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News 6/5/23
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Medical and dental billing company Medusind acquires behavioral healthcare software vendor Lightning Step’s Ava Billing & Consulting subsidiary.
Lightning Step acquired Ava Billing & Consulting in 2019. It also owns ZenCharts, which it acquired in March 2022.
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People
On Belay Health Solutions names Megan Sufka (Unite Us) chief people officer.
Announcements and Implementations
Hybrid healthcare provider Carbon Health adds an AI-enabled notes assistant to its EHR for hands-free charting.
Government and Politics
New Jersey-based Manasa Health Center will pay $30,000 to settle potential HIPAA violations stemming from a response it posted to a patient’s negative online review. Prompted by a patient complaint, an HHS OCR investigation found that the psychiatry practice may have disclosed patient diagnoses and treatment details in its response to four separate negative online reviews.
Other
Albany ENT & Allergy Services notifies patients of a data breach that occurred within its network in late March.
In Australia, the local paper profiles 81 year-old rural physician and aerial stunt pilot David Cooke, who still regularly flies to remote areas to treat patients. In addition to his practice, he performs with a group of pilots called the Bobcats. He served with the Royal Flying Doctor Service in the 60s and 70s and isn’t likely to slow down anytime soon: “People say, ‘Why, at 81, don’t you retire?’ and I say, ‘Because I love work’. I love sitting in my surgery and talking to people and being up in the air.”
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