News 9/26/22

Top News

Medical call management software vendor Clarus acquires Call Simplified, which specializes in after-hours call management. Call Simplified founder and CEO Scott Reynolds will join Clarus as head of product.

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Webinars

October 18 (Tuesday) 2 ET. “Patient Payment Trends 2022: Learn All The Secrets.” Sponsor: Mend. Presenter: Matt McBride, MBA, co-founder and CEO, Mend. Many industries offer frictionless payments, but healthcare still sends paper bills to patients who are demanding modern conveniences. This webinar will review consumer sentiment on healthcare payments, recent changes to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act that create opportunities for new patient financial engagement, and new tactics to collect more payments faster from patients.

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

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

PracticeTek, a retail healthcare practice management company, acquires practice marketing and patient relationship management firm GrowthPlug.

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People

SimplePractice names Ian Knox (Compass) chief product officer.

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Announcements and Implementations

Colorado-based health fair and screening nonprofit 9Health Fair rebrands to 365 Health and begins offering text-based primary care services using technology from CirrusMD.

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Research and Innovation

UC Santa Cruz Magazine profiles Immergo Labs, a virtual reality-based telemedicine startup launched by three of its engineering alumni. Immergo’s platform enables patients to undergo physical therapy from the comfort of their homes while being remotely monitored in real time by a therapist, who can also record key metrics and progress. Development of the technology was born, in part, out of co-founder Aviv Elor’s rehabilitation from an injury sustained during a UC Santa Cruz judo team match.

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Other

Physician’s Business Office notifies patients of an April 2022 data breach that may have impacted some PHI.  The West Virginia-based company offers practice management, EHR, consulting, and revenue cycle services.

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Sponsor Updates

• TigerConnect releases a new episode of The Connected Care Team Podcast, “Coordinating Clinical Workflows at CommonSpirit.”
• EClinicalWorks and TigerConnect will exhibit at the at MGMA Medical Practice Excellence: Leaders Conference October 9-12 in Boston.

Blog Posts

• For physicians, less is often more (Nordic)
• Don’t Boil the Content Ocean: Tips for a Focused Content Strategy (Healthwise)
• Keeping an Eye on Patients in Transition (EClinicalWorks)
• Curing the post-implementation blues (Nordic)

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Contacts

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