Mergers & Acquisitions
Together they manage 80 million images worldwide, and with 24/7 exchange of medical records from any device, they aim to eliminate use of CDs for digital imaging transfer.
How the merger between Lightbeam and CareSignal will help them assist more health systems to improve patient engagement and population health, as told by Jerry Shultz, president of Lightbeam Health Solutions, and Blake Marggraff, CEO of CareSignal.
The agency has made inquiries with both companies on the $3.9B deal.
By adding in-home medical care and a value-based platform for providers, CVS continues its push to expand its primary care offerings and extend that care outside provider settings.
The goal is to build out a data acquisition and interoperability platform to help clients reduce administrative burden, boost revenue and drive quality improvements, Availity's CEO said.
Sanjula Jain, senior vice president of market strategy and chief research officer at analytics firm Trilliant Health, describes how the acquisition could impact other health systems and their patients.
Total membership was up 27% year-over-year, to 790,000 in Q2; net revenue was up 112%, to $255.8 million.
Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting, discusses the challenges and opportunities of this big deal – and explains what the merger might mean for each company, other healthcare providers, AWS customers, patients, privacy protections and more.
Building off a longtime partnership, the deal expands Lyniate's offerings to include terminology cross-mapping, value set management, unstructured data conversion and more.
He's concerned that the acquisition would "provide Amazon with access to enormous tranches of patient data."