Providence St. Joseph Health Acquires Blockchain Startup Lumedic

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Providence St. Joseph Health (St. Joseph), the not-for-profit California-based healthcare system, has acquired Lumedic, a digital health company. Lumedic applications and analytics solutions streamline revenue cycle management operations for leading health systems using blockchain technology. Blockchain is a secure and reliable method of recording, storing and sharing sensitive data. No financial terms were disclosed. St. Joseph operates hospitals, […]

 

Robotic Surgery Firm Auris Health Goes to Johnson & Johnson

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Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announced it will acquire Auris Health, Inc., a privately held developer of robotic technologies. J&J will pay $3.5 billion upfront and $2.35 billion in milestones under the terms of the agreement. This is J&J’s first acquisition in the medical device sector since 2016, when it bought Abbott Medical Optics from Abbott (NYSE: ABT). Auris […]

 

Emergency room Hospital M&A
Emergency room Hospital M&A

Emergency Care Partners Buys ED Management Group

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Emergency Care Partners, backed byVarsity Healthcare Partners and Regal Healthcare Capital Partners, announced it will acquire Progressive Emergency Physicians. Both groups provide emergency medicine and outsourced emergency department management services to hospital facilities. The merged companies will service departmental operations at 19 hospitals across Louisiana, New York and Pennsylvania. The combined clinical workforce of 194 physicians will treat more […]

 

Health Care M&Deals, Week Ending February 15, 2019

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The Health Care M&A Weekly chart is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are from our Deal Search Online database, which is updated every business day, in the quarterly report. Visit www.dealsearchonline.com to see how Deal Search Online can help you stay up-to-date on the healthcare market overall, or in a particular […]

 

Dubai Investments Buys Back Stake of Globalpharma from Sanofi

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Dubai Investments (DFM: DIC) announced last week that it will purchase an additional 66% stake in pharmaceutical company Globalpharma, giving it full ownership of the company. Dubai Investments invest in a number of sectors, including healthcare and education in the UAE and the Middle East. You’re not alone if this story sounds familiar. Sanofi (NASDAQ: SNY) purchased a 66% majority stake […]

GlaxoSmithKline builds immunotherapy pipeline with new collaboration

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GlaxoSmithKline plc (NYSE: GSK) (GSK) has entered into a collaboration agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany to study M7824, an investigational bifunctional fusion protein immunotherapy that is currently in clinical development for multiple difficult-to-treat cancers. Under the terms of the agreement, GSK will pay Merck KGaA $342.3 million (€300 million) upfront. Merck KGaA is also eligible for up to $3.31 billion […]

Health Care M&A Deals, Week Ending February 8, 2019

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The Health Care M&A Weekly chart is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are from our Deal Search Online database, which is updated every business day, in the quarterly report. Visit www.dealsearchonline.com to see how Deal Search Online can help you stay up-to-date on the healthcare market overall, or in a particular […]

Healthcare Deal Volume Got a Jump Start in January

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January was a fairly busy month for healthcare M&A. Preliminary data shows 133 deals reported, nearly equal to December’s 136. The momentum coming out of the fourth quarter spilled into the new year and even without a big boost in deal announcements from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, consolidation in the industry seems to be […]

Hospital M&A: Bigger Isn’t Always Better

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That was the week that was. Two huge hospital mergers came to an end, one successfully and the other, not. In announcing the end results, CEOs involved in those deals each emphasized their goal was not about “getting bigger,” but to deliver better health care to more patients. Seriously, what CEO is going to say […]

Health Care M&A Deals, Week Ending February 1, 2019

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The Health Care M&A Weekly chart is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are from our Deal Search Online database, which is updated every business day, in the quarterly report. Visit www.dealsearchonline.com to see how Deal Search Online can help you stay up-to-date on the healthcare market overall, or in a particular […]