BioClinica Acquires a Patient Recruitment Firm

BioClinica, Inc., a global provider of clinical trial management services, extended its offerings with the acquisition of MediciGroup, Inc., a global patient recruitment and retention firm. The acquisition includes MediciGlobal, Ltd. and Access to Patients, LLC. Medici also provides a lost-to-follow-up patient locate service that finds missing patients globally. BioClinica was taken private for $123 million in January 2013 by a joint venture between JLL Partners, Inc. and Ampersand Partners. As part of that deal, the firms paid an undisclosed amount for medical imaging company CoreLab Partners, Inc. and merged it with BioClinica. Financial terms for the MediciGroup deal were not disclosed.... Read More »