Dec 12 2017

International health care firm Phillips is acquiring Forcare, which sells data interoperability software for health care organizations.

https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/news/archive/standard/news/press/2017/20171205-philips-enhances-its-clinical-informatics-portfolio-with-the-acquisition-of-interoperability-provider-forcare.html
Dec 12 2017

Mytonomy appears to get less autonomy, as the vendor of patient engagment services (now where I have heard that phrase before) raises a $7 million capital round that includes Phillips.

http://www.weny.com/story/36955489/mytonomy-announces-series-a-financing-headlined-by-an-investment-from-philips
Dec 11 2017

Population health and patient engagement firm SymphonyCare makes sweet music as it is swayed to buy  Influence Health's Empower patient portal.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/12/symphonycare-buys-influence-healths-empower-patient-portal-unit/
Dec 11 2017

Trinisys, a vendor of health data migration and archiving services, has acquired MICA health, which is in the same business.

https://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/trinisys-acquires-mica-health
Dec 11 2017

FDA Draft Guidance on Clinical Decision Support Systems

https://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/UCM587819.pdf
Dec 11 2017

FDA Final Guidance on When Software May Be Considered to Be a Medical Device

https://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/UCM524904.pdf
Dec 11 2017

A PE firm has recapitalized and will combine two risk assessment companies, Advance Health and Censeo.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/12/new-mountain-backs-censeo-and-advance-health/
Dec 11 2017

Woodn't you know it, Cedar garners $13 million in new funding for its payment system to help providers collect from patients.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171206005064/en/Cedar-Launches-Smarter-Payment-Solution-Providers-Patients
Dec 08 2017

Hospital chains Dignity Health and Catholic Health have agreed to merge, yet another deal that should be stopped.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-transactions-and-valuation/chi-dignity-health-to-merge-into-28-4b-nonprofit-system-7-takeaways.html
Dec 07 2017

Virtual Health gets $7 million in real money to support its care management platform aimed at health plans and risk-bearing entities.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/12/prweb14978994.htm
Dec 07 2017

HealthiPass didn't get a pass from investors, garnering $7.2 million for yet another business that helps providers collect from patients at the point-of-service or thereafter.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/12/healthipass-gathers-7-2-mln-series-a/
Dec 07 2017

A study in the journal Health Services Research finds that drug-eluting stents were taken up by cardiologists faster in markets in which there was greater competition among cardiologists, but hospital market structure appeared to have little impact on diffusion rates.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27196678
Dec 07 2017

Matrix Medical Network, which largely provides in-home risk assessment for the MA market, has acquired LP Health Services which offers post-acute assessments.

https://matrixmedicalnetwork.com/2017/12/01/matrix-medical-network-completes-the-acquisition-of-lp-health-services/
Dec 06 2017

Large Chicago area health system Advocate is merging with Milwaukee-based Aurora Health, in another deal that should be rejected on competitive grounds.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20171204/NEWS/171209965?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20171204-NEWS-171209965&utm_campaign=financedaily
Dec 06 2017

UnitedHealth Group is buying the medical clinic business of DaVita Health for $4.9 billion, bringing to a close a difficult chapter for DaVita, which struggled to make its acquisition of that business work.  Another example of stick to your knitting.  And UHG continue to expand its provider footprint, which makes sense if it lowers costs for UHG health plans and if the businesses can be effectively managed.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedhealth-buy-davitas-medical-unit-120715969.html