Publicly traded Sharecare, which offers a patient engagement and health navigation platform, has entered into a definitive agreement to be purchased by healthcare investment firm Altaris in a $518 million deal that will see the digital health company go private.
Sharecare offers a virtual healthcare navigation platform for individuals, employers, government organizations, communities, health...
Information technology company Intermedix has acquired Nashville-based WPC Healthcare, a data analytics company that works with hospitals and payers to improve compliance, outcomes, data management and patient engagement. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Intermedix, which makes cloud-based SaaS for healthcare providers, government agencies and corporations, has been building on its data...
Last year set some new records for healthcare IT funding, with VC investments reaching over $5 billion and mobile health funding hitting an all-time high, according to a new report from Mercom Capital Group.
In their annual Healthcare IT/Digital Health Funding and M&A Report, the market intelligence firm tracked $5.1 billion in VC funding across 622 deals in 2016, compared with $4.6 billion...
Wolters Kluwer health, owner of physician-facing mobile products UpToDate and Lexicomp, has announced its intention to acquire Emmi Solutions, a patient engagement software company, for $170 million.
Emmi works primarily with value-based providers and payers, and its business is built around using online and mobile engagement strategies to reach out to potentially expensive patients, including...
Ramzi Haidamus, President of Nokia Technologies, describes the company’s pending $191 million acquisition of Withings as a “reverse takeover”.
“Nokia is paying the bill, but it’s really Cedric [Hutchings, CEO of Withings] and his team that will come into Nokia and run the whole show,” Haidamus told MobiHealthNews. “All our digital health efforts inside the company will report to Cedric and his...
