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Cardiology care startup Chamber announces $60 million in Series A funding. The company’s software and services are designed to help cardiology practices and payers participate more effectively in value-based care models.
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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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Danny Gladden, MBA, MSW (Oracle Health) joins Streamline Healthcare Solutions as chief clinical officer.
Announcements and Implementations
Providers who use Athenahealth’s AthenaOne platform can now integrate health data generated by patients who use B.well Connected Health apps from within their clinical workflows.
KLAS posts its “2026 Best in KLAS: Software and Services,” with Athenahealth topping the Overall Independent Physician Practice Suite and four market segment awards.
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Providers in North Carolina are frustrated with the federal government’s decision to shut down the Making Care Primary program, which had been designed to offer primary care physicians direct financial support over a 10-year period for improving the health of their patients. Now that the program, which hadn’t yet hit the two-year mark, has wrapped up, providers are being advised to apply for the new CMS Long-term Enhanced ACO Design program. LEAD is another 10-year program that offers financial incentives to healthcare organizations rather than directly to physicians. “I’m angry,” says Patricia Hall, DO “but more than that, I am so very sad. It’s heartbreaking — to have an already inadequate health care system be made even more inadequate, to throw away opportunities to improve, even a little.”
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