– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July 2020.
While a pandemic ravages the country, technology valuations are soaring. The Nasdaq hit an all-time high during the month of July, sailing through the 10,000 mark to post YTD gains of nearly 20%, representing a 56% increase off the low water mark on March 23. More notably, the Nasdaq has
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HGP Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review: 6 Key Trends to Know
Healthcare Growth Partners, an
Investment Banking and Strategic Advisory firm exclusively focused on the
transformational health
IT market, today announced the release of its Semi-Annual Health IT Market
Review report that summarizes M&A and private equity activity across health
IT, health information services, and digital health.
Report Background/Methodology
This edition of the report includes feedback from our survey
of private equity professionals and their response to
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Report: State of Health IT Private Equity in the Era of COVID-19
In May, as the U.S. cautiously started to reopen amid intense controversy, HGP polled hundreds of private equity funds across all stages of investment to find out how COVID-19 has impacted deal flow. Eighty respondents provided their perspective on topics ranging from an appetite for new investments to access to debt to the impact on portfolio companies.
Respondent Demographics
Effect of COVID-19 on Valuations
When asked how they expect overall and Health IT valuations to behave in
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COVID-19 Pandemic: The Surprise Catalyst for Telemedicine Adoption
It is no secret that technology adoption in healthcare often lags adoption in other sectors. Often, the slow pace of adoption makes sense. While technology can drastically improve both cost and quality in healthcare when implemented correctly, it can also cause physician burnout, increased administrative workload, and worsen patient outcomes if a new technology fails to live up to the hype.
Historically, the slow pace of IT adoption in healthcare was nowhere more apparent than in the
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COVID-19 Outbreak: The Opportunity & Importance of Health Informatics
Never before has health informatics played a greater role in public health than during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Health IT industry is certainly challenged due to the overall disruption to the healthcare system, the pandemic undoubtedly underscores the opportunity and importance of health informatics, such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, patient engagement, AI-based drug discovery, precision medicine, and clinical decision support, but nowhere more pressing than the fields of
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symplr Acquires Quality & Risk Management Platform The Patient Safety Company
- symplr, a leading healthcare governance, risk and compliance (“GRC”) software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) platform has acquired Patient Safety Company, a quality and risk management platform for healthcare organizations.
- The strategic acquisition further strengthens industry-leading healthcare governance, risk, and compliance software offerings.
symplr, a
leading healthcare governance, risk and compliance (“GRC”)
software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) platform, backed by Clearlake Capital
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Analysis: Why Digital Health Investors are Falling in Love with Femtech
Women’s health technology, known as Femtech, is one of the fastest-growing and well-funded categories of digital health. Femtech generally encompasses a range of digital health software and tech-enabled service providers that cater to the specific biological needs of women. These needs span from general health and wellness to reproductive health, including fertility, pregnancy, and nursing care.
Today, reproductive health is the focal point of femtech, thanks in part to the
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Analysis: January Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of January 2020.
Ten years into the bull market, we operate in a heightened state of awareness for any indication of market weakness that may signal a downturn. While debt levels are rising and GDP growth somewhat sluggish, the world of private equity, public equity, and M&A continues to be in full swing bull
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2020 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review: 5 Key Indicators to Watch
- Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) releases its Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review report that summarizes M&A and private equity activity across health IT, digital health, etc.
- The report reveals health IT as a healthy sector going into 2020 and outlines key 2019 trends and 2020 indicators to watch in the market this year.
Healthcare Growth Partners, an investment bank and strategic advisory firm for health IT has announced the release of its annual Semi-Annual Health IT
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Analysis: November 2019 Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners' (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of November 2019We did a doubletake when we noticed all of the HGP healthcare indices climbed approximately 10% during the month of November. Year-to-date, the S&P 500 is up over 25% and the HGP healthcare indices are all hovering in that range. In the two month period since September, when talk of universal healthcare reached
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