Healthcare Innovation

M&A’s Small Steps

24 June 2013

As with so much of the economy over the past year, healthcare IT corporate consolidation has seen a meaningful slowdown. Just as the buyers of software systems are taking a…

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2012 Healthcare IT M&A: The Dog that Didn’t Bark

13 June 2013

Activity? Yes. Excitement and liquidity? Not so much. Last year at this time we noted that 2011 saw fewer transformational deals than we would have expected. Surprisingly, 2012 saw fewer…

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Healthcare IT M&A 2011

21 June 2012

In 2011 the industry actually saw fewer transformational deals than we would have expected, given the attention paid to the sector of late. In fact, the three largest deals we…

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Mergers and Acquisitions: Uptick Noted

15 November 2011

The past year saw a substantive uptick in M&A across all markets, and healthcare IT was no exception. Bouncing off a lackluster year, we’ve seen both transaction sizes and volumes…

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What Ben Rooks Sees

9 November 2011

Is this a particularly unsettled time in the healthcare IT vendor industry, or is it just my imagination? It’s not my imagination, Ben Rooks confirms. Ben, a member of our…

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M&A 2010: More Buying, Less Spending

7 November 2011

Interestingly, while 2010 saw a fairly active level of M&A, fewer companies from last year’s list were sold compared to previous years. This suggests that consolidation activity, while still quite…

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The Hits Just Keep on Coming

23 June 2011

While only a few months have passed since February’s merger and acquisition update article, there’s been enough activity to warrant another. Let’s briefly review the largest mergers and acquisitions activities…

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On the M&A Front

23 June 2011

Since last June’s publication of the Healthcare Informatics 100, mergers and acquisition activity in the healthcare information technology (HCIT) sector has continued at a torrid pace, as it has in…

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Gone Shopping

23 June 2011

Looking at the level of mergers and acquisitions activity since last year’s M&A article, the pace of consolidation appears to have taken a slight breather compared to the rate of…

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Consolidation Alters the Mix

13 February 2006

Although Healthcare Informatics reviewed merger and acquisition activity last year as part of its annual June 100 issue, the accelerated pace and scale of consolidation warrants an update on how…

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