Today, a tale of two markets are seen in healthcare mergers and acquisition: the present (as reflected in the data about declining dealmaking) and the future (reflected in the increasingly positive outlook by dealmakers).
While deal data can vary according to how it is defined and who is reporting, it has declined substantially across the board since the high-water mark in late 2021 and early...
Amwell is in talks to acquire struggling teletherapy company Talkspace for about $200 million, according to Israeli business publication Calcalist.
Talkspace's stock price surged in the wake of the deal rumors. It went public in 2021 after a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, opening at $8.90 per share. The deal valued Talkspace at $1.4 billion.
But the digital mental health...
Pfizer completes ResApp purchase for over $115 million
Biopharmaceutical giant Pfizer has finalised its acquisition of ASX-listed digital health startup ResApp for A$179 million ($116 million), according to the University of Queensland.
Brisbane-based ResApp has developed a mobile app that analyses cough sounds and diagnoses respiratory diseases, including asthma, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, croup...
Multimodal healthcare provider Carbon Health is entering the Tri-State region with its acquisition of Central Jersey Urgent Care.
The New Jersey-based urgent care chain operates 10 clinics across the central region of the state. Through the acquisition, which is the company’s largest to date, Carbon is expanding its reach to over 90 clinics across 14 states.
The terms of the deal were not...
Digital musculoskeletal care company SWORD Health announced the acquisition of Vigilant Technologies, maker of a wearable that aims to prevent workplace injury.
The acquisition announcement comes months after SWORD scooped up $85 million in Series C funding.
Vigilant pairs a wearable device that provides haptic feedback to correct posture with educational content tailored to specific job types to...
Digital musculoskeletal (MSK) care company Hinge Health has acquired wrnch, developer of computer vision technology that measures body motion.
Hinge said the tech will allow users to measure a patient’s strength, flexibility, balance and endurance, which can be used to improve the patient’s care plan. They’ll also be able to more easily track exercises and improve rehabilitation for areas that...
The current moment of health innovation and investment spurred by the COVID-19 crisis seems to be accelerating, if not driving, the consolidation of the digital health space. While Teladoc and Livongo loom as the most striking recent example, Omada’s purchase of Physera in May was also bolstered by the pandemic and its follow-on effects, CEO Sean Duffy told MobiHealthNews in a recent interview....
The MobiHealthNews team members — host Jonah Comstock, Managing Editor Laura Lovett and Associate Editor Dave Muoio — sit down to unpack the major shakeup that hit the digital health markets this week when telemedicine giant Teladoc announced its plan to merge with chronic condition management success story Livongo. We talk details, motivations and implications of this digital health mega-company...
Tech-enabled sleep health startups Fusion Health and Nox Health have announced their plans to merge under the Nox Health name.
Atlanta-based Fusion Health works with payers and employers to deliver sleep treatment programs. Historically, its main focus has been on population sleep health.
Meanwhile, Icelandic company Nox is focused on sleep analytics and diagnostics. The company’s sleep...
MobiHealthNews reported on 53 new acquisitions over the course of 2019. That doesn’t mean all of these deals closed this year: several of these deals were announced late in the year and won’t close until next year, while others may have closed in previous years but weren’t made public until 2019. And of course, definitions of digital health vary, and not every one of these deals will fit everyone...
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