Mergers & Acquisitions

The biggest electronic health record company made plenty of big news this past year, beginning with the scoop that it would develop new technology aimed at smaller hospitals.

Co-founded by the Mayo Clinic, the company develops tools outcome measurement, patient engagement, care coordination and analytics.

The deal holds big promise for analytics, interoperability and pop health, while other organizations are already contemplating ways to make use of retail health data.

After just hitting an interoperability milestone, and fresh off the acquisition of former rival McKesson’s health IT business, its chief executive says the vendor plans to capitalize on its larger size and scale.

Epic chief Judy Faulkner ended the meeting with GE execs after 5 minutes with a firm “no,” and kept the electronic health record software vendor private to this day.

Change will now offer customers a hosted service that combines multiple credentialing documents into a single instance.

After acquiring McKesson’s EHR business, Allscripts pledges to invest in integration, innovation and interoperability for better population health management.

The combination of Medsphere’s EHR and Stockell’s revenue cycle management in the cloud will be offered through a subscription service payment model.

Avizia, which is backed by NewYork-Presbyterian, Northwell Health and HealthQuest, said incorporating both companies’ technology will enable it to offer a customizable telehealth platform.

Having long been disappointed in the level of attention paid to that EHR, small hospital clients are hopeful Allscripts will make the investments necessary to improve it.