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News 4/8/26

April 7, 2026 News No Comments

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Insight Health raises an $11 million Series A funding round.

The company offers voice and text AI agents for clinical and administrative tasks.


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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Behavioral EHR vendor Qualifacts acquires MethodOne, which offers dispensing software for opioid treatment programs.


Sales

  • University of Toledo Health (OH) selects Nabla’s AI-based clinical documentation software.
  • NYC Health + Hospitals will implement PeriGen’s Vigilance early warning and clinical decision technology for maternal and fetal care.

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Veradigm hires Christian Greyenbuhl, CPA (Ministry Brands) as CFO.

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Arcadia names Chris Rallo (AWS) as chief product officer and Amy Bagge-Smith, JD (Zus Health) as chief counsel and head of regulatory affairs.


Announcements and Implementations

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PrognoCIS EHR developer Bizmatics announces GA of its PrognoAI Suite, which includes AI-powered scribe, chat assistant, and health summary tools.

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OSF HealthCare Saint Katharine Medical Center (IL) goes live on Epic as part of an enterprise implementation.

Houston Methodist implements the Medication Administration Protection System from Salus.

Waystar launches a Recoupment Manager tool to help providers automate payer payment reconciliation processes.

Concord Medical Group deploys AI scribe and clinical decision support software from DocAssistant across its emergency department network.


Government and Politics

The White House’s proposed budget for FY2027 includes a record $488 billion for the VA, which represents a 7.7% increase. The funding includes the restart of the VA’s EHR implementation.


Privacy and Security

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Signature Healthcare and Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital (MA) remain on downtime procedures and ambulance diversion after a cybersecurity incident on Monday forced them to take their systems offline.

Online health and wellness prescription delivery company Hims & Hers discloses that its third-party customer support vendor was breached in early February, resulting in the theft of user request data from its customer support team.


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The New York Times profiles the high-end theatrical experience magic venue called The Hand &  the Eye, which is being developed by health tech entrepreneur and magic fan Glenn Tullman with $50 million of his own money. The 35,000 square foot venue, which is housed in a renovated Gilded Age Chicago mansion, will feature five magic performance spaces, seven bars, two dining rooms, and a roster of 22 magicians. It will open on April 18. Tullman’s greatest trick was making most of Teladoc’s market cap disappear by selling them the largely forgotten Livongo for $18.5 billion, proving that he’s a master of illusion even off the stage.

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Also in the Times: TikTokers who are seeking algorithm-driven views and supportive comments are filming themselves opening up their newly delivered MyChart results, some of them involving life-altering information about cancer or other serious situations that neither they nor their doctor have reviewed. The author summarizes:

Each delivers a carefully calibrated sequence of uncertainty (what’s the result?), resolution (here’s the result) and emotional payoff (the tears, the sadness, the relief) that is extremely effective at keeping a viewer engaged … It’s no coincidence that the same template is used for videos about people receiving all manner of big news, from bar exam results to pregnancy and DNA tests … The more I watched, the more I felt that people were scratching their tickets in the lottery of 21st-century American life, hoping that the medical results — or, barring that, the views and financial rewards they could rack up online — would go their way.


Sponsor Updates

  • AGS Health expands its data security portfolio with HITRUST i1 certification.
  • Five9 names Jay Lee (Icertis) chief marketing and growth officer.
  • Netsmart will offer EarliPoint’s early autism spectrum disorder assessment and diagnosis technology to its customers.
  • RLDatix’s Connected Healthcare Summit draws more than 400 health system leaders as it advances AI-powered patient safety and provider performance solutions.
  • Black Book Research releases the “2026 State of Digital Healthcare in Post-Acute Care Report.”
  • Five9 hires Jay Lee as chief marketing and growth officer.
  • Clinical Architecture and its partners offer a new white paper titled “How Clinical Informatics Improve Veteran Health Outcomes.”
  • CloudWave will present at the 2026 HIMSS AZ-WA West Coast Regional Summit April 16 in Westin Tempe, AZ.

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Monday Morning Update 4/6/26

April 4, 2026 News 1 Comment

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Anthropic will acquire drug discovery and research technology vendor Coefficient Bio for $400 million in shares.

The eight-month-old company has nine employees.


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Last week’s poll results are interesting, as even we health tech experts are divided on how much freedom we give patients over their own data.

New poll to your right or here: Would you reject a job candidate who seems to have used AI to craft a resume, emails, or headshot? An interesting aspect of this is how you would know, with the obvious answer being “it’s too polished.” Does than penalize someone who might actually be polished?


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A one-person company uses AI to create an online business that sells GLP-1 weight loss drugs will book $1.8 billion in sales in its second full year of business. Its founder, who just hired his brother as employee #2, spent $20,000 and used several AI tools to create its websites and ads, manage customer support, and monitor its business performance. It outsourced the prescribing and prescription fulfillment functions to outside companies. The company has been warned by FDA of selling illegal copycat drugs and has been accused of running deceptive ads that feature AI-generated fake doctors and deepfaked before-and-after patient images.  


Announcements and Implementations

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America West Medical Transportation launches an Epic-integrated SMART on FHIR app fir scheduling patient transport from with the EHR. The app, which was built on VectorCare’s patient logistics platform, reduces booking time and adds real-time tracking and automatic documentation.

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The VA expands its rollout of Mynd’s virtual therapy for pain, anxiety, and distress.


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In England, a dietitian loses her license after a tribunal determines that she used ChatGPT to generate answers during a video job interview. Interviewers become suspicious when Aiwanehi Aigbokhaevbo repeatedly asked them to restate their questions, echoed the questions back slowly to buy time for the AI to finish its answer, and then looked off camera to read back its polished responses. The panel tested their concerns by entering the same questions into ChatGPT, which yielded nearly identical answers. NHS sources say that they have seen a good bit of AI interview cheating, especially from Nigerian job applicants. 


Sponsor Updates

  • Nordic releases a new “Designing for Health” podcast featuring an interview with Stephen Williams, MD, MBA.
  • SlicedHealth becomes a preferred partner of The Cottano Group.
  • Wolters Kluwer Health releases the results of its “Lippincott FutureCare Nursing 2026 Survey.”
  • WellSky offers a new white paper titled “Redefining care transitions: Creating reliable, value‑based patient journeys.”
  • The “HITea with Grace” podcast features VisiQuate CEO Brian Robertson in an episode titled “Finding Data Gaps to Empower Healthcare Organizations.”
  • Vyne Medical will sponsor and exhibit at NAHAM 2026 April 28-May in Chicago.

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News 4/3/26

April 2, 2026 News 1 Comment

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An activist investor pressures the board of Teladoc Health to cut costs, repurchase shares, and sell or spin off its behavioral health business.

Pineal Capital Management notes that TDOC shares are down 98% since February 2021. It says that Teladoc paid too much in its $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo in 2020, adding that the company’s low stock price makes it vulnerable to takeover.


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Ambient Clinical Analytics raises $5 million in strategic funding and names Brian Tufts, MBA, MS (Vantive) as CEO to drive expansion of its real-time clinical analytics, decision support, and workflow platform.

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Wearables company Whoop raises a $575 million Series G round that values the company at $10.1 billion.

Blackstone reportedly hires investment banks to plan an IPO of AGS Health at a valuation of at least $3 billion. The private equity firm acquired the company for $1.1 billion in July 2025.

Oracle will lay off 539 employees at its Kansas City campus between May 26 and June 1 as part of its broad nationwide cuts, according to a WARN act filing. Companies can file WARN notice after a mass layoff as long as those affected remain on payroll throughout the notice period.


People

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University of Utah Health promotes Kensaku (Ken) Kawamoto, MD, PhD, MHS to the newly created position of chief health AI transformation officer.


Announcements and Implementations

FDB launches MedProof MCP, an AI-native Model Context Protocol server that lets healthcare organizations deploy AI agents for medication decision support and patient-facing workflows.

Altera Digital Health disputes blame for West Suburban Medical Center’s closure, saying its Paragon system is widely used successfully and that it had been working with the hospital to address broader operational and financial problems.

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Commure develops a speech-to-cursor extension that allows using its ambient AI product to dictate into any text field or application.

A KLAS interview of a small number of users of Abridge’s AI documentation product for nurses at Epic sites finds good adoption for drafting flowsheet documentation from natural conversation and  use of links that show each item’s source in the transcript. Respondents recommend assigning strong leaders to run the implementation and making sure that nurses are comfortable speaking instead of typing their thoughts,


Government and Politics

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) files a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against CMS, which it says has ignored its requests to provide information on how its AI-driven WISeR prior authorization program will work. EFF is asking for copies of contracts with participating technology vendors; testing records related to accuracy, bias, or hallucinations; and the results of any audits or evaluation.


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A family sues Bridgeport Hospital for malpractice after their son, who was a dental student, died in what the family’s attorney calls a “fake ICU.” The plaintiffs allege that he was assigned to a tele-ICU that had no intensivists on site during overnight hours. The plaintiffs attorney summarizes, “It’s a fake ICU. It’s not real because no patient would ever consent if they were told … they’re not going to have a doctor in here, they’re going to be on the tube.”

The former chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board is indicted on federal charges alleging that he sedated and confined psychiatric patients to increase healthcare reimbursements in a behavioral unit that his company was running. Prosecutors say he used powerful drugs without medical justification, while staff falsified records and, in some cases, used coercion or physical abuse to force unnecessary treatment and prevent reporting.


Sponsor Updates

  • Medicomp Systems releases a new episode of its “Tell Me Where IT Hurts” podcast featuring show-floor observations from HIMSS26.
  • ReferWell offers a new case study titled “How this Health Plan Achieved Up to 8:1 ROI Multiple Lines of Business.”
  • Surescripts announces strong adoption of RxTransfer, including across 4,800 Walmart locations, enabling pharmacies nationwide to electronically transfer prescriptions quickly and accurately.
  • Ellkay will present at Executive War College 2026 April 29 in New Orleans.
  • Health Data Movers releases a new “Quick HITs” podcast episode titled “Josh Wilda On Digital Transformation, AI, and The Future of Healthcare IT.”
  • Infinx announces that it has been named as a Representative Vendor in the “Gartner 2026 Market Guide for Intelligent Prior Authorization, US Healthcare Organizations.”
  • Judi Health releases a new episode of “The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast” titled “Proactive, Personalized, and Powerful: The Future of AI in Health Benefits with Amit Srivastava.”

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News 4/1/26

March 31, 2026 News No Comments

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HHS retires the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and ASTP leadership role that was created in 2024. The move restores ONC to its former role as the sole government body charged with advancing healthcare technology policies and regulations.

National Coordinator Thomas Keane, MD, MBA will continue in that position.

HHS has also moved the roles of CTO, chief artificial intelligence officer, and chief data officer from ONC to its Office of the CIO.


Reader Comments

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From Yup: “Re: Oracle Health. You predicted a while back that Oracle Health SVP of products Suhas Uliyar would not see a single Epic-to-Oracle displacement before he moved on to a different job. It seems that he has left Oracle entirely while seeing the aforesaid zero displacements.” Suhas Uliyar said last July that the Oracle-to-Epic train would reverse course and send former customers clamoring back to Oracle Health after seeing the technical whizzbangery that he was touting. I countered that he would leave that job without seeing a single Epic displacement, which is what apparently happened. I will defer to the opinion of Redditor DeCernerfucation from eight months ago:

Suhas has been in the healthcare space for how long? A couple years? Amateur. That’s an awfully big stupid mouth for him to have with such a small amount of experience. He’ll probably just move on to something else when he finds out how hard it will be. This kind of hubris pretty much applies to all of them. I have no respect for their unprofessional trash-talking. The Dunning-Kruger effect is alive and well with Oracle leadership.


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Oracle conducted massive layoffs Tuesday that are apparently continuing, with some sources indicating that the company will part ways with 20,000 to 30,000 employees. Those who were affected learned of their status via a 6 a.m. email that was sent to their personal email address and by discovering that their access to the company’s electronic systems had been revoked overnight. They were not offered a chance to speak with a human, ask questions, or return to the office. Oracle Health was reportedly not spared, based on many LinkedIn posts from those affected. ORCL shares rose 6% on the news.

Health Management Associates acquires Medicaid-focused technology, analytics, and compliance company HealthTech Solutions.

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Virtual nursing and technology company Banyan Medical Systems files for bankruptcy amid an investor lawsuit and claims that its former CFO stole millions of dollars. The company’s owner says that the former CFO has stated that he will repay the company the $21 million he owes. Banyan has sued the former CFO and his 24 shell companies, claiming that he obtained dual citizenship in the Caymans and bought a $4 million house and a $1 million boat there.

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Clinical copilot developer Avo raises a $10 million Series A round.


Sales

  • Rush University System for Health (IL) selects Charge Infusion automated coding and billing software from Medaptus.
  • Mount Sinai Health System (NY) will make OpenEvidence’s medical AI tool available from within its EHR.
  • Carina Health Network (CO) will implement Innovaccer’s Healthcare Intelligence Cloud.
  • Hendry Regional Medical Center (FL) will replace four separate systems with Meditech Expanse.


Announcements and Implementations

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Sutter Health goes live as the first site to use Epic Emmie, a chatbot that can answer patient questions.

Linus Health secures a supplier agreement with group purchasing organization Provista.

The Veterans Health Administration implements an agentic AI-based operating system developed by Salesforce across 150 VA facilities. Built on Slack, the system unifies service management and patient care coordination.

Document Storage Systems will integrate Sightview’s EHR for eyecare with the VA’s current EHR.

EHR/PM services company Focus Solutions changes its name to Focus while insisting that “the name change is not cosmetic.”


Government and Politics

The McChord Clinic at McChord Air Force Base (WA) rolls out ambient listening technology as part of the DoD’s facility-wide implementation.


