Mergers & Acquisitions

Also: Elevance Health and CDR announced a national primary care platform for risk-based healthcare delivery that takes a whole health approach to improve patient outcomes.

A comprehensive look at the market by Shahab Vagefi, managing director in Thomas H. Lee Partners' healthcare vertical who specializes in healthcare information technology.

The combined companies seek to continue innovating products for easing clinician burden with AI-enabled ambient scribing, to advance revenue cycle automation and to consolidate on an integrated platform for large language models.

The deal, valued at $51 million, will bring more real-time image recognition technologies to GE's imaging portfolio, and could help hospitals with overburdened sonographers and radiology technologist shortages.

As more health systems merge, making smart and strategic use of datasets drawn from disparate systems is essential to clinical and operational success, says Advocate Health Chief Data Officer Tina Esposito.

The acquisition will allow the fertility and family-building company to provide its services in more than 100 countries and in over 225 languages.  

Collaborations and integrations aim to streamline access to patient medical histories via national networks, drive more proactive pediatric care, expand behavioral telehealth and pioneer more hospital automation.

As he describes what's in store for the company in 2024, Dr. Peter Bonis discusses its recent survey on consumer concerns around artificial intelligence and its acquisition of Invistics.  

GuideHealth acquired Arcadia's managed services organization and value-based care services division. It also signed an agreement to leverage its data analytics platform.