Top Health News
- Amazon Care, the company’s on-demand healthcare solution, expanded to employees in all 50 states
- Digital clinical trials company Medable partnered with CVS Health to expand clinical trial access and engagement for patients at select MinuteClinic locations
- HybridChart, a mobile charge capture and workflow solutions for rounding physicians, partnered with Kovo HealthTech, a healthcare technology and Billing-as-a-Service company
- COVID deaths in the United States passed 900,000
M&A
- Signify Health, a healthcare platform that uses analytics to help bring healthcare into the patient’s home, acquired population health management company Caravan Health
- Eye care brand WALDO acquired of Placid0, a mobile platform for assessing ocular conditions
- Medical device company CooperCompanies signed a binding letter of intent to acquire Cook Medical’s Reproductive Health business, a manufacturer of minimally invasive medical devices focused on the fertility, obstetrics and gynecology markets
- ChristianaCare, a private not-for-profit regional health care system, signed of a Letter of Intent to acquire Crozer Health, a four-hospital health system based in Pennsylvania
- LifeOmic,a precision health cloud company, acquired Bavard, a conversational AI platform
- Tempus, a precision medicine solutions company, acquired clinical contract research organization Highline Sciences
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Enterprise healthcare operations company symplr completed its acquisition of Midas Health Analytics Solutions
- Press Ganey, a database of patient, caregiver, and physician feedback, plans to acquire Forsta, a provider of customer experience and market research technology
Funding Roundup
- Balanced, an on-demand fitness platform for older adults, raised $6.5 million
- Curve Health, a virtual hospital solution that combines telemedicine, health information exchange, and predictive analytics, raised $12 million
- Expressable, a virtual speech therapy solution, raised $15 million
- HealthCare.com, a data-driven insurtech platform, raised $31.5 million
- Perfuze, a medical device company developing catheter-based aspiration technology, raised €22.5 million
- Reliance Health, an emerging markets-focused digital healthcare provider, raised $40 million
- Ada Health, a health assessment and care navigation platform, raised $30 million
- Numan, a UK-based men’s health platform, raised $20 million
- Respira Labs, a respiratory health solution, raised $2.8 million
- Koneksa, a company that designs and validates digital biomarkers to accelerate drug development, raised $45 million
- Atommerce, a Korean app that connects users with mental health professionals, raised $16.7 million
- Bodymatter, a precision health technology company, raised nearly $3 million
- Elo, a smart nutrition company, raised $5 million
- Sirka, a personal health coaching app, raised $2.6 million
- Scopio Labs, a telehematology imaging and AI analysis platform, raised $50 million
- Koda Health, a platform for planning advanced medical care, raised $3.5 million
- Lucira Health, a company focused on the development and commercialization of infectious disease test kits, raised $80 million
- BRIGHT, a consumer healthtech company focused on beating Alzheimer’s disease, raised $600,000
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