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Mergers & Acquisitions
The agreement terminates a previous deal between Amedisys and Option.
How being acquired by Kaiser affects Geisinger's autonomy, capital, health plan expansion and its ability to make healthcare easier.
The Illinois Catholic health system has signed a nonbinding letter of intent with OSF Healthcare to acquire the Peru campus.
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.
Kaiser and Geisinger join to form Risant Health while eVisit acquires complementary digital engagement technology and Verisma merges with ScanSTAT.
It plans to focus instead on accelerating the deployment of its medical IT solutions.
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The New Jersey Health Information Network earns MED certification from CMS, while Ohio exchanges merge. After making mental health privacy changes, Oklahoma sends new HIE rules to state lawmakers.
There's been a softening of healthcare organizations' confidence in the vendor, researchers say, with customers expressing concerns about a post-acquisition roadmap and dissatisfaction with communication around the RevElate RCM platform.
