Mergers & Acquisitions
The acquisition comes less than a year after Aetion landed $110 million in Series C funding.
Some of the biggest names in healthcare and technology – athenahealth, Allscripts, Microsoft, Nuance and, of course, Oracle and Cerner – made big news with big-ticket deals this past year.
2022 Look Ahead
It's a seismic acquisition, one that was first floated more than 13 years ago. Now that it's finally happening (pending regulatory approval), observers assess the deal and offer thoughts on what's next.
Damo Consulting CEO Paddy Padmanabhan discusses the significance of the $28.3 billion acquisition and predicts some next steps.
"Traditional risk-adjustment solutions have rapidly outgrown their retrospective-only payer use cases," Edifecs' CEO said.
The database giant says it plans to expand the company's global footprint as it invests big in healthcare – the "largest and most important vertical market in the world."
The two companies are "in talks" for a deal that could be worth as much as $30 billion, according to the report.
The $17 billion deal marks the second time the cloud health IT vendor has been acquired in the past three years.
Also, Graphnet acquires patient monitoring specialist Docobo
The industrial giant plans to retain a stake of almost 20% in GE Healthcare.