News 7/23/25

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The Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill that allocates $3.5 billion to the VA to restart its Oracle Health implementation.

The committee also approved $5.9 billion for the VA’s ongoing IT costs.

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People

Laizer Kornwasser, MBA (Teladoc Health) joins DrFirst as CEO.

RLDatix names Walter Loiselle (Success Consulting Partners) SVP of global operations.

Ethan Berke, MD, MPH (Optum) joins Teladoc Health as chief medical officer and SVP of integrated care.

Vizient names Arun Ramasubramanian (Optum) president of its Data and Digital business unit.

Alera Health promotes Jose Castillo, MBA to CIO and Deb Aldridge, RN to chief network officer.

Announcements and Implementations

Campbell County Health (WY) goes live on Epic. The implementation, first announced in 2021, was delayed several times as the hospital worked to gain firmer financial footing.

Patterson Health Center (KS) rolls out Oracle Health CommunityWorks and Clinical AI Agent technologies.

Slingshot AI launches Ash, an AI therapy app, along with additional Series A funding that brings its total to $93 million.

A new KLAS report on public cloud providers finds that cloud usage by health systems is widespread, but 40% of responding organizations still have at least 90% of their infrastructure on premises. Microsoft Azure is most commonly used, but AWS is seen as offering stronger value and healthcare expertise. The chief use case is EHR migration, primarily Epic.

Government and Politics

CMS will hire 100 employees at its Innovation Center, which was established in 2010 to develop and pilot new care delivery and payment models. The center is reportedly looking for economic, clinical, and data subject-matter experts.

Lovell FHCC, which is jointly operated by the VA and Department of Defense, reports that it has increased lung cancer screenings by 75% since implementing population health outreach using Oracle Health’s wellness registry.

Other

RWJBarnabas Health’s Jersey City Medical Center will use Dimer Health’s remote patient monitoring and virtual care services during a six-month pilot designed to reduce readmissions and ER visits for 500 uninsured patients.

This is one of the lamer uses of ChatGPT that I’ve seen.

Sponsor Updates

• FinThrive publishes a new master claims denial checklist for patient access leaders.
• “The Harry Glorikian Show” podcast features Arrive Health CEO Kyle Kiser in an episode titled “Kyle Kiser is Using AI to Make Your Patient Experience Better.”
• Black Book Research identifies 14 federal policy shifts threatening US health systems in the coming year.
• Capital Rx names Zachary Brunko formulary operations clinical pharmacist.
• Altera Digital Health launches Sunrise Health Record, an intelligent faxing solution to support HIM deficiency management.
• Linus Health will present at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Toronto July 27-31 and will demonstrate its AI-powered digital cognitive assessment solutions.
• Censinet releases a new episode of its “Risk Never Sleeps” podcast titled “The Code to Care: The CISO Will See You Now, with Anahi Santiago, Chief Information Security Officer at ChristianaCare.”
• The “CISO Core Podcast” features Clearwater VCISO Michiel de Bruin in an episode titled “Bridging the Gap between CISOs and Business People.”
• Direct Recruiters promotes Ben Shamis to managing director and Danny Myeroff to managing partner.

Blog Posts

• Optimizing Patient Access with Technology and Partnerships (AGS Health)
• The AI Data Pipeline: How Your Health System Fuels Conversational Search (Kyruus Health)
• Integrating AI and Population Health to Revolutionize Behavioral Health Care (Netsmart)
• Meditech As A Service (MaaS): Best Practices and Real-World Challenges (CereCore)
• It’s time to activate patients as trusted members of the care team (Wolters Kluwer Health)
• Patient Portals, Telehealth and Beyond: The Healthcare Technology Solutions Driving Improved Patient Outcomes (AdvancedMD)
• Low-risk, high-value: Seven AI use cases benefiting community hospitals (Altera Digital Health)
• Has your workflow hit a wall? Here’s how to move forward (Philips Capsule)
• It Seems Like Every Product is a Platform Now (Divurgent)

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