Cardinal Health, which earlier bought NaviHealth to deepen its presence in the post-acute space, is now buying CuraSpan, which makes software for that sector.
You can never have too many consultants, right, especially if you want projects to drag on forever and have someone else to blame for things that don't work, so Cumberland Consulting is acquiring Oleen Pinnacle Healthcare Consulting. Both firms do IT and operations consulting for health care firms.
Population health management vendor Lightbeam Health Solutions has lasered in on Browsersoft, not just browsing, but acquiring the supplier of HIE capabilities to hospitals.
Midmark, a supplier of outpatient workflow software, is acquiring Versus Technology, which offers health care firms location technology, versus growing on its own.
Health care administrative process software vendor Ability Network is buying eHealth Data Solutions, which provides revenue cycle management software for long-term and post-acute care providers.
Special education therapy provider Invo Healthcare has acquired Progressive Therapy, which offers similar services in the school market.
http://www.invohealthcare.com/category/news/
Mar282016
PE firm Ancor Capital has acquired DuvaSawko, which provides billing, coding and related services to emergency medicine practices.
https://www.pehub.com/2016/03/3322718/
Mar252016
EHR vendor Allscripts is buying a stake in Netsmart Technologies, a vendor of behavioral health software. In a complex transaction, Allscripts home health software will be combined with Netsmart to create a company also partly owned by a PE firm.
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