News 6/30/21

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Harris acquires physician practice and hospital software vendor Ingenious Med.

Webinars

June 30 (Wednesday) 1 ET. “From quantity to quality: The new frontier for clinical data.” Sponsor: Intelligent Medical Objects. Presenters: Dale Sanders, chief strategy officer, IMO; John Lee, MD, CMIO, Allegheny Health Network. EHRs generate more healthcare data than ever, but that data is of low quality for secondary uses such as population health, precision medicine, and pandemic management, and its collection burdens clinicians as data entry clerks. The presenters will review ways to reduce clinician EHR burden; describe the importance of standardized, harmonious data; suggest why quality measures strategy needs to be changed; and make the case that clinical data collection as a whole should be re-evaluated.

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

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Providence Ventures invests in RxRevu one year after its affiliated health system in Seattle deployed the company’s SwiftRx real-time prescription benefit software.

Stone Point Capital acquires and combines Verisys and Aperture Health, creating a company focused on credentialing, enrollment, and provider data management. Aperture Health CEO Charlie Falcone will lead the new company.

Utilization management software and physician services company Xsolis secures a $75 million investment from Brighton Park Capital. The company recently hired Mandy Cruz (Sunquest) as VP of customer delivery and Tim Mueller (Optum) as VP of client success.

Healthcare governance, risk, and compliance solutions vendor RLDatix acquires UK-based Allocate Software,. which offers human capital management solutions.

Hospital IQ, an operational management software vendor based in Massachusetts, raises $25 million in a Series C funding round.

Nearly 500 One Medical employees (excluding physicians and other clinicians) announce their intent to unionize to address the mistreatment they say they’ve suffered during the pandemic. Their complaints include:

• The company’s mismanaged COVID-19 vaccine program, which wound up making national news after company whistleblowers alerted the media to the fact that ineligible patients – some with ties to leadership – received the vaccine ahead of eligible patients, resulting in a congressional investigation.
• Denial of hazard payment to frontline workers.
• The wrongful termination of 19 employees.
• Hiring unlicensed and/or inexperienced phlebotomists.
• Sub-par care for community members who couldn’t afford One Medical’s typical membership fees.

One Medical went public earlier this year, and acquired senior-focused primary care company Iora Health several weeks ago for $2 billion.

Sales

• CyncHealth, an HIE that serves seven Midwestern states, selects Lyniate’s Rhapsody software to improve participant onboarding, privacy, and security.
• Marshfield Clinic Health System (WI) will implement NowPow’s community services referral software.
• USMD Health System and WellMed (TX) select Leading Reach’s referral communication and care coordination software.
• The North Estonia Medical Centre joins the TriNetX network to increase its engagement with the international healthcare research community.
• UBC will use Surescripts Specialty Enrollment service in its biopharma support services that include REMS enrollment, clinical studies and registries, and patient support services.
• In Canada, six Ontario hospitals will implement a shared regional instance of Cerner Millennium.

People

Chuck Podesta (UConn Health) joins Renown Health as CIO.

Eron Kelly (Amazon Web Services) joins Inovalon as president.

Announcements and Implementations

The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation will use data normalization services from Intelligent Medical Objects to improve clinical data from its CureCloud and CoMMpass clinical trial programs.

A new KLAS report on security and privacy consulting services finds that Meditology, Clearwater, and CynergisTek top the list of companies that are most often viewed as partners by customers. The report notes that Impact Advisors has the highest overall performance score at 99.1 on a 100-point scale even though its security offering is less widely known. Clients of audit-focused firms such as Deloitte, EY, and PwC are more likely to seek less-prominent companies in search of  higher value or staff quality, with Deloitte customers in particular reporting problems with executive involvement, quality, delays, and its perceived use of a B-team of inexperienced employees

Other

Ireland’s health service facilities continue to operate under downtime procedures after a ransomware attack took out their computer systems six weeks ago. The health service estimates that recovery costs will exceed $600 million.

Sponsor Updates

• Cerner employees assemble 300 hygiene kits, prepare 100 dental bags, and stuff 2,000 envelopes for its Care Kits and Healthe Kids Screenings programs.
• Dina CEO Ashish Shah will speak at the Home Care 100 Leadership Conference June 30.
• Lumeon publishes “The Future of Digital Transformation in Healthcare Report 2021.”
• Surescripts announces that last year more than 745,000 individuals and organizations used its Clinical Direct Messaging to improve transitions of care, send immunization notifications, coordinate medication management efforts and achieve federal incentives requiring the use of secure electronic messaging.

Blog Posts

• Close the gaps between your claims data, insights and actions (Ability Network)
• Best Practices for Epic Analysts – and Their HCOs (Bluetree)
• Care Coordination and Behavioral Health: A Q&A with Vertava Health’s Jordan Cruz (CarePort)
• A Pandemic Melts Traditional Healthcare Silos, Shining a Light on How to Turn Disruption and Change into Opportunity (CentralLogic)
• Technology and Data Security Risks In Healthcare’s Remote-Driven Work Environment (Vyne Medical)
• How to Add an Additional Revenue Stream for Your Practice with Chronic Care Management (ChartSpan)
• 3 Ways New Interoperability Regulations Will Impact Payer-Provider Collaboration (Collective Medical)
• Physician’s Time – A Critical Asset (Culbert Healthcare Solutions)
• Why Move Your Analytics to the Cloud? (Dimensional Insight)
• Dermatology Made Easier This Summer (EClinicalWorks)
• Healthcare organizations need a data breach response plan (Experian Health)

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