News 11/12/25

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SymphonyAI Group combines its holding Get Well (formerly known as GetWellNetwork) patient engagement business with its AI-powered precision care company, RhythmX AI, to form GW RhythmX.

RhythmX AI founder and CEO Deepthi Bathina will lead the new company, while Get Well founder and CEO Michael O’Neil will serve as vice chair.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Investment holding company Emergence acquires RCM technology vendor MedEvolve, which sold its RCM services business a month ago.

TruBridge announces Q3 results: revenue up 2%, EPS $0.88 versus –$0.21, beating analyst expectations for both.

NextSense raises a $16 million Series A round to market its wireless earbuds that monitor EEG patterns and use auditory stimulation to enhance slow-wave sleep. The device costs $399 plus a $15 monthly subscription.

People

Vitalchat promotes Brady Keeter to SVP of product and Mackenzie Laughridge to SVP of people.

MPulse names Eileen Cianciolo (Clarity Software Solutions) chief product officer. MPulse acquired payer-focused Clarity in August.

Rutland Regional Medical Center CMIO and medicine chair Rick Hildebrant, MD, MBA, MA is appointed commissioner at the Vermont Department of Health.

The American Telemedicine Association promotes Kyle Zebley to CEO. He replaces Ann Mond Johnson, who has retired.

Sales

• Baraga County Memorial Hospital (MI) will implement Oracle Health CommunityWorks and expand its use of the vendor’s clinical AI agent.
• AdventHealth Manchester (KY) will launch virtual care smart rooms using technology from HelloCare.
• DRH Health (OK) selects Commure’s Ambient AI clinical documentation software.
• Saudi Health Holdings will implement RapidAI’s imaging AI system.

Announcements and Implementations

CalmWave develops Alarm Insights to give clinical device managers visibility into bedside monitor alarm functionality and patterns.

CTG will offer Hippocratic AI consulting services and will co-develop solutions with the company.

UF Health (FL) goes live on Epic’s MyChart Central, giving patients the ability to log in to their medical records from across participating organizations using a single sign-on.

Other

OpenAI is reportedly considering entering the consumer health market, such as creating a personal health assistant or health data aggregator.

Nemours Children’s Health will expand its new advanced care at home program, which offers remote patient monitoring and virtual support, to its hospital in Delaware. Launched in June at the health system’s hospital in Orlando, the program has helped families avoid 91 emergency department visits and prevented 27 readmissions.

Sponsor Updates

• The American Medical Informatics Association inducts Clinical Architecture Senior Informaticist and Clinical Architecture Anand Kulanthaivel, PhD into the Fellows of the AMIA.
• Judi Health releases a new episode of “The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast” titled “The Survey Says: Inflation is a Problem, and Change is Imminent, with Business Group on Health’s Jim Winkler.”
• AvaSure achieves Epic Toolbox designation for inpatient virtual care.

Blog Posts

• Building a Strong Appeal Strategy for Clinical Denials (AGS Health)
• IDoR 2025: Agfa HealthCare celebrates the 14th International Day of Radiology. (Agfa HealthCare)
• Working smarter: Virtual medical assistants on the up and up (Altera Digital Health)
• Enterprise EHR vs. Standard EHR: Key Differences & Your Best Fit (Bizmatics)
• Data maturity is a muscle, not a milestone (Cardamom)
• Using Analytics to Battle Rising Healthcare Costs (Dimensional Insight)

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