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Social services referral platform vendor Unite Us raises $150 million in Series C financing, increasing its total to $195 million and valuing the company at $1.6 billion.


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Amazon will expand its employee-only Amazon Care virtual health pilot project to its workers in all 50 states, then will offer the program to other companies later this year. The company says in its explainer video that it will bring care to the person instead of vice versa in “reimagining the practice of medicine” and “we’re rebuilding the whole delivery system around the human at the center.” The full program includes 24×7 virtual visits, at-home tests and treatments, prescription delivery, and a dedicated care team.

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Healthcare analytics vendor Clarify Health raises $115 million in a Series C funding round, increasing its total to $178 million. The company says its database of claims, EHR information, prescription records, and behavioral health data spans 300 million unique patient lives.

Data management and analytics vendor Clearsense raises $30 million in funding.


Sales

  • Kuwait’s Health Assurance Hospitals Company chooses the InterSystems TrakCare EHR.
  • Citizens Memorial Healthcare will use cloud disaster recovery services from Healthcare Triangle.
  • Ochsner Health chooses CarePort’s care transition solution.
  • Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health will deploy Netsmart’s My Avatar EHR and CareFabric platform.
  • Muscogee (Creek) Nation Health System of Oklahoma will use Everbridge’s vaccine distribution system to manage registration, scheduling, administration, tracking, and reporting.
  • Speare Memorial Hospital (NH) will implement Meditech’s Expanse EHR using Meditech as a Service. 
  • Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health will implement digital fingerprinting health information protection from Terbium Labs and will invest in the company.

People

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Glen Tullman (Livongo) joins Transcarent as CEO, expanding on his role as executive chair. The company helps self-insured employers guide employees to more cost effective care and takes a percentage of their savings. Tullman and Hemant Taneja are investors in the company as they were in Livongo, which they sold to Teladoc Health for $18.5 billion last fall.

AGS Health announces several executive hires: Proneet Sharma, MBA (Sutherland) as COO; Cheryl Cruver, MPA (Sonifi Health) as chief revenue officer; Ashish Mohan as CFO; Ekta Singh. MBA as chief human resources officer; and Phillip Park, MBA as VP of corporate development and finance.


Announcements and Implementations

Sphere launches an expanded patient payment platform that includes a mobile check-in, intake, and payment experience and the ability for patients to leave a card-on-file token for automatic payment of billing plan balances.

Remote patient monitoring solution vendor CareSimple incorporates health education material from Healthwise.

InterSystems offers its IRIS data platform as a managed service via Amazon Web Services.

Medhost announces YourCare Continuum, an enhanced care coordination solution.

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IllumiCare will add the Epic-integrated WHIRL user customization app that was developed by Wake Forest Baptist Health to its Smart Ribbon. WHIRL compresses the Epic information of 10 patients per printed page to create a customizable rounding list.

Greenway Health launches GRS Select, a customizable RCM offering.


Government and Politics

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The Senate confirms Xavier Becerra, JD – who served as California’s attorney general and as a member of Congress — as HHS secretary.


COVID-19

CDC reports that 113 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the US, with 28.5% of adults having had at least one shot and 12% being fully immunized.

Epic will offer its 10,000 employees COVID-19 vaccination on its still-closed Verona campus as approved by Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services, which has deemed the company’s software and its employees as critical. The program will be run by Mequon, WI-based flu shot clinic provider VaxPro.

Researchers will study the effects of COVID-19 vaccination on people with long COVID following anecdotal reports that their symptoms improved or disappeared shortly after injection.


Other

A Vanderbilt University Medical Center study finds that an EHR-based, real-time suicide risk model performed well in non-psychiatric clinical settings, using EHR demographics, diagnoses, medications, previous healthcare utilization, and Area Deprivation Indices that are driven by ZIP code. The authors note, however, that the model can’t capture potentially important information that is stored in free text or outside the institution’s EHR.

A review of the 100 largest US hospitals by bed count finds that two-thirds are not in compliance with CMS’s price transparency rule, either by failing to post the files at all or not included payer-specific negotiated rates.


Sponsor Updates

  • The local paper profiles Redox’s recent growth, including new funding; and expansion plans.
  • OptimizeRx’s recurring revenue grows as it secures 19 new enterprise-level engagements in Q1 2021.
  • PatientPing publishes a new white paper, “The COVID Rebound: How Real-Time Alerts Can Help SNFs Solve Three Key Challenges.”
  • Diameter Health summarizes the research it published with KONZA that demonstrates that quality score calculation is more accurate when using data from an HIE rather than a single EHR.
  • Pure Storage announces the GA of its Pure Cloud Block Store on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
  • Spirion publishes a new report, “Deliver Effective Sensitive Data Protection with 3 Must-Have Standards.”
  • Hospital Alemao Oswaldo Cruz joins the TriNetX network to expand its clinical research capabilities in Brazil and Latin America.
  • Zen Healthcare IT publishes a new case study, “Zen Healthcare IT Fast Tracks EHealth Exchange Onboarding for AdVault.”
  • WEDI features Fortified Health Security CEO Dan Dodson on its podcast.
  • Forbes includes Impact Advisors on its annual list of “America’s Best Management Consulting Firms” for the fifth consecutive year.

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Currently there are "4 comments" on this Article:

  1. Epic COVID-19 Vaccination – This is fantastic news. Epic’s employees are critical to the economic well-being of Dane County and with vaccination of 10,000 employees, it will be a boost in the arm (no pun intended) for local businesses as well as for the airport.

    • Just curious, but do these 10K employees all work locally, or does this include employees who work remotely and will be traveling to Verona to get vaccinated?

    • Why is this a big news? All hospitals in the area have already vaccinated all their staff (including billing office/customer service teams) before the vulnerable people. Could you do a survey about other hospitals (nationwide) that have vaccinated their non-clinical/administrative staff so far (those who don’t come into contact with patients)?







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