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PHR Vendor CapMed Acquired
Recently, CapMed, one of the oldest PHR vendors in the market was sold by parent, Bio-Imaging Technologies to Metavante Technologies for $500K. Obviously a firesale. While Bio-Imaging seemed like an...
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Medem Quietly Folds Its PHR Business – Acquired by Medfusion
Medem, one of the very early entrants into the Internet-based PHR (iPHR) market is calling it quits for its PHR efforts, selling its iHealth platform to Medfusion. Really not all that surprising as...
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Analysis: MediConnect Acquires PHR Vendor, PassportMD
Yesterday, MediConnect announced that it had acquired Florida-based PHR vendor, PassportMD. The acquisition is a good move by MediConnect as it will allow them to extend beyond just collecting records...
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IBM Strengthens Healthcare Play, Picks up Initiate
This morning, IBM announced that it will acquire leading healthcare Master Data Management (MDM) vendor, Initiate for an undisclosed sum. The healthcare IT (HIT) sector is white hot right now so it is...
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AllScripts+Eclipsys, Who Loses?
Today, leading ambulatory EHR vendor AllScripts announced that it will merge (it’s really acquire) with one of the larger acute care EHR vendors, Eclipsys creating one of the largest EHR vendors in the...
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Assessment: Ingenix Makes HIE Move Acquiring Axolotl
Last week, Ingenix announced that it would be acquiring Axolotl. Probably no one was happier than the folks at Gilat Satellite Networks who had invested $4.5M in Axolotl over ten years ago, had...
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Covisint Dips into Clinical Apps with DocSite Acquisition
On Monday, Covisint announced that it had acquired DocSite. Yesterday, we were finally able to catch-up with Covisint VP Brett Furst to get some background on the acquisition. Following is what we...
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Another HUGE Acquisition in HIE Market
Just as we are trying to put the final touches to the forthcoming HIE Market Report, another major HIE vendor gets acquired and again it is a very big fish swallowing a small and very pricey little...
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NaviNet Acquires Prematics: a Testament to the Ubiquity of Smartphones in the...
Last week, NaviNet announced its acquisition of Prematics, a company founded a few short years ago targeting the market for mHealth provider solutions. While there are significant synergies and overlap...
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Can Mirth Revive NextGen?
Last week, NextGen’s parent company, QSI, acquired open-source tools vendor Mirth for $59M. While a relatively small acquisition, it nonetheless will have an impact on the broader HIE market. Mirth’s...
View ArticleDigging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault – Part One: Search
As I reported earlier, Microsoft has jumped into the consumer healthcare market with the October 4th launch of HealthVault (HV). Microsoft was kind enough to provide me with an in-depth briefing on...
View ArticleMicrosoft Expands HIT Footprint with Thai Acquisition
Microsoft announced it will acquire Global Care Solutions Thailand, Ltd (GCS) for an undisclosed sum. GCS is a small company that has developed a diverse range of healthcare IT (HIT) software modules,...
View ArticlePhilips Continues Buying Spree
Philips Electronics announced on Friday that it will acquire Respironics for $66/share or about $5.13 billion, a 24% premium. This is the third and largest healthcare-centric acquisition that Philips...
View ArticleSigns of Times: Healtheon Pulls WebMD Merger off Table
Back in February of this year, Healtheon and WebMD announced that they would merge. At the time, our analysis was that the new combined entity would become more attractive for as an acquisition...
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BIG News: J&J Jumps into Health 2.0 Market with Acquisition
Late yesterday, Johnson & Johnson announced that they have acquired HealthMedia, an online health & wellness service. HealthMedia positions itself as an online health coaching service and...
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Perspective on WebMD’s 3rd Qtr Numbers
WebMD and Healtheon jointly announced earnings for Q3 (ending Sept. 30th) late this afternoon. Sat in on the conference call and pick-up a few tidbits of information to pass along. Comments will focus...
View ArticleSigns of the Times: WebMD Calls off Acquisition
In mid-September, WebMD announced that it would acquire Marketing Technology Solutions (MTS), owner of the QualityHealth website and two other helth-centric Internet properties for ~$50M. Now, barely...
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Risky Bet: Optum’s Acquisition of The Advisory Board
On Aug. 29th, Optum announced it will acquire The Advisory Board’s (ABCO) healthcare business unit for about $1.3 billion. Rumors first began swirling about this acquisition in early July, though the...
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Back to the Crystal Ball: Our 2018 Healthcare IT Market Predictions
Our favorite post of the year is this one. As analysts, we come together with our propeller hats on to collectively look ahead at the key trends in the year to come in the healthcare sector. While...
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Can Kindred Help Humana Bend the Cost Curve?
In December 2017, national health insurer Humana and two private equity firms, TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS), announced the $4 billion acquisition of Kindred Healthcare, a...
View ArticleWhat We’ve Been Commenting On
Lately, there have been quite a few big developments in healthcare, including Allscripts acquiring Practice Fusion, Apple’s PHR, and the mysterious Amazon-JP Morgan Chase-Berkshire Hathaway healthcare...
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