What You Should Know:
- Health technology leader WellSky has agreed to acquire
CarePort Health to power coordinated care transitions for acute and post-acute
care patients for $1.35B.
- By providing end-to-end visibility across the
continuum, WellSky and CarePort can improve outcomes, lower costs, and increase
patient satisfaction.
WellSky, a global health, and community care technology company, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Allscripts to
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Biofourmis Lands $100M to Expand AI-Powered Digital Therapeutics Platform
What You Should Know:
- Boston-based digital therapeutics leader Biofourmis
just closed a $100 million Series C funding round led by SoftBank,
bringing its total funding to $145M.
- Biofourmis will be using the funding to develop, validate and commercialize several released and unreleased digital therapeutics solutions across cardiology, oncology, respiratory, and pain, with a focus on the United States and key Asian markets, including Asia Pacific, China, and
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How ADT-Based E-Notifications Can Enable Better Safety for COVID-19 Patients
Jay Desai, CEO & Co-Founder, PatientPing
As COVID-19 continues to impact the country, providers across the continuum face new challenges delivering care and ensuring safety for their patients and themselves. During this period, sharing real-time information about patients’ care encounters across provider types and care settings matter more than ever. In particular, hospitals sharing admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) events with COVID-19 patients’ community-based providers is
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How Can eConsults Help Clinically Integrated Networks Deliver Better Care and Demonstrate Value?
Mark Cittadino, Head of Health System Sales, AristaMD
A Clinically Integrated Network (CIN) strategy that leverages eConsult technology can help physicians and health systems deliver better care at a lower cost.
Physicians increasingly face pressure to deliver high-quality care efficiently while continuing to grow and sustain their practices. But lowering costs while sustaining growth often means giving up autonomy. The percentage of solo physicians in the U.S. fell to 17% in 2014,
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Care Coordination Network PatientPing Raises $60M to Fuel Expansion
What You Should Know:
- PatientPing raises $60M in Series C funding to fuel expansion to new geographies and extends the capabilities of their care coordination network solutions.
- As the nation’s leading care collaboration and
patient event notifications (e-notifications) platform, PatientPing’s
comprehensive suite of solutions leverage real-time patient data and are used
by provider organizations, hospitals, health plans, governments, individuals
and the organizations supporting
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CareCentrix Acquires Palliative Care Solution Turn-Key Health
What You Should Know:
- Home care leader CareCentrix announced its acquisition palliative care solution for health plans Turn-Key Health, a move that will help more vulnerable patients heal at home.
- The acquisition fully integrates Turn-Key’s palliative care solution into the CareCentrix platform and supports the company’s mission to meet patient needs through an entire episode of care.
- With Turn-Key’s data analytics and artificial intelligence, CareCentrix patients will
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CarePort Launches COVID-19 Solution for Care Transitions
What You Should Know:
- Allscripts subsidiary CarePort launches a solution built for the COVID-19 epidemic that will make transitioning patients between health care providers safer.
- The COVID-19 Transitions of Care Hub will provide visibility into COVID-19 hospitalizations across CarePort’s 1,000 hospitals with 180,000 post-acute providers. It will also help hospitals find nursing homes and post-acute care for COVID-19 patients – an issue that has created a bottleneck in hospitals as
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IntelyCare Raises $45M for Intelligent Nurse Staffing Platform to Address Solve Nationwide Workforce Shortage
- IntelyCare, a leading intelligent workforce management solution for post-acute facilities raises $45M in new equity and debt financing to solve nationwide nurse shortage.
- With this funding, the company will continue its viral expansion into new markets in dire need of better ways to pair facilities with open shifts and nurses looking for work.
IntelyCare, a leading intelligent workforce management solution for post-acute facilities, today announced it has completed the largest
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CareMount, Nuvance Partner to Expand Population Health Services in NY
- CareMount, New York's top Next-Gen accountable care organization, is partnering with Nuvance Health -- a system of seven hospitals that serve CT and NY -- to better share information for the purpose of providing improved population health services for both organizations.
- CareMount Health Solutions, a physician-owned management services organization, will deliver to Nuvance Health, a suite of population health management services including care coordination and clinical programs, data
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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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