Mergers & Acquisitions

Innovaccer, Palo Alto Networks, Samsung and others are using artificial intelligence to improve patient access, enhance urgent care and home health with clinical insights, position mobile health data for consumption, and secure agentic AI integrations.

An Advent Health hospital is seeking to order Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City to pay $2 million for denied claims related to documented diagnoses, and to stop using clinical validation models to deny payments.

In buying the real-time monitoring and patient engagement platform to unify disparate sources of health information, Samsung Electronics says data flowing from wearables could help improve clinical insights and prevent patient care delays.

The acquisition, part of a strategic partnership to accelerate Arcadia's growth and innovation, marks an exit for former investor Peloton Equity.

The sale drew mixed reactions, with some U.S. states supporting it as a privacy measure and others objecting over legal and data concerns.

In February, a new set of premerger notification rules went into effect that changed the information required.

By adding to its suite of digital tools, coaching, therapy and psychiatry services for employers and health plans, Teladoc said it seeks to reinforce its virtual mental health leadership. 

Also: Palo Alto Networks announced that it will buy Protect AI's suite of secure-by-design products to help enterprises reduce the risks of artificial intelligence model manipulation and related attacks.

Michael Ramey, managing principal of Strategic & Transaction Solutions at PYA, explains how FTC's new premerger notification rules require organizations to share more data about their proposed transactions.

Also: Three partners will combine advanced analytics, social risk assessments and actuarial validation to measure the impacts of SDOH interventions.