Mergers & Acquisitions

The news comes less than three weeks after the consultant and IT vendor fended off a takeover by Elliott Management Corp.

GE will combine the Novii Wireless Patch System with its digital technologies to build out its offerings for care services and childbirth, an official says. 

The deal will expand HealthcareSource's staffing footprint to some 3,300 clients, including more than half of U.S. hospitals, officials say.

The HCI Group, which works with major providers on end-to-end implementation of electronic health record systems, offering support for Epic, Cerner and others, will be acquired by Tech Mahindra in a $110 million deal.

The deal brings patient self-scheduling technology to Medfusion’s product suite.

McKesson has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CoverMyMeds, a developer of electronic prior authorization technology, for $1.1 billion. CoverMyMeds has partnered with McKesson's RelayHealth subsidiary since 2010.

McKesson Enterprise Information Solutions has teamed with Infor for a go-to-market partnership aimed at helping healthcare organizations reduce costs by better managing their supply chains.

Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire cloud-based internet performance and DNS provider, Dyn, the technology giant announced Monday. Financial terms were not disclosed.  

The investment firm will work with early stage startups and growth companies to help fuel innovation and scale technologies.  

Healthcare merger and acquisition activity was down in the third quarter of 2016. Compared with the second quarter, deal volume fell 11 percent, to 369 transactions, according to HealthcareM&A.com.