GeekWire September 13, 2021
Charlotte Schubert

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...

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