Mergers & Acquisitions

The combined companies seek to continue innovating products for easing clinician burden with AI-enabled ambient scribing, to advance revenue cycle automation and to consolidate on an integrated platform for large language models.

The deal, valued at $51 million, will bring more real-time image recognition technologies to GE's imaging portfolio, and could help hospitals with overburdened sonographers and radiology technologist shortages.

As more health systems merge, making smart and strategic use of datasets drawn from disparate systems is essential to clinical and operational success, says Advocate Health Chief Data Officer Tina Esposito.

The acquisition will allow the fertility and family-building company to provide its services in more than 100 countries and in over 225 languages.  

Collaborations and integrations aim to streamline access to patient medical histories via national networks, drive more proactive pediatric care, expand behavioral telehealth and pioneer more hospital automation.

Also: CommonSpirit reports increased earnings in the year after a major ransomware disruption and widespread data breach.

Also, Reperio Health partners with Uber to bring preventive care screening kits to homes and workplaces.

The telemedicine company joins forces with the behavioral health company to expand care access for women, as well as patients suffering from mental health issues and migraines.  

Optum leaders reportedly shared internally that the company would shutter its sizable telehealth business. Parent company UnitedHealth Group said that it would continue to offer telemedicine and remote care options.

The cloud and relationship management giant is rumored to be exploring an acquisition of its MuleSoft competitor, which would bolster data exchange and interoperability capabilities, including HL7 and HIPAA services.