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No surprise: Data underpins care quality in senior living and home care

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The merger and acquisition of companies in other industries ultimately results in consolidation of data. Consider Optum’s acquisition of Amedisys home health business. No doubt, Optum’s own data standardization business will help integrate Amedisys if the acquisition is improved. The rationale for selecting a platform?

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The 'giant sucking sound' of digital health consolidation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected Health Mergers & Acquisitions Telehealth The ongoing wave of mergers and acquisitions makes sense for startups and their VC backers. An example of the former is the merger of Grand Rounds and Doctor-on-Demand for a combined value of $2 billion. The Amwell acquisitions are small in comparison.

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July Blog posts -- fall detection, dementia tech, aging in place and more

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Philips launched its own Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) offering in 2005 through the acquisition of Lifeline Systems and gave up 16 years later, selling it to Connect America. Yet the merger and acquisition of companies in other industries ultimately results in consolidation of data. Just asking.

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Allurion: first HealthTech IPO of 2023 via SPAC with Compute Health

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Allurion, a weight loss company that makes a swallowable gastric balloon, went public this week on August 2, 2023 through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called Compute Health. The SPAC merger was announced in February 2023. The deal valued Allurion at $500 million.

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Tech-enabled Home Care Redux? Do investors remember 2016?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

What’s up with investing in home care and technology? Some recent announcements offer almost the same level of overheating investment that the frothy level of investment that characterized the 2016 investor spending spree, noted in a Forbes. Home Care Assistance received $100 million in 2016. Why the froth? Homecare a sizable and growing market.

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A booming digital health market, and an elusive trifecta

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. Still others are focusing on ever-smaller niches to differentiate and create value.

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$100+ Billion spent on myriad of acquisitions across Pharma and Biotech industries in H1 2018

Lloyd Price

For many biotech companies, mergers and acquisitions have become a cornerstone in building a robust pipeline that can ensure positive growth for years to come. So far during the first six months of the year, more than $100 billion has been spent on a myriad of acquisitions across the pharma and biotech industries.

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