News 8/27/25

Top News

PE firm Advent International acquires PatientPoint, which sells point-of-care advertising to pharma companies and online marketing services to providers.

Advent’s portfolio includes Iodine Software and Definitive Healthcare.

HIStalk Announcements and Requests

Thanks to AMIA for referencing Dr. Jayne’s concerns about the compliance risks of using free online tools in its Informatics SmartBrief.

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

Ambulatory-focused health IT vendor CareCloud acquires Medsphere, giving it a foothold in the rural and small hospital IT market. Medsphere’s solutions include CareVue, Wellsoft, ChartLogic, and Phoenix and Systeem IT managed services.

Post-acute care transition AI software startup Cascala Health announces $8.6 million in seed funding.

Sales

• Barry University School of Podiatric Medicine (FL) selects ModMed’s podiatry-focused software.
• The Australian Digital Health Agency chooses Telstra Health to upgrade its My Health Record interoperability technology from Clinical Document Architecture to FHIR standards that will allow real-time information exchange.

People

Censinet appoints James Foster (IronCircle) as chairman of the board.

The Medical University of South Carolina names Marylyn Ritchie, PhD (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine) as chief AI officer.

Announcements and Implementations

Tampa General Hospital (FL) integrates Clear’s identity verification software with its identity access management platform.

Hammond-Henry Hospital (IL) will switch from Meditech to Epic through an Epic Community Connect collaboration with UnityPoint Health.

Government and Politics

Industry veteran and DOGE Acting Administrator Amy Gleason pens an LA Times opinion piece that calls for companies to join the federal government’s data sharing efforts.

Other

TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity The Sequoia Project seeks TEFCA experts who are interested in sharing their experiences via recently established TEFCA workstreams. Applications are due September 4.

OSF HealthCare Saint Elizabeth Medical Center (IL) offers virtual ER care to eligible patients.

Sponsor Updates

• Arrive Health staff create tie blankets for UPMC Hillman Cancer Center patients during the company’s community give-back day.
• Altera Digital Health publishes a new client story titled “Worcestershire Hospitals adopts new quality-assured EPR optimisation model.”
• Gartner features Clearsense in a new report titled “Case Study: Trinity Health Drives IT Cost Optimization with Legacy Decommissioning.”
• Artera is now listed on the FedRamp Marketplace.
• Zen Healthcare IT will host its virtual August Interop Workshop August 27 at 1pm CT featuring Liz Lewis from CommonWell Health Alliance.
• Consensus Cloud Solutions will exhibit at the Defense Health Information Technology Symposium through August 28 in Nashville.
• Waystar announces that it has earned multiple Gold Stevie Awards in the 2025 International Business Awards, including Healthcare Company of the Year and Top-ranked AI Software Platform.
• ReferWell publishes a new white paper titled “Transforming Member Engagement to Drive CAHPS Excellence.”
• Ellkay, Waystar, Crossings Healthcare Solutions, Fortified Health Security, Nordic, Artera, Healthcare IT Leaders, Impact Advisors, and Surescripts will exhibit at the Oracle Health & Life Sciences Summit September 9-11 in Orlando.
• Black Book Research details the compliance, technology, and operational challenges providers will face when Medicare telehealth flexibilities expire on September 30.
• Capital Rx releases a new episode of “The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast” titled “Capital Equilibrium, a New Level-Funded Pharmacy Plan, with Mike Miele, FSA, MAAA.”

Blog Posts

• Navigating Utilization Review in Healthcare (AGS Health)
• Rationalization to Archiving: Make the Right Data Move Now (CereCore)
• GLP-1 Persistence: What the Data Reveals About Who Stays on Treatment (Arcadia)
• Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): More Than a Pesky Alert (Clearwater)
• What If You Could Stress-Test Your Defenses—Before an Attacker Did? (CloudWave)
• Turning Tech Investments into Business Value: How to Solve the Talent Gap (CTG)
• Top of the Class: How Clinical-Grade AI Is Making Medication Management Smarter (DrFirst)
• Securing ePrescribing: Why Redundancy and Resilience Matter (First Databank)

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