The deal is the fourth major acquisition in the remote monitoring market in the last five weeks after Philips acquired BioTelemetry and Capsule and Hillrom bought Bardy Diagnostics.

Philips is already the leader in hospital patient monitoring and adding BioTelemetry will make it also the top provider of ambulatory cardiac diagnostics and monitoring systems.

Emerging Company Profile: Founded by former executives of China’s national innovation darling Betta Pharma, Beijing-based Jacobio is focused on novel oncology assets, led by a KRAS inhibitor that's set to begin Phase I and IIa studies in the US and China for solid tumors.

Autumn has brought a flurry of personnel changes with Kyowa FujiFilm getting a new president and AZ a new executive vice president for the international region. Fosun and the medtech firm, Median Technologies, have also seen personnel movement.