athenahealth to acquire population management tools developer

Athenahealth will acquire Healthcare Data Services, which develops data analysis and population management tools to providers and payers, in a transaction expected to close in October.

Jonathan Bush, MBA, CEO, president and the board chairman of the Watertown, Mass.-based EHR vendor,  said the services offered by Boston-based Health Data Services will complement its cloud-based practice management and EHR products, according to a Sept. 13 statement.
Adding population-based cost and quality data analysis services to athenahealth’s suite of existing products could help the company provide health IT tools as payment reforms take hold, he said.

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.