Uwill Acquires College Mental Health Startup Virtual Care Group

Uwill Acquires College Mental Health Startup Virtual Care Group

Natick, Massachusetts-based Uwill announced that it has acquired Virtual Care Group, a student-focused telehealth and wellness support platform. Based in Los Angeles, Virtual Care Group offers a platform that pairs providers with students, college faculty and staff who need support for their well-being and mental and physical health. The platform is currently implemented at more than 100 colleges. Uwill is a mental health platform for colleges and students. Uwill partners with colleges to offer students on-demand virtual access to licensed therapists and providers trained in crisis counseling. Students can also attend online wellness events through the company’s mental health and... Read More »
SAIGroup Picks up Patient Engagement Provider Get Well

SAIGroup Picks up Patient Engagement Provider Get Well

SAIGroup announced on July 9 the acquisition of Get Well, a Bethesda, Maryland-based provider of digital patient engagement. Get Well’s digital engagement tools connect patients to the information they need, when they need it, providing scalable operational efficiencies to hospitals, health systems, payers and other risk-bearing entities. Get Well currently facilitates more than 10 million patient interactions annually across more than 1,000 healthcare organizations. Founded in 2017, SAIGroup is a private equity firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm focuses on artificial intelligence software companies. SAIGroup seeks majority acquisitions of software, data, analytics and... Read More »
SAIGroup Picks up Patient Engagement Provider Get Well

Health Catalyst Adds Quarvis Health to Investment Portfolio

Health Catalyst announced at the start of July 2024 that it has added Quarvis Health, Inc. to its portfolio of digital health investments. Quarvis Health is a healthcare technology platform that virtually connects both the aging population and employees/health plan members to their health needs through AI-enabled text-based chat and voice-enabled devices. Quarvis offers a comprehensive solution to engage and navigate users to existing, underutilized benefits, reducing distress and improving behavioral health access and overall well-being. Quarvis Health was formed by the merger of HCC portfolio company Sibly, Inc. with Health4Home, LLC, d/b/a HandsFree Health, also announced in July 2024.... Read More »
Google Set to Acquire Home Healthcare App CareClic247

Google Set to Acquire Home Healthcare App CareClic247

Google announced on July 2 that it is set to acquire CareClic247, a prominent home healthcare app. The addition of CareClic247 amplifies Google’s healthcare portfolio and complements Google’s existing healthcare technologies.  CareClic247 has developed an app that connects medical and non-medical, in-home caregivers for physically and mentally impaired seniors. The app can send a doctor, nurse or a caregiver to a patient’s home 24/7 on demand.  Google focuses on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics and artificial intelligence. Google’s parent company is Alphabet Inc.... Read More »
Arcadia Acquires Healthcare Analytics Company CareJourney

Arcadia Acquires Healthcare Analytics Company CareJourney

Arcadia announced on June 27 that it has acquired CareJourney. The transaction strengthens Arcadia’s position as a trusted partner for leading healthcare brands like Southwestern Health Resources, Tandigm, Castell, Rush Health and Beth Israel Lahey Health. CareJourney is an Arlington, Virginia-based provider of cost and quality data that covers more than 300 episodes of care across more than 50 specialties and subspecialties. CareJourney derives market-leading analytics from Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and Commercial claims data across more than 300 million beneficiaries and more than 2 million providers nationwide. Payers, providers and employers can use these actionable... Read More »
SAIGroup Picks up Patient Engagement Provider Get Well

Sharecare Enters Into Definitive Agreement to be Acquired by Altaris

Atlanta, Georgia-based Sharecare announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Altaris Capital Partners. According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this acquisition represents the 116th eHealth transaction of 2024, and the 13th in the patient engagement specialty. Sharecare develops a mobile platform that lets patients manage their health through tools that include medication adherence and chronic disease management, and then communicate with a physician or doctor for consultation. According to its most recent financial report, Sharecare’s revenue for the full year 2023 was $445.3 million, and adjusted EBITDA was $16.5... Read More »