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…
With over 20 HIMSS conferences, 10 Health Evolution Summits, and somewhere in-between as many times hanging out in Union Square for the JPMorgan Conference under my belt (not to mention…
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…
With U.S. national healthcare expenditures having reached $9,990 per person ($3.2 trillion total) in 2015 (and projected to grow another 6.5% in 2017), the industry continues to pursue innovative ways…
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…
When Stephanie Tilenius, a former senior executive at eBay and Google, decided to start a health-coaching app, many in her network were incredulous. “Everyone thought I was crazy,” she recalls….
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…
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…
In the late 1990s, Ben Rooks was an equities analyst, spending much of his time flying around the country meeting with health-care and technology companies that could soon be going…
With summer winding down and Labor Day in the rear view mirror, it felt like a good time to write a quick Investor’s Chair post and share one or two…
