News 4/4/22

Top News

Nurse-1-1-, a nurse chat software startup that works with other digital health companies, raises $2.3 million in seed funding. Co-founder and CEO Michael Sheeley met co-founder and Chief Nurse Practitioner Kimberly Line, NP during his daughter’s treatment for a congenital heart defect.

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Webinars

April 6 (Wednesday) 1 ET. “19 Massive Best Practices We’ve Learned from 4 Million Telehealth Visits.” Sponsor: Mend. Presenter: Matt McBride, MBA, founder, president, and CEO, Mend. Virtual visits have graduated from a quickly implemented technical novelty to a key healthcare strategy. The challenge now is to define how telehealth can work seamlessly with in-person visits. This webinar will address patient satisfaction, reducing no-show rates to single digits, and using technology to make telehealth easy to use and accessible for all patients. The presenter will share best practices that have been gleaned from millions of telehealth visits and how they have been incorporated into a leading telemedicine and AI-powered patient engagement platform.

On demand: “Cybersecurity Threats Facing Healthcare Today.” Sponsor: Net Health. Presenters: Jason James, MS, CIO, Net Health; Monique Hart, MBA, CISO, Piedmont Healthcare; Jeffrey Rosenthal, , MBA CIO, Reliant Rehabilitation; David Jollow, MBA, CISO, Healogics. The panel of CIO and CISO leaders will discuss the cyberthreats that healthcare faces today. They will review security priorities for the increasingly complex healthcare IT environment that includes cloud-based applications, an increased number of endpoints that include connected devices and patient wearables, and patient portals.

Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present your own.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Virtual behavioral healthcare support company Brightline raises $105 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total raised to $209 million.

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Announcements and Implementations

Perdido Bay Medical Group (AL) selects clinical, billing, and telehealth software from Kareo, and website optimization and patient relationship management services from PatientPop.

Billing company Coronis Health adopts Kareo Cloud, which provides on-demand access to secure, cloud-hosted data storage.

Behavioral health nonprofit Aspire Health Partners (FL) selects ContinuumCloud’s EHR and human capital management technologies.

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Sponsor Updates

Blog Posts

• Reflections on HIMSS22: The Importance of Reconnecting (Healthwise)
• Guidelines will rule the world (Nordic)

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Contacts

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