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 M&A at record levels (328 HCIT deals in all, up from 308 in 2014) — not to mention a solid number of IPOs (four in core healthcare IT) and a tremendous amount of venture and private equity investment (more than $9 billion invested through 420 transactions). As of the end of 2015, healthcare IT
