Healthcare Innovation

Healthcare’s Year of Living Dangerously? What 2018’s Merger Mania Really Means, Going Forward

3 January 2019

If anything could be said about 2018, it is that it was not a year of quietude, when it came to the healthcare business landscape. Indeed, 2018 felt to many…

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PODCAST: Breaking Down the Healthcare Informatics 100; Was Jonathan Bush Forced Out?

5 July 2018

The 2018 Healthcare Informatics 100 has been released online, but for a more in-depth analysis on what the list means in the realm of the health IT marketplace, few would…

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Taking a Deep Dive into the Healthcare Informatics 100—and the Health IT Market, Broadly

14 June 2018

For the last 18 months, bigger has (generally) been better, but in the mergers and acquisitions realm, the gambit has been run: from vertical integration to smaller strategic acquisitions (and…

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Jonathan Bush Steps Down as CEO, athenahealth Considers Sale

6 June 2018

Currently fighting a takeover offer from Elliott Management, and on the heels of damaging allegations of sexual harassment against founder Jonathan Bush, athenahealth announced this morning that it is considering…

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BREAKING: Industry Analysts React as Allscripts Pays $185 Million for McKesson’s Enterprise Information Solutions

4 August 2017

Last year when McKesson Corp. announced the creation of a new healthcare information technology company with Change Healthcare, it also said it would seek strategic alternatives for its EHR-focused business…

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2016’s M&A within Healthcare Informatics’ Top 100—Caution Emerged

31 May 2017

Last year, we predicted that 2016 would herald slightly muted transaction valuations and a reduction in the total number of completed healthcare IT (HCIT) transactions. Instead, after a somewhat muted…

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Fingerprints of Value-Based Care Revealed in Much of 2015’s M&A Activity

3 October 2016

It’s that time of year again; time to sit back and reflect/opine on another year of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) — and what a year it was. Last year saw…

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Examining 2015’s M&A Key Activity Patterns with the Experts at ST Advisors

18 May 2016

With 2015 being a year of unprecedented merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in healthcare, Healthcare Informatics Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland sat down to speak with Michelle Mattson-Hamilton and Ben Rooks of…

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Siemens/Cerner Megadeal Met with Praise, Trepidation by Industry Experts

10 September 2014

Across the healthcare IT industry, analysts and insiders are praising Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner Corporation for its $1.3 billion acquisition of Siemens’ health IT division, while recognizing that there is…

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2013 Healthcare I.T. M&A: Do Many Notes Make a Song?

28 May 2014

As we do each year when we sit down to write this article, we begin by first taking a look back at last year’s M&A Review. We concluded with a…

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