Virtual care provider Teladoc Health has acquired Paris, France-based telemedicine provider MédecinDirect to offer its full continuum of services to insurers and employers in Europe’s third largest market. Co-founded by François Lescure and Marc Guillemo in 2008, MédecinDirect’s accredited and mobile platform of medical expertise provides secure and completely confidential, doctors are committed to answering all medical questions by telephone and Internet seven days a week. MédecinDirect
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Hill-Rom Acquires Mobile Communication Platform Voalte for $180M
Mobile technology company Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc., today announced it has acquired Voalte, a Sarasota, FL-based real-time, mobile healthcare communications for $180 million in cash and up to an additional $15 million in payments related to the achievement of certain commercial milestones. For the Hill-Rom, the acquisition will accelerate its capabilities in clinical communication. Founded in 2008, Voalte develops smartphone solutions that simplify caregiver communication. Ranked number-one and
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Philips to Acquire Carestream Health’s Health IT Business Unit
Royal Philips has signed an agreement to acquire Carestream Health’s healthcare information systems (HCIS) business unit. Carestream’s HCIS business unit includes enterprise imaging IT solutions for multi-site hospitals, radiology services providers, imaging centers and specialty medical clinics. The acquisition of Carestream’s enterprise imaging platform will help expand Philips’ healthcare IT business portfolio of VNA, diagnostic and enterprise viewers, multimedia reporting, workflow
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PointClickCare Acquires Senior Living EHR & eMAR Vendor QuickMAR
PointClickCare Technologies, a cloud-based EHR for long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) and senior living industries has acquired QuickMAR, an eMAR & EHR for long-term care, group homes and assisted living facilities. The combination of two leading organizations will offer senior living customers and pharmacy partners greater flexibility in how they adopt and scale their resident care strategies while working through a single technology vendor.Founded in 2007, QuickMAR is an EHR and eMAR
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AbleTo Acquires Digital Therapy App Joyable to Strengthen Virtual Behavioral Healthcare
AbleTo, Inc., a provider of virtual behavioral healthcare proven to improve clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs has acquired Joyable, an app-based digital therapy innovator. The acquisition strengthens AbleTo's high-quality virtual behavioral healthcare with a digital platform that delivers clinically-based therapies supported by coaches to help individuals overcome depression, generalized anxiety, and social anxiety.Founded in 2014, Joyable offers users expert-designed digital
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Accenture Acquires Ireland-based Life Sciences Firm ESP
Accenture, today announced it is acquiring Enterprise System Partners (ESP), an Ireland-based consulting and manufacturing services provider for the life sciences industry. As part of the acquisition, ESP will join Accenture Industry X.0, which helps clients master the digital reinvention of industry, strengthening Accenture’s capabilities to transform manufacturing for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device clients globally.The combination of ESP’s digitally-enabled manufacturing services
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Medsphere Acquires ED EHR Provider Wellsoft
Medsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare information technology (IT) solutions and services, today announced the acquisition of Wellsoft Corporation, a Somerset, NJ-based Emergency Department (ED) EHR provider. Wellsoft offers complete information management software for the challenging environment of the Emergency Department to improve operational efficiencies, productivity, care coordination, and revenue in Emergency Departments throughout the
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Crossover Health Acquires Virtual Primary Care Platform Sherpaa Health
Crossover Health, a provider of comprehensive health services for self-insured employers, has acquired the exclusive rights to the technology platform developed by Sherpaa Health, the pioneer of virtual primary care. The announcement is part of Crossover Health’s efforts to accelerate the creation of a seamless “in person, online and anytime” system of health for its national base of self-insured employers and their employee members.Virtual Primary Care PioneerFounded in 2012 by Jay Parkinson,
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ICON Acquires Precision Medicine for Oncology Company MolecularMD
ICON, a global provider of drug development solutions and services has acquired MolecularMD, a molecular diagnostic specialty laboratory that enables the development and commercialization of precision medicines in oncology. The acquisition of MolecularMD’s extensive scientific and clinical biomarker experience expands the ICON’s capabilities in molecular diagnostic testing and also adds expanded testing platforms, including next-generation sequencing and immunohistochemistry, to ICON’s
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CVS-Aetna Merger Impact : Consumers Open to Receiving Primary Care at CVS Clinics
The CVS-Aetna merger has the potential to create an integrated model for consumer healthcare that could transform the consumer experience; however, are consumers embracing the prospect of receiving care in a CVS retail pharmacy setting? According to new research from J.D. Power, forty-five percent of consumers said they would probably or definitely would use primary care services in a CVS retail pharmacy setting. CVS-Aetna Merger Consumer Impact Survey BackgroundJ.D. Power's December 2018 pulse
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