Providence Digital Innovation Group alum DexCare raises $20 million in a Series A financing round.
AppliedVR, which offers virtual reality-based chronic pain treatments, raises $29 million in a Series A funding round.
Komodo Health Secures $220M in Funding Led by Tiger Global
Health data and analytics company Komodo Health announces a $220 million Series E funding round after raising $44 million in January.
Digital Health Startup Ro Raised $500 Million At $5 Billion Valuation
Ro, which now markets itself as a digital health clinic, raises $500 million in a Series D funding round that brings its total raised to $876 million.
Clearlake, Insight-backed Appriss snags PatientPing
Appriss, known in healthcare for its prescription drug monitoring program interface capabilities, acquires patient event notification vendor PatientPing in a $500 million deal.
Evidation Raises $153M to Scale Virtual Health Capabilities of Achievement™ Platform
Data aggregation and analytics company Evidation Health will use a Series E funding round of $153 million to offer more virtual health programs as part of its digital health research network.
VA announces strategic review of Electronic Health Record Modernization program
VA Secretary Denis McDonough orders a 12-week strategic review of the VA’s Cerner EHR implementation that will include optimizing productivity and clinical workflow and looking into patient-facing functions.
Riva Health Launches, Raises $15.5M for Breakthrough Mobile Cardiology Technology
Riva Health will use a $15.5 million investment from Menlo Ventures to help launch its app for hypertension management this summer.
Omega Healthcare Acquires Himagine Solutions
RCM vendor Omega Healthcare acquires Himagine Solutions, which offers medical coding and registry services.
Glen Tullman Joins Transcarent as Chief Executive Officer
The executive chairman of employer health insurance cost management software vendor Transcarent takes on the CEO role as well.
Epic opens COVID-19 vaccination appointments to all employees
Epic engages VaxPro to offer on-campus immunization after the state declares its employees to be essential.
Senate narrowly confirms Xavier Becerra as Health and Human Services secretary
The former California attorney general and 24-year Congressman is confirmed in a 50-49 vote.
Amazon is expanding Amazon Care telehealth service nationally for its employees and other companies
Amazon plans to expand Amazon Care, its virtual and house call care service, to employees in all 50 states and other employers.
San Francisco-based analytics company Clarify Health raises $115 million, bringing its total funding to $178 million.
Unite Us Announces It Has Raised $150M to Scale Nationwide Social Care Infrastructure
Care and social services coordination software company Unite Us reaches unicorn status with a $150 million Series C funding round.
Viz.ai Raises $71 Million Series C Round Led by Scale Venture Partners and Insight Partners
Viz.ai, developer of AI-powered care coordination software for stroke patients, raises $71 million.
Harmonize Health, which offers remote patient monitoring, chronic care management, and outcomes tracking for elderly and high-risk patients, raises $10 million in a Series A funding round.
Tegria Acquires Cumberland To Provide New and Enhanced Offerings for Healthcare Providers and Payers
Tegria, Providence’s recently formed rollup of its nine health IT acquisitions, acquires health IT consulting firm Cumberland.
Glooko Raises $30 Million Financing Round
Digital diabetes management company Glooko raises $30 million in a Series D funding round that brings its total raised to over $100 million.
Healthcare development platform vendor Commure acquires Karuna Health, a digital patient communication startup based in San Francisco.
Strive Health, which focuses on kidney care optimization using analytics and care navigators, raises $140 million in a Series B funding round led by CapitalG.
Grand Rounds merges with Doctor On Demand to form multibillion-dollar digital health company
Employer-focused care navigation company Grand Rounds merges with Doctor on Demand.
Meet Dr. B, the startup promising a better way to distribute leftover vaccines
ZocDoc founder Cyrus Massoumi launches Dr. B, a website that helps eligible people locate thawed COVID-19 vaccines in danger of going to waste.
Dagrosa Capital Partners LLC Invests in Telemedicine Company, Hoy Health LLC
DaGrosa Capital Partners invests in Hoy Health, a bilingual telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, and medication access company based in Morristown, NJ.
Well Health Provides Management Update and Makes Seed Investment in Fertility Start-up Venture
Canadian Well Health Technologies makes a seed investment in startup fertility clinic Twig Fertility, which plans to open a location in Toronto with digital health offerings
Healthcare artificial intelligence company establishing headquarters in Loudoun
India-based healthcare AI vendor Zasti will open its US headquarters in Loudoun County, VA.
$2.8M Deal Ends Suit Over Pocketed Health Trade Show Fees
HIMSS pays $2.8 million to settle class action charges brought by HatchMed and other HIMSS20 exhibitors who complained that they received no refund when the conference was cancelled.
Crossover Health expands its health centers and virtual care for Amazon employees and their dependents to five regions in Texas, Arizona, Kentucky, Michigan, and California.
Germany-based imaging workflow vendor Brainlab acquires Mint Medical, which provides a structured workflow for analyzing medical images.
AI-enhanced remote patient monitoring vendor 100Plus raises $25 million and has signed distribution agreements with AdvancedMD, DrChrono, and Athenahealth.
Forward Health Raises $225M to Expand Nationwide
Forward Health, which offers direct primary care at a flat fee of $149 per month in eight US cities, raises $225 million in a Series D funding round.
Tausight, a Boston-based startup focused on securing PHI, raises $20 million in a Series A funding round.
Vancouver-based Well Health will acquire Intrahealth, a New Zealand EHR vendor, for $15 million.
