PE is growing tired of point solutions for health care providers

Private equity-led dealmaking in health care IT (HCIT) is growing, but so is health care providers' point solution fatigue. The big picture: Health systems and ambulatory providers are consolidating at a rapid clip, shrinking the universe of viable health tech infrastructure to invest in. Zoom in: Hospital CTOs are inundated with pitches for new health tech solutions — when in many cases, a roughly equivalent EHR solution is available. • Perhaps more importantly, those offerings integrate with the existing EHR vendor, which can often crowd out third-party point solutions. •...