May 23 2017

I love my job, because you literally cannot make this stuff up.  Sync Project has raised $5 million to prove that its product using music can improve health outcomes, but wait, there's more, this will be personalized medicine (gotta hit at least one of the current buzzwords) because the music will be tailored to the patient's needs.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170516006817/en/Sync-Project-Announces-Investors-Accelerates-Development-Personalized
May 23 2017

A study at a single hospital examined whether an intensive bundled payment effort would reduce readmissions for COPD patients.  Despite the intervention, readmission rates were no different for the bundled payment patients, and while there were slight cost savings, they likely were outweighed by the cost of the intervention.

http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201610-775BC
May 22 2017

In another large contract research organization merger, INC Research and InVentiv Health will merge, with the combined company worth over $7.4 million.

http://www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/inc-research-and-inventiv-health-merge-another-major-cro-deal?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRSa1ltVmhORFF4TmpNeiIsInQiOiJJUkZYWU9cL1wvSmRNeW54V0dGOURlTE11RFFDYWo4bkgwcml0UyswZm1MVGVyN1wvSVVYUkg0cTdtMWtiT2dnUWZmcXF0V2dDSFRoR1BTOE1HU2E4YTc0dkx2b0tPZythT3ZYaFlyS3FER01DdUoxZ1wvTUVhNkVzbkh5Q01kaitNVVYifQ%3D%3D
May 22 2017

According to Truveris, branded drug prices increased over 13% last year, and the company doesn't expect much relieve in coming years.

https://endpts.com/new-study-points-to-a-double-digit-hike-in-branded-drug-prices-spotlighting-a-growing-national-debate/
May 22 2017

EvidenceCare, which gives evidence-based medicine advice to doctors, is seeking, but has not yet raised, $5 million in new funding.

https://evidence.care
May 22 2017

Surgery Partners is acquiring National Surgical Partners for $760 million, resulting in a combined 125 surgical centers.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/3452176/
May 22 2017

Express Scripts is buying myMatrixx, a workers' comp PBM.

http://www.mymatrixx.com/mm_news/express-scripts-mymatrixx-combine-offer-best-class-pharmacy-services-workers-compensation-programs/
May 22 2017

HealthReveal pulls back the curtain on an $11.3 million financing round.  The company, yawn, has an analytics platform which does supposed real-time identification of at-risk patients.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170512005061/en/HealthReveal-Tops-Series-Funding-Northwell-Ventures
May 22 2017

Large for-profit hospital vendor Steward Health Care gets larger, agreeing to acquire IASIS Healthcare's 18 hospitals.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-transactions-and-valuation/steward-health-care-to-acquire-iasis-healthcare.html
May 22 2017

LogicStream, a vendor of clinical process improvement solutions, garnered additional funds in a new financing round.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/logicstream-health-nets-series-b-funds/
May 10 2017

A large PE firm is buying employee health and other benefits brokerage OneDigital Health and Benefits.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/new-mountain-buys/
May 09 2017

Employer health data analytics firm Artemis Health has raised $8.3 million in capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/artremis-health-raises-8-3-mln/
May 09 2017

Medical Solutions, a health care staffing firm, is being sold from one private equity firm to another for around $500 million.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/tpg-growth-to-acquire-medical-staffing-firm-medical-solutions-reuters/
May 08 2017

PreparedHealth gets ready for the big time with $4 million in financing for its software that connects family and community caregivers.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/preparedhealth-lands-4-mln-seed/
May 08 2017

Twine Health entangles itself with more investors, stringing them along to get $1.5 million in new capital.  We don't have enough health coaching vendors so that is what Twine's business is.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/05/twine-health-raising-1-5m/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=51576445&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9qpN-tZ8uAuHXgIHIx3cgWUz_gvv92qjkzVl5Lt8bhQ3KwYkLTOHTWixtcHr8e5Rx2vzaJc6K1d12RwwHMneMYnV4cx1iJyd6XJ3RuvGaosiW9G6g&_hsmi=51576445&rf=1