News 9/8/25

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Patient intake and engagement software vendor Phreesia will acquire AccessOne, which offers patient financing solutions, for $160 million.

The news comes on the heels of the introduction of Phreesia’s VoiceAI phone solution for healthcare call management.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Conversational agentic AI startup Hello Patient announces $22.5 million in Series A funding. Hello Patient founder and CEO Alex Cohen was previously a director of product at Carbon Health.

Announcements and Implementations

Raleigh Orthopaedic (NC) implements EHR, AI, and RCM software from Commure’s Athelas business.

VitalCare Family Practice (VA) rolls out Sunoh.ai’s AI medical scribe.

Vitality Unlimited will use Ensoftek’s DrCloudEHR at its four behavioral health clinics in Nevada.

Psychiatric Alternatives & Wellness Center (CA) selects insurance benefits and verification software from Sohar Health.

J3 RCM announces GA of ForwardEHR, its new AI-powered EHR and billing platform.

The Arkansas Department of Human Services’ Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health will offer substance use disorder patients and their families access to CHESS Health’s Connections and Companion apps.

Other

The local news outlet profiles Darin Green, DO a proctologist in Ohio who moonlights as a standup comedian. Green often donates proceeds from his shows to local charities, having most recently raised $4,000 for the Enon Relief Food Pantry. “Because my chosen field of medicine is proctology, he says, “it gives me an endless supply of comedy and jokes.”

Online prescription delivery company Wisp becomes the first women’s health company to sell over-the-counter products through the TikTok Shop.

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• The Rise of Emoji in Healthcare Communication (PerfectServe)

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News 9/3/25

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Meroka raises $6 million in seed funding. The company helps independent physicians transfer ownership of their practices to their employees. It also helps to equip the practice with new workforce and billing technology unified on a single platform.

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Yanni Metaxas joins Physitrack (Mount Sinai Solutions) as head of sales for North America.

Atria Health names Janis Newcomb (Aledade) VP of integrations.

Announcements and Implementations

RCM Matter announces GA of its new medical billing and RCM software.

Outpatient behavioral healthcare provider Pathway Health selects Watershed Health’s care coordination software and services.

Commonwealth Pain & Spine implements AI-powered RCM software from Adonis across its 30 clinics.

Binsera develops a cloud-based EHR capable of operating offline.

Research and Innovation

Sixty-three percent of patients say they’d switch providers due to ineffective engagement, according to an Artera survey of 1,000 people. Nearly 50% refuse to schedule appointments over the phone due to frustrating experiences. Many patients have taken to ignoring text messages from unknown numbers, assuming they are spam, causing appointment reminders to be overlooked. Patients report they are more likely to engage with longer-form text messages from recognizable numbers.

Other

The local news shares the story of Maurice Sholas, MD, PhD a New Orleans-based physician who discovered that his likeness was being used on TikTok to sell vitamins he’s never endorsed. The video proliferated across several social media platforms, with TikTok being the only one that responded to Sholas’ demands that they be taken down.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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