Re: Walmart Health: Just had a great dental visit this morning, which was preceded by helpful reminders from Epic, and…
News 12/18/23
Top News
Remote patient monitoring and virtual care company CoachCare acquires RPM vendor Verustat. CoachCare has been on a bit of a buying spree over the last year, having acquired RPM companies WebCare Health, NVolve, and Alertive.
Webinars
None scheduled soon. Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.
Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
Nine months after acquiring telehealth-based weight management company Sequence, WeightWatchers launches WeightWatchers Clinic to offer members access to prescription weight loss drugs.
Announcements and Implementations
Behavioral healthcare coordination and support company Holon Health selects CareCloud’s TalkEHR.
Charlie Health, which offers teens and young adults virtual, intensive outpatient mental healthcare, will offer patients access to Talkiatry’s virtual psychiatric care as they transition out of its programs.
ClarityHlth launches to offer consumers a one-stop shop for comparing telemedicine providers based on specialty, pricing, accepted insurance, medications, and payment methods. The business model seems remarkably similar to that of Amazon Clinic.
Government and Politics
Optum Medical Care of New Jersey will pay $160,000 to the HHS Office of Civil Rights to resolve potential HIPAA violations related to six complaints of failure to provide timely access to requested medical records. Patients received requested records between 84 and 231 days, rather than within the federally mandated 30 days.
Sponsor Updates
- The National Health Insurance Authority in the Bahamas reports a significant uptick in cancer screenings since the implementation of its EClinicalWorks EHR and associated population health tools.
- Nordic releases a new Designing for Health Podcast, “Interview with Lalita Abhyankar, MD.”
- EClinicalWorks announces its intent to become a QHIN.
Contacts
More news: HIStalk.
Get HIStalk Practice updates.
Contact us online.
Become a sponsor.
