Press Ganey Buys PatientFlow

Wade Roush1/8/09

Boston-based PatientFlow Technology, which makes software that helps hospitals deal with backups in emergency rooms, ICUs, and other care settings, has been acquired by health care improvement consulting company Press Ganey of South Bend, IN, according to an announcement today. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal, but said that the acquisition would not lead to any layoffs at PatientFlow.

Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/wroush.