Sponsor Updates

  • Agfa HealthCare announces that Spain’s Osakidetza health network has implemented Agfa Enterprise Imaging.
  • Altera Digital Health releases a new client story titled “Transforming Care at St. Luke’s Medical Center Through Digital Health Innovation.”
  • The “This Week Health” podcast features Clearsense executives in an episode titled “From Archive to Intelligence: How Clearsense Is Embedding AI to Accelerate Healthcare Cost Optimization.”
  • Clearwater will sponsor the  SCALE Community Gold Club Retreat 2026 April 10-12 in Park City, UT.
  • Black Book Research founder and President Doug Brown publishes a new book titled “The Black Book of Reshoring: The Essential Guide to America’s New Manufacturing Boom.”
  • Artera shares the successful results Atlantic Health achieved after implementing its AI agents for colonoscopy patient outreach.

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Monday Morning Update 3/30/26

March 29, 2026 News No Comments

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Andy Crowder, Advocate Health SVP / chief digital and AI officer, describes how Advocate is using Epic’s Agent Factory to create four prototypes that it plans to placed into production in July. .

Advocate convened an agile sprint for pharmacy complex order verification and infusion charting prep, which yielded the four prototypes.


Reader Comments

From Skeptical Clinician: “Re: Perplexity Health. Every new healthcare AI entrant promises trustworthy answers, which is comforting right up until you remember that healthcare already has plenty of confident systems that are wrong in more expensive ways.” At least “confidently wrong” will now scale.


HIStalk Announcements and Requests

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Poll respondents envision providers and payers getting into AI wars over billing codes, which doesn’t seem farfetched. Both sides could claim intentional injustice, but the American way is that proven or admitted fraud generates a financial penalty but no jail time for those who knew it was happening, so it’s just a cost of doing business with positive ROI as long as the profit exceeds the penalty.

New poll to your right or here, as inspired by the Reddit post last week: Should patients have the sole approval for sending their medical records to any third-party tool they choose?

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Reader donations to Mr. H’s Los Angeles elementary school class funded his Donors Choose teacher grant request for Spanish-language books to help the 75% of his students who are English learners. He reports, “My students have been grabbing the new books left and right. Many of them are getting upset when they want to change their book, but it has been taken. It is great to see the love of reading flourish again in my classroom. This could not have happened without your donation.”

I’ve been frustrated by an IPad problem where the back-arrow and close window icons at the top of portrait-mode screens overlay screen content, making it impossible to go back a page or close the window without tilting over to landscape mode. I Google extensively for an answer that never came, but I noticed that an IOS upgrade was waiting for me to clear some space because it was huge. It seems to have fixed the problem.


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Sales

  • San Juan Regional Medical Center will implement PerfectServe for scheduling, secure communication, alerting, patient outreach, and switchboard workflows.

Announcements and Implementations

Advocate Health will launch the country’s largest hospital-based drone delivery network, using Zipline drones to deliver prescriptions, lab specimens, and medical supplies in three of its markets, starting in Charlotte, NC. Advocate expects drones to make 100,000 deliveries per year.

Analysis finds that one or two health systems control the entire inpatient healthcare market in half of US metropolitan areas. Concentration in 97% of metro areas exceeds FTC/DOJ antitrust levels.

Praia Health is granted a US patent for performing identity and access management for EHR instances.


Government and Politics

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This is not a good look for the VA, especially if John Windom starts naming companies and executives in his trial.


Other

A study finds that people who use their phones during bathroom visits have a 46% higher risk of hemorrhoids because they spend more time on the toilet after getting distracted by scrolling news or social media.


Sponsor Updates

  • TrustCommerce will sponsor the NEECO Spring 2026 Conference March 31 in Waltham, MA.
  • VisiQuate VP of Growth Michelle Taylor joins the NAHSE NorCal Board of Directors.
  • Vyne Medical releases a new case study titled “How Automation is Shaping the Future of Document Management at VHC Health.”

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News 3/27/26

March 26, 2026 News 4 Comments

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India-based IT services firm Infosys will acquire Optimum Healthcare IT for $465 million in an all-cash deal.

The seller is private equity firm Achieve Partners, which acquired Optimum in June 2020.

INFY shares have lost 30% in the past 12 months, valuing the company at $54 billion.


Reader Comments

From Purity: “Re: AI. What happens when payer and provider AI systems collide over denials? Hospital AI finds that denials may not be based on rational reason, then the insurer AI sees that and starts randomizing denials to confuse the provider AI?” Payers know that regulators won’t tolerate AI that invents or randomizes denial logic, so payers will keep systems defensible but not necessarily transparent. The battleground will be the rules themselves and how they are applied, which could force greater scrutiny. The likely outcome isn’t chaos, but exposure of a process that feels arbitrary because it is tuned for insurer profit rather than grounded in medical evidence. The only real disruptors, short of federal action, are high-profile patient stories that generate bad press and spook shareholders.


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Healthcare AI governance platform vendor Qualified Health raises $125 million in Series B funding.

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Trovo Health, which offers AI-powered clinical care teams, renames itself Thesis Care and raises a $45 million Series A round.

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Dimer Health, which offers AI-supported post-discharge medical oversight, raises $13.5 million in Series A funding.

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RCM automation vendor Adonis raises $40 million in Series C funding.


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Artera hires Damon Lanphear (Amazon) as CTO and promotes Nicole Ossey to SVP of people.


Announcements and Implementations

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Epic-based virtual care provider KeyCare deploys Nvidia’s Nemotron large language model to power its AI-driven patient intake agent that collects information from patients during their pre-visit wait and summarizes it for their clinician.

Artesia General Hospital (NM) integrates Microsoft Dragon Copilot ambient listening with its TruBridge EHR.

Patient financial experience platform vendor Collectly acquires Pledge Health, which offers pre-service patient financial workflow automation.


Government and Politics

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A former VA executive who led its Cerner EHR modernization project is indicted for accepting, concealing, and at times soliciting gifts from contractors that were involved in the project. John Windom, who served as executive director of the VA’s EHR modernization effort, faces up to 20 years in prison on charges of falsifying records, making false statements, and concealing material facts. The indictment alleges that he cultivated a group of six contractors, which he called the “Power Group,” who were assigned to him for mentoring related to obtaining government business as minorities. Prosecutors say that he coerced members into providing improper personal benefits and advancing diversity-related objectives that were unrelated to the EHR modernization project.

Health New Zealand warns staff that using free tools to write clinical notes is prohibited due to privacy risks, including drafting notes that are then pasted into official systems.

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Florida insurance regulators suspend Mirra Health Care from processing claims for three Medicare Advantage HMOs after learning that the company outsourced the work to unlicensed firms in India and the Philippines


Other

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West Suburban Medical Center (IL) temporarily closes after billing system problems reduce revenue by 90%, leaving it unable to cover payroll. Parent company Resilience Healthcare, which also operated the recently shuttered Weiss Memorial Hospital, signed a contract to implement Altera Digital Health’s Paragon EHR in November 2023.

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A Redditor posts and then deletes a message describing how they “built an open-source MyChart to Claude connector. You can use it to manage (read/write) all your health records in MyChart from Claude.” Other Redditors were appalled:

  • You have a setup that … effectively removes the user’s 2FA protections. Also, you have a button to deploy this on your site that includes an Oauth activation via Gmail, so effectively a user would be tying their Gmail identity together with their MyChart username? If so, you’re in some pretty dicey territory, not even considering Epic’s likely response to this repo and use.
  • So you have attempted to reverse engineer Epic’s MyChart internal APIs? I hope you understand how much Epic will not only hate this, but also will go after you. I honestly would recommend taking this down and removing this post here.
  • Jesus Christ OP this is a massive risk to patient privacy. I recognize that you’re trying to build something helpful, but healthcare is not the place for the move fast and break things tech mindset … the benefits here are limited whereas you risk exposing essentially all of a patient’s PHI while compromising 2FA protections across potentially multiple accounts.
  • Epic already beat you to it with Emmie. Also, you’re better off connecting your data using QHIN and TEFCA authorization. MyChart is hiding a TON of functionality and data from you.
  • Has anyone pointed out to you how many HIPAA violations this is?
  • Holy f*** this is vibe coded slop. You’re not handling encryption or creds properly whatsoever. There are other violations to PHI protection than storage that you’re committing here.
  • Exciting legal consequences ahead for you if this takes off even a little bit, and you deserve every one of them.

Sponsor Updates

  • Health Data Movers names Lisa Edler, MBA senior RCM consultant.
  • Infinx appoints Jon Vitiello, MBA to its advisory board.
  • Consensus Cloud Solutions is named a 2026 CSO Awards winner, which honors organizations that implement innovative cybersecurity initiatives.
  • Meditech Chief Nursing Executive Cathy Turner, MBA, RN-BC will present at the ANIA Annual Conference March 28 in Boston and at the AONL Inspiring Leaders Conference March 30 in Chicago.
  • MRO releases a new report titled “2026 State of the Industry: Navigating Health Policy and Market Shifts with Smarter Data.”
  • Navina will exhibit at the AMGA Annual Conference April 15-18 in Las Vegas.
  • Jefferson Regional, Pine Bluff Medical Center goes live on Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise 25.1.

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News 3/25/26

March 24, 2026 News 3 Comments

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Doctronic raises $40 million in Series B funding, bringing its total to $65 million.

The startup offers users a free healthcare AI chatbot that connects users to providers for paid video visits.


Reader Comments

From Sizzler: “Re: AI. This article on a competing site sure looks like the work of AI.” ChatGPT gives an 85% chance that it was written or polished by AI, noting that it offers “highly reusable executive tropes,” omits details to support its observations about the HIMSS conference, and has “zero friction or personality.” It concludes that thought leadership now consists of LinkedIn-optimized, bland consensus language that is soullessly spat out by both AI and cautious executives, so it doesn’t make much difference if they use AI because will sound the same.

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From Boynton: “Re: book. I just picked this up from the library. Healthcare in the future being run by AI, except one hospital still operated by humans.” Thanks. I have bought the Kindle version of the just-published “The Hospital at the End of the World” and will report back.


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Hopper OS acquires Efferent, which offers cloud-based PACS. I’m not quite sure from the buzzword-heavy Hopper OS website what exactly they sell as their “intelligent healthcare operating system” that “powers performance, experiences, and outcomes across the entire care continuum,” but it seems to have something to do with integration middleware. I asked ChatGPT to score its website on a 0-100 BS scale and it earned an 88, which it summarized as having achieved “peak abstraction density” in laying on the buzzwords “without clarifying what actually gets installed, replaced, or paid for.”

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Shares in ImmunityBio tumble after the FDA warns the company that a TV advertisement and podcast that promote its cancer drug contain false or misleading information. The direct-to-consumer materials, which the FDA says suggest that Anktiva can cure cancer, feature Executive Chairman Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD. Shares of his NantHealth health tech business remain steady at “delisted.”


People

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Cottage Health (CA) names Ryan Kelly, MBA, PhD (Inneo) chief innovation officer.

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Kootenai Health (ID) promotes Todd Holling, MS to CIO.

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Jeff Diamond, JD (MDpanel) joins Aptarro as CEO.


Announcements and Implementations

Marshall Health Network (WV) implements online scheduling and patient registration software from Notable.

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American Lake VA Medical Center (WA) rolls out LiveData’s PeriOp Planner surgical scheduling tool.

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FMOL Health goes live on Epic’s Chart by Art diagnosis-aware note creation tool, becoming the first health system to do so. The feature generates documentation from spoken diagnoses and orders.

A new report finds that half of providers think patient access is better now than last year, but only 18% of patients agree. Providers blame staffing shortages as the biggest barrier to patient access.


Government and Politics

A new Medicare billing system glitch is delaying millions in payments to already struggling Minnesota rural hospitals, worsening cash flow to the point that some warn they could face closure within weeks if not fixed. Medicare enrollment data did not transfer correctly into a newly implemented CMS system, causing claim denials and delayed payments. The hospitals say that they call CMS multiple times each day to resolve individual issues, but are frustrated that they cannot reach the same representative and instead are routed by the hotline to any available representative.


Privacy and Security

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University of Mississippi Medical Center reports a 20% dip in February revenue due to a ransomware attack that forced it to cancel elective surgeries and appointments over a nine-day period. Hospital officials say they will have more accurate revenue figures once all care charges documented on paper during the attack are logged electronically.

Deaconess Health System notifies patients of a January 13 third-party data breach that involves its release-of-information vendor MediCopy.

NYC Health + Hospitals will not renew its analytics contract with Palantir and will instead bring the work inhouse, which the health system says was the plan from the beginning.


Other

Authors of “A Problem of Epic Proportion” argue that Epic’s dominance is driven less by technical superiority than by network effects, high switching costs, and weak interoperability enforcement. They say the company’s near-monopoly status in the US contrasts with Europe, where regulatory structures limit vendor concentration, and point to troubled deployments in Norway, Denmark, Finland, and the UK as evidence that Epic’s success depends on US-style market dynamics. They conclude that this dominance constrains innovation and creates systemic risk, warranting stronger regulation and treating EHRs as critical public infrastructure.

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Jewish General Hospital in Quebec implements EHR technology from Harris Healthcare as part of a $100 million Connected Health Record initiative that already includes virtual care capabilities and a command center.

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A scholarly article titled “The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcome” finds that people who mistake jargon-heavy, meaningless corporate language as being valuable are likely to have poor thinking skills and make questionable work decisions. Those folks are also more likely to view leaders as visionary and to be inspired by mission statements. The authors speculate that employees who believe corporate BS might use it themselves in “using boastful exaggerations, embellishments, and other forms of impressive-sounding, epistemically-dubious speech in situations where a person lacks sufficient confidence and knowledge in what they are saying.” I remain cautiously optimistic that we can operationalize this insight into a scalable framework for driving alignment around high-impact, cross-functional narrative excellence.

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Jack Brandt recounts how he was able to remotely reroute the Full Self-Driving Tesla his father was driving to a nearby hospital as his dad was having a heart attack:

What happened next still gives me chills. His Model Y had just passed the Carrollton exit. The car immediately took the next exit, turned around, re-entered I-20 East, and headed back to the Carrollton exit. It then navigated local roads and pulled directly in front of the Tanner Medical Center Emergency Room entrance. Despite fighting for consciousness, he was able to switch the speed profile to Mad Max to get there as fast and safely as possible. We called ahead, and the ER staff was ready and waiting.


