Allscripts has acquired CarePort, a Boston-based company that unlocks data from post-acute care providers to better manage care across the continuum. Due to the shift in healthcare reimbursement and legislation focused on delivering critical outcomes, managing post-acute care is now a necessary and integral component of population health strategy.The acquisition of CarePort's post-acute outcomes management platform will expand the capabilities of Allscripts comprehensive population health
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PierianDx Acquires Tute Genomics for Integrated Personalized Medicine
PierianDx, a provider of clinical genomic analysis, interpretation and reporting has acquired Provo, UT-based Tute Genomics. For PierianDx, the acquisition of Tute Genomics’ leading constitutional and exome testing capabilities will provide a single clinical platform for best in class clinical workflow support of somatic cancer and constitutional testing. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.The transaction includes incorporating Tute leadership, advisors and developers into
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Wolters Kluwer to Acquire Emmi for $175M
Wolters Kluwer Health announced it will acquire Emmi Solutions (Emmi), a providers of patient engagement solutions, for $170 million in cash to expand its market share in the patient engagement market. For Wolters Kluwer Health, Emmi’s offerings are a natural extension to its existing Clinical Solutions portfolio, in particular to UpToDate in decision support and Lexicomp and Medi-Span in drug information.Founded in 2002, Emmi offers an enterprise-wide, integrated and multi-media patient
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Avaap Acquires Epic-Focused Consulting Firm Falcon Consulting
Avaap, an Infor systems integrator, announced it has acquired Falcon Consulting, LLC, a KLAS-leading Epic Systems implementation and optimization firm to expand its consulting, software solutions and implementation services. With this acquisition, Avaap has put itself in the distinctive position of servicing the largest enterprise software needs for its healthcare customers. Avaap is strategically focused on Infor and helping healthcare organizations implement and maximize value in Enterprise
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TransUnion Acquires RTech for $62M to Strengthen Revenue Cycle Offerings
This week, TransUnion announced it has acquired RTech (Healthcare Revenue Technologies, Inc), a technology-driven healthcare services company helping healthcare providers uncover hard-to-find, billable revenue and implement long-term improvements that generate future value.Under terms of the acquisition, TransUnion has agreed to pay $62 million consisting of approximately $51.9 million paid at closing and up to an additional $6.2 million, deposited in escrow at closing, upon satisfaction of
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Atos Acquires Health IT Outsourcing Firm Anthelio Healthcare Solutions for $275M
Global IT company Atos will acquire healthcare IT outsourcing company Anthelio Healthcare Solutions for $275 million in cash to expand the company's health IT services portfolio in the US market, company officials announced Monday. Anthelio's end to end health IT solutions include IT infrastructure services, IT applications management, EHR optimization, Patient Engagement, Analytics, and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) including HIM Services, Patient Financial Services and Cancer Registry
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HMS Holdings Acquires Care Management Platform Essette for $20M
HMS Holdings Corp. a provider of cost containment solutions in the healthcare industry to help payers improve performance has acquired web-based care management platform Essette for approximately $20 million in cash. Founded in 2007, Essette's care management platform helps risk-bearing healthcare organizations identify, engage, and manage at-risk patient populations to improve outcomes while managing costs.Essette's customer base includes managed care organizations and care delivery
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CRF Health Acquires Remote Patient Monitoring Startup Entra Health
CRF Health, a provider of electronic clinical outcomes assessment (eCOA)solutions for the life sciences industry, has acquired remote patient monitoring-focused startup Entra Health. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. For CRF Health, the acquisition will help the company expand its footprint in wireless medical and wellness devices market. Additionally, it will help strengthen its integration with its eCOA technologies to establish a complete network of solutions to
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Huron Consulting Group Acquires HSM Consulting: 6 Things to Know
Management consulting firm Huron Consulting Group Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Healthcare Services Management, Inc. (HSM), a firm specializing in healthcare IT and management consulting. Here are six things to know about the acquisition: 1. The acquisition will help strengthen Huron’s ability to help healthcare providers implement and optimize EHR technologies that harness data to improve the quality and cost of care and better manage patient populations.2. Founded in 2006,
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Philips Acquires Wellcentive to Strengthen Its Population Health Business
Royal Philips has signed an agreement to acquire Atlanta, GA-based Wellcentive, a provider of population health management software solutions. Financial details of the acquisition will not be disclosed.Wellcentive and its 115 employees will become part of the Population Health Management business group within Philips. Tom Zajac, CEO of Wellcentive and an experienced healthcare industry leader, will be appointed to lead this business group.Philips-Wellcentive Integration PlansAs part of the
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