MobiHealthNews reported on 53 new acquisitions over the course of 2019. That doesn’t mean all of these deals closed this year: several of these deals were announced late in the year and won’t close until next year, while others may have closed in previous years but weren’t made public until 2019. And of course, definitions of digital health vary, and not every one of these deals will fit everyone’s definition. Still, though, it was a big year for M&A in the space. The deals tracked totalled $8.16 billion. Five of the year’s acquisitions were done by private equity firms; the rest were strategic. Recurring themes included telemedicine, remote patient monitoring and medical education.
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Source: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/north-america/53-digital-health-mergers-and-acquisitions-we-covered-2019