Ovation.io, Inc. today announced the close of an expanded $1.85M round of financing, initially led by StageDotO and Longfellow Ventures, as well as the completion of a partnership with The Hunt Group, a respected provider of health information services. Ovation continues to evolve beyond a laboratory information management system (LIMS) to a full commercialization ecosystem that provides diagnostic labs with sample tracking, billing and reimbursement, reporting, document management, training management, client management, laboratory consulting services and business analytics. The company also announced that John Walker, Head of Core Data and Analytics, NIBR Informatics, Novartis, has joined its board of directors and that they have expanded their advisory panel to include Chad Robins, Rich Miller, and Vinay Gidwaney.