Mergers & Acquisitions

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.

Despite his high profile and the deep pockets of its investors, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase joint venture has so far shown limited progress on its aspirational tech-driven healthcare goals.

The analytics company says the technology expertise of MAeHC, whose CEO Micky Tripathi will join Arcadia's leadership team, will help it expand its interoperability offerings for population health management

The company says the acquisition will bolster the its existing quality and regulatory measures capabilities, due in part to Able Health SaaS application, which automates measures reporting.

Artificial intelligence will also continue to be a big focus, as it becomes more clear which startups are succeeding in their initial target sectors. VCs are also eyeing genomics analytics tools, as well as other more practical technologies.

Masimo, the maker of monitoring technologies and connectivity tools for hospitals, announced this week that it will acquire the connected care assets of NantHealth for $47.