Danaher is acquiring Masimo in a $10 billion deal aimed at expanding its diagnostics portfolio and deepening its presence in acute care settings. The move reflects a broader industry shift toward consolidation and integrated care, as large healthcare companies seek scale and more continuous clinical data inside hospitals.
Investors at Breyer Capital think 2026 could mark a turning point in digital health, as logistics become as important as scientific innovation. They highlighted three key trends shaping the market: shifting biotech constraints from biology to delivery, bottom-up product adoption by clinicians, and a wave of consolidation among AI startups.
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
To avoid adding to the patchwork of disparate systems, healthcare leaders must balance their workforce’s eagerness to adopt new technologies with a focus on the consolidation of the right solutions. Here's where to begin.
The U.S. Department of Justice recently launched a task force on healthcare monopolies. Experts have varying opinions on how it will impact the healthcare industry.
At the HLTH conference last week, MedCity News' editorial team interviewed 11 health leaders from a variety of organizations to get a sense of which areas within healthcare will see consolidation over the next 12 months.
Endless digital health solutions have emerged over the last few years. But eventually, they'll have to consolidate — and that's part of the cycle, investors said during a panel discussion on Sunday.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
As macroeconomic forces continue to negatively impact the healthcare sector, health tech experts predict that 2023 will be another slow year for the IPO market. However, they think consolidation deals will continue to be a constant, according to a new report.
About 73% of health insurance markets are highly concentrated, and in 46% of markets, one insurer had a share of 50% or more, a new report from the American Medical Association shows. The report comes a few months after President Joe Biden directed federal agencies to ramp up oversight of healthcare consolidation.
Independent physician practices are being gobbled up by hospitals, payers and private equity, and while some see it as a boon for the practices and industry as a whole, others believe it will raise costs and block access to care.
President Joe Biden's new executive order aimed at reducing anti-competitive behavior across industries includes directing federal agencies to revise guidelines for hospital mergers, enable people to comparison shop health plans on the ACA marketplaces and work with states to import drugs from Canada.
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
Though there has been a slew of failed merger plans in recent months, providers' interest in consolidation has not ebbed. Midwest-based Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health announced they are exploring a merger, as did Rush Health Systems and Ochsner Health, which are located in the South.
M&A activity in the healthcare finance technology is heating up, evidenced by large transactions such as Cedar buying OODA Health and R1 RCM buying VisitPay. Experts agree that this activity won't end anytime soon, and it will have a positive impact on providers and patients.
As a result of rapid consolidation, the 10 biggest health systems controlled 24% of market share based on patient revenue by 2018. The trend is expected to continue through the next decade, with health systems facing growing financial pressures and an increase in demand for new types of care delivery.
If the merger is approved, the combined health system would operate 70 hospitals and employ 89,000 people. Intermountain CEO Dr. Marc Harrison would lead the new system, estimated to generate about $15 billion in annual revenue.
The combined company will retain the Datica name and is headquartered in Minneapolis. Sansoro Health CEO Jeremy Pierotti will take on the chief executive role of the new company and former Datica CEO Travis Good will move to the position of chief technology officer.