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Spring Health, which offers its digital mental healthcare solutions to payers and employers, acquires mental healthcare practice management company Alma.
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
Kroger will close its 18 Little Clinic locations in Georgia on April 4 in an effort to streamline operations. Georgia seems especially unable to keep retail-based healthcare providers in business: Walmart piloted its initial spate of Walmart Health clinics in Georgia in 2019, but shuttered the endeavor five years later due to financial struggles.
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Bill Schmitt (TytoCare) joins Lyric Health as chief growth officer.
Announcements and Implementations
Veradigm enhances its revenue cycle services for independent practices with a new AI-enabled analytics workspace.
Healthy Horizons Clinic (TX) implements Sunoh.ai’s AI medical scribe software across its seven locations.
Humana-owned, senior-focused primary care provider CenterWell selects Athenahealth’s AthenaOne EHR, RCM, practice management, and patient engagement platform.
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