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| Jan 11, 2026 | Canopy: $22 Million Series B Raised To Expand Connected Safety And Location Intelligence Platform | Canopy, which provides connected safety platforms for U.S. health systems, has closed a $22 million Series B financing to accelerate growth of its location-based safety and operational tools. The round was led by 111° West Capital and ACME ... |
| Jan 9, 2026 | Canopy Raises $22M in Series B Funding | Canopy, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a connected safety platform for U.S. health systems, raised $22m in Series B funding.
The round was co-led by 111° West Capital and ACME Capital, with participation from all existing investors.
... |
| Dec 2, 2025 | How Ghost Assets Undermine Compliance and Integration in Healthcare | Jeff Collins, CEO of WanAware
The second quarter of 2025 saw a modest rebound in hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with Kaufman Hall reporting eight announced deals. Yet the trend lines tell a more complicated story: half were di... |
| Nov 19, 2024 | How AI is Transforming the Acute Patient Journey | Bob Zdon, Chief Operating Officer for ABOUT
Optimizing patient throughput across the acute patient journey is essential if hospitals and health systems are to improve healthcare efficiency and clinical outcomes.The fundamental purpose of op... |
| May 31, 2024 | Oregon hospitals Legacy and OHSU to merge | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Legacy Health and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) this week signed a binding agreement to merge.
Why it matters: The deal combines two of Oregon's largest health care systems under the OHS... |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Hospitals forced to revamp business models or risk losing patients | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Hospitals' business models are being upended by fundamental changes within the health care system, including one that presents a pretty existential challenge: People have far more options to get their... |
| Apr 3, 2024 | SnapCare acquires staff scheduling automation platform Medecipher | The two companies will combine to give healthcare systems greater insights into their operations
Healthcare facilities and senior living providers are struggling to meet the demand for care with fewer resources: two-thirds of hospitals and ... |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Business | Facing public backlash, some health care companies are abandoning hospital deals | Anna Claire Vollers | (TNS) Stateline.org
Worried about hospitals closing and higher costs for patients, state lawmakers are increasingly tangling with hospitals over potential health care mergers, in some cases derailing deals they think d... |
| Jan 10, 2024 | Hospital fortunes improved heading into holidays | Hospitals continued to shake off the pandemic's long-term financial effects as the holidays approached, with key metrics like inpatient and outpatient revenue rising year-over-year, the latest Kaufman Hall report finds.
The big picture: The... |
| Jan 10, 2024 | Hospitals Show Signs of Recovery, But Growth Strategies Crucial for 2024 Success | What You Should Know:
– A glimmer of hope shines through for hospitals, according to November data from Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report points to ongoing stabilization and even growth.
– While the scars of the pandemic and eco... |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Andreessen Horowitz on digital health funding in 2024 and AI regulation | Jay Rughani, investment partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Photo: HIMSS TV |
| Oct 24, 2023 | Hospital Leaders: Workforce Shortages Persist Amid Stabilization | What You Should Know:
– Hospitals and health systems are seeing some signs of stabilization and margin improvement, but challenges around workforce, expenses and patient access persist according to Kaufman Hall’s 2023 State of Healthcare Pe... |
| Jun 28, 2023 | Hospital margins rebounding post-pandemic | Hospitals' operating margins are moving back into positive territory as patients flock to outpatient clinics and labor costs start to decline, a new Kaufman Hall report finds.
Why it matters: It's another sign the industry's fortunes are im... |
| Apr 25, 2023 | California’s lowest paid health workers want a pay boost. Why industry leaders are pushing back | In summary
As hospitals and other health care facilities struggle with staffing shortages, health workers could get a wage increase under a legislative proposal. But some smaller facilities already struggling financially say they can’t affo... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | Hospital M&A Activity Remained Strong in Q1 With 15 Deals Announced | Merger and acquisition activity among hospitals and health systems picked up last year after 2021’s recent historic low. This activity remained strong during the first quarter of 2023, according to a report released Thursday by Kaufman Hall... |
| Jan 20, 2023 | After Madera’s hospital closure, could others follow? | In summary
Under financial strain, the lone hospital in this Central Valley county closed its doors this month. Legislators and industry officials say other hospitals across the state may suffer the same fate.
