Upheal, which offers a clinical documentation personal assistant for mental health professionals, raises $10 million in a Series A funding round.
DEA and HHS Extend Telemedicine Flexibilities through 2025
The DEA and HHS will extend telemedicine prescribing flexibilities for an additional year.
Urgent care telehealth provider HealthLynked reports Q3 results: revenue down 56%, EPS –$0.01 versus $0.00.
Impilo Secures Series A Funding! Looking to Transform Healthcare Access Nationwide
Remote care software and services startup Impilo announces $11.5 million in Series A funding.
WashU Medicine, BJC Health System launch Center for Health AI
Washington University School of Medicine and BJC Health System in Missouri develop the Center for Health AI, which will develop and deploy healthcare AI technologies to improve patient care, streamline clinical workflows, and reduce administrative burdens.
The US Virgin Islands Office of Health Information Technology will work with CRISP Shared Services to develop an HIE.
Inside Forward’s failed attempt to revolutionize the doctor’s office
AI-powered doc-in-the-box manufacturer Forward shuts down after an eight-year run, during which it raised $650 million.
The Future of Telehealth.org with Doxy.me
Telemedicine software developer Doxy.me acquires professional development and consulting organization Telehealth.org.
Harvard Medical School Alum Donates $6 Million for AI Health Care Education
Inovalon founder and CEO Keith Dunleavy, MD donates $6 million to his alma mater, Harvard Medical School, to expand education in AI in healthcare.
HHS has still not addressed key cyber recommendations, GAO says
A new report from the Government Accountability Office points out that HHS has failed to act on GAO cybersecurity recommendations made earlier this year, and stresses that the department must do a better job of coordinating ransomware mitigation efforts and tracking provider adoption of cybersecurity practices.
Digital physical therapy services provider Sword Health reportedly lays off 13 physical therapists, about 17% of its clinicians, as it prepares for an IPO and follows through on plans to manage more patients using AI.
23andMe cuts 40% of its workforce and discontinues therapeutics division
23andMe will eliminate 200 roles and shutter its therapeutics division in an effort to restructure its business, which has seen declining revenue and plummeting shares over the last 12 months.
Babylon founder Ali Parsa launches healthcare AI assistant company Quadrivia with seed funding from Norrsken.
VA proposes to eliminate copays for telehealth, expand access to telehealth for rural Veterans
The VA considers doing away with copays for all of its telehealth services and establishing a grant program to fund an expansion of its Accessing Telehealth through Local Area Stations programs, which serves veterans in rural areas.
Embargo Ransomware Gang Sets Deadline to Leak Hospital Data
The Embargo ransomware group threatens to publish data stolen from Memorial Hospital and Manor (GA) last week unless its ransom demands are met before November 12.
Provider enablement company Astrana Health will acquire Prospect Health’s hospital and medical groups, pharmacy, health plan, and managed services organization for $745 million.
Doximity (DOCS) Tops Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates
Clinician network and drug marketing operator Doximity reports Q2 results: revenue up 20%, adjusted EPS $0.30 versus $0.22, beating expectations for both and sending DOCS shares up 34% in valuing the company at $11 billion.
McKesson, Oracle competing for Veradigm
McKesson, Oracle, and private equity firm Thoma Bravo are reportedly competing to acquire health IT, data, and analytics company Veradigm in a deal expected to close by Thanksgiving.
Waystar Reports Third Quarter 2024 Results
Waystar reports Q3 results: revenue up 22%, adjusted EPS $0.14 versus –$0.09, beating expectations for both.
Leidos awarded Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network operations contract
HHS awards Leidos a $235 million contract to modernize the country’s Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN).
Independent Alliance formed to Drive Smart Hospital Advancement
The non-profit Alliance for Smart Healthcare Excellence launches with former HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber as president and CEO.
Health Catalyst Third Quarter 2024 Earnings
Health data and analytics vendor Health Catalyst reports a slight uptick in Q3 revenue to $76.4 million, exceeding mid-point quarterly guidance projections.
CVS posts mixed results, holds off on guidance in Joyner’s first earnings report as CEO
CVS Health reports Q3 results: revenue up 6%, EPS $0.07 versus $1.75, beating expectations for both.
TruBridge Announces Third Quarter 2024 Results
RCM, EHR, and patient engagement company TruBridge reports nearly flat Q3 revenue of $83.8 million, with its Financial Health business accounting for 65% of total revenue.
VitalHub Announces Acquisition of Strata Health
Health and human services software vendor VitalHub acquires digital care navigation company Strata Health for $23 million.
Health Commons Project, which operates a public health accelerator program in Washington, acquires HIE and health data company OneHealthPort.
Health data and analytics company Health Catalyst acquires cybersecurity business Intraprise Health, its second acquisition in just over three months.
Once-growing diabetes startup backed by Blue Cross files for bankruptcy
Automated insulin dosing software vendor Hygieia files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.
R1 RCM Reports Third Quarter 2024 Results
R1 RCM sees its 14.7% uptick in Q3 revenue tempered by a $20 million loss it attributes to customer and vendor technology outages.
