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Fair Square Medicare Raises $15M to Expand Senior Health Services
August 25, 2022

Fair Square Medicare, a concierge healthcare platform for seniors, said Thursday (Aug. 25) that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. According to a news release, the San Diego company will use the funds to roll out a series of new services for...

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Amazon Pay Gives eCommerce Giant’s Healthcare Ambition a Shot in the Arm
August 25, 2022

Don’t call it a reset — it seems more of a refresh. Amazon has the tools in place to  forge a competitive tool  against other  platforms, over the commerce giants that are seeking a foothold, and then a whole-hearted presence, in healthcare. It has Amazon...

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Healthcare FinTech Nitra Raises $62M, Launches Visa Business Card 
August 23, 2022

Healthcare FinTech company Nitra has raised $62 million in a seed round and is launching its first product — a Visa Business card for physicians.  The company will use the funds to bring modern financial products, integrated medical software and supply chain solutions to practitioners...

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Signify Health Bidders Offer Competing Visions of Healthcare’s Future
August 22, 2022

Providing value is at a premium in inflationary times, but value-based healthcare is always desirable regardless of macroeconomic conditions — which helps explain the bidding war that’s broken out over value-based healthcare solutions platform Signify Health. Widely-reported news of competing bidders for the Dallas-based healthcare...

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HealthTech Company UpHealth Closes $67.5M in Debt Financing
August 21, 2022

Digital health company UpHealth has closed a convertible debt financing sale for $67.5 million, the company announced in a press release Friday (Aug. 19). The sale involves a new series of variable rate convertible senior secured notes due Dec. 15, 2025. According to the release,...

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23andMe Seeks New CFO
August 19, 2022

Genetics testing provider 23andMe said its chief financial officer will leave the company next month after four years with the company. Steve Schoch notified 23andMe of his resignation earlier this week, effective Sep. 1, according to an SEC filing. He will remain with the company...

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HealthTech GoMedii Targets Africa, Bangladesh to Boost India’s Medical Tourism
August 17, 2022

GoMedii, an Indian HealthTech startup, is looking at being an enabler for healthcare for overseas patients, a report from BioSpectrum said. The company plans to work with those coming to India for medical tourism and it plans to work with the government on fixing some...

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Indian Healthcare Platform PharmEasy Taps Cashfree Payments for Transaction Processing
August 17, 2022

Indian payments and banking solutions provider Cashfree Payments has partnered with Indian digital healthcare platform PharmEasy to help the platform speed its payments to its retail partners.  PharmEasy will use Cashfree Payments’ Payouts application programming interface (API) integration to pay vendors, process customer refunds, disburse...

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The Alarming Financial and Reputational Costs of Healthcare Data Breaches Keep Rising
August 17, 2022

Healthcare is supposed to get us out of danger, not place us in harm’s way. The hard truth is that data breaches in the space are at historic levels, compromising tens of millions of healthcare records and potentially placing patients in serious financial peril. “Over...