A PE firm is acquiring the majority interest in Health-E Commerce, which operates pre-tax dollar shopping sites for health care and wellness products and services.
Simplyr, which offers health care governance and compliance software, is buying API Healthcare, which provides human capital software for health care companies.
Qualcomm is the latest non-health care company to realize maybe it doesn't know what it is doing in the space, selling its connected health businesses to a PE firm, which will call them Capsule Technologies and 2net.
Hospital chain Providence St. Joseph is buying Lumedic, a revenue cycle management vendor which uses blockchain technology. Hope they don't end up feeling like blockheads.
Ideal Option achieves the best choice of financing, securing an undisclosed amount of new capital from the Blue Cross Venture fund for its opioid addiction treatment services.
A study in the Annals of Surgery focuses on improving handoffs from surgery and studied the use of standardized handoff forms and processes. While the completeness of information improved, handoff took longer, i.e., cost more, and there was no improvement in mortality or length of stay. Costs more and no real improvement in outcomes; sound like a lot of so-called quality improvement.
Meditation app vendor Calm calls up a collected $88 million in new capital, apparently valuing the firm at around $1 billion. How can I stay calm when I have to read about crap like this.
Healthy.io pees itself with excitement, as it raises $18 million for an app that uses a smartphone to help do urinalysis. So don't we be surprised when you see people using their phones to take pictures of their pee.
Clinical communication and collaboration software vendor Perfect Serve hopes it aces M & A, acquiring two firms, one is Lightning Bolt which does physician shift scheduling, and the other is CareWire, which does text messaging for patient engagement.
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.