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…
Across the healthcare IT industry, analysts and insiders are praising Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner Corporation for its $1.3 billion acquisition of Siemens’ health IT division, while recognizing that there is…
“CareCloud borrows $25.5 million from a growth capital lender. I’m never cheered by a company taking on debt just like I wouldn’t be thrilled about a relative signing up for…
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…
“Mr H, can you get Ben Rooks to opine on how smart Wall Street types could pay $1B for a $450M transcription company? Greater fool theory or something sinister?” Sitting here…
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…
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…
Readers might recall my post two years ago that discussed several ways to capitalize a new venture. I’d like to use today’s post to discuss some of the root challenges…
