HealthPartners and Essentia Health have a signed deal. They don’t have a combined organization yet. Both boards approved the merger in late September. It will create a 22-hospital system across Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin. The close date isn’t until January 1, 2027, and Minnesota’s…

On AT&T’s Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO John Stankey said, “We’re converting market-by-market, and we’re pretty much getting to the back end of that now,” referring to the integration of systems from AT&T’s acquisition of the Mass Markets fiber portion of Lumen Technologies’ business. All…

In one of the largest oil and gas M&A actions this year, on May 7, 2026, Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN) closed its acquisition of Coterra Energy. Post-close, Devon’s market capitalization is roughly 55 billion dollars as of this writing. Statements from the organization’s leadership strongly…

On August 20, 2026, Charter Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: CHTR) announced the closing of two simultaneous M&A transactions. One of these transactions will likely not involve an immediate major data migration. The other certainly will. The first transaction saw Charter absorb and dissolve Liberty Broadband, a…

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, gang aft agley.” Robert Burns wrote that in 1785, and it holds up remarkably well as a description of post-acquisition data migration. Last year, healthcare provider Northwell Health acquired Nuvance Health, its 21st acquisition since Northwell was…

Epic is not just winning the electronic health record (EHR) market anymore. It is becoming the default. When two health systems merge today, the odds are good that both sides were already on Epic, or one of them was about to be. It would be…