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.
CPSI, which provides EHR and revenue management systems for smaller hospitals, is acquiring Get Real Health, which offers care management and patient engagement solutions, for $11 million.
Low-income Americans tend to have a syndrome of bad health behaviors, including poor nutrition. A study using fruit and vegetable only vouchers did not improve use of those supposedly healthy foods, proving once again what should be obvious, to change behavior you probably have to use sticks as well as carrots.
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.
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.