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Monday Morning Update 3/23/26

March 22, 2026 News Comments Off on Monday Morning Update 3/23/26

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CMS issues a final rule that standardizes electronic claims attachments and electronic signatures, allowing providers to send supporting clinical documentation, such as notes, images, and reports, electronically instead of by fax or mail. CMS excluded prior authorization attachments from the rule.

The final rule takes effect on May 26, 2026. Covered entities must comply by May 26, 2028.

CMS proposed a more ambitious rule in 2022 that would have addressed claims attachments, prior authorization attachments, and broader workflow fixes. CMS split that rule into two tracks, the newly published claims attachment rule and a 2024 rule that moved prior authorizations toward structured data exchange via APIs instead of document attachments.


HIStalk Announcements and Requests

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Poll respondents are skeptical, but not dismissive, of Amazon’s healthcare ambitions. Few expect it to make a major impact, perhaps reflecting doubts about its invincibility following Haven’s failure and the modest traction of One Medical and Amazon Clinic. A contrarian take is that Amazon doesn’t need to solve healthcare’s complexity when it can benefit from cherry-picking low-risk, high-reward aspects such as digital pharmacy, logistics, and owning the digital front door.

New poll to your right or here: Whose side do you take in AI-powered encounter coding? Bold thinkers would argue that AI tries to make coding orderly and objective when it was never designed to be, rewarding how well the story is told more than messy clinical reality that cannot be reduced to checkboxes. It’s like US tax law, where you could ask 10 experts to calculate the same family’s tax bill and get 10 different yet defensible answers.  


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A small China-based study finds that delivering patient education in the patient’s own cloned voice improves compliance and satisfaction compared to using the cloned voice of a physician. The team used Resemble.ai to clone the voices.

HIMSS doesn’t respond to my inquiries about its IRS Form 990 non-profit tax filings even though they are required by law to provide them, but I notice that they finally filed the FY2022 form a few months ago. Highlights:

  • Total revenue dropped by 14% over the previous year.
  • Nearly half of its income came from conferences, whose revenue tripled that of memberships.
  • Advertising and media contributed $10.7 million in unrelated business revenue.
  • HIMSS lost $9 million versus $19 million the year before.
  • Its net assets dropped from -$29 million to -$41 million.
  • Top compensation was earned by President and CEO Hal Wolf ($1.3 million), COO Sebastian Krolop ($922,000), and EVP Bruce Steinberg ($595,000).

Sales

  • Two NHS trusts will implement Altera Digital Health’s EPR in a 10-year, $38 million contract.

Announcements and Implementations

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AI-powered search engine operator Perplexity AI introduces Perplexity Health, which will allow users to connect to their provider’s health information via B.Well along with data from Apple Health, Fitbit, and Withings. Its dashboard will track metrics and answer health questions from the user’s own data.


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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency urges organizations to implement Microsoft’s newly updated best practices for securing Intune and other endpoint management software following the cyberattack on Stryker.


Other

A SmartSense by Digi survey finds that hospital CFOs plan to spend more on technology in 2026, but rising cost pressure, high pilot failure rates, and compressed ROI timelines are forcing a shift toward platform solutions that deliver fast, measurable financial returns. Other findings:

  • Half of the hospitals demand at least 110% ROI in new technology within 18 months versus the previous runway of three years.
  • Nearly 60% say that at least half of their technology pilots fail, leading them to seek proven rather than experimental solutions.
  • Top project drivers are payment and regulatory requirements rather than AI or outcomes.
  • Most expect to make AI investments, but only for technology that provides quick, measurable financial or operational gains.

Sponsor Updates

  • Wolters Kluwer Health expands its relationship with the American Heart Association to include the journal Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, for a total of 12 American Heart Association journal titles.
  • FinThrive receives the Platinum 2026 Pinnacle Award for AI Excellence in the Intelligent Process Automation category.
  • PerfectServe will sponsor The Millenium Alliance’s Healthcare Providers Transformation Assembly April 7-8 in Denver.
  • The Harvard Business School Alumni Magazine profiles Waystar CEO Matt Hawkins.
  • WellSky will present and exhibit at the ACMA National Conference April 20-23 in Orlando.

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News 3/20/26

March 19, 2026 News Comments Off on News 3/20/26

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Alphabet-owned Verily raises $300 million, renames itself Verily Health, and says that it will focus on developing AI-enabled precision health solutions.

Alphabet participated in the round but, gave up its majority stake in the company. Other investors include Series X Capital, UCHealth, and the University of Colorado Anschutz.

Verily’s moonshot phase ran from 2012 to 2016, when it pursued ideas such as glucose-sensing contact lenses and massive health mapping studies. It struggled with layoffs and leadership changes through mid-2024, when it pivoted to become a vendor of data platforms and technology to health systems and pharma.

Verily Chairman and CEO Stephen Gillett, whose background was cybersecurity and retail before joining Google in 2016 and Verily in 2020, will remain with the company.


Reader Comments

From DataTrust: “Re: GuardDog. What stood out to me wasn’t just that one company crossed the line, it’s how easy it seems to claim treatment as the reason for access without much verification.”

From ChartAudit: “Re: Epic wrongful death lawsuit. The allegation that clinicians couldn’t reconstruct a medication timeline or clearly distinguish active versus discontinued meds is the kind of issue most of us have worked around for years. The question is whether that’s a usability nuisance or a true patient safety risk, and whether courts are now going to be asked to decide the difference in product design.”


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Chartis acquires Leap AI, a venture studio. 

Diabetes and insulin management technology company Glytec announces plans to relocate its headquarters from Boston to Atlanta, where it will hire an additional 500 employees over the next several years.

About 2,400 Kaiser Permanente mental health professionals stage a one-day strike after being warned by their union that KP will replace therapists with AI. They were joined by 23,000 Kaiser nurses. Kaiser denies the claim.


Announcements and Implementations

MRO adds identity verification technology to its Patient Central patient records request system.

In Canada, Ontario considers implementing a province-wide patient data-sharing system and says that it is in discussion with vendors. The province spent $6 billion on previous projects with little success.

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Wolters Kluwer Health will provide Continuing Medical Education to clinicians who use its UpToDate Expert AI.

Google partners with CMS to pull patient medical records into Fitbit, positioning its AI health tools as a consumer-facing front end for longitudinal health data.


Government and Politics

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VA Deputy Secretary Paul Lawrence, PhD says in an EHR update that “The bottom line is that, this time, the Federal EHR is working, stable, and reliable” as rollouts accelerate “with the right leadership in place.” The VA has scheduled 23 sites to go live in 2026, starting in April with Michigan sites in Detroit, Saginaw, Ann Arbor, and Battle Creek.

Meanwhile, a proposed House bill would restrict the VA from signing new agreements with Oracle Health or bringing new sites live if the VA doesn’t implement and meet system and operational metrics.

A report says that politicians of Sweden’s Region Skåne were misled by an IT procurer into selecting Cerner Millennium in 2017, which allegedly did not meet mandatory EU safety requirements. The civil servant who led the selection later took a job with Cerner at twice the pay. The government announced the selection in September 2017, but no go-lives have occurred and the project’s cost has risen to $234 million. Meanwhile, implementation has been mothballed after a system review by 150 government employees concluded that Millennium is not “useful enough to be implemented.” The government will pursue other options.

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A study of the ACA Marketplace finds that rising premiums and subsidy losses have left 10% of last year’s enrollees uninsured, driven half of those ages 18 to 29 out of the market, and forced many to cut basic expenses while worrying about affording premiums, emergency care, and hospitalization.


Sponsor Updates

  • Judi Health wins seven 2026 Stevie Awards for sales and customer service.
  • CTG will introduce a cyber resilience scoring dashboard next week at the 2026 RSA Conference.

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News 3/18/26

March 17, 2026 News 4 Comments

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Healthcare pricing and payment platform vendor Turquoise Health raises a $40 million Series C funding round.


Reader Comments

From ExecPhysicianCalifornia: “Re: wrongful death complaint filed against Epic. The case is Fischman v. Epic Systems Corporation, Case No. 3:26‑cv‑00770‑D, was filed on March 10, 2026.” Thanks for those details, which allowed me to download the filing. Summary:

  • The lawsuit was filed by Gallit Fischman, whose father died after his transplant-related drug was switched at UT Southwestern.
  • She previously filed a personal injury malpractice lawsuit against UT Southwestern, alleging that the organization prioritized clinical studies over patient needs. She withdrew that suit before filing this one against Epic.
  • In her lawsuit against Epic, which she filed without attorney representation, she cites wrongful death, product liability, and related claims. Her complaint says, “Epic-generated medical record did not permit reconstruction of a coherent medication timeline, identification of active versus discontinued medications, or reliable differentiation between current and historical clinical information.”
  • The lawsuit claims that medications can continue to display in Epic after being discontinued and that medication reconciliation does not require specific clinician action, allowing outdated entries to persist. She argues that hospitals cannot change Epic’s architecture.
  • She repeatedly argues that the fault lies with Epic, not with the clinician or hospital, and that her claims do not require reviewing physician treatment decisions or standards of care as would be required in a malpractice case.
  • Her claims appear to rely largely on her own review of the Epic-generated medical record, in which she says that she could not reconstruct the medication timeline.
  • A possible motivation is that she may have concluded from the UT Southwestern lawsuit that malpractice claims are difficult to pursue, since they require expert testimony and proof of a clinical mistake. Texas is generally considered a clinician-friendly state for malpractice litigation.
  • Her case against Epic instead hinges on Texas product liability law, which courts do not always apply consistently to software. The question is whether an EHR is considered a product or a service. The claim is easier to assert than malpractice and could also give her access to UT Southwestern records without meeting malpractice lawsuit requirements, which would be useful if her malpractice lawsuit is revived.
  • The plaintiff’s chances of winning, or even surviving Epic’s likely motion to dismiss, appear low. Epic will likely argue that it has no duty to the patient, that an EHR is not a product under Texas law, that hospitals control configuration choices, that clinicians still exercise independent judgment, and that any claim of causation is speculative.
  • Epic will likely move to dismiss, which may clarify whether courts view EHR software as a regulated product or simply a tool used by clinicians.

From Dr. Nick: “Re: ‘Scrubs.’ The relaunch covers the pit stop analogy, where we are forced into RVUs and timed interactions that demand speed over safety or compassion, amongst other things.” Trivia: the original was filmed in North Hollywood Medical Center, which was closed in 1998, torn down in 2011, and replaced with apartments. Patients kept showing up in the lobby because they saw prop ambulances parked outside.


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Sutter Health will acquire Allina Health, with the California-only system pledging to invest $2 billion in Allina and allowing it to continue using the Allina Health name. The combined organization will have $26 billion in revenue, 39 hospitals, 88,000 employees, and 400 care sites. I believe they both use Epic.


Sales

  • West Cancer Center & Research Institute selects the Unified Digital Patient Experience Platform from Willowglade Technologies.
  • Summit Health will deploy Navina’s AI-powered system for value-based care.

Announcements and Implementations

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Google removes the “What People Suggest” feature from its search, which provided AI-generated summaries of crowdsourced medical advice.

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Google says that it will invest $10 million to fund organizations that incorporate AI in clinician education. The company also will add an “Ask” button to health videos on YouTube so that users can request AI explanations, add a connection to continuous glucose monitors in Health Connect, and link to medical records in the Fitbit app.

Philips announces a cloud-enabled version of its IntelliSite Pathology Solution on HealthSuite.

Southeast Georgia Health System will implement digital billing software from RevSpring later this month.

West Virginia University Medicine expands its pilot of Abridge’s AI-based clinical documentation software to 1,200 clinicians.

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In Colorado, Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center will implement Epic through a Community Connect arrangement with Aspen Valley Health.

Censinet announces GA of GRC AI, an automated governance, risk, and compliance platform; and additional enhancements to its healthcare cybersecurity risk-management solutions.

Azara Healthcare will integrate its population health and value-based care solutions with Meditech Expanse.


Privacy and Security

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center (TN) attributes its brief EHR downtime early Monday morning to an Epic-related outage. Epic noted that it was “aware of one healthcare organization experiencing technical issues.”


Other

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Perelman School of Medicine researchers determine that telemedicine visits at Penn Medicine are less expensive than in-person visits after analyzing EHR and billing data from 160,000 visits conducted over four months. They found that initial virtual visits were charged $96 versus $509 for the in-person visit. Telemedicine patients had one fewer follow-up visits within 30 days of their first appointment than did in-person patients.


Sponsor Updates

  • AdvancedMD wins Software Finder’s Excellence Award for its data-driven medical office software performance.
  • Black Book Research releases a new report titled “United Kingdom: State of Acute Care EHR and Digital Healthcare 2026.”
  • Arcadia offers a “PY27 ACO Roster Building Checklist.”
  • Bizmatics will exhibit at ASIPP 2026 March 19-21 in New Orleans.
  • Divurgent congratulates customer Riverview Health (IN) on its recent Epic go-live.

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Monday Morning Update 3/16/26

March 15, 2026 News 5 Comments

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GuardDog Telehealth agrees to a judgment and injunction in Epic’s lawsuit against it. GuardDog says that its plans to build a chronic care management and remote patient monitoring business fizzled, so it pivoted to selling patient medical records to law firms.

GuardDog acknowledges that it told Carequality that it was requesting records through Health Gorilla for treatment purposes and says that Health Gorilla was aware of its business model.

If approved by the court, the agreement would bar GuardDog from accessing records through TEFCA and Carequality. The company’s website, social media accounts, and LinkedIn profile have been removed.

The judgment does not directly affect Epic’s lawsuit against Health Gorilla, but it strengthens Epic’s claim that some Health Gorilla customers requested patient records for law firms while representing the requests as treatment-related.


