Here are five acquisitions involving health IT companies in the past six weeks.
- Oak Street Health, a Chicago-based network of primary care centers for Medicare patients, acquired virtual consult platform RubiconMD for $130 million in October.
- EHR company Athenahealth entered an agreement in November to be jointly acquired by private equity firms Hellman & Friedman and Bain Capital for $17 billion. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022.
- Best Buy closed its acquisition of remote care monitoring platform Current Health for about $400 million in November.
- Credit reporting agency TransUnion finalized its acquisition of information services and tech company Neustar for $3.1 billion in December.
- Nordic, an EHR consulting company for vendors including Epic and Meditech, in December acquired S&P Consultants in a move to expand its services for Cerner clients.