News 12/10/25

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CVS Health ups its total revenue guidance for 2026 to $400 billion, citing momentum across Aetna, CVS Caremark, and CVS Pharmacy, and the breakeven potential of its Health Care Delivery Business. The company will also launch an AI-based engagement platform that will it scale across its businesses.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Empathy Health Technologies raises $7.6 million, bringing the startup’s total funding to $11.4 million. The company offers the Sober Sidekick app for peer and professional support during recovery.

Canada’s Competition Bureau obtains a court order allowing it to move forward with its investigation of Well Health’s acquisition of Healwell, parent company of Orion Health. The investigation will seek to determine if the acquisitions have stifled competition within the AI transcription market. In addition to health IT, Well Health Technologies operates over 200 clinics in Canada.

Announcements and Implementations

Athenahealth will give AthenaOne users access to Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot tool as a part of the EHR, practice management, billing, and patient engagement system’s ambient note-taking capabilities.

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ProPublica looks at the methods some FQHCs use to settle patient debts, with some sending balances of as little as $25 to collections and others escalating to lawsuits. Eastern Shore Rural Health (VA), for example, has filed more than 7,000 lawsuits for unpaid bills over the last 10 years. Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas founder Krista Postai points out that, “If your goal is really keeping people healthier, it makes more sense to deliver care at the lowest cost possible and not drive them into ERs and hospitals.”

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News 12/8/25

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Canadian Well Health Technologies subsidiary Wellstar Technologies raises $62 million in a Series B funding round. Wellstar is preparing to go public next year.

Mr. HIStalk reported a few weeks ago that Canada’s competition bureau is investigating Well Health Technologies over concerns that its recent acquisitions are reducing competition in the AI transcription market.

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Announcements and Implementations

Faith Healthcare (KY) will offer virtual consult and care coordination services from Gazuntite.

Spike Technologies develops AI agents to assist specialty care providers with administrative workflows related to insurance eligibility and benefits, prior authorizations, claims, and care coordination.

Texas Family Wellness Clinic implements AI medical scribe capabilities from Sunoh.ai.

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The Missouri Farm Bureau works with Rezilient Health to open an employee clinic in Jefferson City. Built on Rezilient’s CloudClinic model, the facility will offer tech-enabled direct primary, specialty, and urgent care; and care coordination services. Rezilient launched in 2016 and operates 11 clinics in three states.

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News 12/3/25

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Virtual care company MiCare Path announces new funding and the acquisition of Compwell, which offers care management and virtual assessment services.

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Tech-enabled infusion therapy provider Uptiv Health will use new funding to enhance its digital platform, incorporate AI into its workflows, and expand into new markets.

Cerbo and OptiMantra, both vendors of EHR and practice management software for healthcare and wellness practices, merge.

People

CentralReach names Joseph Adu (SpectrumAi) CISO. CentralReach acquires SpectrumAi in August.

Announcements and Implementations

The Center for Health Care Services (TX) selects credentialing and provider data management solutions from Exydoc.

Mountain After Hours Clinic (KY) implements Gazuntite’s virtual consult software.

Marathon Health selects Avo’s AI-based clinical decision support platform.

Brevard Health Alliance uses Rimidi’s software and connected devices as a part of its new remote patient monitoring program for hypertension management. The Florida-based FQHC plans to expand the program to obstetrics patients.

Other

Former Stanford University students found Paratus Health to equip practices with AI agents that can assist with administrative tasks. The startup has raised $3.5 million since launching 10 months ago and counts 1,000 users in 15 states amongst its growing customer base.

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News 12/1/25

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Nest Health announces $22.5 million in Series A funding. The company provides in-home and virtual care to families on Medicaid, ensuing access to primary, pediatric, and behavioral healthcare; and social support services.

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Aledade secures a $500 million credit facility to support future growth. The company helps its network of independent primary care practices implement and manage value-based care delivery models.

ResponseRx launches to offer practices HIPAA-compliant, AI-powered online patient review response management.

People

Rashmi Raghavendra (Rcubed Ventures) joins Dionysus Health as CEO.

Announcements and Implementations

Bonita House (CA) implements Credible EHR software from Qualifacts.

Greenway Health embeds agentic AI capabilities throughout its ambulatory health IT for medical groups in a new platform called The Automated Healthcare Practice.

Hughston Clinic will implement Commure’s AI-powered patient engagement, clinical documentation, and RCM technology across its network of clinics in the Southeast.

Other

The local news in Williamsburg, VA highlights the challenges nonprofit and rural clinics like Olde Towne Medical & Dental Center face, including working with outdated technology that hampers their ability to share data with other local providers. Olde Towne Medical EHR software is at least seven versions behind the system the local hospital uses, making interoperability a challenge. Staff also say the clinic, which dealt with a ransomware attack in May, needs updated cybersecurity protections and workstations. It has launched a fundraising campaign to purchase new hardware and software.

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News 11/19/25

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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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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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