News 7/25/25

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Healthcare payments software vendor Waystar will acquire Iodine Software, which offers mid-revenue cycle solutions, for $1.25 billion.

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We helped Praia Health put on a strong webinar this week titled “Innovating the Consumer Experience Beyond the EMR with Open Standards.” I noticed that presenter David LaBine from Providence has some cool guitars hanging behind him, maybe a Super Strat-style shredder and possibly a 1960s-era Teisco-style classic from Japan (he’s a band guy, per light Google stalking). All of the presenters held my attention, which is saying something. Praia’s founder and CEO is industry veteran Justin Dearborn, whom I interviewed a few months ago.

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Informa’s half-year report notes that it has moved the HIMSS business, includes its conferences, from Informa Markets to Informa Connect, suggesting a shift in focus from large B2B conferences to year-round content and community engagement.

Sales

• Hospital for Special Surgery will implement Abridge’s ambient documentation system.

People

Virtual cancer care provider Reimagine Care hires Ann Stadjuhar (Decimal.health) as chief growth officer.

Avel ECare hires Martainn Lenhardt, MBA (Lyric) as CFO.

Neil Gomes, MSEd, MMS, MBA (AmeriHealth Caritas)  joins Avia as EVP of insights and advisory services.

Announcements and Implementations

Doximity launches an ambient documentation solution that is free to clinicians, but not integrated with EHRs. 

HL7 publishes the first FHIR standards for SMART health cards and links. Sample use cases are:

• Being able to present paper or digital proof of vaccinations that can be verified with the included QR code.
• Sending a member ID to a provider.
• Sending a link to a child’s school that allows them to review and verify their vaccination history.
• Providing a ticket to allow retrieving lab results.
• Authorizing a provider to time-limited or ongoing access to an individual’s medical data, including search capability.
• Scanning a prescription container to retrieve details.

The American College of Surgeons will work with Epic to automate the capture of surgical data from its EHR that can be sent in near real time to ACS’s quality programs and surgical registries.

ASTP/ONC releases USCDI v6. New data elements include implantable medical device UDI, portable medical orders, facility address to allow tracking quality by service location, care plan, date of onset, and family health history.

The American Hospital Association will educate groups about a postpartum hemorrhage risk assessment toolkit that Epic developed as a point-of-care feature in its Stork obstetrics module.

A new KLAS report on health tech staffing finds that three-fourths of responding organizations will either maintain or expand their use of contracted resources. The highest staffing need is for EHR projects and implementations. The chart above shows the 10 most commonly reported go-to firms.

Sponsor Updates

• Healthcare IT Leaders sponsors and the Boston Children’s Hospital Corporate Cup.
• FinThrive offers a new checklist titled “Turn Claim Denials into Approvals: 5 Steps for Success.”
• DrFirst shares the results of a new survey on advance care planning.
• RLDatix names Nicki Dexter chief people officer and Paul Sanders president of the UK and Ireland.
• Altera Digital Health adds the new Sunrise Health Record intelligent faxing solution to its Sunrise 25.1 EHR.
• Cardamom will host an Epic UGM networking event August 19 in Madison, WI.
• Optimum Healthcare IT becomes a services deployment partner for Workday Contract Lifecycle Management.
• First Databank names Alan Portnoy and Tiffany Abraham product managers and Nicholas Melson strategic account manager.
• Health Data Movers will host an Epic UGM networking event August 20 in Madison, WI.
• Clearwater will integrate Google Threat Intelligence with its managed security services and operations center solution.
• Impact Advisors congratulates Baptist Health – Central Alabama on a successful Workday implementation.
• Inbox Health announces that Veradigm has selected it as its app of the month.
• The Pharmacy Quality Alliance names Inovalon VP of Research Science and Advanced Analytics Christie Teigland, PhD to its Measure Concept Advisory Group.
• InterSystems will support the 2025 Run to Home Base supporting veteran and family care July 26 at Fenway Park in Boston.
• Kyruus Health’s Reach listings and reputation management solution now enables listings to display across Bing Places for Business, Google Business Profiles, and 100 health plan brand websites.

Blog Posts

• The hidden cost of inaction: How hospitals can prevent adverse events with better patient engagement (Altera Digital Health)
• Building the Backbone for Compliance: Using a CLRS for the New Medicaid Community Engagement Mandate (Findhelp)
• Top 5 KPIs for Managed Care Success (FinThrive)
• Respond and Remediate: A CISO’s Guide to the SharePoint Zero-Day Vulnerabilities (Fortified Health Security)
• Expanding value-based care to specialists: What the 2026 Ambulatory Specialty Model means for the future of Medicare (Healthmonix)
• Kyruus Builds a Generative AI Provider Matching Solution on AWS (Kyruus Health)
• How Amazon Connect Is Transforming Healthcare Contact Centers (Optimum Healthcare IT)
• SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) harnesses technology to enhance the patient and provider experience (Meditech)
• The hidden costs of low-cost staff augmentation: Why value beats volume every time (Cardamom)
• 2025 DIY Guide to MSSP ACO eCQM Reporting: From Clinical Data Chaos to Submission Success (MRO)
• Making prospective risk adjustment work for you (Navina)

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