Reader Comments

From Secure Itty: “Re: Stryker. They should either have moved from their private Microsoft cloud to Azure or committed hundreds of millions of shareowner profits to match what Microsoft spends to thwart this kind of attack. IMO, it was inevitable and irresponsible.” The attack is interesting because the hackers apparently didn’t bother to install malware, they hacked into Stryker’s Microsoft Intune mobile device management software and security policy enforcement tool, then used system administrator privileges to reset 200,000 devices, including any personal or BYOD devices that were connected. According to analysis by Shieldworkz:

This is the detail that should be keeping every CISO awake right now: the attackers no longer need any custom tool or deploy a wiper. They just need to reach the administrative layer of a platform the potential victim is already paying for and trusting implicitly. Once they had that access, traditional endpoint detection was blind to it. A remote wipe command issued through Intune looks identical to a legitimate IT administration move. No malware signature, no anomalous process and no alert … Enterprises deploy MDM to secure their devices, then fail to secure the MDM itself. The tool designed to protect turns into the very a mechanism of destruction. In security, we call this a single point of catastrophic failure — and enterprises have been building them into their Microsoft environments for years without recognizing it.


HIStalk Announcements and Requests

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Patients on both sides of the pond say that they are uneasy about giving Palantir and similar analytics companies access to their medical data. The debate is particularly heated in England, where the NHS hired Palantir to build a national health data sharing network. Poll respondent comments are worth a read.

New poll to your right or here: How will Amazon’s healthcare ambitions play out?

Pondering: if medical practices really care about patient health and access, why are their offices closed 75% of the time? Pharmacies, veterinarian clinics, therapy clinics, and dentists don’t just operate 8 until 5 on weekdays only. Is it adequate that patients can seek after-hours help from urgent care centers, hospital EDs, and telehealth providers?

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Your Monday morning cheer-up comes from Ms. M in Missouri, who wanted to tell HIStalk readers about the impact of the STEM kits that her elementary school students are using, which were provided by reader donations and matching funds (thanks, Anonymous Vendor Executive) that funded her Donors Choose teacher grant request. She reports:

The new resources have transformed our classroom from a space of simple instruction into a space of hands-on exploration and discovery. We are currently using the materials during our STEM block for a unit on measurement and plant growth. Instead of just reading about how plants grow, students are actively measuring their plants using nonstandard and standard units, recording data, and creating graphs to track growth over time. One special moment that truly stood out was when a student noticed that her plant had grown two whole centimeters in just a few days. She excitedly called her classmates over and said, “It’s really working!” That spark of ownership and pride is exactly what authentic learning looks like.

Several students said it felt like we had turned our classroom into a “science lab.” The excitement was genuine and contagious. Even students who are typically hesitant to participate were eager to measure, observe, and share their findings. Because of your support, students are not just completing assignments, they are thinking like scientists and mathematicians. They are collaborating, problem-solving, and explaining their reasoning with confidence. Thank you for giving my students opportunities they will remember. Your generosity is not just providing materials, it is building confidence, curiosity, and a love of learning that will last far beyond our classroom walls.


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Stryker says in an SEC filing that an Iran-linked cyberattack that the company disclosed last week continues to disrupt its systems, affecting order processing, manufacturing, and shipping. The company says that patient-related services and connected products such as Vocera and Care.ai were not affected.

CareCloud reports Q4 results: revenue up 22%, adjusted EPS $0.11 versus $0.23, beating expectations for revenue and matching those for earnings.


Sales

  • In England, Somerset and Dorset NHS trusts choose Epic for a unified patient records system in a $294 million, 10-year contract.

Announcements and Implementations

A small study of ambulatory practice patients finds that conversational AI (Google AMIE) can successfully conduct pre-visit medical histories and generate accurate diagnoses and treatment plans, but is best used as a clinical assistant rather than as a standalone diagnostic tool.


Privacy and Security

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Epic notifies UPMC that Health Gorilla and participants in its health network allegedly accessed medical records for non-treatment purposes, leading UPMC to notify affected patients.


Other

 

I didn’t spot an EHR screen in SNL’s MAHAspital sketch, but maybe you can.


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  • Netsmart hosts educators from a local school district in Kansas to discuss the AI and technology skills that students will need to work in healthcare technology.
  • Health Data Movers releases a new episode of its “Quick HITs” podcast titled “Bryan Dechairo on Genomics, Rare Disease Diagnosis, and the Future of Precision Care.”
  • VisiQuate pairs its intelligence suite, including its AI-driven authorization prediction model, data engine, analytic insights, robotic process automation and revenue cycle workflows; with Ethermed’s automated prior authorization engine.
  • Nominations are now open for PerfectServe’s sixth annual Nurses of Note Awards Program.
  • ReferWell will exhibit at the California Primary Care Association’s Quality & Technology Conference March 17-18 in Orange County.
  • The Utah Business Daily names Waystar CEO Matt Hawkins as its CEO of the year.
  • Visage Imaging renews contracts with MedStar Health and Zwanger Pesiri (NY).
  • Zen Healthcare IT achieves its third full HITRUST r2 certification.
  • AGS Health, FinThrive, Infinx, Nym, TruBridge, VisiQuate, and Waystar will exhibit at the HFMA Revenue Cycle Conference March 18–20 in Arlington, TX.

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News 3/13/26

March 12, 2026 News 3 Comments

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An Iran-linked hacker group claims in a statement that it disrupted the systems of medical device maker Stryker, saying that the attack was retaliation for the bombing of an Iranian school that killed 168 children and 14 teachers.

The group claims that it wiped 200,000 of the company’s servers and other devices. It also says that it exfiltrated 50 terabytes of Stryker data, including product details, hospital purchasing contracts, clinical trials data, and internal communications, and is threatening to post the information publicly.

Security experts warn that the attack could serve as a test case for further attacks against large US corporations.


Reader Comments

From ExecPhysicianCalifornia: “Re: Epic. A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges architectural defects in the company’s EHR design, including the inability to reconstruct medication timelines or distinguish between active versus discontinued medications. Do other see this as an isolated case or part of a larger pattern emerging around Epic’s market position and legal exposure?” I haven’t seen this lawsuit, which I would assume involves a provider given the wrongful death aspect. Details?

From Associate Meets Door: “Re: NextGen. Laid off about 100 people on Thursday, including some who have been with the company for 20+ years.” Unverified. The company is owned by two private equity firms, so I wouldn’t be shocked.


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Medical practice AI agent vendor Nitra raises $50 million in Series B funding.

Amigo AI, which builds patient-facing AI agents for clinical use cases, raises an $11 million Series A round.

Healthcare finance AI platform vendor Translucent AI raises $27 million in Series A funding.

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Oracle CTO and chairman Larry Ellison said this in Tuesday’s earnings call:

In healthcare, Epic automates … primarily acute care hospitals. We automate acute care hospitals. We automate clinics. We automate laboratories. We automate the payers, the people who actually pay the bills. We automate the insurance companies. We automate the HCM system that trains their nurses, that schedules their radiologists to get the right radiologist when an MRI is given, that automates the hospital’s financials, that also automates the FDA and the regulators that approve the latest drugs, that deals with the pharmaceutical companies. That is the healthcare ecosystem. It is enormous. And thank God we have these coding tools now that allow us to build a comprehensive set of software, agent-based software, to automate an ecosystem like healthcare or financial services. That is what we are doing at Oracle Corporation. That is why we think we are a disruptor. That is why we think the SaaS apocalypse applies to others, but not to us.


Sales

  • WVU Health System will implement Hellocare.ai’s virtual care technology.
  • Ardent Health will deploy Hellocare.ai technology in 2,000 hospital rooms.

Announcements and Implementations

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Amazon expands access to its Health AI assistant to US users of its website and app, allowing them to receive health guidance, schedule One Medical virtual visits, and manage prescriptions.

Epic says that 85% of its customers are using its AI tools.

Zen Healthcare IT announces that its Stargate API supports identity tokens from CLEAR and ID.me to verify patients for TEFCA Individual Access Services.

ECRI publishes its list of “Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2026,” with potential AI-generated diagnostic errors taking the top spot. 

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Stryker launches SmartHospital Platform, which includes connected infrastructure, clinical communication, a workflow engine, virtual care, and ambient sensor.

 

Microsoft introduces Copilot Health, a Copilot application that collects and summarizes user medical records. The product appears to be a revamp of Copilot for Health, which was announced in October 2025 as a non-personalized information chatbot. The new data capabilities are provided in partnership with records retrieval platform vendor HealthEx, which says that its free service retrieves information using direct connections, TEFCA, CareQuality, and CommonWell.

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An AMA survey finds that 80% of physicians are using AI for work, double the share that was reported in 2023. Documentation and summarization are the most common uses, but use is growing fast for summaries of research and standards of care. More than 75% of respondents say that AI gives them an advantage in patient care, with the greatest benefits in diagnosis and work efficiency. Ninety percent worry about skill loss, especially among early-career physicians.


Government and Politics

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A study finds that US healthcare affordability continues to deteriorate, even before this year’s expiration of ACA subsidies and Medicaid enrollment cuts. Americans report cutting back on driving and meals to pay for healthcare or medications, while also deferring treatments and stretching prescriptions.


Sponsor Updates

  • Five9 launches Five9 Fusion, a new partner program that spans product integrations, independent software vendors, and embedded technology partners.
  • Healthcare Growth Partners advises Medisolv in its acquisition of Lilac Software.
  • Optimum Healthcare IT posts a new episode of its “Visionary Voices” podcast featuring Inova Health EVP/CIDO Matt Kull.
  • Health Data Movers names Richard Walter account manager and Taylor Seagraves health IT recruiter.
  • Impact Advisors Mexico celebrates hiring its 300th employee.
  • TruBridge opens a Global Capability Center in Chennai, India.

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News 3/11/26

March 10, 2026 News 4 Comments

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Universal Health Services will acquire online therapy company Talkspace for $835 million.

Talkspace went public in June 2021 via a SPAC merger. TALK shares have lost 44% since. The company’s valuation dipped to below $100 million in late 2022.

Shares in UHS have gained 8% in the past 12 months, valuing the hospital operator at $11.4 billion.


Reader Comments

From The Jig Is Up: “Re: Leapfrog Safety Ratings. This is a reminder to not trust companies that make their money selling ‘awards’ to hospitals and data to marketers.” A federal judge rules that The Leapfrog Group misled the public by assigning its lowest safety grade to hospitals that declined to participate in its survey. The judge notes that Leapfrog also sells related services that include benchmarking tools, consulting, and the right for hospitals to use its A-grade logo in marketing. Plaintiff Palm Beach Health Network did not seek damages, asking only that Leapfrog stop publishing scores that are influenced by non-participation.

From Old Schooler: “Re: AI in healthcare. It’s being used for three things: documentation, coding, and marketing. Two of those generate revenue.”


Sponsored Events and Resources

Publication: HIStalk’s Guide to HIMSS26 lists the activities of sponsors at the conference.

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Oracle reports Q3 results: revenue up 18%, EPS $1.27 versus $1.02, beating analyst expectations for both.

Siemens Healthineers unit ECG Management Consultants acquires value-based care consulting firm Lumina Health Partners. ECG will retain Lumina co-founders Daniel Marino and Lucy Zielinski as principals.

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Elsevier will acquire video-based patient engagement and education company Mytonomy and incorporate it into its Clinical Solutions business.


Sales

  • The Atlanta VA Medical Center and the Central Alabama VA Medical Center select patient safety technology from CareView Communications, with assistance from Decisive Point Consulting Group.

People

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InterSystems names Tim Ferris, MD, MPH (Red Cell Partners) VP of its healthcare practice.

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Access Healthcare promotes Sid Mehta, MBA to president and chief growth officer.

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Experity promotes Bobby Ghoshal, MBA to CEO.

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Cotiviti hires Ric Sinclair, MBA (Waystar) as CEO. He replaces Emad Rizk, MD, who will transition to board advisor.


Announcements and Implementations

Blue Cross Blue Shield says that hospitals may be using AI coding tools to identify more billable diagnoses, which could increase inpatient spending by $663 million. A company study found that diagnoses of postpartum anemia rose sharply at some hospitals without a corresponding rise in treatments such as blood transfusions, suggesting that coding intensity rather than patient severity increased. Experts say that the evidence is inconclusive and could reflect improved documentation or historical undercoding rather than AI-driven overbilling. However, some hospitals have said publicly that they would use AI to boost appropriate billing for specific services, among them postpartum anemia.

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Clearsense will incorporate AI throughout its legacy data decommissioning and archiving services to help healthcare organizations more efficiently surface insights.

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Meditech announces expanded AI capabilities, including the addition of ambient intelligence in its Expanse Now app for physicians and Expanse Point of Care app for nurses.

Greenway Health launches Novare, an ambulatory-focused platform built around agentic AI that integrates clinical documentation, revenue cycle, and patient engagement tools.

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Epic announces its AI roadmap at HIMSS26, which includes:

  • Conversational AI that allows clinicians to ask questions about the patient’s chart data using its Art clinician AI.
  • Creation of collaborative visit agendas that include questions from both clinician and patient.
  • An AI agent factory.
  • A tool to help clinicians with differential diagnosis.
  • A new family of AI models called Curiosity that can help predict the next steps in the patient’s journey.

Privacy and Security

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An anonymous Reddit poster complains that they saw a drugstore’s pharmacy technician wearing Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses at the counter, which they say is a HIPAA violation.


Other

The Delaware Department of Health and Social Services works with consulting firm Healthe Insights to develop DTRN360, a care coordination platform for behavioral health providers statewide. Its technology incorporates referral and care coordination capabilities from Bamboo Health and Findhelp.


Sponsor Updates

  • Medicomp Systems customer IJN becomes Malaysia’s first hospital to achieve HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7.
  • Concord Technologies begins offering Concord Direct Message, a Direct Secure Messaging service, within its Concord Connect platform.
  • Nordic launches a refreshed brand identity.
  • Black Book urges HIMSS26 attendees to make time for over 70 top client-rated vendors recognized for exceptional user satisfaction by healthcare clients so far in 2026.
  • DrFirst releases the next version of RxInform, its real-time prescription engagement platform.

