Mergers & Acquisitions
This week's top stories include the ONC offering new funding for state and local HIE innovation, a decline in healthcare M&A transactions and Medtronic's plans to buy connected insulin pen startup Companion Medical.
The aim is to bulk up its cloud-based DOS platform with new cost and revenue insights. At Northwell, the same platform will help mine data for clinical, financial and operational improvements.
Strata Decision Technology, which develops cloud-based business intelligence tools, will pay $365 million for the subsidiary.
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The healthcare and diagnostics software provider will strengthen its position in the healthcare IT sector by operating in 40 countries worldwide.
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UPMC spin-off Curavi Health, CarePointe and U.S. Health Systems will work together on integrated pop health analytics and virtual-care tools for nursing homes and other underserved elder populations.
The company has renamed its enterprise revenue cycle management suite with a nod to its early roots at Vermont's IDX Systems Corporation.
The finalized deal, first valued at $600 million when it was announced in January, is worth $150 million in cash and 4.6 million shares of Teladoc stock.
R1 will pay a reported $30 million for the revenue cycle management-outsourcing division, as Cerner helps the company extend its RCM tools to its client base.