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Health Technology, Future of Healthcare

Medscape | March 09, 2023

On March 08, 2023, WebMD Health Corp., a subsidiary of Internet Brands and a provider of information services for healthcare professionals and consumers, announced that it had acquired Grupo SANED, the Spanish market leader for medical and health information services. Grupo SANED is an industry pioneer for scientific communications, clinical news, medical education, and regulatory advice. The acquisition expands Medscape's presence among healthcare professionals in Spain to ...

Digital Healthcare

Businesswire | June 22, 2023

WebMD Ignite announced an exclusive partnership with HIA Technologies, Inc. to offer a new solution called HealthInteractive that delivers artificial intelligence (AI)-powered health assistants. HealthInteractive combines WebMD Ignite’s industry-leading patient education with HIA’s Aivio™, which is designed to educate patients using two-way, interactive technology. The Aivio experience not only delivers information in a highly-visual multimedia format, but also...

KKR | July 25, 2017

Private equity giant KKR has acquired WebMD, which helped popularize the health information web search, in a $2.8 billion deal. As part of the deal, KKR will make WebMD websites aimed at consumers and clinicians, including Medscape, part of its Internet Brands unit, according to Reuters. Internet Brands has been active in the healthcare space since 2012 when it acquired Officite, which produces websites and online marketing for healthcare practices. The company, started in 1996, had monthly uniq...

EHRIntelligence | January 16, 2020

Eighty-four percent of EHR users are dissatisfied with the technical service and basic software account support from current EHR and HIT vendors, according to a 2020 Black Book Research survey. Since the HITECH Act was signed into law in 2009, EHRs have not only been more prevalent, but they have continued to change and evolve. However, technical service from EHR vendors hasn’t kept up with the constant change, according to high-level hospital tech managers. Healthcare software support is ...