GeekWire September 13, 2021
Bellevue, Wash.-based health software company Edifecs has acquired Talix, a San-Francisco based startup that mines language in health data to optimize billing, analysis and management of patient data with a focus on value-based care. Edifecs announced the deal Monday. Terms were not disclosed.
Value-based care is an increasingly popular healthcare model that de-emphasizes fee-for-service payments in favor of an approach more centered on preventive and primary care. That’s also a growing area of focus for Edifecs, which sells enterprise software to more than 350 healthcare companies including BlueCross BlueShield, Cigna, Humana, GroupHealth, and others.
Talix uses natural language processing, a computational approach to examine language in data, to mine health care data. The startup provides health plans with a platform...