Mergers & Acquisitions

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.

Building off a longtime partnership, the deal expands Lyniate's offerings to include terminology  cross-mapping, value set management, unstructured data conversion and more.

He's concerned that the acquisition would "provide Amazon with access to enormous tranches of patient data."

The companies are shaping their future plans for cybersecurity risk management, patient safety data and other health IT use cases.

The merger agreement with the IT-driven primary care company aims to make healthcare more "accessible, affordable and even enjoyable" with in-person and virtual care services.

Francisco Partners has completed its purchase of Watson Health's data analytics tools and is spinning them off into an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based business.

The transaction, meant to bolster Evolent's value-based specialty care offerings, could eventually be worth an extra $87 million, depending on future performance milestones.

Shahab Vagefi, managing director at investment firm Thomas H. Lee Partners, specializes in healthcare information technology. He paints the landscape, talks how he "picks his spots" and reveals what's top of his mind on the sliding market.

Oracle Industries EVP Mike Sicilia says the newly combined companies will be focused on interoperability, innovation and user-centered design, transforming EHRs from "systems of record into systems of intelligence."