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What Can Private Equity Do for Home Healthcare?

In recent years, private equity firms have risen to the forefront of the conversation around healthcare innovation and, in the process, firmly established themselves as drivers for change.    Their growing interest in guiding healthcare into the future speaks clearly through their increasing investments. In 2018, the number of global private equity-backed healthcare deals saw [...]

By |2020-02-24T17:56:17+00:00February 24th, 2020|Blog|

What the Cerner/AWS Deal Means for Healthcare Tech

Will America’s tech giants be instrumental in carrying the healthcare sector into a technology-powered future? If we take recent industry developments as indicators, the answer appears to be a resounding yes.   In early December of last year, the healthcare information services provider Cerner announced its intent to collaborate with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The [...]

By |2020-01-22T19:55:37+00:00January 22nd, 2020|Blog|

Private Equity Funding Has Reached An All-Time High. What Now?

Private equity fundraising has soared to never-before-seen heights in recent years. According to statistics gathered by the financial research firm Pitchbook Data, PE firms in the United States managed to shatter fundraising records in 2019; as of November, buyout funds had raised over $246 billion for the year. This achievement continues a recent pattern of [...]

By |2019-12-19T18:12:06+00:00December 19th, 2019|Blog|

We Need to Prioritize Cybersecurity in 2020

Technology has sparked incredible advances in healthcare -- but it hasn’t done so without risk. Cybersecurity has long been a hot-button issue for the healthcare sector. For many provider organizations, a major security breach constitutes a worst-case scenario, posing a significant threat to operations, patient trust, and confidential information alike.    Moreover, those in the [...]

By |2019-12-19T18:01:53+00:00December 19th, 2019|Blog|

What the Microsoft/Humana Deal Tells Us About the Healthcare Market

Will Microsoft design the blueprints for the future of digitally-facilitated healthcare? The answer seems likely -- but for once, the tech company won’t be able to accomplish its lofty goals alone.    At the close of October, Microsoft and the health insurance giant Humana forged a strategic partnership. Over the next seven years, the partners [...]

By |2019-12-11T18:21:02+00:00December 11th, 2019|Blog|

Here’s How Blockchain Can Revolutionize Telemedicine

Could blockchain offer the boost telemedicine needs to reach its potential? Over the past several decades, digitally-facilitated medicine has made significant inroads into mainstream medicine, expanding access to care, improving health outcomes, and lowering costs for patients and providers alike -- and yet, adoption is far lower than it should be. According to one study [...]

By |2019-12-02T13:20:05+00:00December 2nd, 2019|Blog|

Private Equity Is on the Brink of a Tech-Powered Transformation

When I started managing money in 1984 Chicago, people made a living out of yelling across the exchange floor. The room was perpetually in a state of frenzy; well-dressed professionals shouted instructions to colleagues poised over landlines and notepads, while runners darted in and out of the trading pits to ferry paper tickets between the [...]

By |2019-07-24T15:53:42+00:00July 24th, 2019|Blog|

Reading the Room: Tips for Identifying High-Potential Private Equity Investments

When it comes to private equity investing, financial success hinges on an investor’s ability to weigh the potential for gains against the odds of failure in every prospective buyout. A well-placed and carefully-timed private equity transaction can produce a considerable return; however, choosing a business to pour trust and resources into is rarely easy. In [...]

By |2021-04-06T20:21:01+00:00March 25th, 2019|Blog|

Long-Term Private Equity Acquisitions — A New Trend?

Private equity firms have long operated like a methodically revolving door: they take in struggling businesses, improve them, and then sell them at a profit a few years later. No company stays in the metaphorical building for very long; given that a private equity firm's intention is always to sell, the walkaround, as it were, [...]

By |2019-03-25T18:37:57+00:00March 18th, 2019|Blog|