What You Should Know:
- Siemens has acquired Brightly, an asset management software company used by many schools, governments, hospitals and manufacturers around the world for a purchase price of $1.575B.
- The acquisition will add Brightly’s well-established cloud-based capabilities across key sectors – education, public infrastructure, healthcare, and manufacturing – to Siemens’ digital and software know-how in buildings.
Brightly Software Background
Brightly Software is a leader
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Analysis: Is Oracle Cerner Planning to Build A National EHR?
Earlier this month Oracle closed its $28.3B acquisition of Cerner and shortly after Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, outlined Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT post-acquisition. The key elements of this vision included:
- Developing a solution for a national EHR database.
- Leveraging this solution, and similar smaller-scale connected EHR initiatives, to provide life science, pharma and other users with a rich environment for research, clinical trials and drug
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TDS Acquires PrescribeWellness from Tabula Rasa HealthCare in $140M Deal
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- Transaction Data Systems (TDS), the leader in pharmacy software solutions has acquired PrescribeWellness from Tabula Rasa HealthCare in a deal worth up to $140M.
- Further, TDS’s plans to accelerate product innovation will create solutions to further optimize pharmacy workflows, support real-time clinical interventions and expand patient engagement opportunities to clients.
Acquisition Benefits for TDS
TDS connects community pharmacies through its
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Walgreens Launches New Clinical Trial Business to Address Access & Diversity
What You Should Know:
- Walgreens today announced the launch of its clinical trial business to redefine the patient experience and increase access and retention in sponsor-led drug development research.
- Walgreens flexible clinical trial model combines the company’s vast foundation of patient insights, partner-enabled health and technology capabilities and in-person and virtual care options to break through barriers to engaging broader and more diverse communities.
Patient Recruitment
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ResMed Acquires MEDIFOX DAN for $1B, Expands Healthcare SaaS Business
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- ResMed acquires MEDIFOX DAN, a German leader in software solutions for home health, nursing home, and outpatient therapy providers, for $1 billion. This acquisition marks ResMed’s largest SaaS acquisition to date and expands its SaaS business outside of the U.S. for the first time.
- As part of the acquisition, MEDIFOX DAN will integrate into ResMed’s SaaS business, allowing ResMed to serve new settings: outpatient therapy services, and youth
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Capital Rx Raises $106M to End Drug Price Distortion
What You Should Know:
- Capital Rx, a health technology company changing the way prescription drugs are priced and patients are serviced raises $106M in a Series C round to end drug price distortion. The Series C round was led by B Capital with participation from General Catalyst and existing investors, Transformation Capital and Edison Partners, bringing the total amount raised to $175M.
- Capital Rx will continue to invest in the technology backbone for claims processing and benefit
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Aledade Raises $123M to Expand Value-Based Primary Care
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- Aledade, a Bethesda, MD-based provider of value-based primary care raises $123M in Series E funding to support investments in value-based care for more seniors covered by Medicare Advantage (MA) and innovation that improves patient care and increases medical cost savings, including expanded offerings through its new health services subsidiary, Aledade Care Solutions (ACS). Returning investor OMERS Growth Equity led the round, which also included Fidelity Management
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Lightbeam Health Acquires Jvion AI and SDOH Solutions – M&A
What You Should Know:
– Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc., a provider of population health management solutions and services has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the operating assets related to Jvion, Inc., including Jvion’s market-leading AI-enabled prescriptive analytics and social determinants of health (SDoH) solutions.
-The strategic partnership combines Lightbeam’s health analytics and outcomes for payers and providers with the Jvion’s predictive technology.
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AWS Launches New Healthcare Accelerator Focused on Health Equity
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of the next AWS Healthcare Accelerator—this year with a new focus on health equity. The Accelerator is open to startups with US operations and applications open today.
- This is part of AWS’s efforts to help organizations use the power of the cloud to help tackle the health equity gap – other efforts include the $40 million AWS Health Equity Initiative, which AWS also provided an
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Hospital Telehealth Vendor Financials Round Up – Teladoc Health, Amwell & SOC Telemed
Several hospital telehealth vendors enjoyed great success in 2020 as they benefitted from unprecedented demand for their IT and services during the pandemic. But as lockdown restrictions were lifted and the strain on hospitals’ in-house capacity across the ICU and other acute care wards eased into the second half of 2021, were the vendors able to maintain their growth? With full-year results from several of the leading hospital telehealth vendors now published, here’s our take on the recently
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