In Madera County, one-fifth of... |
| Jan 11, 2023 | Under Financial Pressure, How Are Health Systems Prioritizing Digital Health Investments? | As big tech and retailers continue wading into the care delivery waters, it puts even more pressure on hospitals and health systems to “accelerate on the curve,” and prioritize digital health investments capable of delivering value. |
| Jan 10, 2023 | LeanTaaS Acquires Hospital IQ to Create $1B Healthcare Automation Company | LeanTaaS, a Silicon Valley-based company that sells capacity optimization software to healthcare providers, on Tuesday completed its acquisition of automation company Hospital IQ.
The companies are not disclosing the terms of the transactio... |
| Sep 29, 2022 | Solving healthcare’s last mile problem: 3 ways to better reach patients | The pandemic greatly accelerated innovation across the entire healthcare industry, resulting in new ways to reach patients and virtual ways to deliver care. However, many Americans still lack access to care — whether it be because of cost, ... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Healthcare Leaders Discover Solutions to Unprecedented Financial Pressures | Rapid Strategic Growth and Sustainable Financial Health Always Begin with a Robust Assessment
In 100% of our assessments, we uncover substantial near-term strategic growth opportunities”
— Tammy Tiller-Hewitt, FACHE, CEO, Tiller-Hewitt Heal... |
| Sep 11, 2022 | 3 Questions Healthcare IT Leaders Should Ask Before Implementing AI in Their Operations | Varun Ganapathi, Ph.D., CTO and co-founder at AKASA
Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are no longer nice-to-have technologies for healthcare providers. They are mission-critical tools for addressing significant challenges many hea... |
| Jul 6, 2022 | Why billing tech could help health system CFOs from falling behind on their 2022 revenue goals | The data: Nearly half of health systems and physician groups say they’re behind on their 2022 revenue goals, per a June R1 RCM survey of 205 health system CFOs and VPs shared with Insider Intelligence via email.
Health executives’ top three... |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Now is not the time for Congress to further cut hospitals’ Medicare payments | As the U.S. slowly emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, hospitals hope get back to some semblance of normal. That won’t be possible with the 1% cut in reimbursement rates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that is slat... |
| Mar 3, 2022 | Enhanced Healthcare Partners Exits its Platform Investment in Syft | NEW YORK, NY (March 3, 2022) — Enhanced Healthcare Partners (“EHP”), a leading healthcare-focused private equity firm, is pleased to announce the successful exit from its platform Tampa, FL-based Syft, a leading provider of AI-enhanced inve... |
| Nov 5, 2021 | Contributed: Improving healthcare productivity with automation and opportunities for startups | Photo: Me789 Studio/Getty Images |
| Aug 24, 2021 | Delta Variant Raises New Uncertainties for Hospitals Nationwide | What You Should Know:
– In May, U.S. hospitals, health systems, and physician groups were beginning to recover from COVID-19’s impact on their operations, but the dramatic spread of the Delta variant and an increase in COVID-19 cases and ho... |
| Aug 24, 2021 | How Built-In Financial Services Can Help Healthcare Providers Rebound Post-Pandemic | Tarun Bhasin, CEO of Kunai
While their staff grappled with the medical toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare provider’s financial struggles went largely uncovered. But a 2021 KaufmanHall report revealed that hospital operating margins l... |
| Aug 8, 2021 | Report: Hospitals continue to see tight margins as Delta variant raises concerns | Though hospital operating margins have improved significantly from the first six months of 2020, they remain tight as the spread of the coronavirus Delta variant raises uncertainties, according to a new report from healthcare consultancy Ka... |
| Aug 2, 2021 | Tight Hospital Margins Continue Amid COVID-19 Concerns | What You Should Know:
– U.S. hospitals and health systems continued to experience tight margins in June, as rising expenses offset revenue and volume improvements—amid concern about the impact of the COVID-19 Delta variant—according to the ... |
| Jul 8, 2021 | Report: Healthcare M&A skewing toward regional partnerships | Merger and acquisition activity in healthcare is shifting from the purchase of smaller, independent hospitals to regional partnerships among health systems, according to a new report by healthcare consultancy Kaufman Hall.
In the second qua... |
| May 19, 2021 | CommonSpirit, Essentia nix 14-hospital sale amid staff concerns | CommonSpirit Health and Essentia Health have called off their plan for Essentia to acquire 14 hospitals in Minnesota and North Dakota from CommonSpirit.
