United Health Ingenix Acquires A-Life
October 12, 2010
Short honk: United Health acquired A-Life Medical, a privately-held company with natural language processing and medical coding methods. Terms of the deal were not announced. The few details available are summarized in “United Health to Buy A-Life Medical.” Figuring out how the moving pieces interact within the United Health Group are beyond the scope of this Web log. Not a peep has been heard in Harrod’s Creek about Google’s and Microsoft’s health play. Surprisingly, Dell Computer is in this sector as well. With billions flowing through the US healthcare system, I am not surprised by the robustness and dynamism in this complex, chaotic, and probably unmanageable business sector.
Stephen E Arnold, October 12, 2010
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