Sharecare buys Franklin health IT firm

An Atlanta company with a big Cool Springs office has acquired a Franklin software company that markets reporting and analytics tools for various health care providers.

Terms of the acquisition of Visualize Health by Sharecare aren’t being disclosed. The deal brings to Sharecare's local operations — which house about 250 people — about a dozen employees who have been working on Mallory Station Road across Interstate 65 from Sharecare's home at the corner of Cool Springs Boulevard and Carothers Parkway. Visualize’s cloud-based technology, which covers clinical quality and claims data as well as financial information, will help Sharecare build out its medical records management business. Among other things, it will flag possible gaps in patients’ care plans and help providers adjust to a value-based care environment.