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Also: Vida Health announces new value-based pricing structure. 

The coalition’s goals are to remove barriers to healthcare and create a care concierge and navigation platform for Black patients.

The deal will add Included Health’s LGBTQ+ care navigation services to Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand’s virtual care platform.   

Grand Rounds' CEO Owen Tripp will continue on as the CEO of the combined entity. 

This morning, clinical-navigation platform Grand Rounds announced a whopping $175 million investment round led by the Carlyle Group.

Also: Pritzker Group Venture Capital announces slew of promotions and Grand Rounds taps former USF chief medical officer Dr. Ami Parekh for same role. 

MobiHealthNews spent the last week at the HIMSS18 annual global conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Boston Children's Hospital released data from a discharge app pilot they launched last year and announced three partnerships, with Rock Health, IBM, and Grand Rounds.

Bryan Roberts Bryan Roberts, one of Venrock's healthcare-focused investment partners, has some rules of thumb for investing in digital health -- and for what to pass up.

Grand Rounds, a company that works with consumers and employers to match patients with specialist doctors and helps provide second opinions, has raised $55 million in third round funding from a new, undisclosed global mutual fund investor as well as existing investors Greylock, Venrock, Harrison Metal and David Ebersman.