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Virtual OCD treatment provider NOCD acquires virtual trauma therapy company Rebound Health. The businesses will operate under newly created parent company Noto, which will branch out to other specialties in the future.
NOCD has raised $84 million since launching in 2018.
Sponsored Events and Resources
Live Webinar: February 18 (Wednesday) 2 ET. “From Blind Spots to Insights: Gaining Real-Time Visibility into Healthcare Risk.” Sponsor: CloudWave. Presenters: Jacob Wheeler, MBA, director of sales engineering, CloudWave; Mike Donahue, chief operating officer, CloudWave. Resilience starts with the ability to see clearly, across every endpoint, cloud workload, user, and clinical system. Join CloudWave’s cybersecurity leaders for an in-depth session on how real-time visibility transforms your ability to detect threats early, respond decisively, and strengthen resilience across the care ecosystem. Attendees will learn the practical steps that hospitals can take to move from reactive defense to resilient action.
Publication: HIStalk’s Guide to ViVE 2026 lists the activities of sponsors at the conference.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
Faced with increasing financial challenges, Valley Medical Group lays off 41 employees. The independent group operates four primary care offices. Technology and AI will be key to providing patient care with fewer staff, according to VMG President and CEO Paul Carlan: “We will be more efficient. We have plans in place to try and improve how we handle patient calls and messages and protocols to refill medications. I think that will help.”
Women’s telehealth company Wisp acquires TBD Health, a hybrid sexual health-focused provider. Well Health Technologies acquired a majority stake in Wisp for $41 million in 2021.
People
Rick Dean (OncoHealth) joins Bicycle Health as CEO.
Announcements and Implementations
Nextech integrates Cora Scribe, its new AI-powered clinical documentation tool, with its EHR.
CompuGroup Medical adds automated document and fax management capabilities to its EHR.
Research and Innovation
A Penn Medicine study finds that patients are 28% more likely to get a flu shot when they receive a reminder via text message and their primary care doctor already has an order for the vaccine waiting.
Other
Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation founder and CEO Christina Merrill develops CancerBuddy, an app that helps cancer patients find and build relationships with other patients based on diagnosis, age, and treatment center and location.
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