Every year as a part of our Healthcare Informatics 100 issue, we highlight the year’s biggest deals, plus a host of smaller-but still significant-acquisitions in an annual mergers and acquisitions report, penned by Ben Rooks, founder of ST Advisors, LLC, an HCIT-focused advisory firm that serves both companies and their investors. In this podcast Rooks, who is also an Healthcare Informatics editorial boardmember, talks about how important the private equity sector was to the healthcare IT space, what some of the most interesting acquisitions were last year, and why there weren’t more high profile transactions in 2011.