Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; February 14, 2022

Amazon expanded its on-demand health solution; Medable partnered with CVS; COVID deaths passed 900k

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
• 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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