MRO Announces Acquisition of Cobius Healthcare Solutions
Release-of-information and clinical data workflow software vendor MRO acquires Cobius Healthcare Solutions, which offers reimbursement and compliance risk management technologies.
PatientPoint Combines with Outcome Health to Create PatientPoint Health Technologies
Digital pharma advertising and patient education company Outcome Health has merged with competitor PatientPoint to create PatientPoint Health Technologies.
Hack of ‘150,000 cameras’ investigated by camera firm
Hackers use a “super admin” account to tap into Verkada security cameras in hospitals, clinics, manufacturing plants, jails, and businesses.
Patient payment vendor Cedar raises $200 million in a Series D investment round led by Tiger Global Management, giving it a $3.2 billion valuation.
Rennova Terminates Discussions with TPT Global Tech, Inc.
Rural hospital operator Rennova Health cancels plans to sell its software and genetic testing interpretation divisions to InnovaQor, which would also include telehealth technology that Rennova had licensed from TPT Global Tech.
Remote patient monitoring and telemedicine vendor Health Recovery Solutions announces a Series C funding round led by LLR Partners.
AI-powered cancer pathology diagnostics vendor Ibex Medical Analytics raises $38 million in a Series B funding round, increasing its total to $52 million.
Emergency medical services-focused telemedicine company DocGo will merge with Motion Acquisition Corp. to become a publicly traded company with a $1.1 billion valuation.
Former Practice Fusion Director of National Accounts Steven Mack pleads guilty to attempting to obstruct a federal investigation into the relationship between Practice Fusion and Purdue Pharma after admitting he deleted relevant computer files.
Heal Appoints Veteran Operational Leader Scott Vertrees as Chief Executive Officer
Investor Scott Vertrees joins Heal as CEO, replacing co-founder Nick Desai, who remains a shareholder.
HIE Networks Relaunches as Centralis Health
Tallahassee, FL-based health data exchange vendor HIE Networks rebrands to Centralis Health.
Harris acquires US-based healthcare software provider Bizmatics Inc.
Harris acquires Bizmatics, which offers the PrognoCIS EHR/PM.
Canadian telecommunications company Telus will acquire Babylon Health’s Canadian operations, and license virtual care technology used in the Babylon by Telus Health app since 2019.
TytoCare Extends Series D Funding with Additional $50M for a Total of $100M Raised in 10 Months
Telemedicine and related device vendor TytoCare doubles its Series D round of funding, first announced last April, to $100 million.
Leading Health Innovators Launch Alliance To Advance Care In The Home
Several health systems and home-based care companies form Moving Health Home, a coalition that will try to convince the federal government to permanently pay for telehealth, remote patient monitoring, virtual disease prevention and management, caregiver support, and medical record sharing as an alternative to in-hospital care.
Startup co-founded by Duke health execs aims to help people with multiple chronic health conditions
New Duke University personalized chronic care spinout ZealCare will launch later this month, co-founded by former Duke University Health System CEO Ralph Snyderman, MD and personalized healthcare research fellow Connor Drake, PhD.
Medical and safety technology vendor Dräger will work with several healthcare organizations to develop medical device interoperability standards in a US Army-funded project that will use IEEE’s service-oriented device connectivity (SDC) standard.
Amazon Care’s health provider has quietly filed paperwork to operate in 17 more states
Care Medical, which powers the Amazon Care virtual and house-call clinic offered to Amazon employees in Seattle, has filed paperwork to operate in 17 additional states.
One Medical’s Coronavirus Vaccine Practices Spark Congressional Investigation
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis launches an investigation into One Medical’s COVID-19 vaccination practices after NPR uncovers that it provided vaccines to ineligible patients, including some with ties to company leadership.
Post-Cyberattack, Universal Health Services Faces $67M in Losses
Universal Health Services estimates September’s cyberattack has caused $67 million in losses, according to its latest earnings report.
App-based house call company DispatchHealth raises $200 million in a Series D round of funding that brings its total raised to $417 million.
Health Gorilla raises $15 million to build secure APIs for medical records
Healthcare API developer Health Gorilla raises $15 million in a Series B round of funding it plans to use for market expansion and product development.
Why drug prescriptions should include diagnoses
HHS OIG Principal Deputy Inspector General Christi Grimm, MPA and HHS OIG Chief Medical Officer Julie Taitsman, MD, JD say that prescriptions should be required to include the condition for which the drug is being prescribed.
Hill-Rom accused of wrongfully pulling plug on $375 million deal
Hill-Rom cancels its plan to acquire ambulatory ECG monitoring vendor Bardy Diagnostics for $375 million, citing potentially unexpected reductions in Medicare reimbursements for patient-monitoring devices.
Reperio Health raises $6 million in seed funding to advance the rollout of its kits for employer-provided, at-home wellness screenings.
MTBC Announces Name Change to CareCloud, Inc., Doubles Down on Innovation & Growth
Ambulatory health IT vendor MTBC will change its name to CareCloud, which it acquired in January of last year.
Fourteen healthcare organizations come together to form Connecting for Better Health, a California-based coalition in support of state efforts to create a unified HIE.
Babylon Expands its US-Based C-Suite Team to Lead Ambitious Growth Plans
UK-based virtual care company Babylon Health names Steve Davis (Expedia) CTO, Stacy Saal (Amazon) COO, and Paul-Henri Ferrand (Brex) chief business officer.
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