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Roundup: Sun Pharma reports IT breach and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Sun Pharma probes cyber breach Indian pharma giant Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has reported an "information security incident," according to PTI. It is said that the upgrade is part of CRH's initiatives to transition to a smart hospital.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: H.I.G. to Acquire ZimVie’s Spine Business for $375 Million

McGuire Wood

Within healthcare, the firm targets companies in the provider services, hospital/major facilities and life sciences/pharmaceutical industries. Founded in 1993, the firm has flexibility on investment size, including interest in pre-EBITDA businesses. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2024.

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U.S. Hospitals Will Lose $323 Billion in 2020 – Before Accounting for Growing COVID Cases

Health Populi

health systems are projected to lose $323 billion in 2020 due to declining inpatient and outpatient volumes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the “normal” hospital business. Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. What’s the worth of $323 billion? Wage and labor costs.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: General Atlantic Leads Growth Investment Into Gravie

McGuire Wood

Founded in 1980, the firm pursues healthcare investments in the provider services, life sciences/pharmaceutical industry, hospitals/major facilities and non-reimbursement industries.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

Hospital costs contribute to rising medical costs to 49% of health consumers. patients’ negative views of the pharmaceutical industry in this study was the opioid epidemic. NPR covered this and other research in a piece on how non-profit hospitals could be driving up health care spending. Exacerbating U.S.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Avista Acquires Taconic Biosciences From H.I.G. 

McGuire Wood

Within healthcare, the firm targets companies in the provider services, hospital/major facilities and life sciences/pharmaceutical industries. Founded in 1993, the firm has flexibility on investment size, including interest in pre-EBITDA businesses. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Jane Sarashon

Note that 8 in 10 consumers rate nurses excellent/good compared with 7 in 10 people ranking physicians this way, 6 in 10 for hospitals, 5 in 10 for telemedicine/virtual visits, and just under 5 in 10 for hospital emergency departments. 10 – or 4 in 10 ranking as “poor.” health system.

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