The Citadel Group is pleased to announce the completion of its acquisition of Genie Solutions. Genie Solutions is a Brisbane based health software company providing practice management software to 65% of medical specialists across Australia.
The combined offering of Citadel and Genie’s market leading health software creates a platform to drive innovation and improve patient outcomes both in Australia and the world over.
Together, Citadel and Genie share a vision to deliver a more connected healthcare journey, providing a powerful platform for clinicians, hospitals and practices to directly improve the clinical experience of patients. It will provide clinical teams with faster access to the most important data, supporting their decisions and allowing them to dedicate more time to optimising patient care.
This combined offering is the first time such world-class clinical diagnostics, treatment and practice management software has all been brought together. It demonstrates the calibre of Australian health innovation and Citadel’s expertise in transforming healthcare systems, and the patient experience.
Genie Solutions CEO James Scollay said he and the whole Genie team were excited to embark on the next phase of growth as part of The Citadel Group.
“Citadel will be a great home for Genie, with its market-leading presence in clinical and diagnostic software servicing public and private sector clients throughout Australia, New Zealand and the UK. We are excited by the opportunities that the combined business can create. Like Genie, Citadel prioritises the improvement of health outcomes and securely manages critical data and systems so that medical professionals can focus on their patients,” Mr Scollay said.
The Citadel Group CEO Mark McConnell said:
“We are thrilled to welcome the Genie team and their customers to The Citadel Group. We identified a strong alignment in our values and our patient-centred approaches to innovative health data management. This strategic acquisition means we are now a genuinely integrated health tech business with market leading best of breed software across primary and secondary care. We see significant opportunities to combine our offerings to provide medical practitioners with the tools to create efficiencies and improved diagnostics via an integrated approach.
With a clear strategy for increasing the scale of investment and pace of innovation, we are proud to be an Australian health tech company taking our market leading products global.”
About Genie Solutions
Genie Solutions has been providing practice management solutions to Australian Specialists for over 20 years. Dr Paul Carr, a General Practitioner, founded the company in 1995 on two important principles – deliver a quality product and provide customers with a first-class support team. Genie offers the Specialist industry two products, Genie and Gentu. Genie has grown to be Australia’s most popular desktop product, whilst Gentu offers customers the mobility and freedom of cloud software.
About The Citadel Group
Founded in 2007, Citadel is a global software and services firm specialising in markets such as Health, Defence and large enterprise deployments. Citadel has leading market positions in Australia for public pathology and oncology data management, and in the UK for radiology and maternity data management. Citadel is charged with keeping people and information safe and is constantly seeking to harness world-class technology solutions to improve patient outcomes.