Speaking in One Voice to Advance Space Acquisition
Space acquisition is hard, and many challenges remain today for development of true unity of effort. But a new“clean sheet” is not the answer. Such an approach simply cannot take the place of doing the hard work required to realize enduring change. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 6, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Stephanie Young Source Type: blogs

Orbita Acquires Wellbe Assets
Combined Offering Creates a Seamless Digital Pathway for Patient Care Orbita, the leading provider of smart virtual assistants and workflow automation for healthcare, has acquired the assets of Wellbe, a digital health company providing patient navigation for specialty care. The acquisition, which includes Wellbe’s software, customers and select staff, was finalized on August 16th, 2023. “This agreement exemplifies how 1+1 can equal 3,” said Patty Riskind, CEO at Orbita. “The combination of our expertise, teams, and technologies creates a seamless digital pathway for care – from streamlining patient access to fa...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ben Schilens Bill Rogers Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A James Dias James Donato Mark Cline Orbita Patty Riskind Wellbe Source Type: blogs

Experity Acquires OnePACS, the Leader in Teleradiology PACS
Acquisition Further Strengthens Experity’s Position as the Leading Urgent Care Teleradiology Provider Experity, the national leader in on-demand healthcare solutions, has acquired OnePACS, a SaaS PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) platform purpose-built for teleradiology. OnePACS is the only PACS platform to offer a fully location-agnostic, distributed multi-user, cloud-based PACS with a cloud-based modality worklist and its own automated structured reporting solution with both native OnePACS and third-party voice recognition integration. With the addition of OnePACS, the leading teleradiology PACS platfo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Dr. David Stern Experity Experity Teleradiology Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A OnePACS Radiology Tech Teleradiology PACS Thomas Bryce MD PhD Source Type: blogs

Thoma Bravo and Madison Dearborn Partners Sell Syntellis Performance Solutions to Roper Technologies
Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) and Thoma Bravo today announced that they have completed the sale of Syntellis Performance Solutions (Syntellis), a leading provider of enterprise performance management (EPM) software, data, and intelligence solutions, to Roper Technologies, Inc. (Roper) in an all-cash transaction for an enterprise value of $1.4 billion. Syntellis will be combined with Roper’s Strata Decision Technology business. Syntellis became an independent company with the investment support of Thoma Bravo and MDP when it was separated from Kaufman Hall in August 2020. Over the past three years, MDP and Thoma Bravo ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT A.J. Rohde Flint Brenton Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Jason Shideler Kirkland & Ellis LLP Madison Dearborn Partners MDP Roper Roper Technologies Strata Decision Technology Syntellis Synt Source Type: blogs

Waystar Acquires HealthPay24, Accelerating Mission to Simplify Healthcare Payments
Expands Impact of Waystar’s Industry-Leading Technology to More than 2,000 Provider Locations and Millions of New Patients Waystar, a leading provider of healthcare payments technology, today announced that it has acquired HealthPay24, an EngageSmart solution and a premier enterprise patient payment platform. In acquiring HealthPay24, Waystar welcomes a complementary and highly regarded patient financial engagement solution to its already award-winning payments platform, augmenting Waystar’s industry leadership in healthcare software, and furthering Waystar’s mission to simplify healthcare payments for providers a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bob Bennett EngageSmart eSolutions Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A HealthPay24 Matt Hawkins Patientco Recondo Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Waystar Source Type: blogs

Towards the Regrowth of Lost Sensory Hair Cells in the Inner Ear
Age-related deafness arises from some combination of (a) the loss of sensory hair cells in the inner ear, and (b) the loss of connections between those cells and the brain. There is some disagreement in the literature as to which of these mechanisms is the most relevant, but most recent efforts in the field are focused on trying to coerce the body into producing new hair cells. If that production of new hair cells in the inner ear follows the normal developmental processes, then it might solve both of the above mentioned issues, providing both cells and connections to the brain. Today's research materials illustrate...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 23, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Marathon Health Acquires Cerner Workforce Health Solutions Clinics
Acquisition will Bring Marathon Health’s Unique Population Health Model to More Employers and Members Marathon Health, a leading provider of direct primary care for employers, today announced the acquisition of Cerner Workforce Health Solutions (WHS), a group of dedicated onsite and near-site health clinics. The acquisition will expand Marathon’s footprint, accelerating the reach of its unique population health model to more employers, locations, and members. The transaction closed on August 1, 2023. “Marathon Health is singularly dedicated to helping employers control healthcare costs by transforming healthcare deli...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ben Evans Cerner Cerner WHS Cerner Workforce Health Solutions Dr. Jeff Wells Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Marathon Health Stacie Clum Source Type: blogs

CareDx Acquires MediGO, an Organ Transplant Supply Chain and Logistics Company
MediGO Platform Aims to Improve Access to Donated Organs and Shorten Transplant Wait Times Acquisition Expands CareDx Digital Health Portfolio and Establishes Footprint in OPO Market CareDx, Inc., a leading precision medicine company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high-value healthcare solutions for transplant patients and caregivers — today announced the acquisition of MediGO, Inc. in a strategic move to expand its digital health portfolio to serve the organ procurement organization (OPO) market while also bolstering its pre-transplant offerings aimed at shorte...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT CareDx CareDx Inc. Dr. Joseph Scalea Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Medical University of South Carolina MediGO MediGO Inc. OPO Organ Transplant Reg Seeto Scott Plank Source Type: blogs

