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MJH Life Sciences acquires BPD Healthcare

The alliance with MJH Life Sciences will improve BPD’s ability to deliver integrated, data-driven offerings to academic medical centers, physicians, pharmacists and managed care professionals.
By Anthony Vecchione , Anthony Vecchione
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Medical media company MJH Life Sciences announced the acquisition of BPD Healthcare, a tech-enabled marketing, communications and consulting company.

The acquisition will merge BPD Healthcare’s data-driven strategy and communications with MJH Life Sciences’ healthcare content.

MJH's portfolio includes healthcare-focused digital and print offerings, as well as live and virtual events. 

BPD will continue to operate independently under the BPD Healthcare brand as a wholly owned subsidiary of MJH Life Sciences. 

Jason Brown will remain CEO of BPD, reporting directly to Michael Hennessy, Jr., chairman and CEO of MJH Life Sciences.

"This is about building a powerful bridge between the science that transforms lives and the systems that deliver that transformation," Hennessy said in a statement. 

"BPD shares our unwavering belief that when innovation meets communication, healthcare moves forward. Together, we are not just connecting information, we are accelerating how health systems, hospitals and organizations reach patients and redefine what state-of-the-art care looks and feels like."

Brown noted that healthcare is changing faster than ever and the organizations that thrive will be the ones that connect meaning with action.

"Joining MJH Life Sciences allows BPD to bring that connection to life on a much larger scale. Together, we can help our clients not just grow their brands but strengthen and innovate the industry to better care for patients and communities," Brown said in a statement.

THE LARGER TREND

Recent digital health mergers and acquisitions include Datavant's purchase earlier this month of medical data analysis company DigitalOwl.  

Datavant said that with DigitalOwl's offerings, along with the tools obtained from Datavant's acquisition of records retrieval company On​t​ellus, the company will be able to deliver a platform for legal and insurance professionals "that spans managed retrieval, automated summaries, chronology and de-duplication and AI-enabled predictive analytics." 

Virtual behavioral healthcare provider Talkspace announced in early October that it acquired Wisdo Health, a social health and peer-support platform focused on combating loneliness.

Talkspace said the acquisition of Wisdo puts it in a strong position to handle loneliness and isolation by providing 24/7 access to trained peers, moderated communities and group coaching. 

In September, RevSpring, a communications and payments platform, entered into an agreement to acquire Kyruus Health, a care access platform

RevSpring integrated Kyruus' search, provider data, cost, price transparency and scheduling tools with its patient engagement and payments platform. 

That same month, Innovaccer acquired virtual cardiovascular care company Story Health

Innovaccer said it will utilize Story Health's platform to offer agentic care, where AI agents will help specialty care teams with non-clinical tasks and assist with patient engagement between visits.