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August 6, 2014
CALGARY – Strata Health Solutions has announced a growth equity investment from Polaris Partners, a Boston-based venture capital and private equity firm that focuses on the healthcare and technology markets. The investment will enable Strata to expand its leading integrated eReferral and intelligent resource matching products throughout Canada and the United Kingdom, and enter new markets in Europe and the United States. Read More
August 6, 2014
FRANKFURT – German engineering group Siemens plans to sell its hospital IT business to Cerner Corp, a U.S. provider of healthcare IT services, for $1.3 billion in cash, the two companies said. Read More
July 9, 2014
AMSTERDAM and SAN FRANCISCO – In a move to accelerate the transformation of the healthcare industry, Royal Philips and salesforce.com announced a strategic alliance to deliver an open, cloud-based healthcare platform, leveraging Philips’ leading positions in medical technology, clinical applications and clinical informatics and salesforce.com’s leadership in enterprise cloud computing, innovation and customer engagement.
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June 18, 2014
WATERLOO, Ont. – Campana Systems Inc., well-known for its GoldCare community service and long-term care software, announced that it has been acquired by Toronto-based Constellation Software Inc. Constellation is a publicly traded Canadian organization with operations in more than 30 countries, including Canada, the United States and Australia. Read More
June 2, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and VICTORIA, B.C. – Carrick Capital Partners announced the firm’s majority investment in the Procura Group of Companies. A multinational organization specializing in healthcare software and solutions, Procura will remain under the leadership of Scott Overhill (pictured), who has been promoted from President to Chief Executive Officer. Longtime Procura CEO Warren Brown recently announced his retirement.
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May 21, 2014
RICHMOND, B.C. – McKesson Technology Solutions, a leading provider of healthcare IT and enterprise medical imaging solutions, is pleased to announce that Erkan Akyuz (pictured) will be joining the organization as President, Imaging & Workflow Solutions (IWS). Erkan brings extensive industry knowledge and hands-on leadership experience to the group.
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May 7, 2014
NEW YORK – Infor has announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Colorado-based GRASP Systems International, Inc., a provider of automated patient acuity, workload management, patient assignment systems and consulting services to healthcare organizations in the U.S. and Canada.
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April 2, 2014
BARRINGTON, Ill. – GE Healthcare announced that it has agreed to acquire CHCA Computer Systems Inc., an operating room (OR) management and analytics solutions provider, headquartered in Montreal, Canada. CHCA develops the Opera software application, which has helped increase productivity and patient satisfaction in the OR by providing real-time data to support the decision making and management of surgical procedures. Read More
February 19, 2014
TORONTO – Dell and Kallo Inc., a healthcare solutions provider, announced that Dell will design and build the IT infrastructure for Kallo’s healthcare delivery platform. This includes a state-of-the-art Global Response Centre in Canada, Clinical Command Centres in a number of strategic locations around the world and mobile clinics in rural communities. Read More
February 18, 2014
ORLANDO, Fla. – The Ontario government is co-hosting a booth with up-and-coming Ontario healthcare technology providers at this year’s HIMSS conference, which will be held in Orlando from Feb 23-27. Over 30,000 attendees are expected at the gathering, one of the world’s largest meetings of healthcare information users and providers. We provide details about the companies exhibiting with the Ontario government this year. Read More