- Definitive Healthcare acquires software analytics firm for life sciences PatientFinder to expand contextual data and insights within a business’s end-to-end commercialization effort.- With this acquisition, Definitive Healthcare will add an enormous new set of data fields through an acquisition that will dramatically change the views and analytics possible for patient care.Definitive Healthcare, a provider of data, insights, and analytics on the healthcare provider market has acquired
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Top 60 Health IT/Digital Health Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019
- From Google's acquisition of Fitbit to Philips acquisition of Carestream Health's health IT business, here is a look at some of the biggest health IT/digital health mergers & acquisitions in 2019 by each quarter.
Q1 M&A Activity
Johnson & Johnson Acquires Auris Health for $3.4B to Expand Digital Surgery Portfolio
Johnson & Johnson acquiresAuris Health, a developer of robotic technologies for $3.4 billion in cash. Auris Health is a privately-held developer of
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Despite Deployment Challenges, Healthcare Cloud Adoption Is On The Rise
- Cloud adoption in healthcare is accelerating amid deployment challenges, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by HIMSS Media in collaboration in Perficient and Red Hat. - The blinded HIMSS Technology Outlook Survey: The Outlook for Cloud finds healthcare organizations are already deploying or planning to deploy a significant share of their healthcare information technology (HIT) workload to the cloud.Cloud adoption continues to accelerate in healthcare, a fact reflected in the
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UK Children’s Hospital Becomes MEDITECH’s First NHS Customer
- Alder Hey Children’s Hospital signs with MEDITECH to harness next-generation Expanse electronic patient record (EPR) platform to advance its Digital Future Strategy. - Alder Hey is the first MEDITECH NHS customer in the UK to leverage the web-based Expanse technology for enhanced patient care and productivity.Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Europe has signed an agreement with MEDITECH to implement their web-based MEDITECH Expanse electronic patient record (EPR) for enhanced patient care and
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Microsoft, Nuance Partner to Develop Ambient Clinical Intelligence to Combat Clinician Burnout
- Nuance and Microsoft have joined forces to accelerate the delivery of ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) technologies that will power the exam room of the future where clinical documentation writes itself.
- Strategic partnership's focus is to reduce clinician burnout by enabling doctors to focus on patients, while AI focuses on administrative tasks.
Today, Microsoft and Nuance Communications announced a
strategic partnership to accelerate the
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The Health IT Staffing Shortage Is a Problem Morphing Into a Crisis
Staffing shortages have plagued the healthcare industry for years, and this year hospital IT departments are feeling more pain than ever. The shortfall in physicians and nurses understandably gets the most press attention, but two phenomenons are pushing scarcity of specialized IT workers into the stratosphere: computer and IT jobs across all industries are projected to grow 12% from 2018 to 2028, and healthcare is projected to add 3.5 million jobs during the period, about one-third of all new
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HIMSS Report: Current State of Japan’s Digital Health Economy
- New HIMSS report reveals the current state of Japan’s digital health economy in the era of aging societies. - Japan and the UK share some common traits in healthcare and society that has resulted in each country’s healthcare sector experiencing rising costs and a dwindling human resource pool.HIMSS announced that it has published a report titled “Capitalising on Japan’s Digital Healthcare Economy during this Era of Ageing Societies.” Written by Professor Sudhesh Kumar, Dean of Warwick Medical
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Dysfunctional Patient Billing Major Distraction for Patients & Clinicians
Dysfunctional patient billing is a major distraction for both patients and clinicians, according to recent research conducted by HIMSS in partnership with OODA Health. The research report reveals patients are distracted by bills and payment concerns resulting in a lower level of compliance and adherence to medical plans. Clinicians are distracted by clerical/financial tasks that limit time with or take time away from patients. This research complicates the simple construct of patient billing as
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3 Takeaways From The 2019 HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference
The HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference attracted over 2,600 delegates from 64 countries to Helsinki in June 2019. While there was a strong focus on healthcare in the Nordics, the conference brought with it a wide variety of vendors from across the globe all looking for new opportunities on the show floor. Our key takeaway – the goal to change mindsets in Europe towards how healthcare can be improved through the use of technology. We look at a few examples below, namely:- Developing
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Analysis: Philips’ Evolution to a Pure-play Healthcare Technology Vendor
The last two-to-three years we have seen Philips complete its transformation into a pure-play healthcare technology vendor. It has reduced its interest in its remaining non-healthcare business Philips Lighting/Signify (now owning only a 16.5% share), made 16 healthcare technology acquisitions since the start of 2017 and organized its internal business units into three core healthcare technology segments, Personal Health, Diagnosis & Treatment and Connected Care. A few weeks ago, several of
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