Two companies involved in health care information sharing technology, Rhapsody and Corepoint Health, will make beautiful music together, as they merge into a single company.
Carenet Health, which claims to do patient engagement, telehealth and clinical support, is acquiring Citra Health, which offers administrative and clinical software to providers and health plans.
Net Health fishes up the best deal for Optima Healthcare Solutions, combining two providers of software for various providers, including specialty services and the post-acute care market.
Providence St. Joseph health system is buying an Epic consulting firm, Bluetree, which I assume may reflect some difficulty they are having with their EHRs.
Patients Like Me apparently is also liked by UnitedHealth Group, as the uber-acquisitive firm is buying the creator of communities for patients with particular diseases. The patients' data is collected and sold to drug companies and others to generate revenue.
Accumen, which helps health systems with laboratories, blood collection and other services, is acquiring Halfpenny Technologies, a firm engaged in clinical data exchange software.
EHR vendor Allscripts is buying ZappRx, apparently for less than the $40 million that venture investors put into the company. ZappRx is supposed to help providers perform prior authorization faster.
French information technology company Dassault Systems is buying Medidata for $5.7 billion. Medidata offers electronic clinical trial software and services.
Current investors are pretty satisfied as patient satisfaction and engagment vendor Press Ganey gets sold from one private equity group to another one.
The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.