A Boston healthcare analytics company with a core focus on population health management has raised a big pile of cash from investors that include big health insurance and pharmaceutical companies.The companyArcadia Healthcare Solutionshas raised the $30 million from Zaffre Investments, a part of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts; Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, an affiliate of drug maker Merck & Co.; GE Ventures; Pelton Equity and GE Ventures.The new funding will allow Arcadia to develop more applications for its Arcadia analytics platform and develop new data analytical tools for population health management, says CEO Sean Carroll. Population health management involves gathering, normalizing and analyzing a patients clinical data from all of her healthcare providers in order to reveal opportunities to improve the patients health and the providers financial outcomes, according to SearchHealthcareIT.comArcadia also may use money to make additional acquisitions. Arcadia acquired Concordant, an electronic health record services company in 2011, andSage Technologies, a managed care services company, in 2015. Our transformation from a proven consulting firm to a recognized, technology-led population health analytics company is complete, Carroll says.

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