What You Should Know:
- emids - a leader in digital engineering and
transformation solutions for the healthcare and life sciences industries -
today announced the acquisition of Nevada-based FlexTech, a payer IT consulting
firm recognized by KLAS as a category leader.
- The FlexTech deal will drive expanded channel
partnership opportunities for emids among leading core platform vendors and
position emids as the go-to partner for advancing adoption of new digital
business
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Healthcare M&A | M&A News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Vocera Acquires Secure Communications Platform EASE Applications
What You Should Know:
- Today Vocera Communications acquires EASE Applications,
a provider of a secure communication platform and mobile application that
delivers updates, messages to patients’ loved ones, during surgeries and at
other times.
- The Orlando-based EASE offers a cloud-based service
that is built to improve the patient experience by enabling friends and family
members to receive timely updates about the progress of loved ones in the
hospitals. Care team members can send
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Change Healthcare Acquires Cloud-Native Imaging Platform Nucleus.io
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare acquires Nucleus.io to create the first of its kind end-to-end, cloud-native Enterprise Imaging to integrate Change Healthcare’s next-generation medical imaging platform.
- The acquisition will accelerate Change Healthcare’s
timeline to implement a complete cloud-based, end-to-end Enterprise Imaging
solution with customers by leveraging the 7,500+ organizations Nucleus.io
currently serves.
Change Healthcare (Nasdaq: CHNG) today announced the
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Former KKR Vet Jim Momtazee Launches Healthcare Investment Firm, Patient Square Capital
What You Should Know:
- Former KKR veteran Jim Momtazee announced the launch of
Patient Square Capital, a partnership being purpose-built to become the
preeminent investment firm in healthcare.
- Patient Square will partner with best-in-class
management teams whose products, services, and technologies improve
health.
- Prior to Patient Square, he spent over 21 years
at KKR, initially joining in 1996. He helped establish the firm’s health
care industry group in 2001 and
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Waystar Acquires Medicare RCM Company eSolutions at $1.3B Valuation
What You Should Know:
- Revenue cycle management provider Waystar acquires eSolutions, a provider of Medicare and Multi-Payer revenue cycle management, workflow automation, and data analytics tools at a $1.3B valuation.
- The acquisition will create the first unified
healthcare payments platform with both commercial and government payer
connectivity, resulting in greater value for providers.
Waystar, a provider of healthcare payments software, today
announced a definitive agreement
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Cone Health to Merge with Sentara Healthcare Totaling $11B in Assets
What You Should Know:
- Cone Health has signed a letter of intent to merge with
Norfolk, Virginia-based Sentara Healthcare for a combined $11B in assets.
- The merger creates one large health system totaling of
17 hospitals – 11 Sentara hospitals in Virginia and one in Elizabeth City,
N.C., and five Cone Health hospitals in the area surrounding Greensboro.
Cone Health has signed a letter of intent to merge with Norfolk, Virginia-based Sentara Healthcare. The merger will
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Providence Acquires MEDITECH Consulting Firm Navin, Haffty & Associates
What You Should Know:
- Providence acquires MEDITECH Consulting Firm Navin,
Haffy & Associates to combine with Engage IT Services to become a leading
solutions and services provider for the healthcare industry.
- The two firms are part of Providence Services Group (PSG), a family of top-tier healthcare technology services firms, brought together by Providence Health System, as part of Providence's broader ongoing strategy to launch an independent solutions and
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Medtronic Acquires Smart Insulin Pen Company Companion Medical
What You Should Know:
- Today, Medtronic announced that it will
acquire Companion Medical, the manufacturer of InPen, a smart insulin pen
system paired with an integrated diabetes management app.
- The addition of Companion’s InPen system builds
upon Medtronic's strategic acquisitions of Nutrino and Klue to further
improve overall automated decision-making capabilities and optimizes dosing
decisions using algorithms and AI for patients.
Medtronic,
today announced the
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M&A Analysis: 3 Benefits of Siemens Healthineers’ $16.4B Acquisition of Varian Medical
What You Should Know:
- Siemens Healthineers and Varian Medical announce a $16.4B deal in an all-cash transaction on 2nd August 2020.
- Deal expected to close in 1H 2021.
- Varian Medical will maintain its brand name and operate “independently”
- Siemens AG will drop holding in Siemens Healthineers from 85% to 72% as part of the transaction.
News of the deal between Siemens Healthineers and Varian Medical will have caught many industry onlookers off guard on Sunday evening.
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Analysis: July 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 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 outperformed
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