As the start of the new year kicks off, we asked 5 healthcare executives to share their top predictions and trends for 2023.
Dr. Yusuf Sherwani, Co-Founder and CEO of Quit Genius
Employers will expand SUD treatment for employees: For example, Cigna more than doubled Evernorth’s Behavioral Health Network in recent months, and employers are now the ones driving demand for better behavioral health benefits for their employees. Employees with substance use disorder have become a financial
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Leidos
Cerner Appoints William Mintz As Chief Strategy Officer
Cerner, today announced it has named William Mintz as the new Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) where he will work alongside company and client leadership to identify and develop new business opportunities, drive the strategic planning process and oversee the corporate strategy. Prior to joining Cerner, Mintz served as the Vice President of Strategy at Leidos where he was responsible for enterprise strategy, new product development, and commercialization.
“I’m thrilled to add Will to
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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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ettain group Acquires Leidos’s Commercial EHR Consulting Business
- Talent solutions firm ettain group acquires Leidos Inc.’s commercial Electronic Health Records (EHR) consulting business to further strengthen its national Healthcare IT capabilities- The acquisition will grow its IT staffing presence in several strategic markets, including New York, NY, Denver, CO, and Chicago, IL.ettain group, a Charlotte, NC-based provider of talent solutions, announced today that it has acquired Leidos Inc.’s commercial Electronic Health Records (“EHR”) consulting
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Tempus, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc. Launch Effort to Enhance The Cancer Genome Atlas
Tempus, a technology company advancing precision medicine through the collection and analysis of molecular and clinical data at scale announced today that it was selected by Leidos Biomedical Research Inc. (Leidos Biomed) to abstract and structure follow-up clinical data for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Project for submission to the National Cancer Institute’s Genomic Data Commons (GDC).The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Project BackgroundThere are 230 distinct investigators that contributed
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KLAS Report Finds Chartis Group, ECG, Impact Advisors Top Consulting Firms for Vendor Selection Beyond EMRs
The Chartis Group, ECG(Kurt Salmon), and Impact Advisors stand out as the top consulting firms for helping healthcare providers select systems beyond EMRs, according to a recent KLAS report. The KLAS report, "Crucial Factors to Consider When Choosing A Consulting Firm," reveals Cerner’s acquisition of Siemens’ healthcare IT, the sunsetting of McKesson Horizon, the release of MEDITECH 6.0, and the continued record-breaking pace of healthcare mergers and acquisitions—have caused many providers
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Leidos Closes $5B Lockheed Martin Acquisition, Appoints 3 New Directors
Leidos has announced the successful $5B acquisition of Lockheed Martin's Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) business in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction. The division has about $5 billion in sales and more than 16,000 employees globally, IS&GS has been a leading government services provider for more than 20 years. Lockheed states the move will allow them to focus more on its core aerospace and defense operations.The Leidos Board of Directors also announced the election
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Leidos, NIH Launches Portal to Re-accelerate Biomedical Research Funding
Leidos, a health, national security and engineering solutions company is teaming up with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to launch OnPAR (Online Partnership to Accelerate Research) that will provide new funding opportunities for scientific projects. The Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR) was conceived to re-accelerate the biomedical research and development enterprise by seeking a larger return on NIH's peer review investment on research proposals evaluated
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Leidos, FairWarning Partner to Deliver EHR-Focused Patient Privacy Monitoring
Reston, VA-based health technology provider Leidos and FairWarning have signed a partnership to to provide commercial and public sector healthcare customers with real time, continuous monitoring of both internal and external advanced persistent threats (APT) to EHRs in a unified environment. Under the terms of the agreement customers will be able to utilize a complete managed security service that provides around-the-clock monitoring of digital activity across the enterprise including internal
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Leidos Acquires Lockheed’s Government IT Business for $5B
On Tuesday, Leidos Holdings Inc. announced it will acquire Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin Corp’s information systems and government services business in a tax-free deal valued at $5 billion. The division has about $5 billion in sales and more than 16,000 employees globally, IS&GS has been a leading government services provider for more than 20 years. Lockheed states the move will allow them to focus more on its core aerospace and defense operations.
With the acquisition, Leidos
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