What You Should Know:
- The choppy waters of this year’s market have forced a significant slowdown in digital health investment, but buyers and builders alike are seizing the moment to consider mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as strategic opportunities.
- In their latest report, Rock Health explores the sell-side and buy-side dynamics that are making conditions ripe for M&A activity and dig into four M&A approaches being pursued by acquirers in this market moment.
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Walgreens-Backed VillageMD to Acquire Summit Health for $9B
What You Should Know:
Primary care provider, VillageMD has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Summit Health-CityMD, a provider of primary, specialty and urgent care in a blockbuster M&A deal valued at $8.9 billion with investments from Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA).
The combined company will create a multi-payor platform to deliver quality, affordable care for all patients and will enhance WBA’s robust portfolio of leading, integrated healthcare offerings across the care
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M&A: Smile Digital Health Acquires Alphora
What You Should Know:
- Smile Digital Health, a FHIR® health data fabric and exchange solutions provider, announced that it has acquired Alphora, a market leader in Clinical Quality Language (CQL) that provides tooling and services to unlock clinical reasoning, decision support and other quality metrics capabilities.
- As a result of the acquisition, Smile Digital Health customers now have access to Smile Alphora, the company's new clinical reasoning capability that leverages its Fast
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Color Acquires Mood Lifters, Launches Behavioral Health Product
What You Should Know:
- Color Health acquires Mood Lifters, a leading group-based mental health company and launches a new behavioral health product. The new solution will expand access to mental healthcare for organizations tackling public and population health.
- Mood Lifters uses an evidence-based treatment paradigm developed by Dr. Patricia Deldin and Dr. Cecilia Votta at the University of Michigan. Crucially, groups are led by participants who have
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BioIntelliSense Acquires Patient Monitoring Company AlertWatch
What You Should Know:
- BioIntelliSense, Inc. acquires AlertWatch, an FDA-cleared, clinically proven patient monitoring solution. AlertWatch uniquely provides robust integration, data analysis and a patented intuitive display of contextual patient data for more efficient, actionable clinical decisions.
- As part of the recently announced strategic partnership with Medtronic, its Patient Monitoring business will distribute AlertWatch to hospitals throughout the U.S.
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RLDatix to Acquire Porzio Life Sciences
What You Should Know:
- RLDatix, the leading global provider of healthcare operations software and services that drive safer care has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Porzio Life Sciences, a market leader in compliance solutions for the life sciences industry which had been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the law firm of Porzio, Bromberg & Newman since 2004.
- Porzio Life Sciences simplifies compliance by combining its regulatory expertise with product innovation to
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Gradient AI Acquires Healthcare Analytics Business Unit from Prognos Health 
What You Should Know:
- Gradient AI, a leading enterprise software provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in the insurance industry, recently announced that it has acquired Prognos Health’s analytics business underwriting unit to leverage data from the company’s large collection of integrated medical records and lab data via its real-world data marketplace.
- The acquisition will enable Gradient AI to expand its medical database capabilities by integrating Prognos Health’s data
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WELL Health Acquires EMR, Billing, Clinical Assets from CloudMD for $5.75M
What You Should Know:
- WELL Health is acquiring CloudMD's Cloud Practice entity which includes OSCAR1 based Juno EMR and ClinicAid billing Software applications as well as three primary care clinics located in the province of British Columbia.
- The combined entities serve more than 2,500 healthcare practitioners across Canada and represent WELL's entrance in the Alberta and Saskatchewan markets for its EMR and billing products.
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Knowtion Health Acquires Rev Cycle A/R Platform Amplus
What You Should Know:
- Knowtion Health, formerly RSource Healthcare announced today it has acquired Amplus Group, a healthcare revenue cycle A/R resolution and technology service. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- For the past five years Amplus has utilized the latest in machine learning and automation to support accounts receivable (A/R) for health system revenue cycles.
- The acquisition will accelerate Knowtion's plan to expand low balance recovery technologies
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Nordic Consulting Acquires Healthcare Consulting Firm Hygeian
What You Should Know:
- Nordic Consulting, a global health and technology consulting company, has acquired Hygeian, a healthcare consulting company supporting public and private sector clients across the United Kingdom and the Middle East with advisory services, change management, flexible resourcing, and filling fixed-term and specialist roles. This acquisition marks Nordic’s sixth acquisition in recent years and comes
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