CVS Health Pauses M&A Strategy to Focus on Integration
After spending $8 billion to acquire healthcare service provider Signify Health and $10.6 billion for primary care provider Oak Street Health, retail giant CVS Health Corp. seems to be winding down its M&A strategy. CEO Karen Lynch told investors on May 3rd that CVS would pause its recent acquisition spree as it focuses on integrating its recent purchases. CVS will integrate Signify and Oak Street with its other businesses in the near term. Longer term, Lynch said, the company might look at additional opportunities in technology for home or health services. Lynch also said there’s an opportunity to “connect the dots” among itself and the two... Read More »eHealth Deals Remain Active in August
August proved to be another busy month for eHealth transactions. According to our Deal Search Online database, there were 18 acquisitions in the eHealth sector in July 2019, and 17 in August. The most popular targets this month were cloud-based and data-analytics providers. There were eight digital health transactions with that focus, including Water Street Healthcare Partners and JLL Partners’ acquisition of THREAD, a virtual research platform used by biopharma, contract research organizations, not-for-profit researchers and life science organizations to capture global clinical study data for clinical studies. Water Street and JLL will invest to further develop and expand... Read More »
Social Determinants of Health Network Acquired by Signify
“Social determinants of health” is healthcare’s latest Phrase of the Year. It made its mark at the January 2019 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco and has now turned up in a deal announcement. It’s only the first of many, we’re sure. March 15 marked Signify Health’s first acquisition since New Mountain Capital stepped in. The of TAVHealth, based in San Antonio, Texas. The price was not disclosed, although CNBC reported the deal “was in the high double-digit millions.” Signify has a multi-billion dollar valuation, according to the company. The target was TAVHealth, a San Antonio, Texas-based startup that uses social... Read More »Schedule a demo
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