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Sep 06 2018

Alliance MMA and SCWorx are merging, creating a firm focused on EMRs, chargemasters and other health analytics products.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180824005210/en/Alliance-MMA-Acquire-SCWorx-Corp.-Big-Data
Sep 06 2018

Cricket Health chirps along, gathering $24 million in a new funding round to support better care for ESRD patients, including starting new dialysis centers.

https://www.crickethealth.com/series-a/
Sep 04 2018

Health information system vendor Medicare is buying Rock-Pond Solutions, a provider of business intelligence and analytics tools for the home infusion and DME industries.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=mediware+rock+pond+solutions&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Sep 04 2018

For-profit hospital chain HCA is buying North-Carolina based non-profit Mission Health hospital system for $1.5 billion.

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2018/08/31/mission-health-agrees-1-5-billion-sale-hca-healthcare/1155569002/
Aug 30 2018

Tempus, which uses data analytics to improve cancer care, secures $110 million in fresh funding.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2018/08/29/groupon-cofounders-health-startup-hits-2-billion-valuation-with-latest-funding-round/#2e68703b2d28
Aug 30 2018

Sempre Health gets a new round of financing, $8 million, for its software that interacts between health care providers and drug manufacturers to help adjust prices for behavioral health medications.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sempre-health-raises-8m-series-a-to-improve-access-to-medications-across-the-us-300703815.html
Aug 30 2018

Dialysis machine maker Outset Medical raises $132 million in additional capital as it continues efforts to potentially displace dialysis clinics.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/outset-medical-raises-132-million-more-to-bring-dialysis-to-the-home.html
Aug 29 2018

Bridge Connector, which helps health care firms integrate information and functionality across disparate software systems, has raised additional capital in the amount of $5.5 million.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/08/bridge-connector-nabs-5-5-mln-series-a/
Aug 29 2018

Rural Partners in Medicine, which arranges for primary care and specialty physicians to provide care in rural areas, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from a PE firm.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/08/lcm-invests-in-rural-partners-in-medicine/
Aug 27 2018

One Medical, which offers a technology-based platform for health care, including virtual visits and in-person provider offices, garners a massive new investment of $350 million.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/one-medical-raises-350-million-from-carlyle-group-to-help-double-up-offices-and-offerings/
Aug 27 2018

Paladina Health gathers a whopping $165 million in capital to support its direct primary care model of providing health benefits.  Any pal a Dina is a pal of mine with that kind of checkbook.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paladina-health-receives-165m-investment-from-nea-and-new-investors-300701392.html
Aug 23 2018

RDMD, which has a data platform to help with research on rare diseases and to manage patients with those diseases, gets some initial financing of $3 million.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/rare-disease-cro-and-health-record-startup-rdmd-raises-3m-funding?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTldNd1lUSXpabVF5TURjNCIsInQiOiJcLzYwM0R6SHBcL2lESXFYbkF1U0FZdmpsN0VyUk1DdlZJWU1wUTkrWFZib3NoOE5xUVFJVVlNNVFCY3phVmVRN2toVDV2MUJQbHhDelR2QjFWVmJzUUR5bkVQa2t4cTVSUUp5NFlMR3lrVFNvbFRyMnVXejMyb3YzdHVZQ3FoYnlYIn0%3D&mrkid=635530
Aug 22 2018

InquisitiHealth has asked for and received about $4 million in funding to create peer mentors to help people manage their health and wellness.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/08/inquisithealth-funding-population-health/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=65369320&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_ajETvdFk0mLm984JySRT1SyyuoHMbvis0BHzG84n4ooT4iKPcR_n31Anj02hSPljhDUzzGlgs3A37M6Zw1LF7rWotMnW2AbQJmSjjqNvaGSVaxv4&_hsmi=65369320&rf=1
Aug 21 2018

WellBrain is acquiring Mevoked, and investors will hopefully combine the names and get "Woked".  WellBrain has apps to help with chronic pain management and Mevoked has apps to help women with pregnancy, a natural fit since the product of pregnancy often creates pain for the parents.  Well, Brainy investors, Me has joked enough.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wellbrain-founded-by-3-harvard-stanford-and-mayo-clinic-trained-physicians-expands-its-reach-as-one-of-the-largest-clinically-validated-digital-chronic-pain-management-and-addiction-prevention-tools-with-recent-mevoked-acquis-300697724.html
Aug 21 2018

Olive (formerly known as CrossChx) gets out of the pits, oiling its way to $32.8 million in fresh funding for its artificial intelligence solution to automate certain health care provider tasks.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/30/olive-f-k-a-crosschx-closes-32-8-million-series-d-financing/
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