M&A

Cognizant expects this acquisition to accelerate its market position and strategy of delivering healthcare software and solutions to a wide range of clients.

Lift Labs will continue to sell its Liftware system, with Google enabling them to reach even more people living with Parkinson's or essential tremor.

Under the deal, the two companies will now operate as wholly-owned subsidiaries of a newly formed holding company, Preventice, Inc.

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.