GE Healthcare acquires RTLS firm

GE Healthcare ramped up its pursuit of the growing healthcare market for asset tracking and patient flow systems by acquiring healthcare real-time location system (RTLS) provider Agility Healthcare Solutions, says RFID Update.

The deal brings together GE Healthcare, which has 46 000 employees worldwide and $17 billion in revenue, with Agility, whose asset management and patient workflow software has been used with a variety of RTLS tag and reader systems.

Agility will be folded into GE Healthcare's global Diagnostic and Imaging Services business, according to GE's announcement. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Misys shareholders have voted to approve the banking and healthcare software company's merger with US group Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, states Financial Times.

The deal, aimed at creating one of the largest companies in the fragmented US electronic healthcare record market, has had an uncomfortable ride since it was announced in March.

Shares in both companies failed to respond to the plans, with investors and analysts initially uncertain of the deal's merits when it was announced.

African Medical Investments will buy VIP Healthcare Solutions Mauritius for a maximum amount of £5 million, to be satisfied by the staged total allotment of 40 million new shares in the company at a price of 12.5 pence per share, reports Forbes.

The AIM-listed African healthcare investor said, as part of the transaction, Vivek Solanki will become the chief executive of the company.

VIP Healthcare currently manages two trauma and health clinics.