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Morning Headlines 8/9/22

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Netsmart Announces the Skilled Nursing Industry’s Only Data Analytics Solution with a Complete View of Claims, MDS, and Staffing

Netsmart acquires Zimmet Healthcare’s Core Analytics offering for skilled nursing facilities.

HHS Awards Nearly $90 Million to Community Health Centers to Advance Health Equity through Better Data

HHS awards nearly $90 million to 1,400 health centers across the country to help them improve data collection and reporting.

EirSystems Announces Close of Seed Financing Round to Advance Software for Preventing Prescription Abuse

Tennessee-based e-prescribing startup EirSystems secures seed funding in a round led by Solas BioVentures.

Morning Headlines 8/5/22

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WVU Medicine’s partnership with DHS is ending

Davis Health System (WV) and WVU Health will end their partnership due to Davis Health’s decision to implement Cerner, rather than adopt WVU Health’s cost-prohibitive Epic system.

Allscripts Announces Second Quarter of 2022 Results

Allscripts announces Q2 results: revenue up 7%, adjusted EPS $0.18 versus $0.18, beat revenue expectations, but falling short on earnings.

Atropos Health Announces $14M Series A, Taps Co-founder as CEO

Atropos Health, which offers a digital consultation service for providers, raises $14 million in a Series A funding round.

Veritas completes merger of RCM firms Coronis and MiraMed

Veritas Capital merges recently acquired RCM vendors Coronis and MiraMed Global Services to offer providers end-to-end RCM software and services.

Morning Headlines 8/4/22

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Homeward Secures $50 Million in Series B Funding to Improve Access to High-Quality Healthcare in Rural Communities

Rural hybrid care company Homeward raises $50 million in a Series B funding round, bringing its total raised to $70 million.

CareTrack Health Secures $2.5 Million Investment from Hybrid Capital Partners

Patient adherence software vendor CareTrack secures $2.5 million from Hybrid Capital Partners.

Athenahealth Implements DrFirst’s Digital Engagement Solution to Encourage Patients to Follow Prescribed Treatment Plans

Athenahealth integrates DrFirst’s RxInform patient medication notification software with its EHR to improve medication adherence.

Morning Headlines 8/3/22

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Lyniate Merges with CareCom, Further Extending Capabilities of Interoperability Leader

Lyniate acquires Denmark-based clinical terminology management vendor CareCom.

Hawley Calls for FTC Review of Amazon’s One Medical Acquisition

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) asks the FTC to review Amazon’s planned acquisition of One Medical, which he says gives Amazon too much power to push non-prescription blood pressure medications at Whole Foods that are based on One Medical patient data.

VA names functional champion for electronic health record modernization program

The VA tasks David Massaro, MD – formerly an executive within the VHA’s Office of Health Informatics – with coordinating the development and implementation of the agency’s EHR modernization program across its offices.

Morning Headlines 8/2/22

August 1, 2022 Headlines 1 Comment

Carequality Interoperability Framework Expands To Allow Federal Participation

Carequality expands its interoperability framework to allow the participation of federal agencies, courtesy of updated agreements with existing member EHealth Exchange.

PE-backed Zelis buys Spectrum’s Payer Compass

Healthcare payment company Zelis Healthcare acquires healthcare pricing solutions business Payer Compass, which gears its services toward employers and payers, for $180 million.

Oracle Cuts Workers in US Customer Experience Unit

Confirming earlier reports, Oracle lays off staff in its marketing and customer experience divisions as it buckles down on revitalizing Cerner’s work with the VA.

Morning Headlines 8/1/22

July 31, 2022 Headlines 2 Comments

Sentry deal doubles Craneware revenue

Scotland-based charge master software vendor Craneware attributes its jump in revenue and earnings to its July 2021 acquisition of US-based pharmacy systems vendor Sentry Data Systems.

Spok Reports Second Quarter 2022 Results

Spok announces Q2 results: revenue down 6%, EPS $0.10 versus –$0.04.

Pediatric Medical Centers Improve the Efficiency of Investigator-Initiated, Multi-Site, Collaborative Research with TriNetX

TriNetX announces members of its Pediatric Collaboratory Network – Children’s National Hospital, WVU Medicine Children’s, Children’s Health, and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital.

Morning Headlines 7/29/22

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Teladoc loses $3 billion in three months, stock plummets 24%

Teladoc Health shares drop 18% on Q2 results: revenue up 18%, EPS –$19.22 versus –$0.86, missing Wall Street expectations for both.

NeuroFlow Launches a Comprehensive Referral Network to Meet Demand for Behavioral Health Care

Behavioral health integration vendor NeuroFlow launches a referral network of behavioral health providers, tele-therapy companies, and tele-psychiatry organizations to expand access to care.