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Monday Morning Update 3/9/26

March 8, 2026 News Comments Off on Monday Morning Update 3/9/26

Top News

 

Financial Times reports that former NHS senior official Matthew Swindells was serving as a paid lobbyist for Palantir while urging colleagues to send GP patient data to the nationwide Federated Data Platform.  

Palantir was awarded a $440 million contract in 2023 to develop FDP, which aggregates and analyzes data from NHS trusts.

Swindells was previously SVP of population and global strategy at Cerner. He says that his email referenced GP data being used on the local federated data platform, not the national one.


Reader Comments

From Jagged: “Re: HCA using Palantir for medical record summarization. Hospitals say they guard patient data carefully, right up until a tech company offers them a shiny AI tool. Suddenly the same data becomes a ‘strategic asset.’ Patients might call it something else.”

From Testy: “Re: agentic AI. Vendors used to sell modules, then solutions, then platforms, and now agents. The pitch changes every five years, but the integration problems don’t.”


HIStalk Announcements and Requests

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Poll respondents align with my life’s motto, rarely disproven, which is, “Self-interest is the most reliable driver of human and organizational behavior.” What people and organizations say is often irrelevant when you can simply look at their actions.

New poll to your right or here: Would you trust a data analytics company like Palantir with your full medical record? The related question is whether said data sharing gives patients any personal benefit, such as improved care or outcomes, and if the argument is that society benefits, then why are companies making profit handing off my information to each other?

HIMSS kicks off in Los Wages this week with the inevitable sunshine, 80-degree days, and the never-ending olfactory transition from panhandler urine to casino cigarette smoke.

Pondering: If Oracle conducts the rumored massive layoffs early this week, will any employees working the HIMSS conference be affected and abruptly sent home?


Sponsored Events and Resources

Publication: HIStalk’s Guide to HIMSS26 lists the activities of sponsors at the conference.

Contact Lorre to have your resource listed.


Sales

  • Catholic Health chooses Nordic for Epic application managed services.
  • BJC HealthCare, FMOL Health, and Naples Comprehensive Health implement Lincata’s Bedside OS, including LincTV and Epic MyChart Bedside TV.

People

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Mike Knowles, MBA (Banjo Health) joins BettrAI as CEO.


Announcements and Implementations

Wolters Kluwer Health integrates its UpToDate clinical decision support solution with Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Teams.

Waystar expands its collaboration with Google Cloud to apply agentic AI capabilities to develop an autonomous revenue cycle.

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Medhost announces Medhostone, a next-generation EHR that aims to unify patient data into a single “connected patient story,” incorporate AI capabilities, and accelerate product development. It will be rolled out incrementally through 2027. 


Sponsor Updates

  • Halifax Health (FL) implements WellSky’s CarePort Transition solution.
  • Nordic releases a new “Designing for Health” podcast featuring Michael Hallsworth, PHD and Meredith Jones.
  • VisiQuate will exhibit at Revenue Cycle Conference March 18-20 in Arlington, TX.

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HIStalk’s Guide to HIMSS26

March 7, 2026 News Comments Off on HIStalk’s Guide to HIMSS26

Agfa HealthCare

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Booth 2225

Contact: Kara Clarke, director of marketing, North America
kara.clarke@agfa.com

At HIMSS26, Agfa HealthCare will showcase its vision for “One Platform” Enterprise Imaging, a cloud-ready, SaaS-enabled approach designed to simplify complex imaging ecosystems; strengthen interoperability; and support secure, resilient clinical and IT workflows. What’s new includes continued advancements in its unified Enterprise Imaging platform; zero-footprint streaming technology for fast, full-fidelity image access anywhere care is delivered; and RUBEE Workflow Orchestration with embedded, vendor-neutral AI capabilities that streamline enterprise worklists and enhance diagnostic confidence without adding workflow friction.

Visitors to the booth can participate in personalized, one-on-one product demonstrations to explore real-world use cases and modernization strategies. Visitors are invited to connect with the team on Wednesday, March 11, during a Belgian Beer Tasting event. The speaker lineup will also feature a Main Stage session, “Defining Your Cloud Enterprise Imaging Strategy,” with Tampa General Hospital Senior Director of IT Steve Johnson and Agfa HealthCare Director of Enterprise Imaging Strategy Charles Morris, who will offer practical insights into cloud transition and enterprise-wide imaging transformation.


AGS Health

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Contact Matt Bridge to arrange a meeting.

Contact: Matt Bridge, SVP of strategic solutions
matthew.bridge@agshealth.com

AGS Health is more than a revenue cycle management company — we’re a strategic partner for growth. Our distinctive methodology blends award-winning services with intelligent automation and high-touch customer support to deliver peak, end-to-end revenue cycle performance and an empowering patient financial experience.   

We employ a team of 15,000 highly trained and college-educated RCM experts supporting customers across diverse care settings and specialties, including nearly half of the 20 most prominent US hospitals and 40% of the nation’s 10 largest health systems. Our thoughtfully crafted RCM solutions deliver measurable revenue growth and retention, enabling customers to achieve the revenue to realize their vision.


Altera Digital Health

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Booth 4431

Contact: Lindsey Honig, marketing communications manager
lindsey.honig@alterahealth.com

A global healthcare IT leader, Altera Digital Health develops and elevates technology that brings next-level healthcare within reach. At HIMSS26, we’re excited to showcase how our AI and EHR advancements help healthcare organizations navigate their top challenges while supporting the human moments that matter most for patients, providers, and their communities.

Visit booth 4431 as EVP of AI Ben Scharfe provides crucial guidance on maximizing AI’s value while managing new liabilities in his educational theater session, “AI Unbound: Agentic workflows and deregulated risk,” on Wednesday, March 11, from 1:00–1:10pm.   

Join our in-booth happy hour on Tuesday, March 10, from 4:30–5:30pm to meet Altera solution and subject matter experts while enjoying complimentary beverages and light fare. For our full theater schedule and to learn more about Altera’s presence at the event, visit our events page.


Arcadia

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Booth 2447

Arcadia Customer AMAs 
Stop by our booth for live “Ask Me Anything” sessions with Arcadia customers and hear directly from the people using our solutions every day. Ask your questions, learn from real-world experiences, and get an honest take on what it’s like to work with Arcadia – from peers who’ve been there.    

Sips and Socks 
It’s back! Don’t miss one of the most anticipated moments of the conference – our annual Arcadia HIMSS sock reveal. Stop by the booth to grab a drink and score a pair of our 2026 socks. Arrive early – these fan favorites are first-come, first-served, and they will go fast!   

Speaker Sessions
Tuesday, March 10, 4:00-5:30pm   
Wednesday, March 11, 4:00-5:30pm    
“Improving Medicaid Outcomes with Digital Equity and Nutrition Support,” Tuesday, March 10, from 11:00-11:30am, Level 3, Murano 3304  
“Artificial Intelligence in Action: Clinical Process Maps Get Modern,” Tuesday, March 10, from 11:00 – 11:30am, Level 5, Palazzo D

Visit our HIMSS page to learn more.


Artera

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Booth 6421

Contact: Adrianna Hosford, chief communications officer and head of marketing
Adrianna.Hosford@artera.io
833.234.9355

Artera is the proven agentic healthcare company, leveraging a decade of deep expertise to support 2 billion patient communications annually. Our solutions empower humans and AI agents to work together to fix patient communications across text, phone, and web, unifying the entire patient journey – from scheduling and intake to billing and more. Trusted by over 1,000 healthcare organizations (including specialty groups, FQHCs, large IDNs, and federal agencies), Artera directly increases staff efficiency, boosts patient engagement, and improves the provider bottom line, helping patients get the care they need with simplicity and speed.   

2B+ Annual Comms. | 200M+ Patients | 10yrs Experience | FedRAMP High in Process | www.artera.io

Join us at HIMSS to experience our fully autonomous AI agents in action – we’ll demonstrate how these agents manage a range of complex workflows (scheduling, FAQ resolution, appointment management, and more) to reduce staff burden and improve the patient experience.

Stop by our booth to connect with our experts and explore strategies for optimizing patient access, implementing AI-driven patient communication and much more. Plus, when you schedule and attend a meeting with an Artera team member, you’ll receive a $25 Amazon gift card. As an added bonus, you’ll be entered to win an iPad Pro in our post-event raffle. Schedule a meeting with our team at booth 6421 here.


Cardamom

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Contact Adam Dial to arrange a meeting.

Contact: Adam Dial, chief customer officer
adam@cardamom.health
608.469.6154

The Cardamom team is excited to attend HIMSS! Reach out to connect with us during the event.    Cardamom is a minority-owned, technology-forward health IT professional services company serving healthcare providers, payers, and health IT organizations. With a team-based, AI- and automation-first approach focused on committed outcomes, Cardamom helps customers more effectively use data, analytics, AI, and applications to improve care quality, reduce costs, and enhance patient and provider experiences. Cardamom is also committed to growing industry talent by hiring high-potential team members without prior health IT experience and providing comprehensive training and mentorship to deliver industry-leading results. For more about Cardamom, visit https://cardamom.health.


CereCore

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Booth 6126

Contact: Phil Sobol, chief customer officer
Phil.Sobol@CereCore.net
855.276.9112

CereCore works behind the scenes to empower hospitals and health systems with IT services. Need to drive operational efficiency, improve financial outcomes, and uncover more bandwidth for your IT team? Our experts understand the major EHR platforms inside and out. Tap into support desk solutions that will result in happier users and providers.

For the second year, we earned a top KLAS Research rating in managed IT services, and we were the only vendor whose clients responded “Yes” 100% of the time when asked if their managed IT services provider exceeded expectations.      

Facing an EHR transition that requires additional expertise? CereCore partners with healthcare organizations across the US and globe to provide comprehensive EHR consulting, IT and application support, technical professional and managed services, strategic IT consulting, and advisory services. Our hospital operations experience means we can help you create customizable roadmaps for RCM optimization, overcome talent shortages, and maximize your HIT investment.      

Get a healthcare IT assessment and benefit from an outsider’s perspective, because the cost of not knowing often far exceeds the investment in finding out. Connect with us at HIMSS and find meaningful change with CereCore’s healthcare IT managed services.


Clearsense

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Booth 1058

Contact: Kara Freeman, senior director of revenue operations
kfreeman@clearsense.com
612.747.2134

Stop Legacy Bloat: Clearsense Delivers the Blueprint for Cost Optimization at HIMSS26   
Gartner reports that cost optimization is now the top priority for health system CIOs. Yet, while application rationalization is a powerful driver of savings, it remains healthcare’s most underutilized strategy. At HIMSS26, Clearsense will demonstrate how health systems are transforming legacy application decommissioning into a disciplined, repeatable engine for sustained cost reduction and operational modernization.   

Visit booth 1058 to see how Clearsense helps health IT leaders move beyond simple archiving to build a governed, trusted data foundation that:   

  • Delivers recurring cost takeout: Eliminate ongoing maintenance, infrastructure, and TSA expenses through structured application rationalization and active archiving programs that generate sustained operating expense savings.   
  • Strengthens security and compliance: Reduce legacy application risk by retiring redundant and unsupported systems while preserving secure, audit-ready access to retained clinical and operational data.   
  • Creates an AI-ready core: Consolidate fragmented historical data into a centralized, governed archive – establishing a reliable foundation for advanced analytics and scalable AI initiatives.   

In addition, Clearsense will officially unveil its AI strategy at HIMSS26, integrating intelligence across the platform to drive faster operational execution while delivering a more intuitive, insight-driven experience at the point of care.   

Schedule a meeting with the Clearsense team by clicking here!


Clearwater

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Booth 10001-07 in the Cybersecurity Command Center

Contact: John Howlett, SVP and chief marketing officer
773.636.6449

You’ll find Clearwater exhibiting in the Cybersecurity Command Center at booth 10001-07, where our team will be showcasing how healthcare organizations can proactively manage cyber risk, protect patient data, and strengthen compliance across increasingly complex digital ecosystems. Stop by to learn how Clearwater helps healthcare leaders:  

  • Reduce cyber risk across clinical, operational, and third-party environments.  
  • Navigate evolving regulatory and compliance requirements.  
  • Build resilient, security-first digital health programs.   

Also, be sure to catch our session “Healthcare AI Governance & Risk Management: Securing Innovation Without Slowing Care” in the Cybersecurity Command Center on Wednesday, March 11, from 10:00-10:20am. Clearwater VP of Consulting Solutions & Strategy Dave Bailey will be joined by Onvida Health CISO Blaine Hebert for a discussion of how to harness AI innovation while managing new and evolving risks.


Clinical Architecture

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Booth 5753

Contact: Jaime Lira, VP of marketing
jaime_lira@clinicalarchitecture.com
317.580.8400

Clinical Architecture delivers scalable data quality and transformation solutions that help healthcare organizations turn complex, inconsistent data into trusted, actionable information. Our solutions support providers, payers, life sciences companies, and public agencies with tools to standardize data, assess quality, and enable reliable exchange.

With the PIQXL Gateway, our implementation of the emerging Patient Information Quality Improvement (PIQI) framework, we provide a score-based, real-time view into patient data quality, pinpointing gaps like missing, invalid, or non standard elements so you can remediate quickly. By improving data integrity and compliance, we empower organizations to power analytics, strengthen decision-making, and advance value-based care with confidence.    

Be sure to attend “Enhancing Healthcare Data Quality: Digital Measurement Standards and the PIQI Approach” on Monday, March 9, from 11:20am-12:00pm, Level 5, Palazzo L. Our CEO, Charlie Harp, will be presenting on a panel with NCQA CTO Edward Yurcisin and Levitt Partners Principal Ryan Howells.      

Visit us at booth 5753 for a live demo of the PIQXL Gateway and see how data quality can be objectively scored and improved using the PIQI framework. We look forward to seeing you in Vegas!


