PatientPoint Acquires Rendia to Accelerate Expansion into Ophthalmology Specialty

PatientPoint announced the acquisition of Rendia, a provider of point-of-care content for eye care providers sold on a subscription basis.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. 

With PatientPoint’s expansion into ophthalmology and optometry, PatientPoint’s point-of-care network now engages health care providers and patients across 20 medical specialties. Rendia’s engagement software helps 8,000+ is used by eye care providers and aims to improve patient outcomes, enhance the patient experience, and generate incremental revenue growth through improving patient acceptance of recommended medical and surgical procedures, according to a company news release.

Through the deal, PatientPoint will acquire Rendia’s highly flexible technology platform, provider portal and content library. Rendia’s tech platform and provider portal offer providers the ability to create and easily upload custom content. PatientPoint intends to leverage Rendia’s platform and portal to accelerate expansion into other specialties and markets where custom content creation is important. The PatientPoint-Rendia transaction also enables Rendia customers to gain access to additional engagement solutions through PatientPoint to help them deliver continual, connected care across the patient’s entire care journey, according to PatientPoint.

“This exciting transaction brings together two point-of-care leaders in pursuit of one mission—making every doctor-patient engagement better,” PatientPoint Founder and CEO Mike Collette said in a company news release. “By leveraging Rendia’s proprietary technology and content team, we will be able to accelerate our entry into other new specialties and markets. The fact that 8,000+ eye care professionals pay for Rendia’s content is a true testament to the quality of the content their team produces.”

As part of the transaction, Rendia’s name will be retained, and the company will be referred to as Rendia, a PatientPoint company.