News 6/24/24

Top News

Virtual pregnancy and newborn care provider Pomelo Care raises $46 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to over $79 million.

Pomelo Care founder and CEO Marta Kerns spent seven years at Flatiron Health before launching the company in 2021.

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Webinars

June 26 (Wednesday) noon ET. “Population Risk Management in Action: Automating Clinical Workflows to Improve Medication Adherence.” Sponsor: DrFirst. Presenters: Colin Banas, MD, MHA, chief medical officer, DrFirst; Weston Blakeslee, PhD, VP of population health, DrFirst. What if you could measure and manage medication adherence in a way that would eliminate the burdens of medication history collection, patient identification, and prioritization? The presenters will describe how to use MedHx PRM’s new capabilities to harness the most complete medication history data on the market, benefit from near real-time medication data delivered within 24 hours, automatically build rosters of eligible patients, and identify gaps of care in seconds.

June 27 (Thursday) noon ET. “Snackable Summer Series, Session 1: The Intelligent Health Record.” Sponsor: Health Data Analytics Institute. This webinar will describe how HealthVision, HDAI’s Intelligent Health Management System, is transforming care across health systems and value-based care organizations. This 30-minute session will answer the question: what if you could see critical information from hundreds of EHR pages in a one-page patient chart and risk summary that serves the entire care team? We will tour the Spotlight, an easy-to-digest health profile and risk prediction tool. Session 2 will describe HDAI’s Intelligent Analytics solution, while Session 3 will tour HDAI’s Intelligent Workflow solution.

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

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Heyday Health will use $12.5 million in new funding to expand its virtual care and house call services for Medicare patients into new markets in Ohio and Kentucky.

Avail Health launches to help RNs and NPs start and manage their own primary care practices.

Hybrid primary care and weight management company Knownwell acquires online weight-loss clinic Alfie Health. Knownwell will add Alfie Health’s AI-based ObesityRx platform to its clinical decision support workflows.

Pear Suite announces $1 million in funding. The company has developed care and social services navigation software for community health workers.

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People

Troy Wasilefsky (Iodine Software) joins Greenway Health as chief revenue officer.

  

Knownwell names Alfie Health founder and former CEO Alexander Singh head of analytics, James Chaukos (Interwell Health) COO, and John Frager (Pine Medical) chief growth officer.

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Announcements and Implementations

Kossuth Regional Health Center (IA) implements Phreesia’s patient intake software.

Oracle Health and NextGen introduce AI-powered ambient listening clinical documentation tools for physician practices.

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Government and Politics

HHS finalizes the penalties providers can expect to face if they engage in information-blocking activities.

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Other

The local paper profiles the struggles faced by physicians at Community Health Center of Snohomish County in Everett, WA. Clinical staff joined a union last year to have a stronger voice in decisions made by upper management – a move prompted by the unexplained firing of one of the center’s most popular physicians, cutbacks to staff and operating hours, and a downgrade in EHR technology that prompted 25% of the staff to leave.

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Sponsor Updates

• Waystar staff across the country celebrate the company’s Nasdaq debut

• Black Book Research publishes the results of its 2024 RCM user survey, recognizing Waystar as a top performer in several categories
• Nordic releases a new “Designing for Health” podcast, “Interview with Joshua Reischer, MD.”
• Waystar will exhibit at the EClinicalWorks Dallas Day Show June 26.
• Nordic and Waystar will exhibit at the HFMA Annual Conference June 24-27 in Las Vegas.

Blog Posts

• Best practices in enterprise care management for patient-centered care excellence (Nordic)
• Top Challenges for CNIOs: Governance, Priorities, and More (PerfectServe)

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Contacts

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