Health Catalyst buys Silicon Valley's ARMUS

Health Catalyst Inc. a South Jordan-based provider of data and analytics technology and services to the healthcare industry, has acquired ARMUS Corp., a Silicon Valley, California-based clinical registry development and data management technology company.

ARMUS provides data abstraction, validation, management, submission and reporting services to support participation in clinical quality registries for healthcare institutions around the world, including health systems, payers, medical device companies and medical societies.{mprestriction ids="1,3"}

“The joining of ARMUS’s clinical registry development and data management technology with Health Catalyst’s clinical quality product offerings and outsourced services data abstraction offering creates a compelling value proposition that will drive tangible financial savings in addressing the unique data registry, reporting and data abstraction needs of healthcare organizations around the world,” Health Catalyst said in a news release announcing the acquisition.

“This offering is strategically significant as healthcare organizations around the world look to streamline operations and achieve higher quality and lower costs in the critical functional area of data abstraction and registry reporting,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. “We’re excited to partner with and learn from ARMUS’s talented team members as we scale our combined offering in pursuit of massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement for our customers.”

“All of us at ARMUS are very excited and honored to be a part of Health Catalyst,” said Gyula Sziraczky, president and CEO of ARMUS. “We are confident that together with Health Catalyst’s industry-leading technologies and services we will continue to grow and flourish to the benefit of patients, caregivers and healthcare organizations around the world.”

Founded in 2008, Health Catalyst employs about 1,200 in its Utah operation.{/mprestriction}