In January, the nonprofit health systems signed a letter of intent for 14 CommonSpirit-... |
| May 14, 2021 | Beam Health CEO on how the startup needed to evolve beyond telehealth to deliver value | With telehealth’s popularity exploding and new players jumping into the market, the service is becoming increasingly commoditized. As a result, startups are diversifying and adding wraparound services to distinguish themselves in the increa... |
| Apr 12, 2021 | Report: Fewer health system M&A deals in Q1 2021 offset by larger transactions | The Covid-19 pandemic spurred large merger and acquisition deals among providers, as is evidenced by the transactions that dominated the landscape in early 2021.
Though the number of provider transactions was down in the first quarter of th... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Building back better requires strengthening primary care | As the pandemic enters its second year, the health care workers who care for patients with Covid-19 and other serious conditions deserve our gratitude and support. Many on the frontlines are not just tired but are also in precarious financi... |
| Mar 8, 2021 | Evaluating Current Hospital Compliance Programs Could Save Millions | CEO of Protenus, leveraging AI to reduce risk and improve patient trust for healthcare systems across North America. |
| Mar 1, 2021 | Einstein Healthcare Network, Jefferson Health to merge after FTC drops challenge | A healthcare merger saga that began in 2018 is finally drawing to a close.
The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday that it would no longer challenge the proposed merger of Einstein Healthcare Network and Jefferson Health, clearing the... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Mercy, Anthem ink agreement to enhance care, drive down costs | With healthcare costs ballooning and slated to reach the staggering figure of $6 trillion by 2027, providers and payers are joining forces to rein in spending.
The latest provider-payer duo to enter into a collaboration are St. Louis-based ... |
| Jan 29, 2021 | If this self-sufficient hospital cannot stand alone, can any public hospital survive? | Hospital consolidation has been a consistent trend unabated by recessions, bountiful times or even a pandemic. The New Hanover sale, which requires only the approval of the state attorney general for completion, prompts the question: If Wil... |
| Jan 13, 2021 | Haven Healthcare Shuts Down But Disruption Thrives – Healthcare industry analysis by Loyale Healthcare | Although Haven is shutting down at the end of February, 2020, healthcare industry disruption is alive and well. The stresses placed on healthcare providers and consumers by the COVID-19 crisis have accelerated change and innovation in ways ... |
| Jan 6, 2021 | Mergers And Acquisitions-A Route To Increased Educational Opportunities And Greater Efficiencies: The Case Of Willamette University | Willamette UniversityWillamette website |
| Dec 2, 2020 | While Hospital Margins Shrink, Leaders Search for More Sustainable Operating Models – Industry Analysis by Loyale Healthcare | Patient expectations of healthcare providers have been transformed by the COVID-19 crisis. To truly realize the considerable promise of virtual health over the long-term, health systems and hospitals must employ digital tools to reduce or r... |
| Oct 23, 2020 | Technology can ease pandemic challenges faced by hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers | In places where the virus has reasserted itself, ICUs are filling up, which puts a damper on resuming elective procedures given patient reluctance the difficulty obtaining sufficient protective gear. For hospitals and ASCs, elective surgeri... |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Healthcare deals dip in 2020, but not as much as expected | While most sectors saw a decrease in activity in 2020, diagnostics companies contributed to two of the year’s largest deals. The labs, MRI and dialysis sector reported $12.5 billion in deal value, up more than 600% from the prior year, larg... |
| Jul 22, 2020 | Beyond Covid-19: 5 opportunities for startups to reshape the future healthcare landscape | The novel coronavirus pandemic has upended the world as we know it, taking an unprecedented toll on health and human life. The healthcare ecosystem has quickly mobilized to mitigate the crisis – modifying care access points and modalities w... |
| May 5, 2020 | Change Healthcare buys back pharmacy unit, sells analytics business | Change Healthcare CEO Neil de Crescenzo said the deal would give the company the opportunity to enter new markets, and offer a more comprehensive set of services to its healthcare clients.
