Healthcare Growth Partners is pleased to release our Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review. Our semi-annual report summarizes M&A and private equity activity across health IT, health information services, and digital health. This edition of the report includes findings from HGP’s analysis of the backlog of venture capital and private equity backed companies which have not yet seen an exit via M&A…
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Even though 2014 was supposed to be the “year of the wearable” according to Forbes, five years later we are now seeing the wearable reach maturity and mass-adoption. This increase in adoption…
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Among the venture capital and growth equity community, a common rule of thumb for software companies is the “Rule of 40”. The rule simply states that a healthy software company’s net profitability + revenue growth rate should exceed 40%. This rule provides a guideline to balance the trade-off between revenue growth and profitability, a question many of our clients frequently have. To see…
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HGP surveyed hundreds of private equity funds across all stages and received 105 responses. Responses concentrated toward Growth Equity and Venture Capital investors, who respectively invest in early and earlier stage companies. The distribution of responses across the stages of investing is consistent with the distribution of investment activity across the company lifecycle. The majority of institutionally…
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Healthcare Growth Partners is pleased to release our Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review. Our semi-annual report summarizes M&A and private equity activity across health IT, health information services, and digital health. This edition of the report includes findings from HGP’s bi-annual Health IT Private Equity Survey, which encompasses feedback from 105 private equity funds with their sentiment…
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There are plenty of “top investor” lists out there – everyone from CB Insights to StartUp Health has compiled a list of the top investors in digital health at some point. We realized these lists are usually…
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We recognize we’re going back to the basics of Health IT with a research note on EMR transactions, but it’s hard to ignore the flurry of activity in this sector. The number of high profile deals – AdvancedMD (Global Payments), Athenahealth (pending), PointClickCare (Dragoneer Investments), Office Practicum (Pamlico), Kinnser (Mediware), Net Health Systems (Carlyle & Level Equity), and Practice…
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Despite promised returns from massive investments in EMR and population health management technologies, care delivery organizations continue to face financial pressure and razor thin margins. Patient financial responsibility as a share of overall revenue continues to rise, putting pressure on not only collecting this growing revenue stream, but doing so in a way that does not compromise the patient…
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Every day, journalists covering healthcare information technology publish articles about the latest cyberattack or how woefully unprepared our IT infrastructure is for today’s advanced hacking techniques. These articles do their best to emphasize that due to the comprehensive nature of patient records, a healthcare data breach compromises not only patient privacy, but also patient safety and even…
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Healthcare Growth Partners is pleased to release the July 2018 edition of our Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review. The semi-annual report summarizes M&A and capital raising activity across health IT, health information services, and digital health. This edition of the report includes a discussion and analysis of the state of progress along the Market Evolution introduced in our July 2014 report,…
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