Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Enclara Healthcare (Enclara), one of the nation’s largest hospice pharmacy and benefits management (PBM) providers.The deal will also allow Humana to boost its PBM competitiveness, which is crucial as other health insurers concentrate efforts to solidify their presence in the PBM arena (i.e. Anthem launched IngenioRx, Cigna acquired Express Scripts).
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) will acquire Clarity Insights, a Chicago-based data consultancy with artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep data science expertise. 90% of the data in the world was created in just the past 10 years, with 175 zettabytes of data expected to be created by 2025.Â
Boston-based Partners HealthCare has announced plans to implement a new system-wide digital health initiative over the next five years. Partners are budgeting $100 million for the first 18 months of the project, with additional funding being requested as needed. This initiative supports the health systems recently announced five-year strategic plan, which serves more than 1.5 million patients and receives approximately $2 billion in research funding annually.
This is part one of a two week series of posts from CuriousHumans. The American healthcare system is, to put it mildly, complex. As health systems shift their focus from volume to value, a growing number of physician practices are consolidating and more individual physicians are joining health systems.
Waystar, a revenue cycle technology provider, has announced its acquisition of Recondo Technology, a revenue cycle automation solutions platform powered by robotic process automation (RPA).
