News 8/27/25

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Assort Health announces $50 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raised to over $72 million since launching two years ago.

The company helps specialty practices automate call center and patient engagement processes using AI voice agents.

Sponsored Events and Resources

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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Vision care kiosk company Eyebot raises $20 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total raised to $30 million. Kiosk customers receive a free vision assessment and, if necessary, a prescription, which is verified for a fee by an Eyebot physician. The kiosk can also manage referrals for more comprehensive in-person exams.

Announcements and Implementations

WebPT adds AI solutions from Comprehend Health to its EHR for physical therapists and other outpatient specialties, including a chatbot and scribing and compliance capabilities.

Scribematic announces GA of Matic Inside, embedded AI documentation technology built for EHR developers.

EIVF develops a cloud-based EHR for fertility practices.

Other

The City of Minneapolis and its Opioid Response Team launch a mobile medical unit to offer care, especially substance abuse treatment, to residents in underserved areas.

The entertainment group behind the new Toxic Avenger movie partners with Undue Medical Debt in a creative marketing campaign: The nonprofit will pay off $1 million in medical debt for every $1 million the movie makes at the box office.

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News 8/25/25

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PE firm Advent International acquires PatientPoint, which sells digital point-of-care advertising to pharma companies. The company also offers online marketing services to providers. It has been exploring a potential sale for several months.

Advent’s portfolio also includes Iodine Software and Definitive Healthcare.

Sponsored Events and Resources

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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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Barti Software raises $12 million in Series A funding. The company specializes in EHR and practice management technology for eye care practices.

People

CoachCare names Raymond Parvin (Microline Surgical) COO.

Announcements and Implementations

Sawtooth Mountain Clinic (MN) will go live on Epic in October.

Research and Innovation

A survey of 214 healthcare professionals at practices with 250 or fewer employees finds that nearly half have experienced a phishing or spoofing incident within the last 12 months. Slightly more lack anti-phishing controls beyond default spam filters. Nearly all have yet to implement secure email transfer protocols. A third of respondents say they don’t have enough time for compliance tasks, and that their organization has no set cybersecurity policies or plans in place.

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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.

Sponsored Events and Resources

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.

People

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.

Other

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.

Other

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.

Sponsored Events and Resources

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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