Private equity firm Diversis Capital has merged three healthcare technology companies — Genesis Automation Healthcare, Kermit, and Meperia — into a single supply chain and inventory management business operating under the Genesis brand.

The new entity combines traceability, spend analytics and procurement data tools into what the Los Angeles-based firm is positioning as the first end-to-end platform for hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. The platform will serve more than 100 organizations worldwide and aims to reduce procurement waste and inefficiencies across clinical supply chains.

The Genesis platform integrates inventory and financial workflows spanning commodities and physician preference items (PPIs), offering real-time tracking of implants and consumables, charge capture, recall alerts, and contract compliance. The company said the system will connect directly with electronic health records and enterprise resource planning systems to support automated, data-driven decision-making.
"In our months of diligence, we uncovered a crisis in the industry," said Ron Nayot, managing partner at Diversis Capital. "Behind closed doors, hospital executives say their fragmented technology is failing them catastrophically, leading to massive waste, compliance gaps, and strain amongst clinicians and administrators being pulled away from patients to reconcile billing and inventory."

Genesis Automation brings to the merger its clinical traceability system used by organizations including Jackson Health and NHS Scotland. Kermit, which focuses on spend management for implants and PPIs, supports hospitals such as Inova and MedStar. Meperia’s procurement and product data platform is used by Summit Health and Universal Health Services.

Northside Hospital, Frederick Health, and Manchester University NHS Trust are among the health systems reporting savings and operational improvements using the companies’ respective legacy platforms.

Diversis Capital, which manages $3 billion in assets, has said it sees the combined offering as a response to long-standing fragmentation in hospital supply chains, particularly where poor data quality and lack of integration with clinical systems have hampered efficiency and cost control.

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