Morning Headlines 2/7/20
Waud teams up with ex-MatrixCare chief to build health IT platform
Waud Capital Partners commits $150 million to pursue health IT opportunities with former MatrixCare CEO John Daamgard, who sold the company to ResMed for $750 million in 2018.
New center seeks to strengthen clinical informatics
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (TN) creates the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center, which will collaborate with care teams, clinical quality, and risk management departments to spread innovation and research and optimize its use of Epic.
VA’s Palo Alto Facility to Be First Hospital in US — Maybe the World — to Go 5G: Wilkie
The VA hospital in Palo Alto, CA will become the world’s first 5G hospital in the US once it opens later this year, giving providers the ability to expand telehealth services.
Software company OTech being combined with Dallas firm in private equity deal
Ridgemont Equity Partners will back the merger of HIM vendor HealthMark Group and patient intake management company OTech Group.
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