News 8/20/25

Top News

The Carlyle Group will acquire a majority stake in RCM vendor Knack Global for $500 million.

Blackstone acquired competitor AGS Health last month for $1.1 billion.

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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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Provider credentialing company Medallion announces $43 million in new funding, bringing its total raised to $130 million. It has launched its CredAlliance credentialing clearinghouse to streamline provider onboarding across participating payers.

TigerConnect acquires smart room system vendor EVideon. 

Sales

• Johns Hopkins Health System (MD) selects Talkdesk’s Healthcare Experience Cloud contact center technology.

People

Rebecca Whaley (Altera Digital Health) joins Nordic Global as SVP of marketing.

Nebraska Medicine names Michael Hasselberg, PhD (University of Rochester Medical Center) chief transformation and digital officer.

The University at Buffalo (NY) appoints Asim Khan, PhD (Allegheny Health Network) health sciences chief data and information officer.

Don Trigg (Apree Health) joins Veradigm as CEO.

Access TeleCare names Josh DeTillio (Nutex Health) CEO. Founder and former CEO Chris Gallagher, MD moves to chief strategy officer.

Healwell AI names James Lee (Orion Health) CEO and Brad Porter (Orion Health) chief commercial officer. Former CEO Alexander Dobranowski, MD has taken on the role of president. Healwell acquired Orion Health earlier this year.

Johns Hopkins Hospital promotes Khyzer Aziz, MD to CMIO.

Announcements and Implementations

Epic mentions several new capabilities at UGM via X:

Emmie is a patient-facing Ai tool that explains test results and enables easy access to recommended next actions.

Art creates patient summaries for physicians, answers questions, and executes actions such as queueing orders into a shopping cart for end-of-visit approval. This is Epic’s previously rumored ambient documentation tool, which runs on Microsoft / Nuance speech recognition.

The upcoming MyChart Central will allow patients to use a single Epic-issued ID to connect to their MyChart records from multiple providers.

RLDatix adds AI-powered conversational documentation for entering event details into its to its safety and risk management system.

SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium goes live on Meditech Expanse with help from Nordic Global.

Ozarks Healthcare (MO) rolls out Luma Health’s Patient Success Platform.

FirstHealth of the Carolinas goes live with EvidenceCare’s AdmissionCare admission assessment and documentation software across its four hospitals.

Ambience Healthcare announces Chart Chat, an AI copilot for Epic that offers chart retrieval, risk scoring, and access to medical literature.

Government and Politics

A federal judge in California issues a temporary order prohibiting HHS from sharing the personal data of Medicaid beneficiaries in 20 states with the Department of Homeland Security’s ICE agents.

ASTP issues a draft TEFCA GBD Exchange Purpose, which allows government entities at the federal, state, local, or tribal level to determine an individual’s eligibility for non-healthcare government benefits.

Sponsor Updates

• Black Book Research offers the results of its latest survey in a brief titled “A New Set of Red Flags: What Really Disrupts Deals in 2025?”
• Capital Rx releases a new episode of “The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast” titled “What Health Systems Need [From a PBM]: A Blend of Tech, Transparency, and Understanding, with Lindsey Butler, PharmD, and Chris England.”
• Consensus Cloud Solutions will exhibit at Hyland Community Live August 25-28 in Las Vegas.
• Optimum Healthcare IT becomes the first healthcare IT consulting firm to use Clear’s identity verification system to vet consultants.
• Divurgent names Chad Laberge director of client service.

Blog Posts

• Fueling Financial Performance: A Step-by-Step KPI Guide (Tegria)
• Hydrate your cloud environment with Redox’s new Cloud Connectivity Tools (Redox)
• The New Standard for Electronic Benefit Verification (Surescripts)
• What Now? Rural Health’s IT Prerequisites And Prep Work Get Their Time To Shine (CereCore)
• Potentially “Topped-Out” Measures for 2026 (AdvancedMD)
• Agentic Automation and Why It’s Transforming Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management (AGS Health)
• The Hidden Costs of Ignoring Legacy Systems (Optimum Healthcare IT)
• Maximizing EHR know-how in specialty care (Altera Digital Health)
• Beyond Resumes: How Mid-Market Leaders Are Winning the Talent War Through Skills-Based Hiring (CTG)

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