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| | | | | | | The headlines below appeared during the past week in our exclusive subscriber-only Digital Health Briefing, a daily email newsletter. Through six newsletters over the next seven days, you can experience what the Briefing has to offer for yourself for just $1.* Click here to get started! | | | | Predictions we got wrong in 2020 | | At the end of 2019, we compiled a handful of digital health predictions for the new year. One prediction we got wrong: We expected giant electronic health record (EHR) vendors Cerner and Epic would develop aggressive M&A strategies to build out their defenses against Google—but Big Tech largely stayed away from EHRs in 2020. | | | | | | | | Centene inks $2.2B acquisition to deepen digital mental health services | | Major US health insurer Centene scooped up pharmacy benefit manager Magellan Health in a $2.2 billion deal in an effort to beef up its telemental health services. Centene’s acquisition will help it stake its claim in the red hot mental health market, which is growing as the pandemic escalates patients’ behavioral health needs. | | | | | | | | Why Haven’s focus on insurance disruption made it doomed from the start | | Haven—the high-profile health insurance JV formed by JP Morgan, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway—is disbanding after a three-year run. The writing has been on the wall for a while now considering Haven’s vague game plan, competing healthcare projects, and changes in leadership over the past year. | | | | | | | | UnitedHealth buys Change Healthcare in a massive $13B deal to become a health data powerhouse | | UnitedHealthcare’s (UHC’s) analytics arm Optum is snapping up fellow health IT company Change Healthcare for a whopping $13 billion, effectively combining the two entities’ health data analytics, tech, and software services. The deal ultimately aims to streamline and accelerate the administrative and payment processes that providers and payers lean on for patient care, according to UHC. This deal will make Optum an undisputed data analytics powerhouse in healthcare. | | | | |
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