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FamilyWell Health announces $8 million in Series A funding. The company helps providers embed its virtual mental healthcare services for women into their practices. It plans to further expand its menopause care services and further develop the AI capabilities of its digital platform.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
UK-based digital mental healthcare company Kooth acquires US-based Kismet’s pediatric virtual telehealth platform.
People
Sightview names Jason Tammaro (Launch Control) VP of sales and strategic partnerships.
Announcements and Implementations
CHP Berkshires (MA) selects automated medical coding software from XpertDox.
The Riley County Health Department in Kansas selects EHR software from Patagonia Health.
TriageLogic introduces MedMessage Automate, an automated medical answering service that transitions phone calls to text-based intake messaging that is then triaged and documented.
Springfield Clinic (IL) implements MyMedicalScribe ambient scribe software from JarDogs Health.
Government and Politics
A federal jury convicts the founder and CEO and clinical president of online prescription delivery company Done for their roles in a multi-year scheme to illegally distribute Adderall over the Internet, and conspire to commit healthcare fraud through the submission of false reimbursement claims. The pair’s dubious dealings involved:
- Paying nurse practitioners up to $60,000 per month to refill prescriptions without any clinical interaction.
- Enabling an “auto-refill” technology feature where, for years, patients could receive prescriptions without clinical interaction.
- Offering expensive vehicles to employees who broke the law.
- Moving operations to China to evade federal scrutiny.
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Research and Innovation
Workforce and health IT will be the biggest areas of investment for medical groups in 2026, according to an MGMA poll of 213 medical group professionals. Health IT spend will include AI, new or upgraded EHR and practice management systems, and cloud migrations.
Family physicians report underwhelming EHR interoperability experiences, according to a survey of 8,122 physicians (nearly a quarter of which work in independent practices) conducted in 2024. Researchers note that while it “would be reasonable to expect greater reported availability of information given the substantial volume of exchange reported by prominent networks,” not a single group of physicians reported a high level of satisfaction with their EHR interoperability experience.
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