Mergers & Acquisitions

The company says the move will enable its customers to more efficiently connect patients with lifesaving therapies.

This week's top stories include Optum and Change creating a healthcare powerhouse; Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase's joint venture calling it quits; and patient engagement tech's role in streamlining the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

The companies pointed to the potential to reduce administrative waste, inform patient care decisions and improve payment systems across the industry.

By connecting provider and payer access points, the deal aims to make care more available, boost care coordination and improve online patient experience, says Kyruus CEO Graham Gardner.

The machine learning-powered tech will be a "key component of our go-forward analytics and digital identity strategy," says CEO Gus Malezis.

Both will work together to accelerate the growth of transformational healthcare companies across markets in the Middle East and North African, and the Association of South-East Asian Nations.

The credentialing acquisition helps strengthen its offerings for governance, risk and compliance, RLDatix says, and will lead to broader hospital deployment of its Applied Safety Intelligence Framework.

Amwell told Healthcare It News that it believes the claims lack merit and that it intends to "defend against them vigorously."

Jason Gorevic and Glen Tullman see the deal as a way to offer a longitudinal relationship between clinicians and patients, bringing doctors, digital tools and data science together for better health.