M&A

With the acquisition, Best Doctors gets data integration and advanced analytics capabilities to add to its care management platform and expand into new markets.

The acquisition will allow WebMD to further evolve and enhance the Medscape experience for health care professionals participating in continuing education.

This acquisition gives Practice Fusion a springboard for entry into the telemedicine market, an industry expected to swell to $4.5 billion in 2018.

The combined business will operate as Higi, and have a nationwide footprint of over 6,000 kiosks and eventually hit the 10,000 mark by 2015.

The combined company will help tighten data integration between surgery and physical therapy facilities, and their physician stakeholders.

The acquisition accelerates Validic's current market reach to a broader and more diverse spectrum of clinical device integrations.

The chip making giant has bought into the privately owned Performance Lab, which software is used for real-time exercise management and virtual coaching.

Physicians Interactive is hoping to match MedHelp's healthcare quantification and socialization solutions for consumers with its own solutions for physicians.

Beyond providing voice recognition technology which is used in many mobile devices, Nuance also makes solutions that help digitize patient information.