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News 5/17/23
Top News
Virtual neurology clinic Neura Health raises $8 million in a seed funding round. The company plans to expand its currently direct-to-consumer offerings to employers and payers.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
NextGen Healthcare reports an 18% increase in Q4 revenue, beating analyst expectations, and a 9.5% increase in annual revenue.The company is reportedly facing a slew of class-action lawsuits related to a data breach discovered in late March impacting 1 million patient records.
Healthcare programs and payments company Nomi Health acquires Phoenix-based clinic I Am Wellness.
People
ModMed promotes Venkatesh Jayaraman (Vertex) to CTO.
Mike Bursich (Membersy) joins Qualifacts as chief revenue officer.
Medicus IT promotes Nelson Gomes to EVP of business development.
Announcements and Implementations
New Jersey-based ACO Shore Quality Partners selects Spatially Health’s Equity Equalizer social determinants of health assessment and interventions software.
Swift Health Medical Group in Atlanta will launch a remote patient monitoring program using technology and services from HealthIQ Solutions.
Government and Politics
Practice management, analytics, and RCM vendor MedEvolve pays HHS $350,000 to settle potential HIPAA violations related to a company server containing PHI that was left unsecure and accessible on the Web, as well as failures to conduct a risk/vulnerability analysis and to enter into appropriate business agreements.
Easy Healthcare, developer of the Premom ovulation-tracking app, will pay a $100,000 fine for violating the FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule. The FTC contends that the app disclosed user health data to third parties without their consent, deceived users about its data-sharing practices, and failed to notify its users of these violations.
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- Nordic publishes a podcast titled “Designing for Health: Dr. Adam Wright.”
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