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News 9/3/25
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Meroka raises $6 million in seed funding. The company helps independent physicians transfer ownership of their practices to their employees. It also helps to equip the practice with new workforce and billing technology unified on a single platform.
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Yanni Metaxas joins Physitrack (Mount Sinai Solutions) as head of sales for North America.
Atria Health names Janis Newcomb (Aledade) VP of integrations.
Announcements and Implementations
RCM Matter announces GA of its new medical billing and RCM software.
Outpatient behavioral healthcare provider Pathway Health selects Watershed Health’s care coordination software and services.
Commonwealth Pain & Spine implements AI-powered RCM software from Adonis across its 30 clinics.
Binsera develops a cloud-based EHR capable of operating offline.
Research and Innovation
Sixty-three percent of patients say they’d switch providers due to ineffective engagement, according to an Artera survey of 1,000 people. Nearly 50% refuse to schedule appointments over the phone due to frustrating experiences. Many patients have taken to ignoring text messages from unknown numbers, assuming they are spam, causing appointment reminders to be overlooked. Patients report they are more likely to engage with longer-form text messages from recognizable numbers.
Other
The local news shares the story of Maurice Sholas, MD, PhD a New Orleans-based physician who discovered that his likeness was being used on TikTok to sell vitamins he’s never endorsed. The video proliferated across several social media platforms, with TikTok being the only one that responded to Sholas’ demands that they be taken down.
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- PerfectServe will exhibit at the MGMA Leaders Conference September 28-October 1 in Orlando.
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