BD Acquires MedKeeper to Offer Cloud-based, Connected Pharmacy Software

BD acquires MedKeeper, which offers cloud-based hospital pharmacy applications for IV verification and medication delivery tracking.

Morning Headlines 7/28/22

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Payment Integrity Leader ClaimLogiq Acquires NLP Pioneer SyTrue

Payer-focused payments company ClaimLogiq acquires healthcare natural language processing technology vendor SyTrue.

NextGen Healthcare Reports Fiscal 2023 First Quarter Results

Despite Q1 revenue growth, NextGen’s revised 2023 revenue and earnings estimates cause shares to drop 5% in after-hours trading.

VA’s $16 billion health records overhaul may be scrapped if fixes aren’t made

House lawmakers say VA administrators will have to seriously consider pulling the plug on its EHR modernization efforts if improvements aren’t made in time for further roll outs early next year.

Morning Headlines 7/27/22

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Clearwater Adds 24/7 Managed Detection and Response Services and HITRUST, CMMC and PCI Certification Services Through Acquisition of Tech Lock

Healthcare cybersecurity, compliance, and risk management vendor Clearwater acquires RevSpring subsidiary Tech Lock, which offers similar services for a variety of industries including healthcare.

Mayo Clinic, Mercy Collaborate to Globally Transform Patient Care

Mayo Clinic and Mercy announce a 10-year partnership in which they will transform their de-identified treatment and outcomes data into actionable insights for improved patient care.

RLDatix Acquires Galen Healthcare Solutions

Governance, risk, and compliance vendor RLDatix acquires Galen Healthcare Solutions, which offers system support, implementation, optimization, data migration, and cloud-based legacy system retirement.

Elation Health Announces $50M Series D for Innovative Primary Care

Primary care EHR vendor Elation Health raises $50 million in a Series D funding round, increasing its total to $109 million.

3M Announces Plans to Create Long Term Value Through Spin-Off of Health Care Business

3M will spin off its healthcare business into a stand-alone company focused on health IT, wound care, oral care, and biopharma filtration.

Morning Headlines 7/26/22

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Theator, an AI platform that analyzes surgery videos, closes out its Series A at $39.5M

Theator, which uses AI to derive insights from videos of operations, caps its Series A funding round at $39.5 million.

Your Pediatrician is a Message Away: Announcing Summer Health and our $7.5M Seed Round from Sequoia and Lux

Text message-based concierge care provider Summer Health announces $7.5 million in seed funding.

VA Roseburg medical center hit with electronic health records outage

The Roseburg VA Health Care System’s Cerner-based EHR went down for several hours last week due to a patient registration programming glitch.

Morning Headlines 7/25/22

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Statement of Mike Sicilia, Executive Vice President Industries Oracle Corporation Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Hearing on Examining the Status of VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization Program

Oracle EVP Mike Sicilia tells the US Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs that Oracle will move the VA’s Cerner implementation to the cloud and rewrite Cerner’s pharmacy module, completing both tasks within six to nine months.

Pre-Visit Clinical Intake Automation Company Health Note Nabs $17M in Funding Round

Health Note will use a $17 million Series A funding round to expand its market presence and EHR integrations, and invest in additional research and development.

Ascom acquires French software developer Appliware

Ascom acquires Appliware, a France-based developer of long-term care solutions for patient monitoring and alarming.

London NHS trust cancels operations as IT system fails in heatwave

In the UK, IT and telephone system servers at one of NHS’s largest trusts go down as data center cooling systems fail to keep up with a record heat wave.

Morning Headlines 7/22/22

July 21, 2022 Headlines 1 Comment

Amazon to buy One Medical for $3.9 billion as it expands healthcare footprint

The announcement comes two weeks after reports that primary care operator One Medical, whose share price had dropped by nearly two-thirds in the past 12 months, was exploring its options after reported acquisition interest by CVS Health didn’t materialize.

Internal document reveals more frequent computer problems at Spokane VA than previously known

The Spokane paper says that the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center users have experienced more than 180 episodes of system degradation or downtime since September 2021.

VA’s $16 billion medical records overhaul could triple in cost

VA officials say its Oracle Cerner project could cost $51 billion over the next 30 years when maintenance and staffing are factored in.

Justice Department Seizes and Forfeits Approximately $500,000 from North Korean Ransomware Actors and their Conspirators

DOJ seizes $500,000 from North Korean hackers and returns the $220,000 that two US hospitals had paid in ransomware attacks.

