Mayo Clinic and Microsoft announced a strategic collaboration on June 2, 2026 to build a frontier AI model purpose-built for healthcare. The model combines Mayo’s de-identified clinical data…
Is healthcare M&A recovering in 2026? Yes — deal value is rising sharply, with health services M&A totaling $18 billion in Q1 2026 and $11 billion through May…
ChartSpan has acquired Validic, combining ChartSpan’s care management services with Validic’s device-data infrastructure to create a single remote care management platform. The combined company will operate under the…
Deacon Associates has agreed to acquire 31 home health and hospice agencies from HCA Healthcare, with hospice representing 23% of the divested assets across eight states. The deal,…
Behavioral health M&A recorded 42 closed transactions in Q1 2026 — 34 traditional M&A deals and 8 growth financings totaling $535.7 million. Mental health led with 19 deals,…
Physician group private equity deal volume fell from 28% of global provider transactions in 2021 to 23% in 2025, per Bain & Company’s 2026 Global Healthcare Private Equity…
AI in healthcare revenue cycle management has crossed a critical threshold: it is now delivering measurable, repeatable results at enterprise scale. Oliver Wyman’s 2026 Healthcare RCM Survey of…
Six U.S. health systems—including IU Health, UnityPoint Health, and Stamford Health—moved revenue cycle functions to outside vendors in the first half of 2026, signaling that RCM outsourcing has…
Dental M&A in 2026 has moved from “growth at any cost” to operational discipline, according to new data from TUSK Practice Sales. Although 69% of DSOs plan to…
Ambient AI scribes at health systems generate measurable financial returns: a peer-reviewed JAMA Network Open study examining 1.2 million ambulatory encounters found access to an ambient AI scribe…
