Bravo to Healthcare Cyber-Security
Thoma Bravo, LLC, a leading private equity investment firm is certainly investing in the future with its latest acquisition of Imprivata® (NYSE: IMPR), a Massachusetts-based healthcare IT security company. Imprivata®’s technology enables healthcare organizations worldwide to access, communicate and transact patient information securely while also addressing critical compliance and security challenges. Thoma Bravo paid approximately $544 million for the company. As healthcare continues to go paperless, the need for strong and compliant security technology coupled with ease of access will only continue to grow. Read More »Digital Health Deals Strike New Heights
The digital health sector is on fire in the first half of 2016. Through June 24 we’ve recorded 82 transactions with a business-to-business eHealth company as the target. Sixteen of those were announced in June alone. (We don’t cover consumer-facing health apps or social media platforms.) In the first half of 2015, just 60 deals were announced in this sector. The final tally was 123 eHealth deals for all of 2015, a new record. It’s no stretch of the imagination to think this sector could set another record for 2016. The eHealth market of today includes electronic health records, revenue cycle management and data analytics, various mobile health start-ups from patient... Read More »MEDNAX’ MedData Adds RCM Company
MedData, Inc. made its second acquisition this year. The MEDNAX (NYSE: MD) subsidiary agreed to pay $400 million for revenue cycle management (RCM) company Cardon Outreach LLC, a portfolio company of Serent Capital. Cardon Outreach provides specialized eligibility assistance, accounts receivable recovery services, third-party liability and other services. Cardon Outreach works with more than 800 hospitals and other healthcare facilities in 46 states. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to GAAP earnings. MEDNAX anticipates the acquisition will add an initial $0.06 in annualized diluted earnings per share and $0.14 in annualized adjusted earnings per share. Cain Brothers is... Read More »MedAssets-Precyse Adds Equation
Pamplona Capital Management is building out its healthcare data services. In November 2015, the firm spent $2.7 billion to acquire publicly traded MedAssets, Inc., which served four out of every five hospitals in the United States with technology-enabled financial products and services. Once it spun off the Spend and Clinical Resource Management segment to VHA-UHC Alliance (now called Vizient), MedAssets’ Revenue Cycle Management segment with Precyse, another portfolio company, to offer end-to-end RCM and HIM solutions. Now MedAssets-Precyse, as it’s known, is adding Equation, a Utah-based financial and clinical healthcare analytics and consulting company. Now that... Read More »eHealth Deals in Q1:16
Merger and acquisition activity edged up in the first quarter, up 17% to 35 transactions compared with the fourth quarter. The first quarter activity made up 27% of the 132 deals announced in the previous 12 months. Investor interest in this sector remains strong, particularly for revenue cycle management programs and data analytics technologies that help health care providers across the care continuum become more efficient and cut costs. Read More »Schedule a demo
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