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.
BetterPT has an app to help patients make physical therapy appointments and do followup and since its an app, for God's sake, lets pour $5 million in new funding into the company.
Health coaching app vendor Noom raises $58 million in new capital, that's right, not $5.8 million or $.58 million, which might have made more sense, but $58 million.
CirrusMD's future gets less cloudy, as it gets a lofty $15 million in additional capital to support its pie-in-the-sky digital health "chat-first" business for veterans. Less talk, more results.
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