News 9/18/23

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White-label virtual care delivery company OpenLoop Health expands its headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa by occupying a second floor of office space. The building OpenLoop occupies has also been renamed OpenLoop Tower. The company expects to start renovating an additional floor before the end of the year.

Webinars

September 21 (Thursday) 2 ET. “Unlock open enrollment best practices to stop future denials.” Sponsor: Waystar. Presenter: Lauren Tungate, solution strategist team lead, Waystar. Nearly half of insured Americans consider changing their insurance coverage each fall, necessitating provider safeguards to stop increased denials, find hidden coverage, and prevent uncompensated care. This webinar will crack open enrollment best practices, such as using different data sources to get an accurate picture of benefit details; leveraging automation to identify hidden coverage, confirm active insurance, and avoid lost revenue; and simplifying eligibility workflows to reduce the financial burden on patients and strain on staff.

October 25 (Wednesday) 2 ET. “Live Ask Me Anything Webinar: The Power of Data Completeness.” Sponsor: Particle Health. Presenters: Jason Prestinario, MSME, CEO, Particle Health; Carolyn Ward, MD, director of clinical strategy, Particle Health. Is fragmented data impacting your organization and its ability to scale quickly? Our experts will discuss the advantage of having a 360-degree, real-time view of your patients. Access to analytic-ready data supports proactive care by enabling rapid clinical decision-making, stratifying high-risk patients, developing and using personalized treatment plans, lowering cost, and quickly closing care gaps.

Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

Announcements and Implementations

Hampton Roads Radiology Associates (VA) selects revenue cycle and practice management software and services from Healthcare Administrative Partners.

Presbyterian Medical Services, an FQHC based in New Mexico, implements VirtualHealth’s Helios care coordination technology.

Privia Health will roll out Navina’s AI-powered clinical decision support software across its practices.

Summit Medical Specialists (KY) will supplement its Ob/Gyn care with virtual behavioral healthcare services from Iron Health.

Henry County Health Center will go live on Oracle Health through a partnership with Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center.

Government and Politics

A HIStalk reader reports from AHIP that “National Coordinator Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP says QHINs will go live in November or December, initially for provider-to-provider treatment purposes, with FHIR-based exchanges to follow in Q1.”

Other

The Georgia Department of Community Health notifies Medicaid providers that it sent termination/revalidation emails in error. The department attributes the error to a contractor, which mistakenly sent out a test email not intended for mass distribution.

Sponsor Updates

• Seashore MD streamlines patient booking and patient acquisition with EClinicalWorks EHR and Healow solutions.
• Nordic releases a new “Making Rounds” podcast, “Emerging opportunities with cloud-based EHRs.”
• EClinicalWorks publishes a new customer success story, “Unlock Healthcare Benefits with Healow.”

Blog Posts

• Diagnosing, optimizing, and funding your next EHR implementation to combat provider burnout (Nordic)

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News 9/13/23

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Walgreens will collaborate with tech-enabled primary care enablement company Pearl Health on helping community-based PCPs offer value-based care services. Walgreens will offer PCPs working with Pearl Health prescription fulfillment, medication adherence, immunizations, care gap closure, diagnostic testing, and assistance in transitioning patients from the hospital to home.

Webinars

September 21 (Thursday) 2 ET. “Unlock open enrollment best practices to stop future denials.” Sponsor: Waystar. Presenter: Lauren Tungate, solution strategist team lead, Waystar. Nearly half of insured Americans consider changing their insurance coverage each fall, necessitating provider safeguards to stop increased denials, find hidden coverage, and prevent uncompensated care. This webinar will crack open enrollment best practices, such as using different data sources to get an accurate picture of benefit details; leveraging automation to identify hidden coverage, confirm active insurance, and avoid lost revenue; and simplifying eligibility workflows to reduce the financial burden on patients and strain on staff.

October 25 (Wednesday) 2 ET. “Live Ask Me Anything Webinar: The Power of Data Completeness.” Sponsor: Particle Health. Presenters: Jason Prestinario, MSME, CEO, Particle Health; Carolyn Ward, MD, director of clinical strategy, Particle Health. Is fragmented data impacting your organization and its ability to scale quickly? Our experts will discuss the advantage of having a 360-degree, real-time view of your patients. Access to analytic-ready data supports proactive care by enabling rapid clinical decision-making, stratifying high-risk patients, developing and using personalized treatment plans, lowering cost, and quickly closing care gaps.

Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

In other Walgreens news, the retail pharmacy settles a class-action lawsuit with Theranos customers for $44 million. Walgreens will refund patients in Arizona and California for Theranos products that didn’t work, plus additional payments related to battery and medical battery claims. Walgreens at one time operated 40 Walgreens Theranos Wellness Centers in Arizona.

People

UnisLink names Bryan Koch (Medtronic) COO.

Calm Waters AI promotes Kurt Kozin to EVP of sales.

Neville Zar (Deloitte) joins Athenahealth as SVP of revenue cycle management.

Other

Deer Oaks Mental Health Associates becomes a victim of the LockBit ransomware group, according to cybersecurity expert  Dominic Alvieri.

When you’re done playing Cones of Dunshire: Nonprofit Pro Se Practice, led by Main Line Health CISO Andrew Weismann, launches a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the production of cybersecurity tabletop board game Guardians of the Grid. Backers may be featured on one of the game’s 416 playing cards.

Sponsor Updates

• DePaul Community Health Centers reduces days in accounts receivable by more than 50% with RCM solutions from EClinicalWorks.
• Nordic releases a new episode of its In Network podcast in partnership with Amazon Web Services, “Making Rounds: Emerging opportunities with cloud-based EHRs.”

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News 9/11/23

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The NYSE puts primary care company Cano Health on notice for listing noncompliance, given that the average closing stock price of a share of its Class A common stock was less than $1.00 per share over a consecutive 30 trading-day period. Cano has six months to regain compliance.

The company is in the midst of executing a restructuring plan, which includes selling non-core assets and laying off 700 employees.

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Webinars

September 21 (Thursday) 2 ET. “Unlock open enrollment best practices to stop future denials.” Sponsor: Waystar. Presenter: Lauren Tungate, solution strategist team lead, Waystar. Nearly half of insured Americans consider changing their insurance coverage each fall, necessitating provider safeguards to stop increased denials, find hidden coverage, and prevent uncompensated care. This webinar will crack open enrollment best practices, such as using different data sources to get an accurate picture of benefit details; leveraging automation to identify hidden coverage, confirm active insurance, and avoid lost revenue; and simplifying eligibility workflows to reduce the financial burden on patients and strain on staff.

Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

People

Julie Bataille (GMMB) joins Aledade as SVP of communications.

Announcements and Implementations

OrthoCarolina will implement HealthPrecision’s Medical Brain AI-powered clinical decision support software across its clinics in the Southeast.

Denver-based Gastro Care Partners selects ModMed’s GGastro EHR, practice management, patient engagement, and analytics platform.

Other

Mr. HIStalk mentioned in the latest Monday Morning Update that Georgia-based family practice doctor Jim Morrow, MD, MS, died August 31 at 69. In addition to practicing family medicine at his Atlanta-based clinics, Morrow held health IT executive and advisory roles during his career of nearly 40 years. I remember him as an active representative in Atlanta health IT circles during my first few years in the industry. He was gracious enough to grant me my first interview for HIStalk Practice nearly 10 years ago.

Sponsor Updates

• Nordic releases a new Designing for Health Podcast, “Interview with CT Lin, MD, Liz Salmi, and Bryan Steitz, PhD.”
• EClinicalWorks releases a new podcast, “Unlocking Reporting Capabilities in EBO.”
• Nordic will exhibit at the Oracle Health Conference September 18-20 in Las Vegas.
• Nordic releases another episode of its In Network podcast, “Designing for Health: Interview with CT Lin, MD, Liz Salmi, and Bryan Steitz, PhD.”

Blog Posts

• Nurses of Note 2023: The Acute Neurovascular Advanced Practitioner (PerfectServe)

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News 9/6/23

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NextGen Healthcare shares jump on the news that Thoma Bravo will acquire the ambulatory health IT company in a take-private deal valued at $1.8 billion.

