Device companies are buying software companies at a pace that would have been hard to imagine five years ago. Clinical communication platforms, AI-assisted surgical planning tools, sensor-based workflow systems. The acquisition thesis is sound: the future of medical devices is connected, data-rich, and software-defined. The integration execution, however, is where most of these deals fall apart. Only 14% of healthcare M&A transactions reach what anyone would call successful integration.
Here’s how we approach integrating software-first acquisitions into hardware centric MedTech organizations: what Day 1 actually requires, how to shorten the path from close to value capture, and where AI changes the integration math.
Read more in our latest Point Of View here: Integrating Healthcare IT Platforms into Hardware-Centric