{"id":66606,"date":"2018-11-12T00:09:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T05:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=66606"},"modified":"2018-11-14T03:21:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T08:21:26","slug":"veritas-capital-elliott-clinch-5-5bn-acquisition-of-athenahealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2018\/veritas-capital-elliott-clinch-5-5bn-acquisition-of-athenahealth.html","title":{"rendered":"Veritas Capital, Elliott Clinch $5.5bn Acquisition of Athenahealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) Private equity firm Veritas Capital and hedge fund Elliott Management have agreed to acquire U.S. healthcare software maker Athenahealth Inc for $5.5 billion in cash, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. Athenahealth, whose cloud-based service is used to track revenue from patients, physicians and hospitals, had been under pressure to sell itself from Elliott, which has about a 9 percent stake in the company. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/athenahealth-ma-veritas\/veritas-capital-elliott-clinch-55-bln-acquisition-of-athenahealth-sources-idUSL2N1XM0B3\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Private equity firm Veritas Capital and hedge fund Elliott Management have agreed to acquire U.S. healthcare software maker Athenahealth Inc for $5.5 billion in cash, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. Athenahealth, whose cloud-based service is used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66607,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606\/revisions\/66607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}