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After a successful pilot with a Philadelphia-based cardiology group, Atria Health makes its services available nationwide. The company, which launched in 2022 with backing from Cypress Ridge Partners, offers investment and practice management and optimization services to independent cardiology practices.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Carecierge launches to offer physician practices workflow optimization software.

People

HarmonyCares names Jonathan D’Souza (MedArrives) chief product and technology officer.

Chevon Rariy, MD (Oncology Care Partners) joins Visana Health as chief clinical innovation officer.

Announcements and Implementations

Affineon Health develops Affineon Embed to help health IT vendors integrate its AI-powered physician inbox management software with their products.

Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic (LA) will go live on Epic’s MyChart March 1.

Fyzical Therapy & Balance Centers will implement Sara Health’s remote therapeutic monitoring software and services at its locations across the country.

Research and Innovation

An analysis in JAMA of the ways in which FQHCs perceive Medicaid telehealth reimbursement policies turns up some interesting commentary:

“When a lot of the rules are made, or when a lot of the emergency fundings for [telehealth] programs come out, they’re all geared through the hospital, and then they expect the hospitals to work with everybody else, where we all know nine times out of 10, that doesn’t happen. … The decision makers at the top who pull the purse strings … are leaning towards hospitals.”
“We lost 40% of our staff of therapists and psychiatrists the second we forced them to come in … to do telehealth in a building rather than their own home.”
“Every therapist…and psychiatrist [is] making financial sacrifices to work for folks like us, [and now] they have to come to the health center to get on the phone basically, and talk to their patients. And there is zero clinical value to that.”
A “significant number of patients like having [telehealth] because it means they don’t have to commute every week to get to the appointment, they can have it at home. So it’s been a real big game changer for a lot of our patients.”
“[Telehealth] is great for like follow up on labs…. But if I must diagnose and treat off of a computer screen that terrifies me. I’m just not that confident in my skillset to do it without touching and listening and feeling.”