Morning Headlines 7/21/22

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How Apple is empowering people with their health information

A new Apple report proclaims the company as “an intelligent guardian for [consumer] health and safety,” dividing its products between health and fitness (the Health app and the Apple Watch) and medical community collaboration (ResearchKit for study recruitment, Health Records to give patients access to provider data, Apple Watch for health system integration, and the company’s work in building COVID-19 apps and features).

Simplified Transfer Learning for Chest Radiography Model Development

An article published in the journal Radiology describes how Google Health has used advanced machine learning methods to pre-train chest X-ray networks that convert images into numerical vectors, which allows high-quality models to be created from 600-fold less data that can detect abnormalities and perform better in underrepresented populations and rare conditions.

Invitae to Lay Off Over 1,000 Workers Amid Restructuring, Leadership Transition

The medical genetic testing company will lay off 1,000 of its 2,900 employees, restructure, eliminate non-core operations and geographies, focus on profitable business lines, and shuffle its executive leadership and board.

VA scraps last EHR go-live date in FY 2022, amid IG accounts of patient harm

The VA postpones its last remaining 2022 go-live on Oracle Cerner, saying that the system isn’t ready to be used in larger facilities because of stability issues.

Morning Headlines 7/20/22

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Columbus tech company Olive lays off 450 employees

Healthcare automation vendor Olive AI lays one-third of its total headcount, saying that economic realities have forced it to “reconcile missteps” related to its aggressive expansion.

New! USCDI v3 Published

ONC publishes the the latest version of the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI).

DiMe Releases Toolkits to Improve Sensor Data Integration and Power Better, Faster Global Healthcare and Research

The Digital Medicine Society releases four toolkits for integrating data from wearables and digital sensing products.

Morning Headlines 7/19/22

July 18, 2022 Headlines No Comments

GE Unveils Brand Names for Three Planned Future Public Companies

GE, which is separating itself into thee public companies that will focus on the growth sectors of healthcare, energy, and aviation, will name the healthcare business GE HealthCare when it spins it off early in 2023.

Cerner integration with Oracle will include new roles for Feinberg, Dalton

Former Cerner CEO David Feinberg, MD will become chairman of the new Oracle Health Global Industry Unit, while former Cerner Chief Client and Services Officer Travis Dalton will become general manager.

Eleven Enforcement Actions Uphold Patients’ Rights Under HIPAA

HHS OCR settles 11 cases in which providers failed to give patients copies of their medical records in a timely manner, assessing civil money penalties that range from $3,500 to $240,000.

Biden’s FTC Has Blocked 4 Hospital Mergers and Is Poised to Thwart More Consolidation Attempts

The Federal Trade Commission, noting the market dominance of the largest health systems and the failure of mergers to reduce costs, signals that it will more aggressively investigate planned hospital mergers and acquisition of physician practices.

Morning Headlines 7/18/22

July 17, 2022 Headlines No Comments

Senior Staff Gave Inaccurate Information to OIG Reviewers of Electronic Health Record Training

A VA OIG report says that VA project executives provided it with misleading information about employee training on Cerner.

Scoop: Veritas buys RCM firm Coronis Health

Axios reports that private equity firm Veritas Capital has acquired physician billing and RCM company Coronis Health, reportedly with the intention of buying another privately held RCM company and combining the two.

R1 RCM Announces 10-Year End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management Partnership with Sutter Health to Drive Improved Financial Performance

Sutter Health signs a 10-year RCM outsourcing contract with R1 RCM, which will hire 1,150 Sutter employees.

Do Cancer Centers Push Too Many Tests?

A New York Times review of 600 cancer center websites finds that they often tout the benefit of tests, often highly profitable radiology exams, in ways that conflict with medical evidence and recommendations.

Morning Headlines 7/15/22

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Making Electronic Health Records Both SAFER and SMARTER

Informatics leaders call for expanding use of the SAFER guides to align health systems and EHR vendors in improving safety and usability, and for developing a similar set of SMARTER guides to protect the cognitive attention of clinicians.

Healthcare Triangle Announces Closing of $6.5 Million Private Placement

Healthcare cloud and data transformation vendor Healthcare Triangle closes a $6.5 million private placement.

The New Electronic Health Record’s Unknown Queue Caused Multiple Events of Patient Harm

A new report from the VA’s Office of Inspector General confirms that an “unknown queue” within the VA’s Oracle Cerner system led to 150 adverse patient events.

HPG, a Leader in EHR Technology Integration, Acquires HIT Consulting Services Provider HDS

EHR consulting firm Healthcare Performance Group acquires competitor Health Data Specialists.

Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

EHR and developer tools vendor Canvas Medical raises $24 million in a Series B funding round.

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