgan is acquiring InstaMed, which helps providers collect cost-sharing amounts from patients and coordinates payments with insurers. The price is supposedly around $500 million.
Solera Health won't be going it alone, raising $42 million in new capital to support matching patients with providers and treatment plans for chronic diseases.
You literally cannot make some of this stuff up. Listen to this gibberish. Hu-manity.co (yes, that is some marketer's idea of a good company name), wait it gets better, which describes itself as "bringing individuals and corporations into a consumer inclusive data economy", huh?, but actually does something around blockchain and authentication for health care companies, is acquiring Betterpath, which says it can access currently inaccessible health-related data to help with research. The end result, we are told, will be a company that creates "a powerful combination of Consumer Consent as a Service and healthcare's untapped datasets." Fire your PR firm right now, don't think about, don't delay, just fire them.
RLDatix and iContracts are merging to become RLiD (no, they aren't using a silly name like that), to create a company that offers patient safety, quality improvement, compliance and risk management software.
http://www.rldatix.com
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Trusted Health secures $20 million in new funding for a nurse career platform.
Jawbone Health talks a good game, and apparently needs lots of capital to do it, as the firm gets $65 million to do some poorly-articulated thing about taking lots of data and helping people avoid preventable diseases. When will investors learn.
Two health care consulting firms are merging as Berkeley Research buys Prism Healthcare Partners in a deal that will result in a firm with over $225 million in revenue. Both firms primarily work with health systems.
Dispatch Health homes in on $33 million in investor money, getting a new capital round. The company has an app which allows patients to summon a provider to their home to deliver care.
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