News 3/27/23

Top News

CVS Health is set to wrap up its acquisition of Signify Health later this week. Rumors of the deal first began to circulate last August, quickly followed by reports that Amazon was also interested in Signify, which provides analytics-enabled home healthcare services. Several weeks later, CVS formally announced its intent to acquire the company in a deal valued at $8 billion.

CVS Health expects to close its $10.6 billion acquisition of primary care provider Oak Street Health later this year.

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People

 

TigerConnect names Saurin Shah (Medallia) chief product officer and Scott Parsons (Pluralsight) chief sales officer. 

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Announcements and Implementations

In Kansas, the Saline County Health Department will transition from paper-based documentation to Patagonia Health’s EHR.

New Mexico-based Satori Healing selects EHR software and RCM services from EClinicalWorks.

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Other

Walgreens pharmacies and VillageMD primary care practices launch a pilot program in Florida and Texas that will help coordinate medications for mutual patients after they’ve been discharged from the hospital. The medication reconciliation process will be initiated once VillageMD providers receive notification that their patients have been discharged, presumably through the provider’s proprietary DocOS platform.

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Sponsor Updates

• Potomac Urology achieves growth with EClinicalWorks EHR and Healow patient engagement solutions.
• Nordic releases a new episode of In Network’s Designing for Health podcast.

Blog Posts

• Medical Answering Services: Urgent Versus Non-Urgent Calls (PerfectServe)
• The impending crisis in healthcare: Lessons from SVB’s collapse (Nordic)

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