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News 5/13/24

May 13, 2024 News Comments Off on News 5/13/24

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Specialty care coordination company Switchboard Health raises $6.5 million in seed funding. Health IT veteran Derek Baird co-founded the company in 2022.


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CareCloud shares a few more details about the acquisition offer it ultimately turned down last week, including the fact that the prospective buyer would likely have taken the company private. The ambulatory health IT vendor has since hired investment bank Citizens JMP to review its capital structure.


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Carna Health names co-founder Salvatore Viscomi, MD CEO.

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HealtheConnections COO Elizabeth Amato will succeed Rob Hack as president and CEO when he retires at the end of this year.


Announcements and Implementations

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Axis Health System will implement NextGen Healthcare’s enterprise EHR and practice management technologies across its 13 locations in Colorado.

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Virtual rheumatology clinic Remission Medical launches RemissionNavigation, a text-based consult service that enables patients to connect directly with Remission Medical providers.

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Workit Health, a virtual substance use disorder clinic, will use a nearly $1 million grant from the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) – Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Access program to begin offering its services in three additional Ohio counties. The company launched its first Ohio clinic in 2021.


Government and Politics

HHS offers new funding opportunities for projects related to accelerating the adoption of health IT in behavioral healthcare settings, and to developing novel ways to evaluate and improve the quality of health care data used by AI solutions in healthcare.


Research and Innovation

A Black Book survey of 13,000 physician practice leaders offers insight into how these organizations coped financially during the initial days of the Change Healthcare hack:

  • Twenty-seven percent dipped into personal savings or retirement funds.
  • Twenty-two percent had to open new lines of practice credit.
  • Nine percent applied for personal loans, second mortgages, equity lines of credit, or borrowed from a third party.
  • Three percent applied for temporary assistance from their clearinghouse vendor.
  • An overwhelming majority of respondents report finding out about the hack from their EHR vendor, accountant, and/or the media rather than their clearinghouse vendor; and that they have been dissatisfied with the amount of clearinghouse vendor communication they’ve received over the last three months.

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  • Nordic releases a new Designing for Health Podcast, “Interview with Farhan Ahmad and Jon Keevil, MD.”
  • PerfectServe honors 150 outstanding nurses in its fourth annual Nurses of Note Awards program.
  • Waystar wins a Medtech Breakthrough Award in the healthcare payments innovation category.

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News 5/8/24

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App-based pediatric mental healthcare provider Backpack Healthcare raises $14 million in a Series A funding round. It currently serves patients and their families in Maryland and Virginia.


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Senior-focused primary care optimization company Agilon Health reports a 52% increase in Q1 revenue, with results being in line with forecasted guidance. The company has added Graves Gilbert Clinic (KY), Mankato Clinic (MN), Twin Cities Network (MN), and Springfield Clinic (IL) to its physician network.

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Canadian Well Health Technologies sees a 37% increase in Q1 revenue to $231.6 million, with its USA Patient and Provider Services business bringing in $140.4 million and its SaaS and technology services bringing in $15.4 million. It sold EHR developer IntraHealth to Healwell AI in February for $24 million.


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Aric Coffman, MD, MBA (Honest Medical Group) joins P3 Health Partners as CEO.

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NextGen Healthcare names Diane Kaye (Belmor Consulting) chief product officer, Jake Sims (Gainwell Technologies) CTO, and Garo Doudian (Moody’s Analytics) CIO and CISO.


Announcements and Implementations

Atlantis Orthopedics (FL) selects EClinicalWorks EHR and patient engagement software.

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Occupational hybrid healthcare provider Premise Health will implement identity verification technology from Badge.

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The Centers, a mental and behavioral healthcare provider in Arkansas, selects Netsmart’s CareFabric, clinical, financial, and operational software.


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  • AdvancedMD employees volunteer with numerous organizations during the company’s day of service.
  • Nordic releases a new episode of its “In Network” podcast, “Designing for Health: Interview with Farhan Ahmad and Jon Keevil, MD.”

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News 5/6/24

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Tech-enabled musculoskeletal care management company Livara Health raises $15 million in Series B funding. The company, formerly known as SpineZone, has raised $27 million since it was launched in 2014 by brothers and orthopedic surgeons Kian and Kamshad Raiszadeh.


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Announcements and Implementations

The Pacific Islands Primary Care Association and partner HealthEfficient announce that three community health centers involved in their federally-funded Pacific Islands Electronic Health Initiative have implemented EClinicalWorks software.

