The Congressional Budget Office provides us with a truly dismal set of federal financial projections from 2018 to 2028, featuring rapid growth in federal health spending.
Population health and disease management firm Livongo has raised another $109 million in a new round of financing. That is a lot of total capital into a firm that basically has a commodity product that health plans will eventually give away.
Neurotrack garners $13.7 million in a new financing round for its platform to improve brain health, with investors being the test subjects for the product.
EHR vendor Netsmart is acquiring Change Healthcare's home health care and hospice software business, which Change acquired when it bought McKesson's health IT division.
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