News 6/8/22

Top News

Oracle shares see a slight uptick on the news that the company has closed its deal to acquire Cerner for $28 billion.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Bain Capital has acquired a majority stake in LeanTaaS, a technology vendor specializing in hospital operations and capacity management optimization. The company, founded by CEO Mohan Giridharadas in 2010, has raised nearly $238 million. Its cloud-based software is used by over 500 hospitals and 130 health systems.

People

Lyniate promotes Scott Galbari to president, COO, and CISO; and hires Mikael Andén (Intelerad Medical Systems) as EVP of sales.

Surescripts names Frank Harvey (ATLS Investments) CEO. Harvey succeeds Tom Skelton, who announced his intent to retire late last year.

Mark Costanza (Spok) joins MobileSmith as chief client and operations officer.

Announcements and Implementations

Stanford Health Care (CA) implements interactive bedside patient entertainment and hospital services technology from Sonifi Health.

Great Falls Clinic (MT) has implemented Phreesia’s patient intake technology.

LeadingReach announces GA of care coordination analytics.

Medical Center Health System (TX) rolls out a patient portal app incorporating EHR technology from Cerner and video visit capabilities from Amwell.

Government and Politics

After more than a year of training, Martin Army Community Hospital at Fort Benning in Georgia will go live on MHS Genesis this weekend.

A new report from the Australian Digital Health Agency finds that routine patient visit information is still missing from many health records within the national My Health Record system, launched in 2012 with a price tag of over $1.4 billion. Patient use has also been wanting, with just 2.69 million out of the nation’s 23 million patients accessing their information since the system’s launch. Physicians have found the software’s design to be problematic, with many preferring to instead access patient data via their hospital’s EHR.

Plans to implement a Cerner-based EHR across facilities on Prince Edward Island have come to a halt due to usability issues. The province had hoped to have all sites live by 2020. Forty-three clinics and 118 physicians have been connected to the system, with 100 more clinicians still to go. The same software has been in use at Island Health hospitals for over a decade. Two independent reviews of that $178 million implementation have been conducted based on physician complaints of poor usability and patient safety risks.

The State of Wisconsin eliminates EHR integration fees to encourage more providers to connect to its electronic prescription drug monitoring program.

Other

The latest release of the Philips Capsule Surveillance solution has received 510(k) market clearance from the FDA.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that access to telemedicine visits and continuous glucose monitoring during the pandemic helped diabetic pediatric patients control their glucose levels and stay out of the hospital at rates similar to pre-pandemic levels.

Apple adds medication list creation, reminders, and critical interaction alert features in its latest iOS update.

A small study conducted at a stroke clinic within the UC San Diego Health system has found that patient satisfaction with telemedicine visits improved when patients were texted a log-in link when the physician was ready for the appointment, rather than queuing in a virtual waiting room. Over half of patients were seen early during the two and a half month study, while zero were seen late, resulting in time savings of nearly an hour. As a result, the health system is rolling out the text messaging option to high-volume primary care and surgical care clinics this summer. The text-to-video technology was developed by Doximity.

Sponsor Updates

• AGS Health will exhibit at CHIACON22 Convention & Exhibit June 12-15 in Riverside, CA.
• Baker Tilly publishes a new case study, “Product value communication results in new payer coverage for diagnostic testing coverage.”
• Cerner publishes a new client achievement story, “Clinicians at pediatric health system save charting time following ambulatory optimization.”
• CHIME releases a new CHIMEcast Podcast, “Challenge, Change, and Resilience with Michael Jefferies.”
• Clearwater names Mike Scheerhorn (Everly Health) to its compliance and privacy consulting team.
• Current Health has been named the 2022 Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year in the global virtual home care platform industry.
• CarePort adds predictive analytics for post-acute care planning after discharge to its CareManagement and Insight solutions.
• Patient privacy monitoring company Protenus updates its website.
• OptimizeRx completes integration of TelaRep’s one-click prescriber connectivity solution with its Therapy Initiation and Persistence Platform.
• Diameter Health partners with Smile CDR, giving customers the ability to implement Diameter Health’s Fusion technology for upcycling data along with Smile CDR’s clinical data repository capabilities.

Blog Posts

• Value-based Care Can Be More Than a Buzzword: Thoughts on Health Plan Priorities (Diameter Health)
• What Will the Future of Healthcare Look Like? (Experity)
• Recent HIPAA Breaches: How to Avoid an Email Breach & Secure Your Practice (AdvancedMD)
• Where Interoperability is Succeeding in Healthcare (Arcadia)
• Leveraging Care Coordination for Success Under the CMS Kidney Care Choices Model (Bamboo Health)
• Physician opinion: Quality metrics fail to measure improved outcomes (Bravado Health)
• Health Literacy and the Patient Portal: Start Assessing Your Community and Facility (CereCore)
• Why Nurses Are Joining the Great Resignation and What Can Be Done (ConnectiveRx)
• Navigate Common EHR Challenges with Stewardship from an Experienced Partner (CTG)

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