NJ Comprehensive Healthcare implements CareCloud’s TalkUltimate EHR, practice management, and RCM platform.

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Family Centered Services of Alaska selects Cantata Health’s Arize care management software.


Government and Politics

A Massachusetts medical practice’s former office manager faces charges related to embezzling $650,000 from the practice over a seven-year period. Kathleen Libby transferred funds to a private PayPal account under the guise of medical supply payments, used practice credit cards for personal expenses, and put two of her relatives on the practice’s payroll. (They, presumably, did not perform any actual work.) Her subsequent spending sprees involved purchases from Louis Vuitton, Bloomingdales, and other retailers.


Research and Innovation

A recent survey of 1,000 consumers and 200 RCM professionals finds that patient access to providers is improving, largely due to increased staffing levels, greater utilization of telehealth and self-scheduling tools, and more accurate price estimates. The most cited patient access challenge is the inability to get in quickly to see a provider, also cited as the top challenge in 2022.


Sponsor Updates

  • Nordic will offer sales, consulting, and implementation of the diagnostic and treatment analytic platform of Clinical Healthcare Analytics.
  • PerfectServe earns the top customer satisfaction ranking for secure communications platforms, physician practices in Black Book’s latest State of the Healthcare Cybersecurity Industry” report.

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News 5/1/24

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Trovo Health, which offers AI-powered assistants for specialty practices, raises $15 million in a seed funding round.

Co-founders Niren Gandra, MD and Aditya Pandyaram both spent time as executives at patient billing and engagement software vendor Cedar before launching New York City-based Tovo earlier this year.


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CVS Health shares drop after the company releases disappointing Q1 results. Its revenue of $88.4 billion represents a 3.7% increase over last year. Revenues of its health services segment, which includes in-home, in-clinic, and virtual care; pharmacy benefit management; and provider enablement solutions; decreased nearly 10%.

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Value-based care and physician practice enablement company Aledade acquires Medical Advantage, a subsidiary of The Doctor’s Company that provides value-based healthcare consulting to practices in Michigan. Medical Advantage President Paul MacLellan will become president of Aledade’s Michigan market.

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Health IT vendor Engage Technologies Group and aesthetics-focused APX Platform merge to form Clarity Technologies.


People

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Robert Bessler, MD (Sound Physicians) joins Honest Medical Group as CEO.


Announcements and Implementations

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Brownfield Regional Medical Center (TX) implements AI medical scribe capabilities from Sunoh.ai.

Well Health Technologies selects Azure cloud and Azure OpenAI software from Microsoft.

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American Medical Administrators will implement EHR, RCM, and patient engagement software from EClinicalWorks across its network of affiliated practices in six states.


Sponsor Updates

  • AdvancedMD welcomes new integration partners Jopari Solutions, TriumpHealth, DMEconnected, and EirSystems.

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News 4/29/24

April 29, 2024 News Comments Off on News 4/29/24

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RCM vendor Gebbs Healthcare Solutions acquires CCD Health, a contact center based in the Dominican Republic that specializes in appointment scheduling for outpatient radiology practices.


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Announcements and Implementations

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Every Child Pediatrics (CO) implements Yosi Health’s patient intake and registration software.

Atlantic Radiology New Hampshire selects RCM and practice management software and services from Healthcare Administrative Partners.

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Quest Medical Billing Services begins offering billing services for mental healthcare.


Research and Innovation

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A small study featured in JAMA finds that primary care physicians who saw patients both virtually and in person during a single shift perform around 6% more EHR-based work than colleagues who saw patients via a single modality. Those PCPs who solely conducted telemedicine visits did not perform any additional work in their EHR.


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Airing tonight on Georgia Public Broadcasting, “The Only Doctor” documents the efforts of Karen Kinsell, MD to care for the residents of one of Georgia’s unhealthiest counties in a clinic that is barely scraping by. Filmmaker Matthew Hashiguchi says of Kinsell, “She is a doctor 24 hours a day, seven days a week. She gets calls on the weekends, at night, random times, from residents and patients asking for help. And I was just sort of in awe of her willingness to do whatever it took to do what was right in her eyes.”


Sponsor Updates

  • EClinicalWorks will host its 2024 Health Center Summit May 8-10 in Boston.
  • Waystar will exhibit at the OPIE Software: Driving Practice Success customer conference May 2-3 in Oklahoma City.

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