News 8/13/25

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The Russia-based Everest ransomware group posts samples of the data it allegedly stole from physician practice management company Pacific Healthworks and sister company La Perouse, though it does not mention a ransom demand or deadline.

Everest has taken credit for recent attacks on Mailchimp and Crumbl.

Pacific Healthworks provides management services to 1,200 hospital-based physician groups. The hackers claim to have the billing and patient data of 50 of them.

HIStalk Announcements and Requests

HIStalk sponsors who are participating in Epic UGM – tell me about what you’re doing by Wednesday, August 13 and I’ll include it in an online guide.

Sponsored Events and Resources

Instant Access Webinar: “Healthcare Data Strategies: Retire, Retain, and Ready for AI.” Sponsor: Triyam, an Access Company. Presenters: Sudhakar Mohanraj, founder and CTO, Triyam; Benjamin Cassity, director of research and strategy, KLAS; Jamie Greenstein, senior marketing manager, Access. The presenters deliver practical tactics to help IT leaders manage exploding data volumes — how to clean up legacy systems, craft smarter retention policies, and prepare historical data for analytics and AI.

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Sales

• Cambridge Memorial Hospital in Ontario selects Oracle Health’s Foundation EHR.

People

Divurgent promotes Wendy Hoffman, MHA to president and COO.

Announcements and Implementations

OU Health (OK) launches hybrid nursing in University of Oklahoma Medical Center’s neurology and neurosurgery unit using technology from Nexus Bedside. Virtual nurses will assist in-person nurses with patient education, care coordination, and medication management.

Highmark Health (PA) implements Abridge’s ambient clinical documentation software. Highmark’s payer business will work with Abridge to develop what it hopes will be nearly instantaneous, AI-powered prior authorization capabilities.

In Michigan, UP Health System’s Bell hospital will offer gastroenterology inpatients and their providers the ability to virtually connect with Henry Ford Health System specialists.

University Hospitals (OH) launches a remote care program at its Lake West Medical Center using virtual care technology from Vitalchat.

Reid Health (IN) deploys AI-enhanced virtual care technologies from Hellocare.ai, including virtual nursing and sitting, telehealth, and digital whiteboards and smart room signage.

Oura adds pregnancy and perimenopause symptom tracking capabilities to the app for its Ring wearable.

Other

Ascension Wisconsin will outsource ICU physician staffing at its hospitals to TeamHealth, which physicians worry could impact patient safety if the company switches to virtual care models during certain timeframes.

Sponsor Updates

• Meditech will bring healthcare leaders together to strategize and learn at Meditech Live, September 17-19 in Foxborough, MA.
• Black Book Research’s latest survey offers insight into the challenges healthcare organizations are facing due to a lack of cybersecurity talent.
• Agfa HealthCare partners with Powerteens to host an immersive hands-on STEM Day for girls in Orlando.
• Altera Digital Health offers a new client story titled “Latrobe Regional Health enhances surgical efficiency and patient visibility with Sunrise Surgical Care and Provation iPro.”
• Arcadia Chief Medical Officer Luke Hansen, MD joins “The Totally Adequate Podcast” in an episode titled “Insights and Strategies for Achieving High Quality Healthcare Provider Networks.”
• Nordic will offer Clear’s reusable identity management.
• Artera will exhibit at the CHI Community Health Conference & Expo August 17-19 in Chicago.
• AvaSure Chief Clinical Officer Lisbeth Votruba, RN joins the “Ed Talks” podcast.
• Memorial Healthcare System (FL) will launch a medication management program for a subset of diabetic patients using prescription fill data from DrFirst.
• Wolters Kluwer Health will exhibit at the 2025 Defense Health Information Technology Symposium August 26-28 in Nashville, TN.

Blog Posts

• CMS Publishes the 2026 IPPS Final Rule (AGS Health)
• Training for Tough Conversations: How Agentic AI Supports Healthcare Providers (Tegria)
• New for 2025 – That’s life in flow, Elevated. (Agfa HealthCare)
• The future of the EHR: A vision for clinical excellence (Altera Digital Health)
• Drowning in dashboards: Don’t let analytics sprawl hold you back (Cardamom)
• Improving Medication Adherence for CHF Patients in Rural Communities: Lessons From Magnolia Regional (DrFirst)
• The Risk Never Sleeps Podcast Chronicles Part I: People Themes from the Front Lines of Healthcare Cybersecurity (Censinet)
• Kill Your Zombie Apps (Clearsense)
• Taking a Closer Look at Healthcare Data Quality in 2025 (Clinical Architecture)
• What If You Could See Your Cyber Maturity in One Clear View? (CloudWave)
• When Patient Safety and Cybersecurity Collide: The Medical Device Security Challenge (CTG)
• Creating a Data Tracker in Healthcare (Dimensional Insight)
• AI Meets OCM: Empowering the Healthcare Workforce Through Human-Centered Transformation (Divurgent)

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