Ventra Health Expands Services Through ArcMed Acquisition
Transforming Service Delivery to Enable Further Investments in Client Engagement Ventra Health, the leading business solutions provider for hospital-based clinicians, announced today the acquisition of ArcMed, an India-based billing and automation services organization. This acquisition will strengthen Ventra Health’s service performance and quality, optimize operational efficiencies, and provide added scale for automation and growth. “Based on client feedback, we are transforming our client success and service delivery approach and moving several non-client-facing functions to a more cost-effective model,” said Vent...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ArcMed Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Maya Mohan Steven Huddleston Ventra Health Source Type: blogs

TPG to Acquire Leading Specialty Healthcare IT Platform Nextech
TPG, a global alternative asset management firm, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nextech, a leading provider of clinical and administrative healthcare technology solutions for specialty physician practices, from Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL) for $1.4 billion. TPG is investing in Nextech through TPG Capital, its U.S. and European late-stage private equity platform. “Nextech’s goal is to simplify the healthcare experience so physicians can focus on what matters most: their patients,” said Bill Lucchini, CEO at Nextech. “In TPG, we have found a partner who supports our mission to si...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Art Heidrich Bill Lucchini ClaimsXten Ganesh Rao Guggenheim Securities LLC Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A IQVIA Katherine Wood Kirkland & Ellis Lyric Mark Bean Nextech Raymond Source Type: blogs

Kaiser-Geisinger vs. Amazon, Walmart, CVS: Who will reign supreme?
For decades, research studies and news stories have concluded the American system is ineffective, too expensive and falling further behind its international peers in important measures of performance: life expectancy, chronic-disease management and incidence of medical error. As patients and health care professionals search for viable alternatives to the status quo, a recent mega-merger is Read more… Kaiser-Geisinger vs. Amazon, Walmart, CVS: Who will reign supreme? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

NeuroFlow Acquires Parent Company of BHL and BHL Touch to Expand and Support the Delivery of Integrated Behavioral Health Throughout the VA and Other Healthcare Partners
The Virginia-Based Technology Firm, Capital Solution Design, Owner of Behavioral Health Lab (BHL) and BHL Touch, Works with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs among other Leading Healthcare Organizations to Improve Access to Behavioral Healthcare NeuroFlow, the leading provider of behavioral health technology infrastructure, today announced that it has acquired Capital Solution Design (CSD), the parent company of Behavioral Health Lab (BHL) and BHL Touch, a leading provider of measurement-based care solutions for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other healthcare organizations. The acquisition makes CS...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Behavioral Health Lab BHL BHL Touch Capital Solution Design Cerner Chris Molaro CSD Dr. Dave Oslin Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A John Boles Kent Reynolds MIRECC NeuroFlow U.S. Departm Source Type: blogs

Phreesia Acquires MediFind, Reinforcing its Commitment to Patient-Centered Care and Expanding its Offerings to Consumers
Phreesia, a leader in patient intake, outreach, and activation, is pleased to announce it has acquired Comsort, Inc. d/b/a MediFind (MediFind), a health technology company that uses advanced analytics to help patients—especially those with serious, chronic, and rare diseases—find better care faster. MediFind uses machine learning and proprietary algorithms to continuously review medical information across a wide range of datasets, identifying leading doctors in specific conditions and fields based on factors such as their research output, the volume of patients, and standing among their peers. MediFind assigns four lev...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Chronic Care Comsort Inc. David Linetsky Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A MediFind Patrick Howie Phreesia Rare Diseases Rob Weker Source Type: blogs

How Automated Lineage Improves Healthcare Data
The following is a guest article by Ernie Ostic, Chief Evangelist at Manta The healthcare industry creates a vast amount of data each year — roughly 30% of worldwide data — the bulk of which must conform with regulatory standards. That data lives in a complex and evolving ecosystem, integrated with multiple applications and infrastructures, creating countless dependencies. Between the volume of data and the web of interconnected systems, those dependencies remain hidden from most users in a “black box” of sorts. Without insight into the inner workings of their own flow of information, most healthcare organizations...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability CHRISTUS CHRISTUS Health Data Breaches Data Lineage Ernie Ostic Healthcare Automation Healthcare Data HIPAA Lineage in Health Source Type: blogs

CloudMD Divests Non-Core U.S. Electronic Medical Records and Practice Management Business
CloudMD Software & Services Inc. (CloudMD), an innovative health services company transforming the delivery of care, today announced that it has closed the sale of its U.S.-based Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management (PM), and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) assets for approximately US$6.3 million. The sale was pursuant to a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of N. Harris Computer Corporation (Harris) and follows the sale of CloudMD’s Canadian EMR business in October 2022. Karen Adams, CEO at CloudMD, commented, “We continue to successfully execute our strategy of focusing on our higher growth an...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP CloudMD CloudMD Software & Services Inc. EMR Harris Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A INFOR Financial Inc. Karen Adams N. Harris Computer Corporation Source Type: blogs