Monday Morning Update 8/28/23

Top News

In Canada, Quebec chooses Epic for its $2.2 billion USD digital health record project.

The contract, which is in the final stages of negotiation, comes less than three years after Epic completed its first French language deployment in Belgium.

Six suppliers submitted bids, with Cerner Canada finishing second.

The government expects the first two sites to be live in 2024 and the rollout to be completed within five years.

Quebec has spent a reported $1.5 billion USD over the past 30 years unsuccessfully attempting to computerize its hospitals. 

HIStalk Announcements and Requests

Most poll respondents, especially those responding in their role as a consumer, aren’t fans of hospital consolidation.

New poll to your right or here: Would you walk out of a medical practice without being seen if you saw a fax machine sitting at the check-in desk? I ask because I suspect that even philosophically passionate anti-faxxers don’t choose or exclude doctors based on their technologies.

Webinars

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

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Truepill, whose pharmacy fulfillment business led it to a multi-billion dollar valuation as it expanded into diagnostic testing and telehealth, will seek additional funding at up to a 90% reduction in valuation as it struggles with the departure of its co-founders and a DEA investigation into its Adderall dispensing related to its mental health partner Cerebral.

Per diem nurse staffing platform vendor Nursa raises $80 million in a Series B funding round.

People

Colusa Medical Center (CA) names Steve Stark, MS, MSHA as CEO. He previously worked his way up through it IT ranks at other hospitals, from IT director to CIO.

Niall Brennan (Clarify Health Solutions) joins the CDC as senior advisor for its data modernization plan.

Announcements and Implementations

A Baltimore TV station profiles Bowie State University’s new program in public health informatics and technology. The program, funded by a $10 million HHS grant, will offer boot camps, a bachelor’s degree, and a graduate certificate.

Trilliant Health offers developers free API access to its national directory of 2.7 million providers.

Government and Politics

VA CIO Kurt DelBene says that he is “cautiously optimistic” about its Oracle Cerner implementation, as the VA has learned from its first five go-lives and has tightened service level agreements in a recent contract renegotiation with Oracle.

Sponsor Updates

• AGS Health adds AI-powered Intelligent Authorization to its AI Platform.
• EClinicalWorks releases a new customer success story, “How Healow Self-Scheduling Helped a New Practice Fill 400 Appointment Slots.”
• OptimizeRx signs multi-year partnerships with two EHR vendors and one telehealth vendor.
• NTT Data announces that Everest Group has named the company as a Leader in its 2023 Healthcare Data and Analytics Services Peak Matrix Assessment.
• PMD unveils new branding to improve transparency and value for customers.
• Nordic adds enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources from Workday to its portfolio of ERP Services.
• PerfectServe is positioned highest in ability to execute in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for clinical communication and collaboration.
• Verato will exhibit at E-Solutions Exchange August 27-30 in in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho.
• Waystar will exhibit at the Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice Annual Meeting August 30-31 in San Antonio.
• Wolters Kluwer Health will exhibit at Rise West August 28-30 in Dallas.

Blog Posts

• Driving healthcare organizations to get the most out of their EHR (Meditech)
• Psych Hub Provides Evidence-based Education to Empower the Entire Behavioral Health Ecosystem (NeuroFlow)
• The dream of patient access and flow (Nordic)
• Realizing Point-of-Care Opportunities: E-Book Insights from EHR Experts (OptimizeRx)
• EHR Super Users: Making Life Easier for Medical Professionals (HealthTech Resources)
• 8 Essentials for Transfer Center Operations in Healthcare (PerfectServe)
• Dr. Stephane Doyne – 12 plagues of AI in healthcare (Redox)
• Sensing-as-a-Service Empowers Data Analysis in Healthcare and Commerce with Integrated Data Exchange (SmartSense by Digi)
• Navigating vendor consolidation in healthcare: Key considerations (Spok)
• My Not-so-Secret Diary on Electronic Prior Authorization in Austin (Surescripts)
• The Benefits of Telemedicine for Older Adults: How Remote Medical Care is Making Aging in Place Easier (Trualta)
• Everything You Need to Know About Evidence-Based Practice (Zynx Health)

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