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News 1/29/24
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Bass Medical Group will use a $20 million investment from ApolloMed (soon to be known as Astrana Health), as well as the physician network optimization company’s value-based care and operational technology and services, to expand and enter into new value-based care arrangements and markets.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
In Canada, preventive care technology vendor Healwell AI acquires EHR company Intrahealth Systems from Well Health Technologies for $24 million. Well acquired Intrahealth, which was founded in New Zealand and now serves small and medium-sized enterprise organizations, in 2021.
People
Cindy Braden (DigitalOptometrics) joins eye care billing company OneSpot as VP of sales.
Announcements and Implementations
New Jersey-based GS Medical Associates will implement PainScript’s remote patient monitoring capabilities for pain management and behavioral health.
Research and Innovation
Nearly 100% of independent physicians say that specialty-specific EHRs optimize their value-based reimbursement, practice management, and patient satisfaction efforts, according to a Black Book survey of 33,000 clinicians. Eighty-five percent, however, feel that their current EHRs could be fine-tuned to better collect, analyze, and report data across a variety of metrics. Surveyed physicians are clamoring for AI and machine-learning EHR features, with 60% reporting these will top their health IT shopping lists in 2024. Top-ranked ambulatory EHR vendors, according to the survey, include Practice Fusion/Veradigm for general practice, Elation Health for family practice, Netsmart for behavioral and mental healthcare, Experity for urgent care, and NextGen Healthcare for multispecialty clinics.
Sponsor Updates
- Centerpoint Health leverages data from the EClinicalWorks EHR and its Healow no-show prediction AI model to improve its clinical workflows.
- Florida Digestive Health Specialists adds Sunoh.ai virtual scribing capabilities to its EClinicalWorks EHR.
- Pinnacle Family Care (NC) improves efficiency using the EClinicalWorks AI assistant for Prisma.
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