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 the contenders have shifted and what the chess board will look like going forward. A scan of the upper tier of the top 100 list finds mammoth companies acquiring large ones, new market segments entered through technology acquisitions, companies dividing themselves and an industry stalwart hitching its wagon to one of the biggest companies in the world.
