Mergers & Acquisitions

Optum leaders reportedly shared internally that the company would shutter its sizable telehealth business. Parent company UnitedHealth Group said that it would continue to offer telemedicine and remote care options.

The cloud and relationship management giant is rumored to be exploring an acquisition of its MuleSoft competitor, which would bolster data exchange and interoperability capabilities, including HL7 and HIPAA services.

As Kaiser Permanente closes its acquisition of the Pennsylvania-based IT innovator, Gesinger will be the first health system to join the nonprofit organization, which was created by Kaiser to speed the adoption of value-based care nationwide.

The combined software company, now one of the largest worldwide, will “use data to power and protect the AI revolution,” Cisco says.

As he describes what's in store for the company in 2024, Dr. Peter Bonis discusses its recent survey on consumer concerns around artificial intelligence and its acquisition of Invistics.  

Market forces shape health tech innovation, but the most transformative startups have a keen understanding of adoption patterns and change management at the organizational level, says Sally Ann Frank in advance of her HIMSS24 presentation.

The acquisition comes as HealthLink is supporting statewide rollouts of eReferrals in Australia.

Stacy Sanders will be tasked with supporting competition that can help lower healthcare and prescription drug costs and will coordinate with the FTC and DOJ to address anticompetitive healthcare technology data practices.