Mergers & Acquisitions

Rumored for weeks, a reduction in force across Oracle business units, including Oracle Health and AI employees, appears to be hitting health IT developers in Kansas City and others worldwide.

With the acquisition of Leap AI, Chartis is growing its Center for AI & Digital Transformation to pursue the development of bespoke artificial intelligence for healthcare organizations.

By adding Intelerad’s outpatient imaging and cloud interoperability capabilities to its offerings in 2026, GE says it aims to accelerate precision care while improving care team efficiencies and patient outcomes.

But somewhat surprisingly, says Martin Gaynor, professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University, researchers found no correlation between department closures and negative outcomes for patients driving greater distances.

The integrated platform will combine patient engagement, care access, provider data management, price transparency and payment tools.

By agreeing to be acquired by Patient Square Capital, the healthcare improvement company hopes the new ownership structure will offer it the flexibility it needs to accelerate its IT investments and expand its services for health systems.

The private equity firm signed a definitive agreement to acquire PatientPoint from an investor group led by L Catterton and Littlejohn & Co.

Innovaccer, Palo Alto Networks, Samsung and others are using artificial intelligence to improve patient access, enhance urgent care and home health with clinical insights, position mobile health data for consumption, and secure agentic AI integrations.

An Advent Health hospital is seeking to order Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City to pay $2 million for denied claims related to documented diagnoses, and to stop using clinical validation models to deny payments.