News 6/10/24
Top News
Value-based cancer care company Thyme Care adds to its previously announced round of $60 million in Series B funding with investments from Echo Health Ventures and CVS Health Ventures.
Webinars
June 26 (Wednesday) noon ET. “Population Risk Management in Action: Automating Clinical Workflows to Improve Medication Adherence.” Sponsor: DrFirst. Presenters: Colin Banas, MD, MHA, chief medical officer, DrFirst; Weston Blakeslee, PhD, VP of population health, DrFirst. What if you could measure and manage medication adherence in a way that would eliminate the burdens of medication history collection, patient identification, and prioritization? The presenters will describe how to use MedHx PRM’s new capabilities to harness the most complete medication history data on the market, benefit from near real-time medication data delivered within 24 hours, automatically build rosters of eligible patients, and identify gaps of care in seconds.
June 27 (Thursday) noon ET. “Snackable Summer Series, Session 1: The Intelligent Health Record.” Sponsor: Health Data Analytics Institute. This webinar will describe how HealthVision, HDAI’s Intelligent Health Management System, is transforming care across health systems and value-based care organizations. This 30-minute session will answer the question: what if you could see critical information from hundreds of EHR pages in a one-page patient chart and risk summary that serves the entire care team? We will tour the Spotlight, an easy-to-digest health profile and risk prediction tool. Session 2 will describe HDAI’s Intelligent Analytics solution, while Session 3 will tour HDAI’s Intelligent Workflow solution.
Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.
Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
Stitch Employment Services launches with $9 million in funding. The company, incubated at Redesign Health, specializes in helping independent practices with HR tasks.
People
Shane Shepherd (Advanced Pain Care) joins vision practice billing software vendor Anagram as head of RCM.
AristaMD names Keith Pinter (Rise Health) CEO.
Announcements and Implementations
EClinicalWorks announces that Rocky Mountain Women’s Clinic (ID) and Stone Mountain Health Services (VA) have implemented its Sunoh.ai virtual medical scribe technology.
Pediatric Associates will implement Innovaccer’s Healthcare AI Platform across its facilities in seven states.
I Am Boundless, an Ohio-based provider of care services for patients with behavioral health and/or intellectual and development disabilities, selects NextGen’s enterprise EHR and practice management systems.
Government and Politics
CityMD, a VillageMD-owned chain of 117 urgent care practices in New York and New Jersey, will pay federal authorities $12 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false and/or inaccurate payment claims for a HRSA-funded COVID testing program for uninsured patients. CityMD apparently did not perform its due diligence in confirming whether or not patients were in fact insured at the time of testing.
Other
The local paper profiles the continued efforts of the son of the late Robert Kieber, MD to reunite baby pictures from his father’s practice in St. Joseph, MO with their owners or family members. The photos date from the 1940s to the 1960s.
InformationWeek documents the journey Headspace has taken to ensure its virtual mental healthcare services are secure, honing in on how it bundled its compliance, privacy, and security programs into a unified privacy operations center. While the details of its development are certainly interesting, perhaps the most telling fact is that training Headspace clinicians to use a password manager was the hardest part of the entire process.
Sponsor Updates
- Nordic releases a new “Designing for Health” podcast titled “Interview with Kit Delgado, MD.”
Blog Posts
- From burnout to balance: The untapped power of medical assistants in healthcare (Nordic)
- 4 Best Smartphones for Nurse Communication (PerfectServe)
- Need to improve revenue capture? Start with charge capture + DRG accuracy (Waystar)
- Feeling burned out? There’s a tech prescription for that! (EClinicalWorks)
- MIPS Improvement Activities: What qualifies as a high-weight activity? (AdvancedMD)
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