News 8/16/24

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The private equity owner of healthcare consulting firm Chartis sells a majority stake to private equity firm Blackstone.

Insiders say that the deal values Chartis at about $1.4 billion.

The 23-year-old Chartis has 1,000 employees.

Reader Comments

From Fine Corinthian: “Re: LinkedIn. It has become a podcast marketplace.” I would say that maybe 25% of my feed involves someone announcing that they are hosting or guesting on a podcast. Sometimes both, in the puzzling decision for one podcast host to interview another, although maybe it’s inevitable since it seems that everyone has one. For LinkedIn, if each participant publicizes it before and after, that’s a lot of content that I ignore.

Webinars

September 10 (Tuesday) noon ET. “Overcoming Hurdles in Specialty Med Access Under Medical Benefits.” Sponsor: DrFirst. Presenters: Drew Hunsinger, VP of corporate business development, DrFirst; Tyler Wince, MEd, VP of product and technology specialty solutions, DrFirst. More specialty medications, which made up 80% of FDA’s new drug approvals last year, are falling under medical benefits, which challenges the patient care processes and efficiency of providers. Medication access experts will discuss how automation and unified medication management solutions can ensure better outcomes for patients and providers by addressing patient access hurdles and enhancing the ‘stickiness’ of EHRs. They will also provide insights into how regulatory changes such as interoperability and prior authorization mandates will affect healthcare stakeholders.

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

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Precision surgery platform vendor Caresyntax raises $180 million in a Series C funding round

Sales

• Kaiser Permanente will implement Abridge’s ambient documentation product in its 40 hospitals and 600 medical offices, apparently ending its highly touted pilot of Nabla at The Permanente Medical Group.
• Northwestern Medicine will implement Nuance DAX Copilot.

People

Leidos hires Kris Mork, PhD (Guidehouse) as chief data officer.

Digital pathology AI vendor Paige promotes Razik Yousfi to CTI/CEO. Former CEO Andy Moye, PhD will leave the company.

Announcements and Implementations

Trilliant Health releases a free version of its provider directory that contains the basic information of 2.9 million US providers that has been updated and corrected by analyzing claims data.

Privacy and Security

Diagnostic testing firm Enzo Biochem will pay $4.5 million to New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut after the data of 2.4 million patients was compromised by hackers who used login credentials that had been shared among employees. One of the passwords used by the hackers hadn’t been changed in 10 years. The company didn’t notice the intrusion for several days due to lack of system monitoring.

Sponsor Updates

• HealthMark Group staff volunteer at the North Texas Food Bank during the company’s annual volunteer day.
• Bali International Hospital will implement the InterSystems TrakCare EHR platform.
• Optimum Healthcare IT expands its Workday staffing service to Canada.
• FinThrive will present at the Lone Star HFMA Summer Conference August 22 in Irving, TX.
• Health Data Movers posts a new episode of the “QuickHITs” podcast with Chris O’Connor, CEO of Yale New Haven Health.
• Optimum Healthcare IT’s ServiceNow Business Implementation services earns high customer satisfaction in a recent KLAS First Look Report.
• Fortified Health Security names Aditya Jadhav threat analyst shift lead, Todd Cronin senior penetration tester, and James Stevenson director of people and culture.

Blog Posts

• Revolutionizing Patient Care with ECW AI and Cloud-Based Solutions (EClinicalWorks)
• Social Care Networks Announced Under New York’s HRSN Waiver (Findhelp)
• Five9 and Acqueon: A Big Step in Advancing the Five9 Vision (Five9)
• Strategies for Increasing Patient & Provider Engagement with Early Detection: Q&A with Raghu Pillai (Lucem Health)
• Moving Beyond the Frame @ Meditech Live 2024 (Meditech)
• The Power of Connection: How Clinical Data Registries, ACOs, and Payers Can Collaborate for Value-Based Care (MRO)
• Valuable Updates on the Horizon for Net Health Occupational Health (Net Health)
• Capital Rx Ranks No. 411 on the 2024 Inc. 5000, Making the List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies for the Third Year (Capital Rx)

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