Mergers & Acquisitions

With the addition of Cerner WHS clients, members, care teams and associates, Marathon will expand its VBC population health management footprint in 15 states

Hal Wolf says the decision to partner with Informa Markets, which will manage the HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition, will enable a focus on "excellence and expansion." Informa exec Ken McAvoy promises growth for members worldwide.

Karsten Klose and Peter Mountney talk about the recently acquired cloud-AI company Odin Vision, to be established as Olympus' first digital center of excellence, providing integrated hardware/software solutions for various medical specialties.

Kurt DelBene spoke this week about how small contractors can get up to bat for more Veterans Affairs IT projects, and discussed how too much parsing on major federal initiatives – like Healthcare.gov, which he helped rescue – can lead to failed strategy.

Epic achieved the only net positive change across electronic health record vendors, but Oracle Health had the highest growth in the small hospital market, according to the new study.

Also, Southeast Asian hospital chain HMI Group has bought health tech company MHC.