CloudWave

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Booth 6235

Contact: Christine Mellyn, VP of marketing
cmellyn@gocloudwave.com
508.251.8899

Visit CloudWave, the healthcare data security experts, at booth 6235 for an interactive, informative experience! Our team of experts will be available to discuss important topics such as cybersecurity, cloud solutions, compliance, and more. In addition, we’re excited to offer a hands-on tabletop card game that immerses you in incident response and cybersecurity strategies. Using the Backdoors & Breaches deck of expertly designed cards, players will simulate real-world cyber incidents, sharpen response skills, and gain a deeper understanding of modern cyberattack techniques.      

We’ve got a lot happening:    

  • Win a Prize! – Participate in raffles at the conclusion of each day. You don’t need to be present to win!  
  • Ask Questions, Get Answers – Visit our solution stations and speak with our experts about how CloudWave can help address your IT and cybersecurity challenges.    
  • Meet with Our Team – Request a personal meeting (customersfirst@gocloudwave.com) with us to discuss your unique needs.    
  • Tabletop Simulations – Join us for hands-on simulations and take home your own card deck, plus a bonus gift if you complete the game.

CognomIQ

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Booth 11724

Contact: Bonny Roberts, VP of customer success
Bonny.Roberts@CognomIQ.com
614.565.7884

Healthcare Data Sucks. CognomIQ can UNsuck it. One end-to-end platform replacing more than two dozen SaaS tools like Snowflake, DataBricks, PowerBI, Tableau, ESRI, Datavant, TriNetX, and more. Save seven-figures per year immediately with a 15X speed increase or we’ll refund 100% after the first year. We’re that confident. Come by booth 11724 on the AI Trail and tell us to UnSuck it! We’ll brand you with swag.


Concord Technologies

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Booth 1461

Contact: Liza Marie Hayward, marketing program manager
lhayward@concord.net

Concord is the market leader in Intelligent Data Exchange for the healthcare industry, securely processing over 4 billion pages of protected data every year. Our portfolio includes AI-powered fax and document workflows, Intelligent Document Processing, and Straight-Through Processing of patient data into the EHR. With 30 years of proven expertise, Concord empowers healthcare organizations to eliminate manual workflows, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the delivery of care.   

We hope you’ll join us for some of our activities throughout HIMSS:   

  • Tuesday, March 10: Attend our Main Stage session, “Rethinking Interoperability: Is it time to trust LLMs over standards?” from 2:40–3:10pm.   
  • Wednesday, March 11: Concord-sponsored Happy Hour in booth 1461 from 3:00-5:00pm.   
  • All exhibition hall hours at booth 1461: Race to win in our Simulator Challenge. Put yourself in the driver’s seat and take a few laps around the track in our in-booth race simulator. Take your place on our leaderboard after you pass the checkered flag!

CTG Health Solutions

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Booth 3516, Venetian Level 2​

Contact: Sarah Blafer, marketing team lead, demand generation
Sarah.Blafer@ctg.com
860.942.2180

CTG, a Cegeka company, delivers IT and business solutions that enhance digital agility. With 55+ years of experience – and 35+ years in healthcare – we empower healthcare organizations to modernize systems, improve performance, and advance digital initiatives through innovative services and modern technologies. We’ve supported 1,000+ healthcare organizations, including children’s hospitals, health systems, and academic medical centers. Our expertise spans EHR implementation and managed services, cybersecurity, ERP, cloud, infrastructure, IT/application support, and clinical optimization. Combining local market knowledge with 10,000+ Cegeka Group professionals in 15+ countries, we serve healthcare and other high-growth industries. For more information, visit us at booth 3516.


DrFirst

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Booth 3243

Contact: Erin Hall, director, event strategy and experience
eleasehall@drfirst.com
216.650.7687

Meet with DrFirst at HIMSS! Behind every prescription is a tangle of benefit checks, prior authorizations, and pharmacy back-and-forth. Meet with us at HIMSS to see how DrFirst cuts through the complexity within the prescribing workflow before problems start.      

Prior authorizations are resolved right away, not days or weeks later. Coverage and cost are visible at the point of prescribing. Prescriptions arrive at the pharmacy ready to fill. Automated text messages keep patients engaged and on therapy. The result: Fewer abandoned prescriptions, better patient outcomes, and less administrative burden.

To learn more, don’t miss the session featuring Magnolia Regional Health’s Ben Long, MD showing how SMS text notifications reduced odds of CHF readmissions by 6% on March 12 at 8:30am in Palazzo D, Level 5.

Let’s chat in Las Vegas!   

About DrFirst
For 25 years, healthcare IT pioneer DrFirst has empowered providers and patients to achieve better health through intelligent medication management. The company has won over 25 awards for excellence and innovation, including Time’s list of the “World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2025,” recognizing the company’s medication management solutions and integrated workflows that make every step of the patient journey easier, from first prescription to ongoing adherence. DrFirst solutions help 100 million patients a year and are used by more than 450,000 prescribers, 71,000 pharmacies, 270 EHRs, and over 2,000 hospitals in the US. To learn more, visit DrFirst.com.


Ellkay

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Booth 5423

Ready to build the future of healthcare? Ellkay is a trusted enterprise data management partner, driving innovation and connectivity across the healthcare ecosystem.   

Join us at HIMSS26! We will have daily coffee bars and Happy Hours on Tuesday and Wednesday at booth 5423. Come get a drink and discuss how your organization can transform care delivery through true interoperability and data management solutions.


FDB

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Booth 3235

Contact: Sammy Keating, product marketing manager
Sammy.Keating@fdbhealth.com
802.343.2619

At FDB (First Databank), we’re proud to be the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise, confident medication decisions. At HIMSS26, we’re bringing our theme, “Intelligence to Free Your Mind,” to life – showcasing how our medication intelligence, built on decades of trusted drug knowledge and delivered in patient-specific clinical context, helps reduce cognitive burden, restore focus, and strengthen both human and AI-enabled workflows.   

As healthcare organizations look for safe, scalable ways to adopt AI and automation, we’re excited to introduce new innovations at booth 3235. We’ll be featuring FDB MedProof MCP, our AI-native server that standardizes governance and access to medication intelligence across AI-enabled systems. We’ll also highlight workflow advancements like FDB Script Agent, an AI-enabled prescription automation agent designed for ambulatory settings, and FDB VerifyAssist, an inpatient pharmacy order verification assistant designed to help hospital pharmacists quickly spot orders that need closer review.   

Attendees can also explore how our trusted solutions – FDB MedKnowledge, FDB Targeted Medication Warnings, FDB AlertSpace 2.0, Pharmacogenomics CDS, and FDB Meducation – support health systems in improving medication safety, reducing non-actionable alerts, and delivering truly patient-specific decision support and education. We’ll also be showcasing FDB Vela, our modern e-prescribing network built to power resilient, connected medication workflows.

While you’re at our booth, join one of our daily micro-sessions covering topics like agentic workflows, medication reconciliation, and pharmacy order verification. And of course, we’re creating space to recharge and connect. We’ll be hosting “Calm Continues at Happy Hour” on Wednesday, March 11, from 4:00 to 5:30pm at our booth, with beer, wine, soft drinks, and light bites. Throughout the conference, stop by for complimentary chair massages, infused water, themed giveaways, and a chance to win a Theragun Mini (3rd Gen) portable massage device. We’re looking forward to connecting with you at HIMSS26!


Five9

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Kiosk 3264-04

Contact: Roni Jamesmeyer, director of industry marketing
roni.jamesmeyer@five9.com
972.768.6554

Five9 helps healthcare organizations reimagine patient engagement by unifying every interaction – voice, digital, and automated – on a single intelligent platform. Our HIPAA-compliant cloud contact center integrates seamlessly with Epic, Cerner, and Salesforce, enabling real-time access to scheduling, patient data, and care workflows.    

By combining advanced AI, automation, and workforce optimization, Five9 empowers patient access teams, care coordinators, and revenue cycle staff to reduce wait times, improve access to care, and deliver faster, more personalized experiences. The result is a smarter, more connected patient journey – from first contact through follow-up – driving higher satisfaction, lower operating costs, and better outcomes.   

Five9 will be located in kiosk 3264-04 in the Patient Experience & Wellness section and in a large booth located at Enterprise Connect at the Caesars Forum. We will have a booth raffle on Wednesday for everyone! Five9 and Pindrop will host a dinner at Ruth’s Chris on March 10 – please ask for an invitation!


Fortified Health Security

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Booth 11302

Contact: Rachel Bryant, marketing coordinator
rbryant@fortifiedhealthsecurity.com
904.316.3310

Join Fortified Health Security at HIMSS26 to explore the latest in digital health innovation, cybersecurity, and healthcare transformation. Fortified is built for healthcare, offering tailored solutions to help you address your unique challenges, navigate the ever-changing legislative landscape, and work alongside you to create a stronger cybersecurity posture.  

Tee off HIMSS26 with us at Top Golf Las Vegas on March 8, or connect with our team at booth 11302 and enter our daily giveaway. Get all the details to secure your spot here. We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!


Health Data Movers

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Booth 4935

Contact: Brooke Foster, marketing coordinator
brooke@healthdatamovers.com
847.404.0326

Health Data Movers is hosting our second annual Vivas Las Datas Happy Hour and Raising the Stakes for a Cause poker tournament! Hosted by Health Data Movers and CitiusTech, as well as the Kansas and Greater Kansas City HIMSS Chapters, the Vivas Las Datas Happy Hour brings together healthcare leaders for a relaxed opportunity to unwind, reconnect, and talk about what’s next in healthcare data. No sales pitches. No panels. Just great people, great drinks, and great conversation. Join us at Chica at The Venetian Las Vegas on March 10, from 5:00-7:00pm. Space is limited, so be sure to save your spot. RSVP here.    

Raising the Stakes for a Cause will be a night of fun and friendly competition, all while supporting the Michael J Fox Foundation. Get ready to show off your poker skills and enjoy a great time with fellow attendees. Don’t miss out on this exciting event for a great cause! Join us in The Poker Room at The Venetian Las Vegas on March 10, from  8:00-11:00pm. Space is limited, so be sure to save your spot. RSVP here.


Lincata

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Booth 1365

Contact: Adam DeRocher, chief revenue officer
adam.derocher@lincata.com
712.541.9132

Lincata’s Bedside Operating System (OS) transforms hospital televisions into digital experience tools that launch MyChart Bedside TV directly in-room. It’s simple. LincTV by Lincata, coupled with MyChart Bedside TV, existing TV screens, cameras, microphones, and other equipment helps health systems create the foundation for smart room capabilities and virtual care. LincTV consists of a proprietary set-top box and purpose-built MDM that provides flexibility, scalability, security, and ease of deployment. More than TV. Make it LincTV.


Med Tech Solutions

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Booth 5448

Contact: Shana Tachikawa, director of marketing
stachikawa@medtechsolutions.com

Med Tech Solutions (MTS) is a managed services provider delivering comprehensive IT and EHR support to healthcare organizations nationwide. With a singular focus on healthcare technology, MTS empowers clients with IT and EHR managed services, cloud hosting, 24/7 help desk, and revenue cycle solutions, along with tailored software and security offerings. With Stoltenberg Consulting now part of the MTS family, MTS expands this reach with deep Epic, Oracle Cerner, NextGen, ECW, and Meditech consulting; staff augmentation; go-live support; and legacy system services. Together, MTS and its brands help healthcare providers optimize technology, streamline operations, and enhance patient care across full IT lifecycles.   

Elicit greater value from your EHR investment. Ensure long-term success of your EHR program across organizational growth. Leverage skilled, flexible, EHR-certified resources to cost-effectively fill IT expertise gaps with:    

  • EHR Service Desk  
  • EHR-Certified Staffing  
  • Legacy EHR Managed Services 
  • EHR Data Archiving  
  • EHR Data Integration  
  • Go-Live Support  
  • M&A Systems Alignment      

Backed by 3x Best in KLAS standing for Partial IT Outsourcing, maximize your EHR’s full potential. Schedule an executive meeting with Med Tech Solutions in booth 5448!


Medcurio

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Booth 222

Contact: Joe Lovato, director of customer solutions
joe@medcurio.com
503.704.3920

Medcurio helps health systems access and act on their EHR data in real time, without waiting months for integrations or settling for partial interfaces. Its VennU platform installs inside the customer’s environment and gives teams direct, governed access to the data they already own. The result is faster insight, faster action, and fewer workarounds. VennU is used to power dashboards, alerts, automations, and any downstream workflows that depend on complete and timely EHR data. Customers decide what data is accessed, who can use it, and how it is applied, with full auditability and security controls. Nothing leaves the customer’s control.   

Medcurio has been invited by InterSystems to showcase its technology live at their booth. We’re demonstrating how we’ve made it incredibly simple to get ANY data – in real time – out of the EHR. Not limited to: FHIR, HL7, latent or batch-based data. This is true real-time access without the traditional constraints.   

We’ll be giving live demos of our cutting-edge platform. If your organization has ever struggled to extract real-time data from your EHR, stop by!


Medicomp Systems

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Booth 5435

Contact: James Aita, director of strategy and business development
marketing@medicomp.com
703.803.8080

Medicomp delivers the industry’s only physician-curated universal data foundation, transforming healthcare data into trusted intelligence through Quippe, its evidence-based Clinical Intelligence Engine. Quippe connects information across domains, normalizes every input, and validates AI outputs to ensure accurate, interoperable insights at the point of care – fueling innovation, improving accuracy, and unlocking the full value of clinical data.   

Medicomp will be showcasing entirely new functionality that streamlines clinical workflow, combining technologies like ambient listening, natural language processing (NLP), and Model Context Protocol (MCP); and leveraging its universal data foundation and knowledge graph to deliver the efficient, intelligent, clinical workspace that clinicians have been craving.     

The gap between data and understanding is probably costing you – in denied claims, compliance penalties, technology ROI, clinician burnout, and patient safety risks. Stop by the Medicomp booth to learn how your systems can benefit from:   

  • Clinically-validated LLM outputs. 
  • Diagnostic intelligence that understands context, is evidence-based, and makes disparate data computable.  
  • Clinical-grade agents based on a universal data foundation.   