“As a leader in delivering advanced technology solu... |
| Aug 1, 2019 | Why health companies are branding themselves as tech companies | From digital health startups to primary care groups, companies are increasingly branding themselves as tech companies first, health care companies second. Shunning ties to the mission-driven health care sector may seem counterintuitive at b... |
| Apr 11, 2019 | Why some health system merger plans work out but others are nixed — and why you should care | In October, two Texas healthcare giants — Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas and Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston — signed a letter of intent to form a new health system. Just four months later in February, they scrapped the... |
| Jan 30, 2019 | 5 priorities for health systems in 2019 | Increased volume is often cited as a means to improve efficiency. Volume alone isn’t a panacea for inefficiency; it’s actually a means to make up revenue. Instead, hospital leaders must have a realistic understanding of their actual demand ... |
| Dec 16, 2018 | Hospitals need to understand the role of patient financing | When J.P. Morgan Chase and Amazon get involved, you know the evolution of healthcare is officially in the spotlight. We are – and have been – witnessing a rise in high deductible health plans (HDHPs) and growing out-of-pocket expenses. In 2... |
| Oct 19, 2018 | Consolidation is hurting hospitals’ supply costs, not helping them | When health systems merge, one of the goals is to gain economies of scale, lowering costs through the bargaining power that comes from being a bigger player. Yet despite a consolidation wave in hospitals, it appears that they are paying mor... |
| Jul 31, 2018 | Hospital mergers or acquisitions may cause short-term patient safety issues | “Better patient care” is the reason hospital and health systems usually give when they merge or acquire one another. Our research suggests that mergers and affiliations might, paradoxically, increase the risk of harm to patients in the shor... |
| Feb 28, 2016 | Total Benchmark Solution Receives Investment from Kaufman, Hall & Associates | Total Benchmark Solution, LLC, a Ft. Collins, Colorado-based provider of benchmarking and analytics solutions for healthcare organizations, received an investment from Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC.
The amount of the deal was not disc... |
| Why billing tech could help health system CFOs from falling behind on their 2022 revenue goals | The data: Nearly half of health systems and physician groups say they’re behind on their 2022 revenue goals, per a June R1 RCM survey of 205 health system CFOs and VPs shared with Insider Intelligence via email.
Health executives’ top three... |
| Healthcare deals dip in 2020, but not as much as expected | Healthcare mergers dipped in the first half of 2020, but not as sharply as expected, according to a report released Friday by Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The report, which focused on mergers between healthcare providers, payers and other servi... |
| Report: Healthcare M&A skewing toward regional partnerships | Merger and acquisition activity in healthcare is shifting from the purchase of smaller, independent hospitals to regional partnerships among health systems, according to a new report by healthcare consultancy Kaufman Hall.
In the second qua... |
| Why some health system merger plans work out but others are nixed — and why you should care | Consolidation in the healthcare market is expected to continue, though a report from consulting firm Kaufman Hall found that in 2018, there were 90 total hospital and health system deals announced, down from 115 in 2017. Nonetheless, the av... |
| If this self-sufficient hospital cannot stand alone, can any public hospital survive? | In America’s health care system, dominated by hospital chain leviathans, New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, is an anomaly. It is a publicly owned hospital that boasts good care at lower prices than most and s... |
| Beam Health CEO on how the startup needed to evolve beyond telehealth to deliver value | With telehealth’s popularity exploding and new players jumping into the market, the service is becoming increasingly commoditized. As a result, startups are diversifying and adding wraparound services to distinguish themselves in the increa... |
| ‘If I were a hospital, I’d be reading the tea leaves’: Pressures grow on the health care industry to reduce its climate pollution | Flooding, heat waves, wildfires, and other climate-driven weather extremes in recent years have catapulted hospitals into emergency mode and devastated the communities they serve, with Hurricane Ian’s deadly rampage through central Florida ... |
| How hospitals can overcome tech challenges to provide clinical testing for community physicians | The global clinical laboratory market is projected to grow 74% between 2019 and 2027 to $404 billion, according to a new report from Transparency Market Research. The rise in infectious disease testing accounts for the largest percentage in... |
| 5 priorities for health systems in 2019 | Healthcare is one of the last major industries to use data to drive operational efficiency. In fact, billions of IT dollars have been spent on clinical systems with the promise of improved care through the consolidation of a patient’s medic... |
| Rural hospitals contend with an expensive shift to digital amid shrinking margins | The Covid-19 pandemic hastened the transition to virtual care delivery and technology-based operations for hospitals around the country. While this has been heralded as a long-overdue move, for rural hospitals the move is an especially expe... |
| Hospitals look for RCM talent, turn to RCM software to address labor costs | The news: Revenue cycle management (RCM) is a hot area in health tech—several hospital systems are seeking talent in this area, per Becker’s Hospital CFO Report.
For example, Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in North Carolina is looking for ... |
| Macroeconomic conditions aren’t stopping healthcare providers from making tech investments | The news: US healthcare providers fast-tracked software investments over the past year and many will continue to do so as they look to improve margins and address labor shortages, according to a new report from KLAS Research and Bain & ... |
| Cleveland Clinic is now charging for patient-provider messaging | The news: Cleveland Clinic is now billing for certain messages between patients and providers that take place on the health system’s MyChart portal. Health plans will be on the hook for most of the charges, but uninsured consumers and those... |
| Consumers are taking healthcare into their own hands | The trend: Consumers are taking more health management activities into their own hands, sometimes supervised by physicians—but often not, per Kaufman Hall.
