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GE HealthCare to acquire Intelerad for $2.3B. This is the second deal to cross the billion-dollar mark in medtech in a week. 'Tis the season for deals to make it across the billion-dollar mark. Earlier, Abbott Laboratories proposed the acquisition of Exact Sciences for $21 billion. Now, GE HealthCare has entered into an agreement to acquire Intelerad, a medical imaging software provider, for $2.3 billion. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2026. This acquisition demonstrates GE HealthCare's continued commitment to cloud-enabled and AI-powered solutions across care settings and furthers the company's aim to triple its offerings of cloud-enabled products by 2028. Intelerad is a leading medical imaging software and digital enterprise workflow solutions company with a significant presence in outpatient ambulatory care settings. Its cloud-first products are designed for radiology and cardiology and extend across both inpatient and outpatient care settings. Intelerad's leading outpatient footprint complements GE HealthCare's leadership in hospital-based imaging. Together, these combined capabilities will create a more comprehensive, cloud-first, and AI-enabled imaging offering spanning diverse care settings - from large academic medical centers to rapidly expanding ambulatory networks. "As hospital and ambulatory care providers face increased demand for imaging and rising patient volumes, they are looking to simplify and unify their workflows," said Peter Arduini, President and CEO of GE HealthCare. "Our acquisition of Intelerad will bring additional cloud-enabled and intelligent solutions in radiology and cardiology into our portfolio of products and extend our capabilities into outpatient networks, enabling care teams to be more efficient, improve outcomes, and deliver precision care for patients globally. As a result, we expect to accelerate our growth in SaaS products and recurring revenues as we take another evolutionary step to grow into a healthcare solutions provider." BTIG Analyst Ryan Zimmerman wrote that the acquisition was favorable for GE HealthCare. "We think the transaction makes strategic sense for GE HealthCare as it bolsters [the company's] recurring revenue offerings," Zimmerman wrote. "Intelerad products can be bundled into larger enterprise-wide transactions for both equipment and software. As GEHC pushes to increase use of internally developed AI algorithms within Imaging, we think it will pair well with Intelerad's suite of products over time, likely accelerating adoption." Omar Ford is a seasoned journalist specializing in medical technology, healthcare innovation, and the medical device and diagnostics industry. As the editor-in-chief of Medical Device + Diagnostics Industry (MD+DI), he has earned a reputation as a leading authority in the field, offering in-depth insights into the latest trends, regulatory changes, and technological advancements shaping the future of healthcare. Omar has been a featured speaker at MD&M and MEDevice events. Omar has written for several publications prior to MD+DI. He is a former contributor at Bioworld Medtech, an online publication owned by Clarivate. He was a general assignment reporter for the Beaufort Gazette and an education and county reporter for the Griffin Daily News. He is the 2001 winner of the Judson Chapman Award from the South Carolina Press Association and the 2003 McClatchy President's Award recipient. Omar has a bachelor's degree in print journalism from the University of South Carolina. Throughout his tenure at MD+DI, Omar has covered a wide array of topics, including medical technology innovations, regulatory affairs, market dynamics, and the growing impact of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Omar is the host of the Let's Talk Medtech podcast.

Can the emerging InteleHeart platform facilitate improved efficiency with cardiology and radiology? Through enhanced data interoperability and access to patient histories, the cloud-based InteleHeart may facilitate better communication and workflow efficiencies for radiologists and cardiologists. In order to reduce dependence on siloed systems, juggling of multiple platforms and repetitive manual entry, Intelerad has launched the cardiovascular platform InteleHeart, which enables access to current and previous imaging, relevant clinical history and reporting all in one place. By providing a thorough overview of a patient's cardiovascular health history, Intelerad noted the InteleHeart platform enhances efficiency with reduced reporting time and improved decision-making for personalized treatment. In a recent interview with Diagnostic Imaging, Morris Panner said InteleHeart combines cloud-based capabilities with enterprise imaging scalability and bolstered data interoperability that extends beyond the walls of a given health-care institution. "It's a cloud-based platform for very reliable and dependable workflows. You're now able to integrate data more easily. If you put data in there once, it's (available) across all settings of care and you're able to use it remotely," explained Panner, the president of Intelerad Medical Systems. For radiologists, Panner pointed out that InteleHeart is integrated with the Intelerad's radiology image sharing platform InteleShare as well as the company's InteleOrchestrator system, which leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate efficient triage and resource allocation. While data interoperability has been a longstanding challenge in radiology and the broader health care environment, Panner maintained that InteleHeart has the potential to foster easier data integration and improved access to cardiovascular history with a resulting enhanced focus on personalized patient care. "In radiology, we're super focused on the image. In cardiology, I would say you're super focused on data, and the image is part of that," noted Panner. "But what you're really trying to figure out is: 'How is (the patient) looking over time, and what interventions do I want to take, and what has been the result of those interventions?'" For more insights from Morris Panner, watch the video below.

Piedmont Healthcare, one of the nation's leading not-for-profit health systems, has been a long-standing partner with Intelerad through its use of the company's established cardiology offering.