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Remote patient monitoring and chronic care management company Accuhealth acquires competitor Signallamp Health. An investment from Sunstone Partners helped to fund the deal.
Webinars
July 18 (Thursday) noon ET. “New CMS Final Rule: Strategies to Get EHR and IT Vendors Up to Speed.” Sponsor: DrFirst. Presenters: Nick Barger, PharmD, VP of product, DrFirst; Tyler Higgins, senior director of product management, DrFirst. The new final rule that was issued by CMS on June 13, 2024, goes beyond a basic upgrade of SCRIPT standards and improves care connections among doctors, pharmacies, and patients. The presenters will lead EHR and IT vendors through the final rule, provide details on key provisions and compliance deadlines, offer tactics to tackle roadmap development, and provide direction on where and how partners can best leverage the requirements for the benefit of their customers.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
UberDoc secures an undisclosed amount of funding from ambulatory health IT vendor CharmHealth and health IT venture firm Bioverge. UberDoc offers direct-pay patients online appointment scheduling with its network of physicians.
RCM outsourcing vendor TharWorx rebrands to Optimize RCM. The company, which has offices in Pennsylvania and India, plans to open a call center in the Philippines next year.
Private equity firm FFL Partners acquires health IT, cybersecurity, and compliance company Medicus IT from 424 Capital. Medicus acquired BlueNovo, a health IT consulting company focused on community health centers, three months ago.
People
Agilon Health promotes Karthik Rao, MD to CMO.
Announcements and Implementations
ACO management company Next Healthcare Solutions selects The Garage’s Bridge population health management software.
Other
Heads up, philatelists: The United States Postal Service will soon offer a commemorative Thank You Healthcare Community stamp.
Community Health Net, an FQHC serving the Lake Erie region in Pennsylvania, will launch a new telemedicine program that will bring virtual care services to homeless patients via stops at community centers and homeless shelters.
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