News 4/30/25

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Indiana-based blood bank and pathology services company South Bend Medical Foundation acquires release-of-information vendor ChartPro, which is headquartered in Atlanta. SBMF plans to retain all of ChartPro’s employees.

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Virtual primary care company LifeMD will use newly acquired assets from Optimal Human Health MD to launch women’s healthcare services this summer.

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Activate Care names Bill Dunne (Aledade) SVP of sales.

Announcements and Implementations

Maryland Endocrine replaces its third-party after-hours call service with AI-powered contact center software from EClinicalWorks.

Health and wellness practice management software vendor Jane adds video conferencing capabilities from Whereby to enhance its virtual consult offering.

Research and Innovation

Private practices are most focused on improving patient payments and payer reimbursement workflows and automating claims preparation processes to be top priorities for the remainder of the year, according to a new AdvancedMD survey.

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Texas A&M University’s College of Medicine creates a clinic for the residents of Sarita, Texas and surrounding Kenedy County through the college’s student-run Build program. Built out of a 40-foot shipping container, the Texas Aggie Medical Clinic is now one of the primary means of access to healthcare for the 400 residents of the rural community. The clinic also offers virtual mental health consultations through Texas A&M’s Telehealth Institute.

Walmart Canada opens its first pharmacy clinic in Ontario, with additional clinics to open later this year. The in-store clinic, located next to the pharmacy, offers customers the ability to see pharmacists for minor ailments, point-of-care testing, and medication management.

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• AdvancedMD partners with Moyae as an integration partner to boost efficiencies for ophthalmology and optometry practices.

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News 4/28/25

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Private equity firm GTCR is reportedly looking to sell value-based healthcare technology vendor Cedar Gate Technologies at a $1 billion valuation.

GTCR launched Cedar Gate in 2014 with investor David Snow at the helm. He still serves as the company’s chairman and CEO.

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Florida-based EyeMD EMR Healthcare Systems secures an undisclosed amount of funding from Performant Capital.

CareCloud opens an AI Center of Excellence that focuses on embedding AI across all areas of its ambulatory health IT. The center, which the company touts as “dual-shore,” currently employs 50 and will scale up to 500 by the end of the year.

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Nicole Chambers, MBA (Annexus Health) joins PatientPoint as SVP of commercial oncology.

Announcements and Implementations

Sohar Health announces GA of Discovery automated patient intake and insurance verification software.

Physical Rehabilitation Network begins offering its patients Limber Health’s MSK-focused remote patient monitoring and home exercise app.

HOPE Community Medicine in Texas rolls out AI medical scribe technology from Sunoh.ai.

McCall Behavioral Health Network (CT) implements NextGen Healthcare’s EHR and practice management software across its 23 facilities.

Neighborhood Healthcare (CA) selects Nabla’s ambient AI assistant after a four-month pilot.

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Comprehensive Neurology (NY) will take corrective action and pay $25,000 to settle a potential HIPAA violation related to its failure to meet HIPAA’s Security Rule risk analysis requirement. The practice suffered a ransomware attack in 2020 that exposed the PHI of 7,000 patients.

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News 4/23/25

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PIH Health, a network of three hospitals and numerous outpatient providers in California, will pay $600,000 to settle potential HIPAA violations related to a 2019 employee email phishing attack that wound up exposing the data of 190,000 patients.

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Patient experience software vendor Promptly acquires medical practice CRM software from MDprospects and Patient Spectrum.

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Nelson Gomes returns to Medicus IT as EVP of corporate growth and partnerships.

Announcements and Implementations

New York Cancer & Blood Specialists implements DeepScribe’s oncology-focused ambient AI operating system.

The California Medical Association’s Physician Services subsidiary launches MedWay, a suite of administrative services for practices and health centers in California.

Azalea City (AL) will implement Clinekt Health’s MedCheck AI MSK Symptom Predictor across its rehabilitation programs.

SimonMed incorporates Lunit’s Insight DBT AI-powered breast cancer diagnosis software and Volpara’s analytics with its Personalized Breast Cancer Detection Service.

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Patient Protect develops a free HIPAA Breach Dashboard that lets users view breach type, location, and corrective action analysis in real time using HHS OCR data. A company analysis found that 250 million patient records were exposed in 2024, with the majority of breaches occurring within small to mid-sized practices.

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News 4/21/25

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Brellium raises $16.7 million in Series A funding.The startup offers AI-powered clinical and payer compliance solutions for providers of all sizes

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Digital maternal healthcare startup Trellis Health launches with $1.8 million in pre-seed funding. The company’s software uses AI to aggregate and synthesize health data from multiple sources into a timeline that will help providers and patients create data-driven care plans. It launches to consumers on May 20.

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Strive Health names Paul Marchetti (Elevance Health) president and promotes Jen Browne to COO.

Announcements and Implementations

Baldwin Bone & Joint (AL) selects Clinekt Health’s MedCheck patient risk-scoring software.

Pediatrica Health Group (FL) implements EHR software from EClinicalWorks and AI medical scribe technology from Sunoh.ai.

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• The Latest from Vital Signs: Healthcare provider pay increases, staffing challenges, GPOs and practice-payer relationships (AdvancedMD)

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News 4/16/25

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Canadian provider and health IT company Well Health Technologies reports a 19% increase in annual revenue, despite revenue deferral from its Circle Medical business and negative revenue cycle impacts from the Change Healthcare cyberattack in February of last year.

The company notes in its earnings report that it paid $2.8 million to settle federal US allegations of improper Circle Medical Technologies billing practices. Well Health is now looking at strategic alternatives for the California-based virtual primary care clinic.

Well Health acquired a controlling stake in Healwell AI earlier this month, concurrent with Healwell’s acquisition of Orion Health.

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Behavioral health EHR vendor Cantata Health Solutions acquires IMA Systems, a behavioral health IT company focused on health and human services providers in New York.

Assort Health announces an undisclosed amount of funding from First Round Chemistry and Capital, bringing the startup’s total raised to $26 million. The company offers specialty-specific AI voice agents to help practices manage inbound phone calls.

Two providers in Minnesota file preliminary injunctions to stop UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division from collecting on emergency loans given out to the providers in the aftermath of the cyberattack on UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare business. The providers say they can’t make good on the loans because they haven’t yet fully recovered from revenue cycle disruptions caused by the attack. Adding insult to injury is the fact that UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. has denied $18,000 in claims due to their untimeliness – a fact the providers say was caused by the cyberattack. Optum, which extended the repayment deadline from January to May, is seeking to dismiss the lawsuits.

AI RCM startup Youlify raises $4.3 million in seed funding. It is in the process of launching an AI-powered voice agent to automate insurance appeals.

People

Cantata Health Solutions names Christy Winter (Health Note) VP of product management.

Greg Shorten (Aspirion) joins Assembly Health as chief commercial officer.

Announcements and Implementations

OrthoNY implements RCM and AI-enhanced patient engagement software from IKS Health.

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