WebMD and Healtheon jointly announced earnings for Q3 (ending Sept. 30th) late this afternoon. Sat in on the conference call and pick-up a few tidbits of information to pass along. Comments will focus on WebMD’s operations. Why do an analysis of WebMD? Quite simply, they are arguably the largest market player in online health. This [...]
Posts Tagged ‘acquisition’
Perspective on WebMD’s 3rd Qtr Numbers
Posted in PHR, tagged acquisition, WebMD on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BIG News: J&J Jumps into Health 2.0 Market with Acquisition
Posted in consumer health, tagged acquisition, Health 2.0, HealthMedia, J&J, Johnson & Johnson, prevention, WebMD, wellness on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Late yesterday, Johnson & Johnson announced that they have acquired HealthMedia, an online health & wellness service. HealthMedia positions itself as an online health coaching service and sells this service to employers (eBay, J&J, etc.) and payers (BCBS plans, Aetna, etc.). In their press release, J&J state that HealthMedia is the base for their “Wellness [...]
Signs of Times: Healtheon Pulls WebMD Merger off Table
Posted in PHR, tagged acquisition, Healtheon, merger, WebMD on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back in February of this year, Healtheon and WebMD announced that they would merge. At the time, our analysis was that the new combined entity would become more attractive for as an acquisition target. Well, that is not longer the case as this morning, Healtheon and WebMD made a joint announcement that the merger has [...]
Philips Continues Buying Spree
Posted in consumer health, telehealth, telemedicine, Uncategorized, tagged acquisition, Boston Scientific, GE, Philips, Respironics, Siemens healthcare, telehealth on December 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Philips Electronics announced on Friday that it will acquire Respironics for $66/share or about $5.13 billion, a 24% premium. This is the third and largest healthcare-centric acquisition that Philips has made in December. The first was Emergin, a small company (~100 employees, estimated $18 million in 2007 sales) and provider of medical alarming systems [...]
Microsoft Expands HIT Footprint with Thai Acquisition
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, Microsoft, tagged acquisition, clinicals, EMR, HIT, Microsoft, PACS on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Microsoft announced it will acquire Global Care Solutions Thailand, Ltd (GCS) for an undisclosed sum. GCS is a small company that has developed a diverse range of healthcare IT (HIT) software modules, all based on the Microsoft stack. Currently, GCS claims to have seven hospitals, all in Southeast Asia, that are live on its HIT [...]
Digging Into Microsoft’s HealthVault – Part One: Search
Posted in PHR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, tagged acquisition, EMR, HIT, Microsoft, PHR on October 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As I reported earlier, Microsoft has jumped into the consumer healthcare market with the October 4th launch of HealthVault (HV). Microsoft was kind enough to provide me with an in-depth briefing on what HV is and is not which I will combine with my own research to provide a review over the course of the [...]
