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Sometime in the next few weeks, medical technologies and services company Stryker will add yet another company to its burgeoning portfolio. This time, smart hospital and ambient intelligence solutions vendor Care.ai will be joining the Stryker stable for an as-yet-unknown price.
Stryker’s move for Care.ai shouldn’t come as a surprise in the sense that it has been impressively acquisitive for more than half of its 80-plus year history. Since 1979 it has bought companies active in orthopaedic implants, endoscopy, orthopaedic trauma, spinal fixation, reprocessing and remanufacturing of medical devices, neurotechnology, robotic arm assisted surgery in orthopaedics, fluorescence imaging and complex and minimally invasive segments.
But it was a 2022 acquisition that …
