Patient engagement firm GetWellNetwork, Bethesda, Maryland, has acquired competitor Skylight Healthcare Systems, based in San Diego, to form what the companies are calling the nation’s largest “interactive patient care” firm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Both GetWellNetwork and Skylight deliver educational content and communications tools to inpatients at the bedside, through televisions, computers and mobile devices. Both integrate their systems with electronic health records, patient portals and other health IT platforms.
“Effective patient engagement — the kind of engagement that actually leads to better outcomes — is a science that requires years of expertise to cultivate. Skylight’s employees and clients share that vision with us,” GetWellNetwork founder and CEO Michael O’Neil said in a press release.
O’Neil will stay on as CEO of the company, which will keep the GetWellNetwork name. Skylight headquarters will become a West Coast innovation center for GetWellNetwork.
