Mergers & Acquisitions

The company also announced it added over 450 primary care practices to its nationwide network for 2023.

From mega-mergers to matchmaking, here are a few of the deal-making trends that bear watching as the healthcare and health IT industries continue to navigate an era of disruption and change.

Also: partnership news from Uberdoc and Nest Collaborative and layoffs at Verily and Carbon Health.

The deal creates a $1 billion company focused on AI-powered hospital operations, helping clients address capacity management and healthcare staffing shortages. 

After two years of corporate streamlining, the longtime health IT vendor will offer connectivity and analytics tools under a new name.

Workforce challenges, patient engagement efforts, ongoing interoperability hurdles and some big announcements from legacy EHR and Big Tech players were among the news and reports that captured the most attention this past year.

Under the deal, CloudWave gains Sensato's real-time network monitoring, intrusion detection and asset fingerprinting, along with a 24/7 security operations center designed for healthcare infrastructure and connected devices.

The collaboration aims to find, build and scale digital health companies that focus on children, says Brenda Schmidt, head of enterprise growth at Redesign Health.

The merged capabilities will create a more robust nonprofit compliance and risk-management partner focused on increasing trust in and accreditation programs for healthcare organizations.

The up-front payment for all shares of the company, which specializes in technologies for heart recovery, is valued at $16.6 billion.