News 8/30/23

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ONC renews The Sequoia Project’s TEFCA management contract for another five years.

The non-profit will also continue to oversee the development of Qualified Health Information Networks, with seven of them underway.

Webinars

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Healthcare market intelligence startup Bonfire Analytics raises $1 million in a pre-seed funding round.

Sales

• Zyter|TruCare integrates Findhelp’s care and social services referral software with its Connected Health data-sharing technology.

People

Chris Betz (Brightside Health) joins Aptihealth as CTO.

Ascom Americas hires Chris LaFratta, MBA (VieCure) as VP and head of strategic service innovation.

Adam Farren, MBA (Osmind) joins Canvas Medical as president and COO.

Virtual care and remote patient monitoring solution provider TimeDoc Health hires Brian Esterly, MBA (Centria Healhcare) as CEO.

Announcements and Implementations

IBM trains a Watson large language model to convert legacy COBOL applications to Java, noting that enterprise systems around the world execute 800 billion lines of COBOL code every day.

Government and Politics

A federal judge orders COVID-19 testing firm Nomi Health to pay $7 million to Texas software developer OSGHD, who sued Nomi for licensing its product only long enough to copy its design to create its own system. The state of Utah has paid $84 million to Nomi for COVID testing and vaccination, which it originally attempted to run on a system from Qualtrics that it claims couldn’t handle the required volume.

Privacy and Security

The Rhysida ransomware group claims responsibility for the cyberattack on Prospect Medical Holdings. The group has put the stolen legal and financial documents of 500,000 Prospect employees up for sale on the dark web. Prospect has been struggling to get networks at its 16 hospitals back up and running since the attack occurred on August 3. Crozer Health, a Prospect hospital in Pennsylvania, announced last Friday that all of its computer systems were again operational.

Hospital Sisters Health System (IL) and affiliate Prevea Health (WI) revert to downtime procedures after an unidentified outage forces their systems offline. All systems are unavailable at 15-hospital HSHS. Pediatric hospitalist Maddie Mier, MD reports on X that she’s not the “Improvise, Adapt, Overcome” kind of doctor and needs Epic for “my chart stalking routines & easy access to things like.. VITAL SIGNS.”

Other

Oracle Health Chairman David Feinberg, MD, MBA purchases The Weeknd’s furnished Los Angeles penthouse for a cool $19 million. Dubbed “The Mogul” by building management, the 8,000 square-foot pad includes four bedrooms, six bathrooms, a gym, wine vault, and views from four balconies.

Sponsor Updates

• CloudWave sponsors the Firelands Health “Caddyshack” Open Golf Outing.
• EClinicalWorks releases a new podcast, “Empowering Communities, Analytics for Better Patient Care.”
• Nordic releases a new Designing for Health Podcast, “Interview with Matt Sakumoto, MD.”
• CereCore publishes a new case study, “Next Generation EHR Meets Surgery Partners.”
• Healthcare IT Leaders refreshes its board.
• Constellation Research names Artera to its Shortlist for top vendors in the healthcare clinical communication category.
• A new KLAS report recognizes AvaSure as a complete virtual care platform that improves patient safety while reducing costs and staff workloads.
• Baker Tilly releases a new Healthy Outcomes Podcast, “Exploring home and community-based services: Insights and considerations for healthcare organizations.”
• CHIME releases a new Leader 2 Leader Podcast, “Workforce Issues in Healthcare Today: Top Challenges and How to Solve Them.”
• Clearwater enhances its managed security services capabilities, establishing a new partnership, hiring new experts, and signing on new customers.
• Clinical Architecture publishes a white paper, “Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Enable Real-time Semantic Interoperability.”

Blog Posts

• An Operation Leader’s Take on Partnering for Meditech Expanse Projects (CereCore)
• Advancing Revenue Cycle Management Maturity Through Technology and Interoperability (AGS Health)
• Success in transitional care management (TCM): The first 30 days (Arcadia)
• How Arrive Health is Creating a Better Prescribing Experience, Including Eliminating 87% of RTPB Noise (Arrive Health)
• Top 5 eligibility mistakes to avoid for a healthy revenue cycle (Availity)
• Key strategies for healthcare providers implementing the No Surprises Act (Baker Tilly)
• The True ROI (and Cost) of Legacy Data in Healthcare (Clearsense)
• CMMC 2.0 Compliance is Around the Corner: Is Healthcare Ready? (Clearwater)
• Role of Epic Consultants in Epic Upgrades (HealthTech Resources)

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