Healthcare software opens to a new generation - FT
By Philip Stafford
After a lost decade, the UK healthcare software market is opening up to a new generation of companies. Government spending and media attention for much of the past 10 years has centred on the flagship £12.7bn ($18.8bn) National Programme for IT, an all-encompassing plan to modernise and connect large parts of the IT system of the NHS in England and Wales.
....Advanced Computer Software, the acquisitive consolidation group, bought COA Solutions from Alchemy Partners for £100m. And last year United Health, the US health insurance group valued at $8bn (£5.4bn), bought Scriptswitch, the drug comparison software provider, for £50m.
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