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 prediction and a promise. First, we anticipated some re-emergence of larger deals, then we promised to discuss athenahealth’s (#22) $293 million acquisition of mobile physician tools vendor, Epocrates. Candidly, I’d give our prediction a B at best. While the M&A market has been robust to say the least, it has mostly been midsized companies acquiring smaller ones (at high prices), with very little movement out of the Healthcare Informatics 100 due to acquisition.