Solve the data reliability problem with diagnostically intelligent clinical data solutions. To learn more, visit Medicomp.com.


Meditech

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Booth 5031 and Interop+Smart Experience Pavilion booth 12623

Contact: Rachel Wilkes, AVP of marketing
rwilkes@meditech.com
781.774.4555

Join Meditech in booth 5031 to see firsthand how the intelligent Expanse platform is turning innovation into impact for health systems of all sizes – from small rural hospitals to large IDNs. Visitors will hear directly from clinicians and see demonstrations of the Expanse EHR platform in action. See how the Expanse platform strengthens patient engagement, leverages AI to unburden staff, and enables connected care across all healthcare settings.

Meditech will also host daily Lunch & Learn sessions in the booth. Attendees can enjoy a complimentary lunch while hearing from Meditech and customer experts on the following topics:

Monday, March 10
”The Intelligent Application of AI,” from 12:45-1:05 pm.
”Meditech Expanse: A Foundational Platform for Innovation,” from 1:30-1:50pm.

Tuesday, March 11
”Efficiency Unleashed: The Intelligent EHR in Practice,” from 12:15-12:35pm.
”Empowering Patients Beyond the Clinic,” from 1-1:20 pm.

Wednesday, March 12
”Intelligent Interoperability in Action,” from 12:15-12:35 pm.
”Create, Share, Grow with Greenfield,” from 1-1:20 pm.

Outside the booth, Meditech customers will present their latest innovations and real-world experiences, successes, and strategies in educational presentations covering a wide array of topics, including nurse retention strategies, data-driven approaches to rural population health, and more.

You can also visit Meditech in the Interop+ Smart Experience Pavilion at booth 12623 to see how the company’s intelligent interoperability solutions empower patients and their care teams with complete, unfettered access to health data. Experience three dynamic demonstrations running daily: The Connected Clinician, The Empowered Patient, and The Interoperable Enterprise. Each demonstration will follow the patient journey to illustrate how Meditech Expanse, alongside partner solutions, transforms interoperability into a true force multiplier for care.

Attendees can also hear directly from Meditech and healthcare leaders at the Interop+ Smart Theater:

  • Tuesday, March 10: “Orchestrating the Payer-Provider Care Team for Rural Health Resilience,” from 11:45am–12:05pm.
  • Wednesday, March 11: “From Conversation to Cash Flow: AI and the Future of Revenue Integrity,” from 10:15–10:35am.
  • Thursday, March 12: “Powering Rural Health Through Open, Intelligent EHR Innovation,” from 10:15–10:35am.

See Meditech’s HIMSS event page for a full listing of sessions.


Nordic Global

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Booth 631

Contact: Rebecca Whaley, head of marketing
Rebecca.Whaley@nordicglobal.com

Join Nordic, a global leader in healthcare transformation, at #HIMSS26 in booth 631 to explore the future of healthcare technology. Enjoy free, all‑day coffee at our booth and meet the Nordic team to discuss how we can support your workforce and operational priorities for 2026. We’ll also be unveiling our new look at our HIMSS brand launch party.    

Highlights:    

  • Enjoy free, all‑day coffee and meet the Nordic team at booth 631.    
  • Join us at the Buzzed After Dark Networking Reception, sponsored by Nordic, on Sunday, March 9, from 9:00pm-12:00am.    
  • Donut panic. Fewer apps are possible. Grab a free donut and learn about application portfolio management with Nordic and our partner Clearsense on Monday, March 10, from 10:00–11:00am at booth 631.    
  • Connect with Nordic and Workday at the FQHC Happy Hour on March 10, from 5:00–6:00pm at the B Bar at the Wynn. (invite only)    
  • Join us as we officially launch Nordic’s new brand during Under the Nordic Star, a client and partner reception, sponsored by Clear and ServiceNow, on March 10, from 6:00–9:00pm. at La Cave Bar + Restaurant at the Wynn.    
  • Meet Nordic CMO Craig Joseph, MD, author of “Designing for Health,” to explore why human‑centered design matters in healthcare on Monday, March 10, from 1:00–2:00pm and Tuesday, March 11, from 10:00–11:00am at booth 631.    
  • Join Nordic for a networking happy hour during the HIMSS Chapter Social hosted by HIMSS Wisconsin on March 11, from 4:00-5:30pm at booth 631.    

Visit our event page to see what Nordic is doing at HIMSS and book a meeting with our team!


Optimum Healthcare IT

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Meeting Room MP11356

Contact: Larry Kaiser, chief marketing officer
lkaiser@optimumhit.com

Best in KLAS, Overall Implementation Firm, Optimum Healthcare IT will be at HIMSS. You bring your goals and outcomes, we will bring the strategy and team to make it happen. Optimum’s comprehensive service offerings include enterprise application services; digital transformation; and workforce management, which features our Optimum CareerPath skill development program. Backed by a leadership team with extensive expertise, we deliver tailored healthcare consulting solutions to diverse organizations.   

HIMSS Highlights  
Meeting Room MP11356 
AWS Demos March 12
AWS Booth: UC Davis Health – Primary care scheduling reduces no-shows effectively. Patient verification streamlines appointments, enhances revenue.           
Wrapt Health: Oncology scheduling with predictive rescheduling modeling. Reduces cancellations, minimizes medication waste costs. 
Microsoft Demo March 10 at 10:00am, March 11 at 11:10am, and March 12 at 12:50pm.
Microsoft Booth: Deliver secure, high-performance clinical workspaces in AVD – anywhere.
Reception on March 11 at 6:00pm. Contact your Business Development Executive for more information.


PerfectServe

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Booth 1665

Contact: Jenn Corcoran, senior marketing manager
jcorcoran@perfectserve.com
802.379.5352

Struggling with after-hours coverage, missed handoffs, or “Who’s on call?” confusion? At HIMSS, PerfectServe is offering complimentary 15-minute workflow reviews for healthcare leaders who want to identify gaps in their communication and scheduling processes – and leave with clear, practical next steps. During the 15-minute Workflow Review, we’ll: 

  • Walk through your current communication and scheduling workflow. 
  • Identify failure points that create delays, burnout, or risk. 
  • Highlight opportunities to simplify, automate, or integrate with your EHR. 
  • Share how peers are addressing similar challenges.   

You’ll leave with: 

  • A clearer picture of where things break down. 
  • Practical ideas you can take back to your team. 
  • A benchmarked perspective from other health systems.   

Who should book time: 

  • CMOs, CIOs, COOs 
  • Clinical operations leaders 
  • IT leaders responsible for clinical communication 
  • Physician and nursing leadership 
  • Scheduling managers   

Why PerfectServe? 
PerfectServe helps health systems accelerate speed to care by bringing communication and scheduling into a single, EHR-integrated platform. We help organizations: 

  • Create a single source of truth for staff scheduling. 
  • Enable secure, role-based care team communication. 
  • Power a reliable clinical contact center. 
  • Finally answer, with confidence, “Who’s on call right now?”   

For more, visit our dedicated event page.


Praia Health

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Contact Conrad Swanson to arrange a meeting.

Contact: Conrad Swanson, VP of sales
conrad@praiahealth.com

Praia Health is the patient experience orchestration platform for health systems. We help health systems attract, engage, and retain patients by supercharging their portals and digital tools with seamless, personalized journeys in one platform. The result is higher retention, lower costs, and measurable ROI.   

Praia Health was named Best in Show at the HIMSS26 Emerge Pitch Competition, winning in the Health Systems: Address Hospital Capacity Crisis category. Praia Health CEO Justin Dearborn will be presenting during the HIMSS Emerge Innovation Pitch Competition: Best-in-Show Solutions for Hospital Systems Challenges on Wednesday, March 11, from 11:50am-12:35pm. Team members will also be available throughout the conference to share more about our patient experience orchestration platform.


RevSpring

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Booth 1335

Contact: Andrea Zaczyk, VP of marketing
azaczyk@revspring.com

RevSpring helps healthcare organizations improve the financial experience for patients while strengthening revenue cycle outcomes. The platform combines billing, payments, analytics and patient engagement tools to simplify healthcare payments and make financial communications clearer. At HIMSS, attendees can visit the booth to see how RevSpring is modernizing the patient financial journey with smarter billing communications, digital payment options, and data-driven insights.


Rhapsody

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Booth 4832

Contact: Michelle Blackmer, chief marketing officer
michelle.blackmer@rhapsody.health
404.974.5060

Simplify interoperability, accelerate EHR integration, and get your data foundation ready for what’s next. That’s what teams do with Rhapsody – purpose-built for healthcare and trusted by 1,900+ organizations worldwide. Best in KLAS for 17 years.    

Stop by booth 4832 for live demos of Rhapsody Axon, the industry’s first healthcare integration agent embedded in Rhapsody and Corepoint Integration. See how AI-powered integration reduces friction, shortens build cycles, and moves from kickoff to go-live faster.    

Connect with our experts to explore how you can:  

  • Integrate with EHRs across your ecosystem.  
  • Modernize legacy environments while supporting FHIR, APIs, and HL7.  
  • Strengthen person identity and terminology data foundations.    
  • Build an agent-ready interoperability layer.   

Then, join us Tuesday, March 10, from 6:30-8:30pm at Brera Osteria (St. Mark’s Square at The Venetian Resort, Grand Canal Shoppes), to continue the conversation.


SlicedHealth

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Contact Jason Whiteaker to arrange a meeting.

Contact: Jason Whiteaker, regional VP, channel partnerships
jason.whiteaker@slicedhealth.com
901.493.3110

SlicedHealth is a payer contract revenue intelligence platform designed to help hospitals, health systems, specialty practices, and surgery centers navigate payer complexity and secure the revenue they’ve rightfully earned. Through AI-driven contract modeling and real-time analytics, SlicedHealth identifies underpayments, denial patterns, and price transparency gaps while bringing clarity to complex payer agreements.   

Our team will be onsite at HIMSS meeting with healthcare finance and revenue cycle leaders focused on reimbursement strategy and contract performance. To connect during the conference, please reach out directly to Jason Whiteaker (jason.whiteaker@slicedhealth.com) to coordinate a time to meet and discuss how revenue intelligence can drive measurable financial impact in 2026 and beyond.


Sonifi Health

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Booth 2861

Contact: Jared Allen, SVP of sales
jallen@sonifihealth.com
801.386.1450

Sonifi Health provides industry-leading, interactive patient engagement technology proven to improve patient outcomes and staff productivity. The EHR-integrated platform is designed to anticipate the needs of patients and clinicians, infusing the principles of hospitality into care experiences. As part of Sonifi Solutions, Inc., the company supports more than 300 million end user experiences annually. Learn more at sonifihealth.com.


Surescripts

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Booth 1139

Contact: Kate Giaquinto, PR manager
kate.giaquinto@surescripts.com
603.548.5273

Join Surescripts at the forefront of healthcare innovation and learn how we can inform and accelerate decisions to keep patient care on track.   

Connect with us at HIMSS26 in booth 1139 to discover how we can partner to:   

  • Deliver clinically appropriate prior authorization decisions faster. 
  • Empower the healthcare ecosystem with intelligence and interoperability. 
  • Add real-time cost and care intelligence to existing workflows.

Tegria

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Booth 4802

Contact: Berit Rhody, Manager, Events and Engagement
berit.rhody@tegria.com

Tegria is a global healthcare consulting and services company that partners with provider and payer organizations to transform healthcare. Tegria’s global team of more than 1,000 experienced professionals has helped drive meaningful change for more than 650 provider and payer clients across North America and Europe. Tegria has been ranked and recognized in consecutive Best in KLAS reports, including a #2 ranking in the “2026 Best in KLAS: Software & Services” report for Overall IT Services Firm and Best in KLAS recognition for Payer IT Consulting (2025) and Application Hosting (2024).   

Join us for some engaging sessions while you are at HIMSS :  

“Lunch & Learn: How Leading Health Systems are Closing the Access Execution Gap” on Tuesday, March 10, from 12:30-1:45pm on Venetian Level 1, Casanova 601. As patient access becomes a strategic driver of financial performance and growth, health systems must move beyond scheduling to optimize the entire patient journey. This session shares executive insights and real-world examples to help organizations strengthen foundational access metrics, align strategy with execution, and turn digital access into a sustainable enterprise advantage. Register here to reserve your spot.

“Don’t Gamble on ROI: Win Big with Change Management” on Wednesday, March 11, from 12:00-12:20pm in the Business Ops Pavilion, Level 2, Hall C, booth 4400. Healthcare organizations often struggle to achieve lasting value from technology investments because the challenge lies not in the systems, but in how change is managed. In this session, KLAS Research and Tegria will introduce a proven change management framework that helps leaders drive adoption, protect ROI, and sustain workforce and patient trust throughout transformation.

“Denied No More: A Revenue Recovery Playbook” on Wednesday, March 11, from 2:00-2:30pm on the Connect Theater Stage. This session explores how a data-driven approach can uncover hidden patterns behind costly bundled procedure denials, including specific service combinations and payer behaviors. Through a real-world case study, attendees will gain practical strategies to reduce denials, improve billing accuracy, and strengthen overall revenue cycle performance.

View full details for all of Tegria’s HIMSS26 sessions on our event page.


TruBridge

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Demo station 23 in Microsoft booth 2812

Contact: Shane Smith, sales consultant
Shane.Smith@trubridge.com
502.671.9292

TruBridge empowers rural and community healthcare with tech‑enabled solutions designed for their realities. With 45+ years of experience and 1,500+ clients, we deliver RCM, EHR, coding, analytics, and data tools.    

Join us at demo station 23 at booth 2812 to learn more about Microsoft Dragon Copilot embedded within TruBridge Notes. We will host demos on:  

  • Tuesday, March 10, from 12:30-2:50pm 
  • Wednesday, March 11, from 3:10-5:30pm 
  • Thursday, March 12, from 9:30-11:20am

TrustCommerce, a RevSpring company

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Booth 1624

Contact: Ryne Natzke, chief commercial officer
rynen@spherecommerce.com

Visit TrustCommerce, a RevSpring company, at booth 1624. For over 25 years, TrustCommerce comprehensive patient payment solutions have earned the trust of the country’s largest healthcare organizations. Now, together with RevSpring, we’re expanding integrated payments and accelerating innovation in financial engagement, combining Best in KLAS patient financial experience solutions with enterprise-grade gateway capabilities and deep integrated payments leadership.    

