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Report: Financial Pressures Drive Healthcare M&A in Q1 2023

by Syed Hamza Sohail 04/14/2023 Leave a Comment

Report: Financial Pressures Drive Healthcare M&A in Q1 2023

What You Should Know: Operational and financial pressures drove mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare sector in Q1 2023, according to a new report from Kaufman Hall. In total, there were 15 announced transactions in Q1 resulting in $12.4 billion in total transacted revenue.The trend of fewer but larger transactions that characterized 2022 was maintained—the average size of the seller or smaller party in Q1 was $827 million, just below last year’s historic year-end average of
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7 Buy-Side Considerations for Healthcare M&A in 2023

by Ian Goldberger, Principal & Matthew Hellinger, Sr. Associate at Kaufman Rossin’s Transaction Advisory Business Consulting Services 01/03/2023 Leave a Comment

7 Buy-Side Considerations for Healthcare M&A in 2023

The shift to value-based care and an abundance of cash in the market are some of the drivers impacting healthcare mergers and acquisitions. These and other trends have been strong over the past few months and are expected to continue, impacting transaction planning for buyers.   If you are considering acquiring a healthcare business in 2023, here are seven things you need to know.  1. Value-based care is becoming a key driver in healthcare M&A  Value-based care
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HealthStream Acquires Mobile Nurse App NurseGrid for $25M

by Fred Pennic 03/10/2020 Leave a Comment

HealthStream Acquires Mobile Nurse App NurseGrid for $25M

What We Need to Know: - Healthstream acquires NurseGrid, a mobile health app for nurses and nurse managers for approximately $25M in cash. - NurseGrid Mobile is among the top downloaded apps for nurses and has a highly engaged audience of monthly active users, of which over 40 percent use the app daily (i.e. daily active users). - NurseGrid’s operations are based in Portland, Oregon and include approximately 20 employees. HealthStream, a Nashville, TN-based provider of workforce
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3 Trends Driving Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity in 2020

by Erica Garvin 01/22/2020 Leave a Comment

3 Trends Driving Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity in 2020

Livingstone’s Ryan Buckley shares insights behind the prevalent healthcare M&A trends of 2020 and its impact on U.S healthcare. The New Year often brings with it an essence of transformation. This year, U.S. healthcare’s metamorphosis is now more than a decade old, as it continues to shed its antiquated legacy systems and siloes to embrace a different kind of entity—one that hopes to establish weight in value-based care at a scale robust enough to substantiate it.
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Analysis: Examining The Highly Fragmented International EHR Market

by Alex Green, Director at Signify Research 06/19/2019 Leave a Comment

Analysis: Examining The Highly Fragmented International EHR Market

The EMEA market for EMR/EHR IT is estimated to have been worth $3.7B in 2018 (both acute and ambulatory applications) according to Signify Research’s recently published market report on the global EMR/EHR market. However, only one vendor, Cerner, is estimated to have had a double-digit revenue share. Despite its recent announcement that it will potentially sell its Hospital IT and Integrated Care business, Agfa Health was the only other vendor to come close. In terms of suppliers, the market is
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7 Trends Accelerating “TechBio” – The Life Sciences and Computer Sciences Convergence

by Vasudev Bailey, Ph.D., Partner at ARTIS Ventures 05/01/2019 Leave a Comment

We are now living in what I’m calling the TechBio revolution. That’s not a typo that should read BioTech, but rather a new way of looking at the convergence of technology and biology. TechBio is defined as an engineering-first approach of biological processes for industrial, and other purposes, especially the genetic manipulation of microorganisms for the production of antibiotics, hormones, and so on. A process that uses AI and data-enabled discovery to complement the exploration of
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Wolters Kluwer Harnesses AI to Bridge Data in EHRs to Speed Accuracy of HAIs

by Jasmine Pennic 04/24/2019 Leave a Comment

Wolters Kluwer Harnesses AI to Bridge Data in EHRs to Speed Accuracy of HAIs

With healthcare M&A at an all-time high, many hospitals and health systems are feeling interoperability pains following mergers.  Wolters Kluwer is now harnessing AI to bridge data in electronic health records (EHRs) and disparate systems, such as lab results, to improve how organizations identify and report hospital-acquired infections.Real World Data Integration Challenges for ProvidersIntegrating data from disparate EHRs across health systems continues to be a largely manual process. But
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2018 Healthcare M&A in Review: 4 Trends Reshaping the Healthcare Landscape

by Fred Pennic 01/14/2019 Leave a Comment

2018 Healthcare M&A in Review: 4 Trends Reshaping the Healthcare Landscape

The trend of mergers between large healthcare provider organizations continued in 2018, as the average size in revenue of sellers (defined as the smaller of two organizations in a transaction) reached $409 million, according to Kaufman Hall's new report, 2018 M&A in Review: A New Healthcare Landscape Takes Shape. This is the highest figure seen since Kaufman Hall began tracking this metric in 2008. It also represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 14 percent in the average
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Report: Healthcare M&A Preferred Growth Strategy for Execs in 2016

by Jasmine Pennic 01/12/2016 Leave a Comment

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41 percent of healthcare executives expect healthcare M&A transactions to be their preferred growth strategy for 2016, outpacing organic growth through revitalizing and updating existing offerings, according to a Capital One Healthcare survey. The Capital One survey conducted shortly before this week's 34th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, found enduring optimism for the healthcare industry, although at lower levels than previous years.  Key findings of the survey include: -
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Healthcare M&A: 5 Step Guide to Thinking Like A Successful Portfolio Manager

by Jasmine Pennic 09/17/2015 Leave a Comment

Healthcare M&A in the US reached $241B by May 2015, the highest year-to-date volume ever recorded. Healthcare providers are making these acquisitions to gain economies of scale; shift from volume-based to value-based care; address local market characteristics to remain competitive; better appeal to consumer wants and needs; and expand their digital health and ehealth capabilities, according to a new report from Accenture.  While this new wave of M&A growth expands a set of strategic
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