Re: Walmart Health: Just had a great dental visit this morning, which was preceded by helpful reminders from Epic, and…
News 10/26/22
Top News
Motto launches to offer people with auto-immune conditions access to virtual rheumatology care, lifestyle coaching, and symptom tracking and condition management. The company was born out of healthcare startup development company Redesign Health, which, in other news, laid off 20% of its staff earlier this month as part of corporate restructuring.
Webinars
None scheduled soon. Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present your own.
Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
Robin Healthcare secures a $17 million loan from Horizon Technology Finance. Its Robin Assistant virtual scribe technology is geared towards orthopedic practices. The company has raised $15 million since launching four years ago.
JPMorgan Chase partners with Central Ohio Primary Care and Vera Whole Health to open five primary care clinics for Columbus employees enrolled in its health plan. In addition to its clinical partners, JPMorgan Chase is leveraging the expertise of Morgan Health, its new business unit focused on improving all aspects of employee care. (It will likely also pull from lessons learned during its short-lived Haven days.)
People
Aledade names Ritwik Tewari (Meta) CTO.
Other
A $10,563.49 ER bill for the treatment of her husband’s broken arm prompts Sunita Kalsariya, office manager of his medical practice, to do some digging into its specific charges. A year later, his bill had been sent to collections, she’d contacted the state attorney general, and found that the hospital charged $7,000 for a procedure that had never been performed. After much back and forth – including mailing a notarized request for medical records because the hospital wouldn’t accept it via fax or email – the couple wound up paying the after-insurance balance of $1,214.91.
Sponsor Updates
- EClinicalWorks publishes a new customer success story showcasing how its AI-based Scribe dictation technology has helped Open Door Family Medical Center combat pandemic challenges and reduce physician burnout.
Blog Posts
- High Time to Get to the Cloud (EClinicalWorks)
Contacts
More news: HIStalk.
Get HIStalk Practice updates.
Contact us online.
Become a sponsor.