In latest interoperability expansion, Epic advances personalized care
Epic releases an expanded set of APIs that support USCDI v3, supporting tribal affiliation, disability status, caregiver relationships, preferred language, and Social Drivers of Health.
Online mental healthcare company Cerebral will pay $3.6 million as part of a 30-month non-prosecution agreement for encouraging unauthorized distribution of controlled substances between 2019 and 2022.
Medicare finalized coverage for some mental health apps. Now what?
A new CMS rule will enable providers to bill Medicare for certain FDA-approved mental health apps and related services.
Memorial Hospital and Manor investigating cyber attack
Memorial Hospital & Manor (GA) deals with a ransomware attack discovered early Saturday morning.
Small-Hospital EHR (1–200 Beds) 2024
KLAS finds that 42% of under-200 bed hospitals use legacy systems, while most new considerations involve Epic Community Connect, Meditech Expanse, and Oracle Health.
What’s Going On With All The Empty Cerner Buildings?
Oracle has closed two of the former Cerner’s three campuses and is using the former Innovations Campus to house the limited number of employees who don’t work remotely.
Jennie Stuart Board hosts meeting concerning possible merger
The Kentucky health system confirms that its desire to be acquired involves a conversion from Altera Digital Health to Epic.
Global Payments sharpens core focus with $1.1 billion medical software unit sale
Global Payments will sell AdvancedMD to Francisco Partners for $1.1 billion, which Global Payments acquired in 2018 for $700 million.
Cedars-Sinai Launches Health Sciences University
The health system’s new health university will offer a PhD in health artificial intelligence.
Elon Musk wants you to submit medical data to his AI chatbot
The billionaire asks his followers on X to submit their medical images to his AI platform Grok to be used for its training, raising significant privacy concerns.
Oracle announces new AI-powered electronic health record
Oracle Health will release a new EHR in 2025 that is not built on the architecture of Cerner Millennium.
Digital Hypertension Management Solutions
A new report by the Peterson Health Technology Institute finds that hypertension tools for blood pressure monitoring, medication management, and behavior change don’t reduce healthcare spending, especially those that try to encourage patient behavior change.
Oracle Health’s Clinical AI Agent Helps Doctors Spend More Time with Patients
Oracle Health announces a new version of its Clinical Digital Assistant and its name change to Clinical AI Agent.
The Department of Defense will invest $25 million to roll out a wearable version of a pre-symptomatic infection detection algorithm for active duty personnel.
Oracle applies to join Epic and others in new federal medical record network
Oracle will apply to become a QHIN under TEFCA, well after Epic and others have gone live.
New unified IT structure will serve Emory University and Emory Healthcare
Emory will combine its healthcare and university IT organizations under Alistair Erskine, who joined Emory Healthcare in March 2023 as chief information and digital officer.
BREAKING NEWS: Hyve Group acquires US-based HLTH Inc portfolio
London-based, private equity-owned global event organizer Hyve acquires HLTH USA (Las Vegas), ViVE (Nashville), and HLTH Europe (Amsterdam), which will make HLTH USA its largest event by revenue.
WellSky acquires Bonafide, which offers software for durable medical equipment and home medical equipment.
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Experts find that OpenAI’s Whisper technology, which is used by ambient documentation vendors, hallucinates to the extent that its transcriptions should be reviewed carefully.
Healthify Closes $45 Million Financing Round Led by Khosla Ventures and LeapFrog Investments
The nutrition and health coaching app vendor will use the funds to enter the US market.
Hack at UnitedHealth’s tech unit impacted 100 mln people, US health dept says
The February ransomware attack on UnitedHealth-owned Change Healthcare has compromised the personal information of 100 million people, making the attack the largest healthcare data breach in US history.
CorroHealth Announces Strategic Partnership with Patient Square Capital
Patient Square Capital invests in RCM company CorroHealth and becomes a joint owner of the business with investment firm Carlyle.
Dyania Health raises $10M for clinical trial recruitment LLM
Automated chart review and clinical trial pre-screening software startup Dyania Health raises $10 million.
UMC operations largely restored after hospital faced month-long ransomware attack
University Medical Center (TX) has restored the majority of its patient-facing computer systems after a September 26 ransomware attack took them offline and forced the hospital to divert patients.
PEO-DHMS to Award Leidos Follow-On MHS GENESIS System Support Contract
The Program Executive Office for Defense Healthcare Management Systems will likely award Leidos another potentially multi-billion dollar contract to continue providing system integration support for the DoD’s MHS Genesis EHR.
Infinitus Systems raises $51.5 million Series C funding on the strength of AI guardrails
Infinitus Systems announces $51.5 million in Series C funding and the launch of its FastTrack healthcare phone call automation software.
Commure To Partner with HCA Healthcare on Ambient AI Platform
HCA Healthcare selects Commure, which acquired ambient documentation technology vendor Augmedix in July, to develop and deploy ambient AI.
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