News 8/20/25

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EliseAI raises $250 million in a Series E round of funding. The New York-based company, now valued at over $2 billion, initially focused on helping real estate companies like Zillow automate their processes when it launched in 2017.

Its healthcare automation offerings focus on outpatient specialties including women’s health, dermatology, orthopedics, and ophthalmology.

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Instant Access Webinar: “Healthcare Data Strategies: Retire, Retain, and Ready for AI.” Sponsor: Triyam, an Access Company. Presenters: Sudhakar Mohanraj, founder and CTO, Triyam; Benjamin Cassity, director of research and strategy, KLAS; Jamie Greenstein, senior marketing manager, Access. The presenters deliver practical tactics to help IT leaders manage exploding data volumes — how to clean up legacy systems, craft smarter retention policies, and prepare historical data for analytics and AI.

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Vivo Care launches to offer providers remote patient monitoring technology and clinical support services. Vivo Care CEO Ryan Clark was formerly president and CEO of Optimize Health.

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Sightview names Jeff Macomber (Firstday Healthcare) CTO.

Announcements and Implementations

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will implement Epic across 13 state-run healthcare facilities.

South Lake Pediatrics (MN) implements Sunoh.ai’s clinical AI scribe.

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Slate publishes one clinician’s take on the patient relationship-building benefits of AI-powered clinical documentation software: “Dax doesn’t save me time writing my note or make clinic go any faster. But it does allow me to connect meaningfully with my patients …. To accompany them on their journeys, to bear witness to their joy and suffering with my full presence. It creates a sense of time and spaciousness I haven’t experienced in the exam room since I was a medical student, before the pressures of productivity analytics set in.”

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News 8/18/25

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Autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities care software vendor CentralReach acquires SpectrumAi and AI.Measures.

Spectrum Ai offers predictive analytics, real-time decision support, and video capture technologies. AI.Measures offers AI-powered autism assessment and outcomes measurement solutions. CentralReach will incorporate the newly acquired technologies into its Care360 EHR.

AI.Measures CEO Thomas Frazier, PhD will join CentralReach as chief clinical officer, while SpectrumAi founder and CEO Ling Shao will join the company as SVP of outcomes-based care.

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Instant Access Webinar: “Healthcare Data Strategies: Retire, Retain, and Ready for AI.” Sponsor: Triyam, an Access Company. Presenters: Sudhakar Mohanraj, founder and CTO, Triyam; Benjamin Cassity, director of research and strategy, KLAS; Jamie Greenstein, senior marketing manager, Access. The presenters deliver practical tactics to help IT leaders manage exploding data volumes — how to clean up legacy systems, craft smarter retention policies, and prepare historical data for analytics and AI.

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Hims & Hers Health shares dip after new details emerge around the FTC’s investigation into the company’s membership subscription and advertising practices. It seems the FTC began looking into the company’s business practices last summer. Bloomberg has reported that the regulatory agency is looking at customer complaints related to canceling subscriptions, as well as the online health and wellness company’s advertising practices.

Isaac Health announces $10.5 million in Series A funding. The company offers brain health and dementia care through its virtual clinic, which uses proprietary technology for care assessment, diagnosis, and management.

Nexsys Billing & Practice Management acquires Palomar Billing Services.

P3 Health Partners reports a 6% drop in Q2 revenue, which it attributes to a 9% dip in membership. The population health management company offers primary care practice support services in four states.

Announcements and Implementations

Sinnissippi Centers (IL) implements Cantata Health’s Arize EHR for behavioral healthcare providers.

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AstraZeneca begins offering its FluMist nasal flu vaccine spray for home delivery. Submitted orders are reviewed by ASPN Pharmacies providers and fulfilled and delivered by Polaris Pharmacy Services.

Sharing Life Community Outreach will offer 1,000 families in Mesquite, TX access to free virtual visits from MD Health Pathways as part of a pilot program that will help it assess access and utilization, and downstream effects including school attendance.

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News 8/13/25

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Oracle Health announces its new AI-powered, voice-enabled EHR for ambulatory providers. The company plans on introducing an acute care version next year.