Four reasons you won’t want to miss us:   

  • See how you can transform the way you process payments using TrustCommerce integrated solutions. Experience secure and compliant payment processing, anytime and anywhere – all while being seamlessly connected to leading EHRs like Epic, Veradigm, and AthenaIDX.       
  • Together, with RevSpring, you can have a more simplified payment ecosystem. End-to-end visibility enables reduced vendor complexity, improved reconciliation, and a more consistent patient payment experience across pre-service, point-of-service, post-service, and back office.    
  • See our patient-friendly digital payment experience that proudly supports digital wallets such as Google Pay, Apple Pay, and PayPal.       
  • Learn about partnership opportunities. Ask us how to integrate TrustCommerce payment solutions with your digital health software to drive revenue, reduce risk, and increase workflow efficiencies.        

Swing by booth 1624 for a coffee, recharge with fresh juice, catch a live demo, and charge your phone while you’re there!


Visage Imaging

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Booth 3753

Contact: Brad Levin, general manager, North America
blevin@visageimaging.com
540.454.9670

Visage is not only leading imaging’s move to the cloud, we’ve defined it. Visage is delivering Visage 7 | CloudPACS, an AI Optimized Enterprise Imaging Platform purpose-built and proven. Visage 7 | CloudPACS provides unparalleled speed, interpretation efficiency, and much needed relief from the current challenges facing radiologists, clinicians, and imaging IT professionals.   

At HIMSS26, Visage will be demonstrating our latest Visage 7.1.20, including Visage Chat+, Visage 7 | Digital Pathology, and Visage Ease VP for Apple Vision Pro, as well as our latest work-in-progress efforts for Visage 7 | AI. Join us at booth 3753 and enjoy the best gourmet coffee available at HIMSS26, with coffee beans carefully roasted by Visage staff.

News 3/6/26

March 5, 2026 News Comments Off on News 3/6/26

Top News

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Amazon Web Services launches Amazon Connect Health, an EHR-integrated agentic AI healthcare operations solution that is based on the company’s Amazon Connect cloud contact center platform.

The system can verify patients, schedule appointments, summarize EHR records, transcribe doctor-patient conversations to generate draft clinical notes, and generate after-visit summaries.

Amazon says that UCSD Health saves 1 minute per call by using Connect Health, while Netsmart’s rollout of it increased ambient documentation adoption by 275%.


Reader Comments

From Fact Checker: “Re: Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services and Epic. The LinkedIn write-up by CEO Wayne Gillis is not accurate. They use the old Cerner / Oracle system.” His post says that “we” went live with Epic 18 months ago, then saw costs balloon because of default workflow decisions during configuration, after which they did some analysis that led to setup changes. Eighteen months ago, in September 2024, he was still working for Great Falls Health Network, which has a single 20-bed hospital. He joined Rehoboth McKinley a couple of months later and will leave the organization amicably effective next week. I emailed him to ask for clarification about which hospital was involved. 

From Buoyancy: “Re: Q-rounds virtual queue app for rounding notifications. It’s an interesting idea for improved family and staff engagement. However, based on 20+ years of doing inpatient attending rounds, they never go as you expect, they are typically interrupted, and sometimes run over time. When you get to a patient’s room, they might be off the floor getting a test or procedure or other factor that prevents you from seeing them in sequence. Rounds can also be interrupted by various emergencies or demands. Even if you put a tracking device on the attending to provide a bus stop-style time estimate, I doubt it would be accurate no matter how hard the team tries to stay on schedule.”


HIStalk Announcements and Requests

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Welcome to new HIStalk Platinum Sponsor CognomIQ. CognomIQ is a unified, end-to-end semantic data management engine built by healthcare, for healthcare. CognomIQ resolves the problem of dirty data to provide one source of truth for your AI initiatives, clinical operations, research, and enterprise reporting. Our platform curates, cleans, validates, semantically restructures, and leverages inherent business intelligence to produce real-time visualizations that drive insights. With exceptional reach, speed, resource efficiency, and cost savings, CognomIQ supplants overlapping capabilities of more than two dozen tools that are patchworked together in data environments today. In production for over four years with an NCI-designated cancer center, the company has launched commercially to make the complex data world simpler for all healthcare. Visit them at HIMSS26 at Venetian Level 1 – 11724. Thanks to CognomIQ for supporting HIStalk.

I found this CognomIQ overview video on YouTube, on which also resides the company’s spectacular earworm music promo.


Sponsored Events and Resources

Publication: HIStalk’s Guide to HIMSS26 lists the activities of sponsors at the conference.

Contact Lorre to have your resource listed.


Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

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Remote patient monitoring vendor Health Recovery Solutions acquires Rimidi, whose platform combines remote patient monitoring with chronic disease management tools. Rimidi founder and CEO Lucienne Ide, MD, PhD will join Health Recovery Solutions as chief medical officer.

Grow Therapy, which offers a therapist marketplace and back-end provider services, raises $150 million in Series D funding.

HCA says in an investor conference that it worked with Palantir to use AI to summarize medical records for physicians and to prepare claims denial appeals. The company says that its Timpani automated scheduling and staffing system, which uses AI to predict staffing needs and was also developed with Palantir, is being used in 80 hospitals. HCA adds that another internally developed tool has reduced length of stay by 2%.

Oracle will reportedly lay off thousands of employees in the next few days as the company addresses the cost of building AI data centers and reviews whether it could replace some workers with AI. The rumored cuts will affect multiple divisions. Oracle will post Q3 results on Tuesday, March 10.


People

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Hearst names David Delaney, MD (Optum) president of First Databank.  


Announcements and Implementations

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OpenEvidence launches Doctor Dialer, which lets clinicians place calls using a customizable caller ID, send and receive secure messages and faxes, leave straight-to-voicemail messages for patients, and automatically generate clinical notes.

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Enterprise AI security vendor Mindgard reports that it manipulated Doctronic, the AI doctor chatbot that Utah is piloting to autonomously manage prescription refills, into acting as a “bad doctor” that spread vaccine conspiracy theories and recommended amphetamines for social challenges. It also generated SOAP notes that contained significant errors. Mindgard says that its red team exposed Doctronic’s system prompt, which allowed them to bypass the chatbot’s guardrails.

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CVS Health and Google Cloud launch Health100, an agentic AI-powered digital health platform that manages health across pharmacies, insurers, and providers. CVS Health says that the platform will serve as the conduit for pharmacist-led care management and will allow developers to build applications around the service through an open ecosystem.

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Rhapsody releases Axon, an interoperability workflow automation system that provides AI-powered guidance and agentic actions.

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Mednition introduces Kate for Kids, which helps ED nurses in non-pediatric EDs triage patients.


Privacy and Security

France-based healthcare software vendor Cegedim Santé confirms that a cyberattack late last year allowed hackers to exfiltrate 15.8 million patient records. The attack involved the company’s MonLogicielMedical (MLM) mobile clinician application.


Other

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Interoperability guy Brendan Keeler takes a deep dive into murky waters of a viral Epic-bashing video that was created by an influencer whose previous beef tallow pitches and flatulence-on-my-wife-prank cinematic triumphs drew a few hundred views versus millions when he railed about delays in processing Social Security disability claims, which he blames on Epic. The video sends viewers to a recently formed disability group which in turn is connected to law firms and lobbyists that, theoretically you understand, could have a financial interest in the process. “Ry the seller” and Mrs. Ry begged viewers to buy their pathetic merch so they could afford to purchase a house, which ironically might end up belonging to Epic if they think he’s worth the trouble of sending lawyers knocking on its door.


Sponsor Updates

  • Resilience Care partners with InterSystems to integrate its oncology remote-monitoring platform with hospital systems using InterSystems IRIS for Health.
  • WellSky expands AI capabilities within its next‑generation WellSky CarePort Referral Intake solution.
  • Black Book Research releases its “2026 Prior Authorization & Interoperability Readiness Benchmark Report.”
  • Pyramid Healthcare extends its use of Netsmart’s platform across its substance use, mental health, and recovery services.
  • Surescripts releases its “Annual Impact Report 2025.”
  • NextGen Healthcare integrates DrFirst’s RxInform prescription engagement solution with its enterprise EHR.
  • FinThrive offers the “2026 Transformative Trends Report.”
  • Health Data Movers releases a new episode of its “QuickHITs” podcast featuring GeneDx COO Bryan Dechairo.
  • Linus Health will present new findings on digital risk scores for dementia and patient-centered endpoints at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases and Related Neurological Disorders March 17-21 in Denmark.
  • Meditech congratulates The Aga Khan University Chief Data Innovation Officer Farhana Alarakhiya on receiving the 2026 HIMSS Changemaker in Health Award in the category of Global Patient Innovator.
  • MRO CISO Richard Weiss wins the 2026 DallasCISO Corporate Orbie Award.

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News 3/4/26

March 3, 2026 News 7 Comments

Top News

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Findhelp secures $250 million in new funding.

The company’s consumer-facing connected safety net,, which does not require users to register, facilitates referrals to community-based services for critical needs such as food, housing, utility assistance, and transportation


Reader Comments

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From NewMexicoFNP: “Re: Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services. CEO Wayne Gillis describes on LinkedIn how his hospital’s labor costs increased by $400,000 per month after its Epic go-live, He blames inefficient workflow design and governance decisions that were made during implementation. His team identified five major drivers of waste — duplicate documentation, excessive inbox alerts, unused order sets, inefficient medication reconciliation steps, and time-consuming chart navigation. They eliminated redundant configurations, reduced alert noise, streamlined order sets and med rec clicks, and improved chart access to reclaim $287,000 per month in labor costs, modestly above their pre-implementation baseline.” His most interesting point is that the changes they made to save $3.4 million per year involved undoing “best practice” recommendations.

From Harlan: “Re: FDA breakthrough designation for AI tools. There are no measurable endpoints in adaptive AI that learns from interactions, so what is being validated, the model, the training, or the company’s governance process? Post-market monitoring and version control will matter more than pre-market review. It doesn’t do any good to certify a snapshot that is deployed as a moving target.”


Sponsored Events and Resources

Publication: HIStalk’s Guide to HIMSS26 lists the activities of sponsors at the conference.

Contact Lorre to have your resource listed.


Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

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KeyCare, an Epic-based virtual care company, raises $27.4 million in funding. The company will use the proceeds to expand its AI capabilities and to continue scaling its platform.

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Bloomberg reports that Oracle Health EVP Sanga Viswanathan and SVP Suhas Uliyar are leaving the company, although its sources seem to be anonymous Reddit posts. Some of those Reddit posts also claim that SVP/Chief Health Officer Bharat Sutariya, MD, MS has left. Bloomberg notes that SVPs Quais Taraki, Ofer Michael, and Max Romanenko departed the company recently.

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Q-rounds, which offers an app that notifies patients, nurses, and family members of the status of clinician bedside rounds, announces $1.8 million in funding. The company launched in 2018 in partnership with the University of Minnesota and M Health Fairview.

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Arrive Health and DoseSpot combine to create Interra Health, which offers software to support prescribing for providers and patients. Bain Capital Tech Opportunities serves as the majority owner of the new company. DoseSpot CEO Josh Weiner becomes CEO of Interra, while Arrive Health CEO Kyle Kiser becomes a board member and senior advisor.


Sales

  • The Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute selects Innovaccer’s Story Health virtual specialty care and patient monitoring platform.
  • Ardent Health will implement Hellocare.ai’s AI-assisted virtual nursing, telehealth, and virtual patient safety monitoring modules.

People

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Wolters Kluwer promotes Stacey Caywood, MBA to CEO and executive board chair.

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John Nicolosi, PharmD (LucyRx) joins Judi Health as chief administrative officer.

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Clear promotes David Bardan. MBA to SVP/GM/head of healthcare and gov tech.


Announcements and Implementations

Healthcare service desk operator Ellit Groups implements Talkdesk’s Healthcare Experience Cloud.

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CoxHealth (MO) goes live on Epic.

Starkey Ranch ER & Hospital (FL) implements Juno Health’s EHR.

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No-code business application development platform vendor Knack launches Knack Health, a platform for creating internal tools, patient-facing forms, and operational workflows.


Government and Politics

The VA will expand its use of ambient scribe technology, developed by Knowtex and Abridge, from 10 pilot sites to 130 medical centers, with assistance from software and AI development companies Rise8 and Thoughtworks.

The FDA grants breakthrough device designation to RecovryAI’s physician-prescribed post-operative recovery Virtual Care Assistants.


Privacy and Security

CancerX and Clearwater launch the CancerX Cybersecurity Mark program to ensure that oncology-related technologies meet enterprise-grade security standards before they are deployed within health systems.


Other

Lee Health (FL) CEO Larry Antonucci, MD, MBA details the health system’s efforts to unify its treatment plans for sickle cell patients, including the creation of a sickle cell patient registry and personalized sickle cell action plans that are embedded in its EHR. The tools support 400 patients.

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A VA study of 12,000 patients with chronic kidney disease finds that those whose care was managed virtually by a nephrologist had a 15% lower mortality rate than those whose care was managed solely by a primary care provider. The same set of patients also exhibited significantly higher rates of medication adherence.


Sponsor Updates

  • VectorCare launches its Open API 2.0 and an integration with Bambi, which offers software for non-emergency medical transportation.
  • First Databank connects its FDB Vela EPrescribing Network with Photon’s digital prescription marketplace.
  • CereCore offers “The Buyer’s Guide to IT Managed Services: Your Guide to Smarter Healthcare IT Decisions.”
  • Philips Capsule launches its Device Driver Interface Library to verify compatibility of devices with its medical device integration solutions.
  • CloudWave appoints Brian Lamberger as general manager of cybersecurity solutions.

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