Release date: 2015-08-31
Recently, there have been a number of large transactions and cooperation cases in the field of health care – not only because their price tags are too obvious, but more importantly, they may become current (or in the near future) medical information technology. The changer of the game. Here are nine events worthy of our attention:
★Cerner Corp. and the US Department of Defense contract
On July 29, the US Department of Defense and Senna signed the largest and most eye-catching electronic medical record system contract ever.
Cerner, Seidos and Accenture took over the $9 billion “big project†with initial value streams, and it also required team members to provide “a ready-made integration within the military health systemâ€. Activities and deployment of electronic medical record system solutions," said a spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense.
The US Department of Defense decision ultimately led to the division of three camps: Epic System and IBM; Cerner, Seidos, and Accenture; and Allscripts' Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) and Hewlett- Packard).
★IBM spends $1 billion on medical imaging
Following this buying trend, IBM announced on August 6 that it would use $1 billion to acquire Merge Healthcare, a global medical imaging pioneer, with the goal of using its medical imaging technology in its Watson Health division. By integrating data and images from Merge Healthcare's medical image management platform, Watson's advanced image analysis cognitive capabilities allow Watson Health to have the ability to view medical images.
IBM executives said the purpose of the acquisition is to discover the value of medical imaging to help doctors make better care decisions for patients.
★CVS-Watson collaborates to study chronic diseases
CVS, the largest pharmaceutical retailer in the United States, has 7,800 pharmacies and more than 1,000 unreserved clinics in the United States (that is, clinics that provide medical services to unscheduled mobile patients), which is linked to IBM's cognitive computing platform Watson. Joined the research team of chronic diseases, and plans to study how to completely eradicate diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and obesity.
Together with Watson's cognitive computing capabilities and CVS's vast medical data, medical health records, pharmacy data and medical claims information were added to the study. Of course, CVS consumers and medical service providers are also included.
CVS-IBM's collaborative research on chronic diseases is the leading cause of death and disability in the United States, and it also accounts for 86% of the US $2.9 trillion in annual medical expenditure.
★NantHealth cooperates with Allscripts to fight cancer
NantHealth and Allscripts, two major medical information technology companies, jointly announced on March 2 to jointly develop precision medicine for nursing.
Founded by a group of medical researchers, professors, surgeons, and self-made billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, NantHealth is committed to improving clinical medical payment methods and providing reliable clinical surgical information. And Allscripts, a medical information technology company, almost collapsed a few years ago because of the chaos of the board. It was only after the CEO of Cerner, Paul Black, became CEO.
The cooperation between the two companies will bring you what they call "a comprehensive, evidence-based, personalized medical solution platform."
★Health Catalyst acquires HCD (Health Care DataWorks)
Health Catalyst, a US medical data management analytics service company, acquired Health Care DataWorks (HCD), a company based in Ohio State University that is dedicated to researching patient experiences (like Health Catalyst).
The acquisition means that HCD, along with its 28 employees, has become part of Health Catalyst. They will continue to work at their headquarters (Columbus, Ohio). HCD's customers, including Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, El Camino Hospital, MemorialCare Health System, Orlando Health and Tampa General Hospital, will continue to be customers of Health Catalyst.
With the addition of these 28 members, Health Catalyst has a staff of nearly 400 people. And when the company started in 2008, there were only three people.
★Emdeon spends $910 million to acquire Altegra
Medical software and technology service provider Emdeon announced in July that it will acquire Altegra Health, a company that develops analytical tools for taxpayers and most providers, and pay $910 million in cash.
By integrating Altegra Health's risk-adjustment and quality analysis techniques with its own RCM methods and payment tools, Emdeon will better and more accurately guide healthcare organizations into a transactional insurance and value-oriented medical charge (value -based care) of the new world.
Emdeon's smart healthcare network currently has 700,000 doctors, 5,000 hospitals, 1,200 taxpayers, and processed about 8.1 billion transactions in 2014.
★Premier purchases CECity to improve performance management
To improve performance management, the Healthcare Alliance Premier acquired CECity (a private SaaS software company) for $400 million. Much like Premier, CECity is also focused on performance management and improvement, value reporting and vocational education.
Both companies have the same clear goal of helping hospitals and other medical units deliver higher quality, more cost-effective medical services.
★ Aetna spends $37 billion to acquire Humana
Health insurance giant Aetna announced on July 3 that it would spend $37 billion to acquire competitor Hubana, a managed healthcare company. Under the final agreement, Antai will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Humana at a price of approximately US$230 per share.
Aetna executives said the deal combines Humana's growing Medicare Advantage business volume with Aetna's diversified portfolio and business capabilities to create a vast majority of seniors in federal insurance offers. The second largest managed healthcare company in the country.
★Anthem spends more than $54 billion to acquire Cigna (CIGNA)
In the huge wave of market consolidation, Anthem spent $54.2 billion on July 24 to acquire Cigna (an American insurance company), which attracted attention.
This happened just the same month that Aetna decided to spend $37 billion to acquire Humana.
As a result, the merger will change from the former “Big Five†private health insurance company to the current three. That's right, if both mergers and acquisitions are successful, then Anthem, Aetna, and UnitedHealthcare will become the largest insurers in the United States.
Source: Arterial Network
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