Mergers and Acquisitions

Microsoft Completes Nuance Acquisition to Enhance Healthcare AI

March 9, 2022 - Microsoft recently announced it completed the acquisition of Nuance Communication, a speech recognition company and leading provider of conversational artificial intelligence to enhance healthcare artificial intelligence. “Completion of this significant and strategic acquisition brings together Nuance’s best-in-class conversational AI...


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DOJ Takes Closer Look at UnitedHealth-Change Healthcare Deal

by Samantha McGrail

In an official filing, the Antitrust Division of the Department and Justice (DOJ) asked officials from both UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare for additional information on their proposed...

AHA: Hospital Acquisitions Improve Healthcare IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

Hospital acquisitions help improve healthcare IT infrastructure needed for data-driven, value-based care by increasing the scale at which the combined systems operate and invest, concluded a...

Investors Pay $4.2B for Digital Health Startups in 2019 First Half

by Fred Donovan

Investments in digital health startups totaled $4.2 billion across 180 deals in the first half of 2019, putting the market on track to reach $8.4 billion this year, according to the latest data from...

Healthcare Technology Adoption Is a Top Concern of Leaders

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare technology implementation and adoption is a top concern of 100 healthcare leaders surveyed by Rabin Research Company on behalf of international law firm Proskauer. Healthcare technology...

Hasty EHR Integration Would Likely Fail, Warns BI Lahey CEO

by Fred Donovan

Failure would likely result from a hasty EHR integration effort, warned Kevin Tabb, president and CEO of Beth Israel (BI) Lahey Health, which was recently formed from the merger of Beth Israel...

Digital Health Is Strategic Priority for Healthcare Investors

by Fred Donovan

Close to two-thirds of healthcare business leaders and investors said digital health is a strategic priority for them, with 63 percent planning to invest more in the future. A full 83 percent of 441...

Healthcare IT Segment Makes Up Half of Industry M&A Volume

by Fred Donovan

The Healthcare IT segment accounted for about one-half of the healthcare and pharmaceutical IT industry’s aggregate volume of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) last year, according to a new...