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Instant Access Webinar: “Healthcare Data Strategies: Retire, Retain, and Ready for AI.” Sponsor: Triyam, an Access Company. Presenters: Sudhakar Mohanraj, founder and CTO, Triyam; Benjamin Cassity, director of research and strategy, KLAS; Jamie Greenstein, senior marketing manager, Access. The presenters deliver practical tactics to help IT leaders manage exploding data volumes — how to clean up legacy systems, craft smarter retention policies, and prepare historical data for analytics and AI.

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Infinx invests in autonomous medical coding company Maverick Medical AI and will integrate Maverick’s capabilities with its patient access and RCM solutions.

Managed services company Provana acquires MEG Business Management, a practice management company serving independent physical therapy practices.

People

Visana Health names Tom Maraday (Omada Health) chief commercial officer.

Announcements and Implementations

Bizmatics will add new AI features to its PrognoCIS EHR, including a chat assistant, note summarization, and scribe capabilities.

Virtual mental healthcare provider Talkspace adopts Express Access provider-matching and patient progress-tracking software from Outcome Referrals.

Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute selects Unified Digital Patient Experience software from Willowglade Technologies.

EasyPA debuts its automated prior authorization workflow technology for physician practices.

Other

The Georgia Health Information Network and the state’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities create the Social Care Integration Initiative to help providers and organizations across the state share clinical and social care data.

In Australia, AI governance expert Kobi Leins, Phd is told to seek care elsewhere after declining a medical assistant’s request to use AI transcription software during a visit to her child’s pediatrician. The practice cited the need for the software due to an inability to perform timely assessments without it. Leins has expressed her lack of trust in the privacy and security of such burgeoning technology.

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News 8/11/25

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A MGMA poll of practice leaders finds that 71% of medical groups use some form of AI during patient visits. About a third of that group attributes real-time note creation to a corresponding reduction in workload.

Non-AI users cite several reasons for their reticence, including budget, lack of organizational readiness, perceived lack of ROI, concerns around accuracy, and EHR integration issues.

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Instant Access Webinar: “Healthcare Data Strategies: Retire, Retain, and Ready for AI.” Sponsor: Triyam, an Access Company. Presenters: Sudhakar Mohanraj, founder and CTO, Triyam; Benjamin Cassity, director of research and strategy, KLAS; Jamie Greenstein, senior marketing manager, Access. The presenters deliver practical tactics to help IT leaders manage exploding data volumes — how to clean up legacy systems, craft smarter retention policies, and prepare historical data for analytics and AI.

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Announcements and Implementations

Chicago-based Outreach selects the Arize EHR from Cantata Health Solutions.

Ensoftek adds an AI-powered group scribing feature to its DrCloudEHR for behavioral health providers who offer group therapy.

Other

Mr. HIStalk’s recent mention of NASA and Google working together to develop “’earth-independent’ medical procedures for long-duration space missions” reminds me of a scene (actually several) from “Project Hail Mary,” a must-read novel from Andy Weir, who also wrote “The Martian.” Do yourself a favor and read the book before seeing the movie, which is scheduled to come out early next year.

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News 8/6/25

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Hinge Health reports a 55% increase in Q2 revenue, which prompts its shares to jump in after-hours trading. The results are the first since the company’s $273 million IPO in May. The company offers its virtual and in-person services to health plan members and individuals.

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Agilon Health shares plummet on the news of its CEO’s departure and disappointing Q2 results, including a 6% decrease in revenue. The company partners in a dozen states with independent primary care physicians who care for seniors through its tech-enabled Total Care Model.

Announcements and Implementations

United Medical Centers, an FQHC with 14 locations in Texas, goes live on NextGen Healthcare’s EHR and practice management systems.

Nimkee Memorial Wellness Center will implement Epic through a Community Connect partnership with MyMichigan Health.

Evolve Psychiatry (NY) rolls out Sunoh.ai’s AI medical scribe software.

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Modern Medicine physician Cory Rice, DO files a lawsuit against EHR vendor Cerbo that claims the company deleted 12,000 patient files last October, failing on its promise to securely store the practice’s data and severely impacting the practice’s finances. Cerbo blames the deletion on the failure of its third-party hosting company, Atlantic.net, to maintain backups.

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