News 3/25/24

Top News

Walgreens-owned VillageMD sells its 11 primary care clinics in Rhode Island to Arches Medical Partners. The company announced it would close its clinics in Florida and Illinois earlier this year, in keeping with its late-2023 decision to close 60 clinics as part of $1 billion worth of cost-cutting measures.

Arches owns New Era Medical Operations, a technology company focused on independent practice associations.

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Webinars

March 27 (Wednesday) 3 ET. “Houston Methodist: Deploying clinical AI at scale for improved outcomes.” Sponsor: Health Data Analytics Institute. Presenters: Khurram Nasir, MD, MPH, chief of cardiovascular disease prevention and wellness, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center; Brenda Campbell, RN, senior consultant, HM Health System Innovations; Nassib Chamoun, MS, founder and CEO, HDAI. The presenters  will share how an interdisciplinary team collaborated to successfully use predictive models and a novel AI-driven approach to address post-discharge mortality. They will also describe how they expanded use of the platform to reduce clinician time spent digging through the EHR with a one-page risk profile, including codes extracted from notes using generative AI, and targeting their highest risk patients for extra attention. They will speak to how they overcame barriers to bringing AI at scale to support clinicians across the care continuum.

Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

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Announcements and Implementations

Health Information Management Systems announces GA of its AxiomEHR featuring AI-powered automation capabilities for behavioral healthcare providers.

Solace Behavioral Health will implement the Cx360 EHR from Core Solutions across its four behavioral healthcare facilities.

Southern Illinois Associates selects the EClinicalWorks Cloud EHR.

Nebraska Cancer Specialists uses autonomous evaluation and management coding software from Calm Waters AI.

Nextech adds AI-powered virtual assistant, documentation, and support capabilities to its EHR for specialty practices.

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Government and Politics

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) introduces the “Health Care Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2024.” If passed, the bill will enable eligible providers to receive advanced and accelerated payments in the wake of a cyberattack, provided they and, if applicable, an impacted third-party, meet minimum cybersecurity standards.

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Sponsor Updates

• AdvancedMD renews its partnership with data automation platform vendor FrontRunnerHC.
• Nordic releases a new Designing for Health Podcast, “Interview with Joyce Lee, MD.”

Blog Posts

• Beyond medicine: Envisioning healthcare’s role in fostering community and connection (Nordic)

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Contacts

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