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News 3/22/23

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Virtual women’s and family health provider Maven Clinic acquires London-based competitor Naytal for an undisclosed sum. Maven has raised $300 million since launching in, its most recent funding round a $90 million Series E last November. Founder and CEO Kate Ryder said at the time that, “We’re not putting this capital aside for a rainy day.”

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Naytal founder and CEO Leila Thabet will join Maven as Regional Vice President, Global Growth and Partnerships.


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North Carolina-based Bionic Health will use $3 million in seed funding to further develop its membership-based “AI health clinic” for preventative care. Bionic offers lab and diagnostic testing, followed-up by AI-powered personalized insights based on those lab results and assessments. Co-founder Jared Pelo, MD developed “ambient documentation” company IScribes in 2016, which he then sold to Nuance in 2017. He became Nuance’s chief clinical product officer, overseeing its Dragon Ambient Experience app, and then jumped to a similar position at Microsoft when it acquired Nuance in early 2022. Nuance, meanwhile, will launch Dragon Ambient EXperience Express, which uses ChatGPT-4 to automatically generate clinical notes, this summer.


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Rectangle Health names Sid Singh (Equifax) CEO.

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Robin Peloquin (Omni Interactions) joins Carenet Health as VP for training and development.


Announcements and Implementations

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First Step House selects Kipu Health’s EHR, RCM, and CRM software across its facilities in Utah and California.


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News 3/20/23

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Allermi, a direct-to-consumer digital allergy care company, raises $3.5 million in seed funding. The startup plans to expand beyond the 28 states in which it is currently licensed.


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Behavioral health IT vendor Infinity rebrands to SimiTree Behavioral Health. RCM, outsourcing, and professional services company SimiTree acquired Infinity last year.


People

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Hinge Health names James Budge (Automation Anywhere) CFO.

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Practice Pro promotes Tim Moore to CEO. He replaces founder Sanjay Patel, who will become chief product officer.


Announcements and Implementations

Sleep Matters, a sleep disorders clinic in Tennessee, implements EClinicalWorks.


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The New York Public Library will host free “Take Charge with MyChart” classes to help patrons learn how to find a new physician, access medical records and test results, schedule and/or attend a telemedicine appointment, and refill prescriptions using Mount Sinai’s Epic-powered MyChart software.

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The Chicago Tribune profiles 88 year-old Glenn Bynum, MD a retired physician who has served as a ringside physician on the Golden Gloves boxing circuit for 55 years and counting. “Doc Bynum” has examined and cleared thousands of fighters over the years, including Floyd Mayweather Jr.


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News 3/15/23

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OpenLoop Health, a white label telehealth company based in Iowa, raises $15 million in a Series A funding round. The company expanded its clinical expertise with the acquisition of Reliant.MD’s practice group earlier this year. Last month, it announced plans to expand its headquarters to accommodate over 100 new employees.

The funding coincides with the company’s launch of payer and RCM services.


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Hopper Health launches to offer membership-based, virtual primary care services to adults living with autism, ADHD, OCD, dyslexia, and Tourette’s. Founder Katya Siddall-Cipolla is a former Army combat medic and Blue Cross Blue Shield VP. She named the company after Admiral Grace Hopper, a mathematician and one of the world’s first computer programmers.


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Caleb Anderson (Netsmart) joins Athenahealth as chief sales officer.


Announcements and Implementations

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Bristol Advanced Illness Management implements EHR, practice management, and RCM technology and services from EClinicalWorks across its facilities in nine states.


Government and Politics

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The federal government charges former Wedgewood Physicians COO Francisco Ortiz and physician James Mersing, MD with allegedly stealing $650,000 from their former employer. Over a three-year period, Ortiz diverted funds for personal travel, home improvements, and Amazon orders. He also gave Mersing unauthorized bonuses, which Mersing then returned portions of as kickbacks.


Other

Google search results will soon highlight community healthcare facilities that offer free or low-cost care.

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Good fun for a good cause: In Tennessee, the Chattanooga Medical Alliance will host MedRock: Battle of the (Physician) Bands on March 25. Proceeds from the event will fund college scholarships for high school seniors interested in pursuing healthcare-related careers. Attendees will have the chance to bid on a guitar played, signed, and donated by Peter Frampton.


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News 3/13/23

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Iron Health raises $4.5 million in a seed funding round. The company helps women’s healthcare providers connect their patients with primary and specialty care, and virtual services.


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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

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Behavioral health EHR vendor Streamline Healthcare Solutions secures growth capital funding from Gauge Capital.

Telemedicine outsourcing company Beam Healthcare raises an undisclosed amount of funding from Decathlon Capital Partners.


People

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GoCheck Kids names Naveen Kathuria (EFamilyCare) CEO.


Announcements and Implementations

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Wellpoint Care Network (WI) selects SmartCare EHR technology from Streamline Healthcare Solutions.

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Goshen Medical Center, an FQHC with 38 sites in North Carolina, will implement value-based care technologies and services with help from Cary Medical Management.

Mercy Care and Clinic (MD) selects EClinicalWorks.


Research and Innovation

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Researchers from the University of Minnesota analyze data from 8 million primary care visits and determine that shorter visits are associated with potentially inappropriate prescribing decisions, particularly related to antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infections and co-prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines for pain. While researchers were not able to to determine an optimal length of office-visit time, they did reason that visit volume in fee-for-service reimbursement models should be maintained at a level that doesn’t impact quality of care.


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Codman Square Health Center in Boston notifies patients of a late November ransomware attack that may have put certain PHI at risk.

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Florida Medical Clinic announces that it was the victim of a ransomware attack in early January. The clinic determined that 94,000 patient files were compromised to some degree, though no financial information was breached.


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  • Nordic releases a new episode of DocTalk.

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News 3/8/23

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Women’s care company Tia secures an undisclosed amount of funding from Pivotal Ventures, bringing its total funding to $150 million. (Based on past funding rounds, Pivotal’s investment is likely less than $23 million.)

Tia, which launched in 2017 as a text-based women’s sexual health and wellness app, now operates membership-based virtual and in-person clinics for patients in California, Arizona, and New York. It plans on opening more clinics in the near future, though co-founder and CEO Carolyn Witte says the company has had to scale back expansion plans due to economic concerns.


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Announcements and Implementations

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Advanced Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute (NJ) signs on with Health Plus Management, a practice management company specializing in orthopedic, physical therapy, and physical medicine and rehabilitation practices.

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Elizabeth Layton Center (KS) selects Credible behavioral health EHR software from Qualifacts.

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Access Family Care, an FQHC with several locations in Missouri, selects EClinicalWorks.


Research and Innovation

Patients prefer text messaging to phone calls when it comes to communicating with providers, according to a patient perspectives survey of 1,200 people. The survey also found that patients will give their physicians just two chances before looking elsewhere for care, and that 75% of patients research potential providers online before booking appointments.


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Northeast Surgical Group (MI) notifies patients of a January data breach involving “suspicious activity within its network environment.” NSG maintains that it has not found any evidence to suggest patient data was misused by the hackers. DataBreaches.net, however, has determined that the BianLian ransomware group has put NSG files on the dark web.


Sponsor Updates

  • AdvancedMD publishes a new e-book, “2023 MIPS Attestation Guide.”
  • Nordic releases a new podcast, “Making Rounds: The Big Squeeze in Healthcare.”
  • AdvancedMD publishes a new e-guide, “2023 CPT/HCPCS Codebook.”

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