Wellness and analytics provider Welltok pays $80 million to acquire Tea Leaves Health, which offers "engagement" software for hospitals to connect with physicians and consumers.
Azeala Health, a provider of IT software to health care entities, brightens its future by acquiring Prognosis Healthcare, which offers EMRs to rural hospitals.
Here is another firm trying to acquire its way to success. Atos, a French IT outsourcing firm, is buying three US health IT consultants, Pursuit Healthcare, Conduent Healthcare Provider Consulting and Conduent Breakaway.
Express Scripts is buying EviCore for $3.6 billion. The purchase suggests that ESI recognizes that the PBM business is losing steam and facing price pressures and a move to broader care management capabilities may provide better future returns.
Trillian Health apparently intents to acquire a trillion companies, as it has made three recent acquisitions to bolster its health data and analytics business, including Expression Health Analytics, Aegis Health, and Clariture Health.
HealthSplash, a health care patient communication and scheduling firm, is acquiring DMERX, which does compliance documentation, primarily for the DME segment.
Episource, which gathers chart and other data for risk adjustment and other purposes, is acquiring Peak Payer Solutions, which performs risk adjustment reviews for health plans.
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