- 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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NextGen Acquires OTTO Health to Expand Telemedicine Capabilities
- NextGen Healthcare acquires telehealth platform OTTO Health to expand its patient engagement capabilities with integrated virtual visits. - NextGen plans to integrate OTTO Health’s telehealth platform with their recently acquired Medfusion patient experience platform.NextGen Healthcare, Inc., a provider of ambulatory-focused technology solutions, announced an agreement to acquire OTTO Health (“OTTO”). The proposed acquisition is expected to close this month, subject to the satisfaction of
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Analysis: November 2019 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 November 2019We did a doubletake when we noticed all of the HGP healthcare indices climbed approximately 10% during the month of November. Year-to-date, the S&P 500 is up over 25% and the HGP healthcare indices are all hovering in that range. In the two month period since September, when talk of universal healthcare reached
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NextGen Acquires Medfusion for $43M, Spins Out Data Services Business to Form Greenlight Health
- NextGen Healthcare announced today it has agreed to acquire Medfusion for $43 million in cash to give its clients a better patient engagement platform. - Medfusion will spin out its data services business to form Greenlight Health to meet the growing need for patient-initiated health data retrieval. - Greenlight Health will be focused on driving data flows for patients, consumers, businesses and organizations that need ready access to patient-approved data housed across a wide variety of
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LunaPBC, Medfusion Partner to Launch EHR Integration to Advance Scientific Discovery
- LunaPBC now enables members to access their electronic health records (EHRs) in the LunaDNA platform via Medfusion’s Patient Data Application Program Interfaces (APIs).- Individuals can now leverage Medfusion’s national health data network to consolidate their health records and help drive discovery through private, secure data sharingLunaPBC — founder of LunaDNA, the first community-owned genomic and health data platform — now enables members to access their electronic health records (EHRs)
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Medfusion Creates Mobile App for MDVIP to Enhance Patient Experience
Medfusion announces that MDVIP, the national leader in affordable personalized healthcare, has implemented custom Medfusion mobile apps to drive better patient engagement and physician satisfaction.Medfusion, a leading provider of patient experience solutions, developed the MDVIP Connect app to deliver a secure patient experience and strengthen the provider-patient relationship, allowing MDVIP patients to be more involved in - and in control of - their health and wellness. Within the MDVIP
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Medfusion Acquires Patient Self-Scheduling Company NexSched, LLC to Improve Patient Experience
Medfusion, Inc., a provider of patient experience solutions has acquired the business and certain assets of NexSched, LLC, a privately held New York-based company that specializes in patient self-scheduling solutions. According to a recent Accenture study, 77 percent of patients think that the ability to book, change or cancel appointments online is vitally important to their healthcare experience.The acquisition of NexSched addresses the rise of healthcare consumerism and demand for greater
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Medfusion Launches New Integration to Allscripts Pro EHR
Medfusion, a leading provider of patient portal software for more than 9.7 million patients, has launched its new integration to the Allscripts Pro EHR, available now for customers. This integration enables discrete data and secure messages to flow more efficiently between practices and their patients and creates a foundation for Medfusion to independently launch innovative new features to customers in the years to come. To ensure there would be no interruption to customers’ 2014 Meaningful
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