Dive Brief:

• HealthRight, an e-health services provider, will acquire HealthNEXT, a firm that helps employers develop corporate cultures of health.
• According to a HealthRight press release, the new entity seeks to create a dominant position in the market, with the goal of "becoming the breakthrough leader" in evidence-based 360 population health/e-health solutions for consumers, employers and payers.
• HealthNEXT has spent the last seven years developing a toolset that can assist any large or mid-sized employer achieve a sustainable culture of health, according to the release.

Dive Insight:

John Palumbo, CEO of HealthRight, said the acquisition will add the experience, knowledge and talents of the HealthNEXT team to his firm's expertise in telemedicine, consumer engagement and patient care management. "HealthNEXT's programs are extremely valuable and help unite and align employers, employees and provider networks in a common quest – putting health to work while lowering overall healthcare costs," he said.

Dr. Ray Fabius, co-founder and vice-chairman of Philadelphia-based HealthNEXT, said the unification of HealthNEXT and HealthRight will offer a unique combination of products and services to meet the goals of population health management. HealthNEXT has developed a Six Sigma approach to population health that breaks each constituent component of the employee healthcare experience into a series of data points that can be tracked over time.