Healthcare operations software provider Agilio has announced the acquisition of specialist pharmacy e-learning business Mediapharm, supplying a training platform for pharmacy staff that enables managers to enrol staff and track performance.
The acquisition marks Agilio’s expansion into the pharmacy sector, and aims to support Mediapharm in scaling its offer as well as “adding new, complementary services” for customers.
Agilio’s CEO Neil Laycock highlighted that Agilio “now has a UK footprint across primary care, pharmacy, dental and veterinary, and a growing presence in primary care in the Netherlands”. He called the acquisition “strategically very significant” and added: “As pharmacy takes on more clinical services, the links between pharmacies and GPs will grow and Agilio will be ideally positioned to support the frontline primary care team with time-saving solutions.”
Acquisitions in focus
In other recent news, HTN reported that electronic document management system provider CCube Solutions acquired Thomson Screening Solutions, a supplier of child health clinical applications used by over 40 NHS, healthcare and education providers.
In May, we noted the acquisition of digital cardiology diagnostics provider ECG On-Demand by The DHC Group, a portfolio of UK healthcare companies with the shared aim of supplying specialist outpatient pathways and diagnostic imaging services.
Back in January, we covered the news that pharma services business Sciensus acquired Vinehealth, a cancer-focused health tech business offering a patient app and physician support platform.
Pharmacy: the wider trend
June saw us highlight the launch of a video game by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, designed to help boost recruitment for pharmacy roles by enabling interaction between a virtual patients who must be given the right medication and a virtual doctor.
The 2024-2027 clinical strategy from Medway NHS Foundation Trust maps out future clinical services and shares how the trust plans to “advance and innovate to provide the best possible healthcare services”, including using electronic systems to optimise medicines use in pharmacy and enable shared use of medicines data in pharmacy services.
We also previously noted the awarding of funding to eight community pharmacy system suppliers, to develop an electronic prescription service in Wales.