About 3,500 US adults were asked how often they performed seven specific health mana... |
| Beyond Covid-19: 5 opportunities for startups to reshape the future healthcare landscape | The novel coronavirus pandemic has upended the world as we know it, taking an unprecedented toll on health and human life. The healthcare ecosystem has quickly mobilized to mitigate the crisis – modifying care access points and modalities w... |
| AMA report: U.S. has “highly concentrated” payer markets that stifle competition | The majority of health insurance markets in the U.S. are highly concentrated, curbing competition, according to a report released by the American Medical Association.
For the report, researchers reviewed market share and market concentratio... |
| Change Healthcare buys back pharmacy unit, sells analytics business | Months after splitting off from McKesson Corp., Change Healthcare made two deals to buy back its pharmacy business and sell its analytics business.
The company bought back eRx Network, its former pharmacy unit, for $212.9 million plus cash ... |
| Einstein Healthcare Network, Jefferson Health to merge after FTC drops challenge | A healthcare merger saga that began in 2018 is finally drawing to a close.
The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday that it would no longer challenge the proposed merger of Einstein Healthcare Network and Jefferson Health, clearing the... |
| Hospitals need to understand the role of patient financing | When J.P. Morgan Chase and Amazon get involved, you know the evolution of healthcare is officially in the spotlight. We are – and have been – witnessing a rise in high deductible health plans (HDHPs) and growing out-of-pocket expenses. In 2... |
| 3 ways to ensure the IT budget doesn’t get lost in your healthcare merger | There are several factors for a healthcare executive to consider while pursuing a merger.
When bringing two healthcare organizations together, leaders usually focus on integrating operations, establishing a cohesive culture and addressing c... |
| Mercy, Anthem ink agreement to enhance care, drive down costs | With healthcare costs ballooning and slated to reach the staggering figure of $6 trillion by 2027, providers and payers are joining forces to rein in spending.
The latest provider-payer duo to enter into a collaboration are St. Louis-based ... |
| The domino effect: Assessing the long-term impact of healthcare staffing shortages | Healthcare is among the top three industries most impacted by the “Great Resignation.” Recent data from the American Medical Association suggests that 1 in 5 physicians and 2 in 5 nurses intend to leave their current practice within two yea... |
| Biden’s latest executive order aims to boost healthcare competition | Through a sweeping new executive order, President Joe Biden is taking aim at anti-competitive behavior across the American economy, including in healthcare.
Spanning 72 initiatives, the order signed on Friday aims to tackle competition prob... |
| Technology can ease pandemic challenges faced by hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers | Hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) need elective procedures to be able to return to near pre-pandemic levels for both their patients as well as their hospital’s financial health, but the continued impact of the coronavirus pand... |
| Americans rate their healthcare system as poor or failing | The “news”: Americans aren’t happy with healthcare, yet another survey shows. The 2022 Healthcare in America Report from West Health-Gallup asked 5,584 US adults to grade the system overall, and on access, cost, equity, and quality of care.... |
| A myopic approach to merger regulation fails consumers instead of protecting them | We are beginning the end game of healthcare consolidation. Over the past decade, we’ve seen a burst of activity in healthcare mergers. At this point, most of the smaller, attractive provider organizations have been acquired by the bigger pl... |
| CommonSpirit, Essentia nix 14-hospital sale amid staff concerns | CommonSpirit Health and Essentia Health have called off their plan for Essentia to acquire 14 hospitals in Minnesota and North Dakota from CommonSpirit.
In January, the nonprofit health systems signed a letter of intent for 14 CommonSpirit-... |
| Report: Fewer health system M&A deals in Q1 2021 offset by larger transactions | The Covid-19 pandemic spurred large merger and acquisition deals among providers, as is evidenced by the transactions that dominated the landscape in early 2021.
Though the number of provider transactions was down in the first quarter of th... |
| Report: Hospitals continue to see tight margins as Delta variant raises concerns | Though hospital operating margins have improved significantly from the first six months of 2020, they remain tight as the spread of the coronavirus Delta variant raises uncertainties, according to a new report from healthcare consultancy Ka... |
