There was Blackstone Capital partners acquisition of Emdeon for $3B, Internet Brand's acquisition of WebMD for $2.8B, and Roche's acquisition of Flatiron for $1.9B.  Moving into a definitive agreement is Elliott Management to buy Athenahealth for $5.5B, which is around...

Learn how to bypass the most common obstacles, obstructing the path from physician performance data to behavior change.

Interesting article in JAMA last week, that looked at the annual breach volumes of different HIPAA entity types, based on a review of public data between 2010 and 2017. It turns out that Health Care provider entity types were most under attack.  However, despite a much...

Learn how to bypass the most common obstacles, obstructing the path from physician performance data to behavior change.

American Well raised $291 million dollars in Q2 2018, the largest digital health (Health IT) venture capital deal in the second quarter of 2018.  They have so far raised about $315 million, including $59 million from the digital investment division of the insurer Allia...

Learn how to bypass the most common obstacles, obstructing the path from physician performance data to behavior change.

Learn how to bypass the most common obstacles, obstructing the path from physician performance data to behavior change.

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According to a recent Mercom Digital Health Funding report the first half of 2018, NY originated 16 new Digital Health (Health IT) VC investment deals.  CA led with 42 deals, and Massachusetts followed NY with 11 deals...

According to a recent Mercom Capital Group report, global VC funding the first half of the year was $4.9 billion (383 deals, ave deal size $13M), which is up 22% from the first half of 2017 ($4 billion, 359 deals).

One part I find really interesting, is that Consumer-Ce...

I’m wearing a Fitbit Aria HR (a wearable watch device) as I type this post, and take a moment to peek over to the app on my phone positioned next to the keyboard wondering if my key strokes are counted as a steps? Looks like the device is too smart for that, making me...