What You Should Know: - Lynx, a Boston-based API-connected healthcare payments, banking, and e-commerce platform announced today that it has emerged from stealth with $17.5M in equity financing led by Obvious Ventures and .406 Ventures with participation from Frist Cressey Ventures. Other investors include Winter Street Ventures (an investment subsidiary of Commonwealth Care Alliance), Shields Capital, and Huntington Avenue Ventures. - Lynx’s goal is to introduce modern fintech to
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Alira Health Acquires Digital Health Engagement Platform Patchai
What You Should Know: Alira Health acquires Italy-based Patchai, a cognitive platform embedding an empathetic virtual assistant for patient engagement and real-time data collection. This marks Alira Health’s second digital health acquisition, furthering the company’s rapid expansion into patient-centric, technology-enabled solutions for healthcare providers, payers, and suppliers. Alira Health, a Framingham, MA-based health care consultancy, announced that it has acquired Italy-based
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Trinity Health Invests in Xealth to Expand Digital Health Engagement Between Clinicians and Patients – HLTH21
What You Should Know: - Xealth, a Seattle-based provider enabling digital health at scale, today announced at HLTH21 that Trinity Health, one of the nation’s largest Catholic health care systems, has invested in the company, bringing the total Series B funding to $25 million. - The announcements mark Trinity as one of 15 health system investors for Xealth: Advocate Aurora Enterprises, Atrium Health, Banner Health, ChristianaCare, Cone Health, Memorial Hermann, Nebraska
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GetWellNetwork Acquires Consumer Engagement Platform Docent Health
What You Should Know: - GetWellNetwork is acquiring Docent Health, a digital health company. Docent provides a patient engagement platform used by healthcare organizations to coordinate personalized care at scale through AI-enabled communication technology. - The acquisition advances GetWellNetwork's mission to empower patients and families to be more active participants in their care, and extends important health programs for disadvantaged populations and those suffering health
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mPulse Mobile Acquires Digital Health Engagement Company The Big Know
What You Should Know: - mPulse
Mobile, the leader in conversational AI solutions for the healthcare
industry, will acquire The Big Know, a
prominent digital
health company transforming how healthcare educates consumers. - A deeper entrenchment in the streaming age and shifting
consumer expectations demand a shift in the healthcare industry's approach to
care delivery and experiences. Quality patient engagement must be acknowledged
as a vital and unavoidable part of the healthcare
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Ontrak Acquires Science-Backed, Behavior Change Platform LifeDojo
What You Should Know: - Ontrak acquires LifeDojo Inc, a San Francisco, CA-based
comprehensive, science-backed behavior change platform. - The acquisition broadens Ontrak’s addressable market
and footprint to lower acuity populations enabling new interventions and remote
patient monitoring. Ontrak, Inc., a
leading AI-powered
and telehealth-enabled,
virtualized healthcare company, today announced that it has acquired
LifeDojo Inc, a comprehensive, science-backed behavior change
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Xealth Joins Epic App Orchard for EHR-Driven Digital Health Engagement
What You Need to Know: - Xealth announces it has joined the Epic App Orchard Marketplace to drive digital health engagement for health systems using Epic EHR by optimizing the ordering, delivery, and monitoring of your digital health apps, content, products, and services across the enterprise. - Through the secure Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order the right digital health tools and programs for patients direct from the EHR workflow, send these digital health orders to the
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Top 60 Health IT/Digital Health Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019
- From Google's acquisition of Fitbit to Philips acquisition of Carestream Health's health IT business, here is a look at some of the biggest health IT/digital health mergers & acquisitions in 2019 by each quarter. Q1 M&A Activity Johnson & Johnson Acquires Auris Health for $3.4B to Expand Digital Surgery Portfolio Johnson & Johnson acquiresAuris Health, a developer of robotic technologies for $3.4 billion in cash. Auris Health is a privately-held developer of
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WebMD Acquires Digital Health Engagement Solution Aptus Health
- WebMD enters an agreement to acquire Aptus Health, a digital health engagement solution for health and life sciences companies. - The acquisition includes Aptus Health’s core brands Univadis, EngagedMedia, and Tomorrow Networks. - Aptus Health will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary of WebMD, as the companies build on and integrate products, platforms, and services. WebMD Health Corp today
announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire
Aptus Health,
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Kaiser Appoints First Chief Digital Officer, Teladoc’s New COO, Castlight Health CEO, Other Health IT Appointments
Kaiser Permanente has appointed Prat Vemana as its first chief digital officer for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals. In this newly created role, Vemana will lead the ongoing development and execution of Kaiser Permanente's digital vision and strategy, in collaboration with internal health plan, hospital, and medical group teams. Atlantic Health System has named Dr. Sylvia Romm as Chief Innovation Officer. In her new role, Romm will be responsible for building new partner
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