Webinars

September 21 (Thursday) 2 ET. “Unlock open enrollment best practices to stop future denials.” Sponsor: Waystar. Presenter: Lauren Tungate, solution strategist team lead, Waystar. Nearly half of insured Americans consider changing their insurance coverage each fall, necessitating provider safeguards to stop increased denials, find hidden coverage, and prevent uncompensated care. This webinar will crack open enrollment best practices, such as using different data sources to get an accurate picture of benefit details; leveraging automation to identify hidden coverage, confirm active insurance, and avoid lost revenue; and simplifying eligibility workflows to reduce the financial burden on patients and strain on staff.

Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Behavioral health outcomes tracking software vendor ERPHealth acquires Manifesto, which offers a peer support and behavioral health coaching app.

Retail healthcare software company PracticeTek acquires competitor Integrated Practice Solutions. IPS CEO George Ahn will become CEO of PracticeTek, replacing Eric Leaver, who will become an advisor.

Specialty-focused health IT company ModuleMD acquires Alaska-based Diversified Health Care Management and Professional Management Services, both of which offer practice management and RCM software and services.

People

Brent Michael (EverCommerce) joins Lightning Step as CEO.

Announcements and Implementations

Plymouth Psych Group (MN) switches from Practice Fusion to ClinicMind’s EHR. The group had already been using ClinicMind’s RCM software and services.

United Digestive will implement Provation’s Apex clinical documentation software across its network of facilities in four states.

Community Health Center will deploy Epic at its four clinics in Iowa. The implementation is part of a statewide project spearheaded by OCHIN that will see 11 community clinics transition to Epic by the end of the year. Iowa Primary Care Association affiliate InConcertCare is managing the project.

The South Dakota Department of Health will work with Findhelp to build a Community Information Exchange that will connect patients with social care service providers.

Sponsor Updates

• A new KLAS white paper shows that Nordic has one of the industry’s most robust selections of services aimed at streamlining the EHR experience.
• EClinicalWorks offers a new customer success story, “Boosting Patient Satisfaction with Healow Secure Text.”

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News 8/30/23

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Better Life Partners raises $26.5 million in a Series B funding round. The company offers virtual and in-person care services for patients dealing with substance use disorders. It operates in four states and plans to expand into population health management.

Alongside the funding news, co-founder and COO Steve Kelly has moved into the role of chief growth officer.

Webinars

None scheduled soon. Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

People

Abyde promotes Jake Dewberry to COO and Chris Wheaton to chief revenue officer.

Announcements and Implementations

Golden Care Solutions will roll out CareSpan Health’s digital care Software-as-a-Service to its network of practices.

Alo will leverage Innovaccer’s data-sharing capabilities and analytics throughout its new clinically integrated network of independent physician practices in North Carolina.

Sympathy Health Clinic in Las Vegas implements CareCloud TalkEHR.

Veteran-focused PsychiaTreat (NY) selects behavioral health software from EClinicalWorks.

Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge will leverage Credible EHR software from Qualifacts as a part of its drug and alcohol treatment and recovery program administered at 14 facilities.

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing will use Safety Net Connect’s e-consult technology as a part of its statewide Health First Colorado Medicaid program.

Research and Innovation

Physician practice staffing data from MGMA shows that workflow improvements and virtual care options have helped practices reduce time to next available appointments for new patients from 10 to five days.

Other

The Venice Family Clinic in California renames itself the Chuck Lorre Rose Avenue Health and Wellness Center in honor of the television producer whose generous donations over the past 20 years have helped enable its extensive renovations. Lorre explained at the center’s ribbon-cutting, “When I first came to Los Angeles, I was really sick, I was really physically extremely ill. I was 110 pounds, and (my) prospects weren’t good. And I had no insurance. So this is important to me. The opportunity to see a doctor when you need to see a doctor, no matter what’s in your wallet, is really personal to me.”

GoodRx adds real-time health insurance benefit information to the provider side of its prescription cost software, giving physicians the ability to offer patients transparent prescription pricing at the point of care.

Sponsor Updates

• EClinicalWorks releases a new podcast, “Empowering Communities, Analytics for Better Patient Care.”
• Nordic releases a new Designing for Health Podcast, “Interview with Matt Sakumoto, MD.”

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