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Care coordination, management, and remote monitoring vendor Noteworth raises $5 million in seed funding.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
First announced in March, AristaMD closes its $24 million Series B funding round, adding $6 million from Ascension Ventures and .406 Ventures. The San Diego-based company offers e-consult and referral software for primary care physicians.
People
VSP Global names Chris Enslin (Visionworks) president of its practice management and EHR subsidiary Eyefinity.
Announcements and Implementations
Ohio Gastroenterology Group implements AlertMD’s QSimple digital queueing and Margie automated patient messaging software to assist patients in resuming in-office visits.
App-based house call company Heal launches a yearly membership program, giving patients up to eight house calls or virtual visits plus an annual physical.
Athenahealth rebrands its Centricity products, acquired from GE Healthcare through a series of acquisitions and mergers, to AthenaIDX in homage to original developer IDX Systems.
MHMR Services for the Concho Valley (TX) will implement the SmartCare EHR from Streamline Healthcare Solutions.
HealtheConnect Alaska selects electronic consent software from Leap Orbit to better coordinate care between medical and behavioral health providers.
The Idaho Health Data Exchange rolls out real-time analytics capabilities using KPI Ninja’s Ninja Universe technology.
Desert Oasis Healthcare (CA) implements Rimidi’s patient-reported outcomes tool to assist with COVID-19 screening and symptom management.
Other
GeekWire profiles Reperio Health, an Oregon–based startup that aims to disrupt the at-home testing market with a subscription-based, app-enabled service that offers consumers testing once, twice, or four times a year using their proprietary kit. The company hopes to eventually add telemedicine capabilities.
In Cincinnati, medical assistant Heather Kouns forges a life-long bond with Dry Ridge Family Medicine co-worker Dirk Hines, MD when she donates a kidney to him. Hines’ wife, Amy, says the surgery earlier this week went well: “Heather is a reminder of people that still care.”
Sponsor Updates
- Modern Healthcare includes Nordic in its list of “Best Places to Work 2020.”
Blog Posts
- Telehealth Challenges & How to Overcome Them in Your Practice (Part 1) (AdvancedMD)
- It’s Time for a Better Check-In Solution (EClinicalWorks)
- Overview of Nordic’s Patient Access Solution (Nordic)
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