Nashville, TN – [Jan 21, 2026] — Emids, a leading provider of digital engineering, AI, and platform solutions to the healthcare and life sciences industry, has been recognized by Everest Group as a Major Contender in its 2025 PEAK Matrix® for Healthcare Specialists IT Services. 

The Healthcare Specialists IT Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 evaluated 12 healthcare-focused IT service providers. The report analyzes key market trends, demand drivers, and challenges shaping healthcare IT services, along with each provider’s capabilities, market success, and positioning within the healthcare specialist services segment. 

This recognition reflects Emids’ continued focus on delivering healthcare-native IT services across payer, provider, life sciences, and health technology organizations. Emids supports clients through complex transformation initiatives spanning digital engineering, data modernization, interoperability, AI-led solutions, and platform modernization, while maintaining deep alignment with healthcare workflows, data standards, and regulatory requirements. 

Commenting on the recognition, Seth Kutty, Chief AI Officer at Emids, said: 
“Healthcare organizations are being asked to modernize at speed while operating within highly regulated, fragmented, and cost-constrained environments. Being recognized as a Major Contender reinforces our belief that technology in healthcare must be designed with deep operational context, not abstract architectures. At Emids, we embed AI directly into real workflows and decision points, with clear accountability for outcomes, so our clients can turn technology investments into measurable clinical, operational, and financial impact.” 

The full Healthcare Specialists IT Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 report is available on Everest Group’s website: https://www.everestgrp.com/report/egr-2025-45-r-7738/ 

About Emids 

Founded in 1999 and based in Nashville, Emids is a leading provider of digital engineering, AI, and platform solutions to the healthcare and life sciences industry. With deep domain expertise, Emids designs human-centered digital solutions and experiences embedded in AI, builds scalable platforms, and connects disparate systems to enable interoperability, in its singular mission of advancing the future of health. 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 28, 2021) – Emids, a leader in digital engineering and transformation solutions to the healthcare and life sciences industry, today announced another step in its purposeful growth strategy, this time adding global design-led software engineering capabilities through the acquisition of Macadamian, one of the largest and most respected healthcare specialist firms of its kind in the world. Terms of the deal, which closed earlier this month, were not disclosed. 

Emids has a strong track record of delivering complex solutions to its clients using its deep engineering and applications capabilities. The addition of Macadamian’s design-first capabilities is a perfect complement and will help both Emids and Macadamian customers work with a single partner that brings in great depth and breadth in domain, design and engineering. 

“Our customers have accelerated both their timelines and their investments in digital and virtual health solutions focusing on patients in the wake of COVID-19, and our acquisition of Macadamian very eloquently delivers the added sophistication that our payer, provider and life sciences partners need and demand when bringing to market digital solutions to transform the healthcare experience,” said Emids Founder and CEO Saurabh Sinha.

The Macadamian acquisition expands Emids’ global employee footprint to more than 2,300, with 109 expert designers, developers and engineers in Canada and Eastern Europe. Macadamian’s clients run the gamut from early-stage to Fortune 500 companies with a heavy concentration in biopharmaceuticals and medical devices. Macadamian further expands Emids’ IP, centers of excellence and platform capabilities, including its HealthConnect application development platform as a service, which has proven a powerful underlying architecture to accelerate the development of data-informed medical devices and digital therapeutic software applications for clients.

Dinesh Kandanchatha, Macadamian COO, said the key to delivering digital solutions that people need to live healthier lives or that providers need to deliver better care is to focus on people first and the technology second. 

“The technology dictates how digital solutions get delivered, but it takes a design thinking approach to first figure out what people need so that we can match those needs with what’s technologically viable and valuable to customers and to the market,” Kandanchatha said. “We look forward to joining forces with Emids to further scale the successful integration of data science, human-centered design and development to bring big ideas to life.”

Kumar Kolin, Emids Chief Technology Officer, said the addition of the Macadamian team and its superior capabilities catapults Emids’ standing in the space at a critical inflection point in healthcare’s digital transformation.

“Experience tells us that the greatest value we can bring to our customers and to consumers of healthcare – which is all of us – is to solve problems, remove the friction and improve the care experience for everyone involved,” Kolin said. “We believe in the power and the promise of design thinking and design-led engineering, and while design thinking is in no way a new philosophy, it’s certainly a philosophy and an approach whose time has finally come full circle for healthcare.”

About Macadamian

We design and develop digital and connected experiences to improve healthcare. Founded in 1997, Macadamian is a full-service software design and development consulting firm that provides a complete range of product strategy, user experience design and research, and software engineering services.

About Emids

Emids is a leading provider of digital transformation solutions to the healthcare industry, serving payers, providers, life sciences and technology firms. Headquartered in Nashville, Emids helps bridge critical gaps in providing accessible, affordable, and high-quality healthcare by providing digital transformation services, custom application development, data engineering, business intelligence solutions, and specialized consulting services to all parts of the healthcare ecosystem. With over 2,300 professionals globally, Emids leverages strong domain expertise in healthcare-specific platforms, regulations, and standards to provide tailored, cutting-edge solutions and services to its clients. For more information, visit www.emids.com.