News 1/28/26

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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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News 1/26/26

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Bloomberg reports that Tandem Technology has achieved a $1 billion valuation with an anticipated $100 million in new funding. The startup specializes in helping practices automate medication access. Tandem founder and CEO Sahir Jaggi was previously a director at insurance company Oscar Health.

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

Care coordination company Pair Team acquires social care coordination company Town Square.

People

Town Square founder and CEO Royal Tuthill will join Pair Team as SVP of networks. Tuthill co-founded patient messaging vendor Docent Health in 2015 and sold it to Get Well in 2021.

Interwell Health promotes Carney Taylor, MD, MBA (Fresenius Physician Solutions) to CMO.

Announcements and Implementations

In Ohio, Mental Health Services for Clark and Madison Counties selects EHR and project management software from NextGen Healthcare.

Other

TriZetto Provider Solutions begins notifying patients impacted by a breach of its web portal containing eligibility transaction reports. Hackers first gained access in November 2024. The breach was discovered last October. Affected providers were notified in December by OCHIN, which provides their EHR software and utilizes TriZetto’s billing services. Adapt Integrated Health Care (OR), San Francisco Community Health Center, and the Baltimore City Health Department are among the impacted organizations.

The New York Times looks at the creative ways independent physicians and other medical professionals are finding practice space that meets their budgets and schedules. Whether it’s subleasing space from other physicians, renting weekend space in a practice that’s only open during the week, or making other, hybrid arrangements, clinicians are engaging in off-market arrangements that don’t burden them with high overhead. Psychotherapist Carla Mannino, who rents co-working space in New York City’s Chrysler Building, puts it this way: “I don’t have to worry about HVAC or Verizon. I’m 58 years old. I don’t want to sign a 10-year lease.”

Walmart’s Healthcare Research Institute and Care Access will open research sites this spring in three former Walmart Health clinic locations and one Walmart store. Care Access staff will offer health screenings and information about research opportunities and participation in clinical trials. Walgreens launched its own clinical trials business in 2022. CVS Health launched a similar endeavor in 2021, but commenced a phased closure two years later.

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News 1/21/26

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Chicago-based Zarminali Pediatrics raises $110 million in a Series A funding round led by Healthier Capital. The practice, which has locations in nine states and Washington, DC, will use the investment to expand its specialty care offerings and to begin offering telemedicine services around the clock throughout the week.

Healthier Capital CEO Amir Rubin, former CEO of Amazon One Medical, will join Zarminali’s board.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

AnswersNow, a provider of virtual autism therapy, raises $40 million in Series B funding.

Home-based care provider DispatchHealth sells its portable X-ray and ultrasound business unit to portable diagnostics services company TridentCare. The sale comes eight months after DispatchHealth’s acquisition of Medically Home, which resulted in restructuring and layoffs.

Announcements and Implementations

Southlake Orthopaedics (AL) implements Ankr Health’s VCX AI platform, which includes scribe and scheduler agents.

Bloom Healthcare begins using Sunoh.ai’s ambient listening technology for clinical documentation.

Amazon adds its recently developed Health AI assistant to the One Medical app, giving One Medical primary care patients access to personalized advice based on their One Medical records, lab results, and medication history. The assistant can also can also book appointments and manage prescriptions Chats with the AI tool are, however, not incorporated into the patient’s One Medical record. Amazon acquired One Medical’s chain of clinics in 2023 for $4 billion.

Greenway Health develops an Agentic AI Factory to fast track the safe and secure development of AI agents for its EHR solutions.

Meditech announces GA of Expanse Outpatient Therapy.

Other

The State of Colorado launches the EHealth Solutions Challenge to identify, vet, and pilot innovative technologies that can improve the secure sharing of health data between agencies, organizations, and jurisdictions across the state. Promising entries may receive up to $50,000 in seed funding. Applications are due February 18.

Grocery store chain Meijer begins offering customers access to virtual care from WellSync through its website and pharmacy app.

ECRI deems healthcare AI chatbots the top health technology hazard for 2026, pointing out that they “are programmed to sound confident and to always provide an answer to satisfy the user, even when the answer isn’t reliable.”

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News 1/19/26

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Black Book Research releases its 2026 list of top-ranked EHRs for ambulatory care, with ModMed, Epic, and NextGen Healthcare noted as top leaders in multiple categories.

Athenahealth’s technology achieved top user satisfaction marks in the family practice/primary care and pediatrics categories, while Netsmart earned the top ranking for behavioral health and Experity for urgent care/occupational medicine.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Virtual Physician Scribes rebrands to Virtual Practice Solutions.

Announcements and Implementations

Rincon Family Services in Chicago implements the Qualifacts Credible EHR to enhance its Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic services.

Fullscript integrates biometric data from Oura’s smart ring with its clinical workflow. Fullscript offers practice management software for functional medicine providers.

Community Care of North Carolina selects Innovaccer’s Healthcare Intelligence Cloud population health analytics platform.

Other

The Qilin ransomware group threatens to release data stolen during a January 17 cyberattack on Orthopaedic Specialists of Massachusetts. The practice’s website is still down.

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News 1/14/26

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Rehab therapy and post-acute care technology vendor Net Health acquires musculoskeletal management and treatment software developer Keet Health from WebPT.

Net Health will incorporate Keet Health’s technology into its Limber digital MSK care platform, which will become the preferred solution for WebPT customers.

Net Health acquired Limber Health last summer.

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People

Cityblock Health names Alberto Toledo (White Star Capital) CTO.

Announcements and Implementations

Net Health announces GA of Optima Unity, its AI-enhanced EHR for rehab therapists.

Government and Politics

A federal judge sentences Benjamin Washington to 65 months in prison for his role in a years-long e-prescribing scheme in which he used information stolen from physicians to create fake e-prescribing accounts that his accomplices then used to issue thousands of fraudulent prescriptions for controlled substances, which they picked up at pharmacies and sold for profit. The conspirators also obtained fake drivers’ licenses, paid off phone company employees to reassign legitimate physician cell phone numbers to burner phones, stole a master USPS post office box key, and stole mail.

Research and Innovation

Behavioral health and post-acute care providers find their interoperability efforts hampered by transaction or integration fees, slow vendor onboarding and timelines, and APIs that don’t fit their everyday workflows, according to Black Book Research.

Other

NextGen Healthcare will pay $19.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit related to a 2023 data breach that it allegedly failed to prevent, resulting in the compromise of patient data.

Kaiser Permanente will pay $46 million to settle a class action lawsuit pertaining to third-party tracking tools on its website and apps that class members say allegedly shared user data without their consent. Kaiser has begun sending settlement notices to 13 million members in eight states and Washington, DC.

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