Large Catholic-affiliated hospital network Ascension is merging with Presence Health, in another example of hospital consolidation which will do nothing to reduce health spending.
A few giant tech companies seek to dominate every aspect of our lives, including our health. Google is buying health monitoring company Senosis Health to further its stealthy move into health.
Lots of CRO deals lately. Now Evotec, a Germany-based vendor focusing on pre-clinical development, is acquiring Aptuit, which provides similar services, for $300 million.
This is what happens when you don't have a fruit in your company name, you get sold. Nursing home pharmacy chain Pharmerica is being bought by a PE firm for $1.4 billion. No word yet on whether the name will be changed to Pharnana.
NextGen, an EHR vendor which is a unit of Quality Systems, is acquiring EagleDream Health for around $26 million. EagleDream provides analytics to improve practice performance.
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