AdvancedMD, which offers practice management software to independent physician offices, is acquiring NueMD, which appears to do the same thing. New name to be MDMD or Advanced & Nue.
In a convoluted transaction, EHR and other health care software vendor Cerner is investing $266 million in Essence Holdings, which owns population health vendor Lumeris and operates primary care clinics. The companies will also work toward creation of a software product aimed at Medicare Advantage plans.
MedRhythms makes a hit, collecting $5 million in new funding to build a business using music to help with neurologic disorders, or something like that.
EXLService Holdings, a general analytics firm, is buying Scio Health Analytics, a vendor of data warehousing and analytics for health providers and plans, for $236 million.
Telehealth firm American Well is raising an additional $315 million in capital, for reasons that completely elude me, unless it is to fund the ongoing losses that the company must be experiencing.
Fitplan Technologies secures $4.7 million in fresh capital for its software that provides personalized fitness regimens designed by hot-shots in the personal training industry.
Centauri Health Solutions, which provides revenue optimization and quality of care services to providers and plans, is acquiring NHI Billing Services, which offers revenue management and billing services to health systems in regard to Medicaid.
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Bind Health, which offers "on-demand" health insurance benefits, has raised a total of $70 million in its Series A funding.
Okay, so now everyone in the pharmacy business can officially freak out, Amazon said it will buy PillPack for about $1 billion. PillPack bundles drugs and ships them to patients who buy online. I don't think that is actually much of a threat to the Walgreens and CVS' of the world.
Wildflower Health, which offers, wait for it, a MOBILE APP to help families manage their health, is acquiring another, wait for it, MOBILE APP, Circle, which is oriented toward helping pregnant women.
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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.