News 4/30/25

Top News

Community Health Systems (TN) restores computer systems at a reported 45 hospitals after several days of downtime that was caused by an Oracle Health engineer who mistakenly deleted critical storage during routine maintenance.

Sponsored Events and Resources

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Private equity firm GTCR is reportedly looking to sell value-based healthcare technology vendor Cedar Gate Technologies at a $1 billion valuation. GTCR launched the company in 2014.

People

Direct Recruiters promotes Ben Shamis, MBA to managing partner.

DexCare promotes Matthew Blosl to CEO.

Pothik Chatterjee, MA, MBA joins Rice University as executive director of Digital Health Institute, which was formed with Houston Methodist.

Announcements and Implementations

Houston Methodist implements Ambience Healthcare’s new ambient AI documentation technology for emergency department and inpatient settings.

Black Book Research names Netsmart as the top-rated provided of EMR/PM solutions for physical therapy, outpatient rehabilitation, and speech therapy.

CliniComp adds enterprise PACS to its New Era EHR.

Abbott integrates its FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitoring system with Epic.

A new KLAS report on PACS finds that customers are expecting technology changes to accommodate AI and cloud. Sectra and Agfa Healthcare earn high marks overall, while GE HealthCare and Optum have lost significant ground due to lack of innovation. Intelerad users complain about poor Tier 1 support and being charged for services that were once free, while users of both systems from Philips — IntelliSpace PACS and Image Management Vue PACS — report deep dissatisfaction because of weak product development and poor support.

Government and Politics

Stat profiles Chris Klomp, the founder and CEO of Collective Medical (sold to PointClickCare in late 2020) who is now director of the Center for Medicare.

Privacy and Security

Ascension reports that patient data from care sites in five states may have been compromised during a December cybersecurity incident. It also states that it mistakenly shared some of the information with its third-party partner, which later experienced the software breach.

The Interlock ransomware group claims to have stolen data from outpatient dialysis company DaVita, which announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack several weeks ago. The group has posted data screenshots on the dark web, though no public mention of a specific ransom amount has been made.

Sponsor Updates

• CliniComp adds enterprise PACS to its New Era EHR with Intrinsic AI Solution Suite.
• Black Book Market Research announces Netsmart as the top-ranked IT vendor in its “2025 Post-Acute Technology Market Report.”
• Clearsense earns NCQA’s Validated Data Stream Status for the second year in a row.
• Wolters Kluwer Health announces that select UpToDate Enterprise Edition customers can now access UpToDate patient education content directly within their Epic EHR and MyChart patient portal.
• AdvancedMD partners with Moyae as an integration partner to boost efficiencies for ophthalmology and optometry practices.
• Agfa HealthCare will exhibit at SIIM 2025 May 21-23 in Portland, OR.
• AvaSure, InterSystems, and Philips Capsule will sponsor and exhibit at ATA’s Nexus 2025 May 3-5 in New Orleans.
• The “Ascendle Unscripted” podcast features Cardamom Health VP of Business Development Bridget Bell in an episode titled “Preparing your healthtech organization for AI.”
• Censinet releases a new “Risk Never Sleeps” podcast featuring Genesis Medical Associates Director of IT Bill Laukaitis.
• Consensus Cloud Solutions announces its e-fax cloud fax platform has placed twelfth on G2’s Best Healthcare Software Products list.

Blog Posts

• Handling Risk Adjustment and HCC Coding in Value-Based Care (AGS Health)
• Three challenges threatening rural hospital stability (Altera Digital Health)
• Physician Burnout: Fix the Foundational Elements First (Goliath Technologies)
• Why Now for Agentic AI in Healthcare: A Q&A with Guillaume de Zwirek (Artera)
• Ransomware in Healthcare: Why an Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) Is Essential for Protecting Your Epic EHR (Cordea Consulting)
• The Importance of Culture Fit in Remote Healthcare Technology Teams (Direct Recruiters)

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