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Cityblock Health Creating 140 New Jobs

Cityblock Health will bring 140 jobs to Indiana when it begins providing tech-enabled care for MDwise members in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne.

Eyenuk secures $26 Million Series A funding to accelerate global access to AI-powered eye-screening technology

AI-powered eye-screening software company Eyenuk raises $26 million in a Series A round, bringing its total funding to $43 million.

Vanta lands $40M to automate cybersecurity compliance

Multi-vertical cybersecurity company Vanta raises $40 million in a Series B extension that brings its total raised to $203 million.

Morning Headlines 10/17/22

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CHOP spinout Bainbridge Health raises $3.35M

Infusion pump data management vendor Bainbridge Health, a spinoff from Children’s Healthcare of Philadelphia, raises $3.35 million.

Redox Sets the Stage for Composable Healthcare, Expands Internationally

Redox expands into Canada and offers API Actions, which describes specific data models as concepts that developers can more readily understand.

Custom Health Acquires Health in Motion Network

Personalized medication management company Custom Health acquires Health in Motion Network, which has developed wearables data aggregation and tracking software for patients.

Morning Headlines 10/14/22

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Walgreens Boots Alliance Accelerates Full Acquisition of CareCentrix

Walgreens will buy the remaining shares of care coordination and benefit management platform vendor CareCentrix for $392 million, with the total acquisition cost amounting to $722 million.

CommonSpirit Update

CommonSpirit Health, which operates 142 hospitals in 21 states, confirms that its continued downtime that started October 3 was caused by a ransomware attack.

Data Dimensions Announces Acquisition of Providerflow to Revolutionize Medical Bill Payments for Clearinghouse

Property and casualty EDI vendor Data Dimensions acquires Providerflow, whose platform manages electronic claims attachments and requests from patients and third parties.

VA extends EHR delay to June 2023 after review finds more system problems

The VA announces that it will push back further Oracle Cerner EHR deployments by an additional six months to give the department more time to troubleshoot issues that have impacted patient care and user satisfaction.

NeuroFlow Closes $25M Growth Investment

Behavioral health assessment and triaging platform vendor NeuroFlow secures a $25 million growth investment.

Morning Headlines 10/13/22

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WELL Health to Acquire EMR, Billing and Clinical Assets from CloudMD

Well Health Technologies, a Canadian health IT vendor and clinic operator, acquires medical record and billing software along with three clinics from CloudMD Software & Services.

Nextech Announces Acquisition of TouchMD, Enhancing Specialty Practice Patient Experience

Specialty practice EHR and practice management software company Nextech acquires TouchMD, a visual consultation, marketing, and imaging software vendor.

Noom lays off more employees amid CFO departure

Weight loss coaching app company Noom announces its second round of layoffs this year, several months after raising $540 million.

Morning Headlines 10/12/22

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Brave Health Secures $40M in Series C Funding to Expand Access to Mental Health Services for Medicaid Populations

Medicaid virtual mental health provider Brave Health raises $40 million in a Series C funding round.

Milliman IntelliScript® Acquires OneRecord

Insurer risk assessment technology vendor Milliman IntelliScript acquires API-based EHR records retrieval system vendor OneRecord.

Redesign Health lays off 67 employees a month after raising $65 million

Healthcare startup development company Redesign Health lays off 20% of its staff in a restructuring move that affects its engineering, product, marketing, and recruiting departments.

Morning Headlines 10/11/22

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Post-pandemic, Telemedicine startups are evolving — this one just raised $6M for its hybrid approach

Specialty health and wellness telemedicine vendor Index Health raises $6 million in a seed funding round.

Patients’ private details published after cyber attackers stole data on up to 450,000 people

In New Zealand, hackers notify Pinnacle Midlands Health Network that they’ve uploaded the stolen data of 450,000 patients to the dark Web.

InStride Health Providing Virtual Pediatric Anxiety/OCD Treatment Launches with Support from McLean Hospital and Leading Healthcare Investors

Pediatric virtual mental healthcare company InStride Health launches with $26 million in funding.

Morning Headlines 10/10/22

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Seattle-area patients frustrated by days of system outages at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health facilities

Nearly a week into CommonSpirit Health’s IT incident, patients are growing frustrated by the lack of digital access that has prevented timely care coordination and prescription refills.

