News 12/10/25

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Global investment firm EQT seeks $1 billion for its 40% stake in CitiusTech.

EQT sold its majority stake in AGS Health to Blackstone for a similar amount in August.

CitiusTech, a global healthcare IT business, acquired Health Data Movers at around that same time.

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Reader donations and matching funds provided Ms. O’s kindergartners with marble run sets for STEM learning. She reports, “By playing with building sets, my students are learning how to build all kinds of different structures. They are also learning engineering skills. That is STEM learning at its best! This project has been so important because giving students a strong foundation in math and literacy in their first year of school, makes a big difference by giving them a good start in their academic careers.”

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Spare Tire raises $3 million in a Series A funding round. The startup offers on-demand access to inpatient historical data for workflow continuity during unplanned EHR downtime.

Clinical trial software and services vendor Paradigm Health acquires Flatiron Health’s tech-enabled clinical research solutions, including its OncoEMR.

Patients report that hospitals are charging them for self-administered questionnaires. Novant Health bills the patient or insurer $5 to $10 for a screening questionnaire about social determinants of health. A patient says that a questionnaire that was asked to complete during online check-in resulted in a $17 bill for a “brief emotional and behavioral health assessment.”

Sales

• Springfield Memorial Hospital (IL) will implement virtual sitting technology from CareView Communications.

People

ReferWell names Rich Smith (Axion Contact) SVP of sales.

UC San Diego Health promotes Alexander Khalessi, MD, MBA to chief innovation officer.

Smarter Technologies promotes Mike Gao, MD to CEO.

HaloMD names Nirnay Patel (Simplify Healthcare) chief data officer and Dan Heinmiller (Health Catalyst) VP of data integration and operations.

Announcements and Implementations

VHC Health in Washington, DC begins offering virtual urgent care services from HealthTap.

Bamboo Health announces GA of Bamboo Bridge, which assists providers and payers in connecting patients with the right level of behavioral healthcare.

A Joint Powers Authority arrangement between Palomar Health and UC San Diego Health will give Palomar clinicians access to UC’s Epic system.

Kontakt.io launches Access Agent, an AI tool designed to help outpatient clinics better anticipate and manage the allocation of exams.

Researchers determine that off-the-shelf AI tools such as ChatGPT can successfully de-identify EHR patient data without training, potentially reducing the cost and time required for preparing clinical data for research.

Donate Life America presents its Courage Award to Epic in recognition of its donor registration program that was launched in May 2025.

Government and Politics

ASTP and its partners release a Standard Operating Procedure document that outlines using TEFCA to check an individual’s eligibility for Social Security disability benefits.

Other

A study of newborn EHR data in Epic’s Cosmos database finds that 5% aren’t being given a vitamin K injection to prevent bleeding, doubling the 2017 rate. Pediatricians say that parents decline vitamin K either because they confuse it with a vaccind or distrust authority. Hospitals are reporting an increased number of cases of infant bleeding, which can be fatal in severe cases.

Sponsor Updates

• Hospital cybersecurity leaders identify non-negotiable domains to fund by 2028 in a new analysis from Black Book Research.
• Dimensional Insight announces that it has been recognized in the “KLAS 2025 Consistent High Performers Report” for its continued excellence in healthcare analytics.
• Nordic announces that it has been named a Major Contender in Everest Group’s “Healthcare Specialists IT Services PEAK Matrix Assessment 2025.”
• Judi Health releases a new episode of “The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast” titled “Best of ’25! – Solving Pharmacy Benefits: Inside the RFP Process, with Josh Golden & Nic Bolitho.”
• Agfa HealthCare releases a new white paper titled “Enterprise Imaging 2030: From Data to Insight, From Insight to Impact.”
• CloudWave offers a new resource guide titled “Navigating Healthcare Cybersecurity with AI.”
• CTG releases a new client success story titled “CTG Helps Medical Center Accelerate and Streamline Testing With Eggplant DAI.”

Blog Posts

• Three Revenue Cycle Management Strategies to Navigate Uncertainty (AGS Health)
• Looking back on 2025: Bringing our vision to life (Altera Digital Health)
• All Talk, No Walk? The ACCESS Model is Here to Find Out (Arcadia)
• Patients Save Over 88% with Real-Time Prescription Benefit (Arrive Health)
• How to Maintain HIPAA & SOC2 Compliance in 2026 (Bizmatics)
• Why Tech Makes Care More Human: Sir David Sloman’s Lessons from the NHS (CereCore)
• Why Web & Mobile App Pen Testing Is Critical in Healthcare (Clearwater)
• Unifying Medical and Pharmacy Benefits: The Blueprint for Better Employee Health and Wellness (Judi Health)
• Four Critical Factors for Selecting a Business System Hosting Partner (Med Tech Solutions)
• Why Physicians Spend Hours Pre-Charting—and How Navina Solves It (Navina)
• Empowering Value-Based Care in Geriatric Health (Netsmart)
• The Human Side of Interoperability (Surescripts)
• The Real ROI of Modernizing Contract Management in Healthcare (Symplr)
• Clinical experts-in-the-loop are essential for AI trust (Wolters Kluwer Health)
• Own the Outage: Smart Cloud Strategies for Healthcare (CloudWave)
• What the 2× Weight Drop Means for CAHPS and How to Stay Ahead (ReferWell)

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