Healthcare M&A: Agfa to Consider Selling Health IT & Integrated Care Business

Meaningful Use targets set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have served a purpose in rapidly bringing patient engagement and population health management (PHM) to the forefront of the US healthcare industry.

We explore some of the partnerships that were announced at HIMSS in detail a little later, but to understand what’s driving this, it’s first important to understand the evolution of telehealth in terms of maturity from small-scale, point solutions to enterprise offerings that can be used across a range of healthcare settings. The diagram below outlines this maturity model.

Yesterday Agfa announced it had entered exclusive negotiations with Dedalus Holding S.p.A. to sell part of its Healthcare IT business, specifically the business tied to its EMR and Integrated Care offerings.