VA’s electronic health records system hit with pharmacy module outage

Oracle Cerner engineers resolve an application package coding issue that caused the VA’s EHR pharmacy module to go down for 11 hours last week.

Nebraska Hospital Association, UNMC announce data collaboration

The Nebraska Hospital Association and the University of Nebraska Medical Center prepare to launch an initiative that will give researchers access to the hospital’s de-identified claims data.

Morning Headlines 10/7/22

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Call it data liberation day: Patients can now access all their health records digitally 

Federal rules take effect that will enable patients to obtain all of their medical records in digital format upon request.

CMS Asks for Public Input on Establishing First, National Directory of Health Care Providers and Services

CMS solicits feedback on the idea of developing a national directory of healthcare providers and services.

Alleva Raises $12 Million Series A Led By Ankona Capital

Behavioral health IT vendor Alleva raises $12 million in a Series A funding round.

Nordic Consulting Acquires Healthcare Consulting Company Hygeian

Nordic Consulting acquires Hygeian, a healthcare consulting and staffing firm that serves customers in the UK and Middle East.

Morning Headlines 10/6/22

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PatientPoint Acquires Rendia to Accelerate Expansion into Ophthalmology Specialty

Patient engagement vendor PatientPoint acquires eye care-focused competitor Rendia for an undisclosed sum.

Drummond Group Introduces Pediatric Health IT Certification Program

Drummond Group, the certifying body for ONC’s Health IT Certification Program, launches a Pediatric Health IT Certification program to help health IT vendors advance pediatric EHR capabilities.

TPG seals $2.2B deal for ClaimsXten

Private equity firm TPG acquires Change Healthcare’s ClaimsXten business for $2.2 billion as part of the terms of UnitedHealth’s acquisition of Change.

Morning Headlines 10/5/22

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Paper charts, canceled appointments at VMFH clinics, hospitals as network outage drags on

Computer networks remain offline at numerous facilities within the multi-state CommonSpirit Health system due to an unspecified IT security incident that occurred Monday.

Epic overhauls popular sepsis algorithm criticized for faulty alarms

STAT reports that Epic now recommends that its sepsis prediction model be trained on a hospital’s own data before clinical use, and that the company has changed its definition of sepsis onset to a more commonly accepted standard.

Smile CDR Rebrands to Smile Digital Health

Clinical data repository vendor Smile CDR rebrands to Smile Digital Health to reflect its expanded focus on health data and integration.

The Way Forward for Mental Healthcare: A Message from Dr. David Mou, CEO, Cerebral

Cerebral CEO David Mou, MD vows to enhance the online mental healthcare company’s clinical safeguards and patient identification verification protocols and software, among other changes, in response to scrutiny around its prescribing, marketing, and patient identity verification practices.

Morning Headlines 10/4/22

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CTG Acquires Eleviant Tech to Accelerate Digital Transformation Strategy and Portfolio Innovation

CTG acquires Eleviant Tech, a digital transformation company specializing in mobile, cloud, robotic process automation, and AI across multiple verticals including healthcare.

Optum and Change Healthcare Complete Combination

UnitedHealth finalizes its $8 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare, which it will merge with its Optum business.

EHNAC and CARIN Alliance Announce New CARIN Code of Conduct Accreditation Program

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission and the CARIN Alliance, a collaborative focused on consumer-directed health data exchange, launch an accreditation program to bring the CARIN Code of Conduct and EHNAC’s criteria review process to healthcare stakeholders.

Morning Headlines 10/3/22

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Major in the United States Army and a Maryland Doctor Facing Federal Indictment for Allegedly Providing Confidential Health Information to a Purported Russian Representative to Assist Russia Related to the Conflict In Ukraine

Federal prosecutors indict US Army Major Jamie Lee Henry and his wife, Anna Gabrielian, for conspiracy and disclosing the health information of military personnel to assist Russia with its war against Ukraine.

Talkspace investor demands appointment of CEO, plan to stabilize stock price

Investor Firstime Ventures calls for therapy app vendor Talkspace to appoint a permanent CEO, share its long-term plan, and address rumors of a potential sale.

