News 7/11/25

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Canopy Health drops its May 2025 lawsuit against Commure and will take over customer management of Commure’s Strongline Pro panic button system.

Canopy had alleged that Commure used its insider knowledge as a Canopy reseller to develop a competing product.

In mid-May, a federal court ordered Commure to stop marketing and selling Strongline Pro until the case was resolved.

Sponsored Events and Resources

July 22 (Tuesday) 1 ET. “Innovating the Consumer Experience Beyond the EMR with Open Standards.” Sponsor: Praia Health. Presenters: Ryan Howells, principal, Leavitt Partners and program manager, The CARIN Alliance; David LaBine, VP of software engineering, Providence Digital Innovation Group; Robin Monks, CTO, Praia Health; Kristen Valdes, CEO, b.well. As healthcare faces rising consumer expectations and tighter regulations, the high cost of maintaining fragmented, proprietary systems is no longer sustainable. While patient data access has improved, the lack of open standards continues to hinder innovation, drive up integration costs, and limit the potential of digital health beyond the EHR. This webinar will discuss how open standards like OIDC,  HL7 FHIR, and open technology requirements are essential for reducing integration burdens, accelerating development, and lowering maintenance costs. Panelists will describe how every closed integration represents a lost opportunity and will offer practical strategies for leveraging open technology as a competitive advantage that improves efficiency, ensures compliance, and strengthens patient trust.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Hearst-owned QGenda acquires New Innovations, which offers medical residency management software.

Palantir EVP Louis Mosley criticizes British doctors who oppose the NHS’s use of the company’s software, saying “our software is going to make lives better” and accusing dissenting physicians of “choosing ideology over patient interest.” The British Medical Association passed a motion last month that opposed the NHS’s decision to award Palantir a $450 million contract to provide its Federated Data Platform.

Diligent Robotics, which sells the Moxi hospital robot, hires two executives from a robotaxi firm as it moves into other industries.

Sales

• Hackensack Meridian Health integrates DrFirst’s AI tools with Epic to give clinicians faster access to patient medication histories and insurance coverage details.

People

Population health management software vendor Zyter TruCare hires Sundar Subramanian, MBA, MS (Strategy&) as CEO.

Announcements and Implementations

HL7 launches an office that will establish healthcare AI standards. Daniel Vreeman, PT, DPT, MS, the organization’s chief standards development officer, will serve as chief AI officer.

A new KLAS report on oncology systems finds that many independent oncology practices have been acquired by health systems. They have also increased their use of cloud technology.

Government and Politics

Curacao’s trade commission rules that an after-hours primary care group that holds a 70% market share abused its market position by requiring doctors to use a specific software system to use its services. The government will order the group to create and fund an open API connection to competing systems.

Sponsor Updates

• CTG staff volunteer with the United Way of Buffalo & Erie County during its Day of Caring at Buffalo River Fest Park.
• Altera Digital Health selects MedAllies as its QHIN partner for its Paragon Denali EHR.
• Capital Rx releases a new episode of “The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast” titled “The Benefits You Probably Didn’t Know You Have, with Marsha Perry.”
• Black Book Research announces its 2025 rankings of RCM vendors serving physician practices, with HIStalk sponsors FinThrive and Waystar achieving top marks in several categories.
• Agfa HealthCare achieves HITRUST i1 Certification.
• Navina and Nabla partner to deliver real-time support across clinical encounters.
• “The Big Unlock” podcast features Arcadia Chief Strategy Officer Aneesh Chopra in an episode titled “Reimagining Healthcare From Meaningful Use of Data to AI-Driven Equity.”
• Censinet releases a new episode of the “Risk Never Sleeps” podcast titled “The Startup Prescription for Healthcare IT – Part 1, with Elevsis Delgadillo, SVP of Customer Success at KeenStack.”
• A new Black Book Research survey of inpatient EHR users reveals meaningful disparities in satisfaction across major inpatient EHR platforms.

Blog Posts

• Overcoming Patient Access Challenges: 4-Step Approach to Centralization (AGS Health)
• Recognizing Common HIPAA Violations and How to Prevent Them (AdvancedMD)
• Prioritizing patient–provider connections in a digital age (Altera Digital Health)
• Branded Messaging: The Secret to Greater Response Rates and Trust in Healthcare (Artera)
• Breaking Free! Scaling Virtual Nursing Beyond Pilots (AvaSure)
• MUSE 2025: Innovation, Connection, and Giving Back (Consensus Cloud Solutions)
• Cutting Through the Noise: How Healthcare Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Prioritizes What Matters (CloudWave) 
• Speed Matters: Why Companies Lose Top Talent—And How to Fix It (Direct Recruiters)
• Understand What Clinicians Actually Experience Using Epic Hyperdrive (Goliath Technologies)
• Live from New York: How SCNs Connect 1.5 Million Patients to HRSN Services (Findhelp)
• AI in UK Healthcare: Empowering Better Patient Experiences Through Digital Transformation (Five9)

Sponsor Spotlight

FDB (First Databank) delivers clinically robust, workflow-integrated drug knowledge that is patient-specific and actionable, enabling more precise medication decisions. Trusted for quality, clinical expertise, and collaboration, FDB helps improve patient safety, operations, and outcomes. FDB’s drug databases and medication decision support solutions power information systems used by the majority of hospitals, physician practices, pharmacies, payers, and beyond, impacting millions of clinicians, business associates, and patients every day. Follow FDB on LinkedIn. (Sponsor Spotlight is free for HIStalk Platinum sponsors).

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