Mergers & Acquisitions

The deal creates a $1 billion company focused on AI-powered hospital operations, helping clients address capacity management and healthcare staffing shortages. 

After two years of corporate streamlining, the longtime health IT vendor will offer connectivity and analytics tools under a new name.

The collaboration aims to find, build and scale digital health companies that focus on children, says Brenda Schmidt, head of enterprise growth at Redesign Health.

How the merger between Lightbeam and CareSignal will help them assist more health systems to improve patient engagement and population health, as told by Jerry Shultz, president of Lightbeam Health Solutions, and Blake Marggraff, CEO of CareSignal.

Sanjula Jain, senior vice president of market strategy and chief research officer at analytics firm Trilliant Health, describes how the acquisition could impact other health systems and their patients.

Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting, discusses the challenges and opportunities of this big deal – and explains what the merger might mean for each company, other healthcare providers, AWS customers, patients, privacy protections and more.

Mergers and acquisitions are ascendant in healthcare. Oron Afek, CEO of Vim, discusses ways independent practices can improve their finances and their care, and maintain autonomy.

Damo Consulting CEO Paddy Padmanabhan discusses the significance of the $28.3 billion acquisition and predicts some next steps.

This week's top stories include Cerner announcing that all U.S. employees must be vaccinated by Dec. 8, SWORD Health acquiring Vigilant Technologies, and air ambulance charges rising substantially in four years.

Monthly Update: HIMSS Media's Jonah Comstock recaps some of September's top healthcare stories, including big news for big tech, data security threats and more.