Grow Therapy Raises $75 Million to Expand Access to Affordable Mental Healthcare

Tech-enabled mental healthcare company Grow Therapy raises $75 million in a Series B funding round, bringing its total raised to $90 million.

Careviso Raises Over $17 million in Series B Funding to Enhance Transparency and Access for Diagnostic Testing

Patient access and transparency technology vendor Careviso raises $17 million in a Series B funding round.

Morning Headlines 9/30/22

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Cerebral Treated a 17-Year-Old Without His Parents’ Consent. They Found Out the Day He Died.

The Wall Street Journal exposes lax patient identification verification at Cerebral, an online prescription drug company that has come under fire in recent months for potentially violating the Controlled Substances Act.

VA ‘not confident’ EHR issues preventing future rollouts are resolved following Oracle fix

VA Secretary Denis McDonough says it’s too soon to tell if an August EHR update by Oracle Cerner has finally fixed an “unknown queue” problem that caused thousands of clinical orders to disappear in an unmonitored inbox, causing patients to miss follow-up appointments.

Kahun Secures $8M Round for its ‘XAI’ Engine for Clinical Reasoning

Israel-based clinical assessment chatbot startup Kahun raises $8 million in a seed funding round.

Morning Headlines 9/29/22

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InterWell Health Enhances Capabilities to Transform Kidney Care with Addition of Acumen Physician Solutions

Kidney care company InterWell Health acquires Acumen Physician Solutions, which offers EHR and practice management software for nephrologists.

New Mental Health Company Led by Consumer Brand Industry Veterans to Revolutionize Mental Health Care Delivery for Seniors

Tech-enabled, senior-focused mental healthcare startup Rippl launches with $32 million in seed funding.

10 Healthcare Organizations Band Together to Urge HHS to Postpone Information Sharing Compliance Deadlines

Citing a lack of guidance on best practices and potential enforcement, plus a lack of preparedness on the part of some smaller vendors, provider organizations band together to urge HHS to give stakeholders an additional year to comply with the information-sharing compliance deadline, currently scheduled for October 6, 2022.

Morning Headlines 9/28/22

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Prevalence and Sources of Duplicate Information in the Electronic Medical Record

A JAMA study of 104 million clinical notes made over six years within the Penn Medicine Health System finds that the total text of 50.1% had been copied from prior text written about the same patient.

DocSpera Raises $10 Million to Accelerate Commercialization of Automated Surgical Workflow Solutions to Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers

Surgical care coordination software vendor DocSpera raises $10 million in a Series B funding round.

Hospitals, other providers question State of Nebraska’s failure to pay health data provider

CyncHealth warns the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services that it will no longer be able to operate the state’s HIE and PDMP if the department doesn’t make good on the $11 million owed on its contract.

Morning Headlines 9/27/22

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Clarus acquires California software company

Call triage software vendor Clarus acquires Call Simplified, which specializes in after-hours call management.

Health startup Olive fires CFO and CPO

Healthcare automation company Olive reportedly fires CFO Ali Byrd and Chief Product Officer Rohan D’Souza, a little over two months after laying off 450 employees.

PracticeTek Acquires GrowthPlug to Help Healthcare Practices Modernize

PracticeTek, a retail healthcare practice management company, acquires practice marketing and patient relationship management firm GrowthPlug.

Morning Headlines 9/26/22

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The Watch Is Ticking: A Five-Year Plan to Harness Wearable Health Tech

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change recommends that the UK government recruit 30% of adults to participate in wearables-powered public health interventions, restart pilots that motivate people to improve nutrition and exercise, and give people over 50 years of age free devices if they meet activity targets.

Dozens of Dartmouth Health staff being shifted to Texas-based billing company

Fifty Dartmouth Health (NH) employees will transition to employment with Conifer Health Solutions, which manages the health system’s billing and collections.

Claro Healthcare to Join Kaufman Hall

Kaufman Hall will acquire clinical documentation consulting firm Claro Healthcare.

IT restructuring at Bangor hospital’s parent organization affects more than 100 employees

Covenant Health outsources some IT functions, most notably cybersecurity, to Long80, which will offer employment to the 104 affected health system employees.

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