Massachusetts’ Athenahealth Agrees To Buy Epocrates for $293 Million

Circle Connections: Mergers & Acquisitions Athenahealth, a Watertown, Massachusetts-based health information technology company, announced its second acquisition agreement since September with a $293 million cash deal for Epocrates, a mobile application developer. The deal would amount to $11.75 per share for San Mateo, California-based Epocrates, which was named No. 1 last year in Modern Healthcare's first Most Important Mobile Healthcare Apps competition. The company was named to the top spot by the magazine's readers with help from the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. The acquisition . . .