1) RE: EMR down & good staff collaboration. I believe it. Having worked at a now defunct EMR for 15+…
News 1/11/23
Top News
Capacity management and patient flow software vendor LeanTaaS acquires Hospital IQ, which offers hospital automation solutions.
Webinars
January 19 (Thursday) 2 ET. “Supercharge Your Clinical Data Searches.” Sponsor: Particle Health. Presenter: Paul Robbins, MSMBA, VP of product, Particle. Particle’s team will preview the exciting results of Specialty Search, a new condition-specific record locator service. This webinar will review how to collect patient records from top Centers of Excellence across the entire country; how healthcare organizations of all types are benefiting from Specialty Search capabilities, using Particle’s simple API; and why a focused search of chronic condition data — in oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, orthopedics, and more — has an outsized impact on care outcomes.
Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present your own.
Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
Kaufman Hall will acquire six-employee advisory firm and media publisher Gist Healthcare.
Behavioral health clinical database company Holmusk raises $45 million in a Series B funding round led by Veradigm, which will incorporate segments of its behavioral health and related de-identified patient data into Holmusk’s NeuroBlu Database.
CVS Health is reportedly interested in acquiring senior-focused primary care provider Oak Street Health in a deal that could be worth $10 billion. The retail pharmacy chain is in the midst of an $8 billion acquisition of home healthcare company Signify Health. Chicago-based Oak Street, which went public in 2020, operates 170 clinics across the country.
Tech-enabled kidney care company Monogram Health raises $375 million, bringing its total to $547 million.
Carbon Health announces a $100 million investment from CVS Health Ventures less than a week after announcing layoffs and the shuttering of several business lines. CVS will pilot the primary and urgent care company’s operating model and software within several of its CVS Health locations.
Wolters Kluwer Health acquires nursing education and training company NurseTim.
National telemedicine provider Avel ECare acquires after-hours remote pharmacy service NightWatch. Avel ECare got its start at South Dakota health system Avera Health before it was sold to private equity buyers and renamed in 2021.
Microsoft is in talks to invest $10 billion in ChatGPT owner OpenAI at a valuation of $29 billion
Sales
- Connecticut Children’s Care Network will offer nursing mothers Nest Collaborative’s virtual lactation consultation service.
- The VA will integrate Renalytix’s KidneyIntelX kidney disease assessment and management software with its EHR.
- Bon Secours Mercy Health (OH), Adventist Health (CA), Northside Hospital (GA), Duly Health and Care (IL), and Onsite Women’s Health (TN) select Volpara Health’s breast cancer screening and detection software.
- Meditech UK will use CloudWave’s OpSus Cloud Services to power its Expanse EPR at East Cheshire NHS Trust and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
People
Retired Army Colonel Bobby Saxon, MS (CMS) joins Leidos as a VP focused on customer advocacy.
Curve Health names Matthew Michela, MBA (Life Image) CEO.
R1 RCM promotes Kyle Hicok, MBA to chief commercial officer.
Nordic Consulting promotes Terri LeFort, RN, MBA to president of Nordic International and hires Kieran Hughes (Tegria) as president of its markets in Europe and the Middle East and Thomas O’Shaughnessy, MSc (Deloitte) as president of its Canada-based subsidiary Healthtech.
Ventra Health hires Steven Huddleston (Pelitas) as CEO.
Consulting firm Brightwork Health IT hires Eliza Corrigan (Tasman Global) as chief sales officer.
Divurgent promotes Hannah Ellerbee, MBA to chief customer officer.
Colin Ashby (Talkdesk) joins Healthmap Solutions as VP of sales for healthcare systems.
Announcements and Implementations
Ardent Health Services (TN) will implement remote patient monitoring and virtual care services from Cadence as part of its remote care programs for patients with chronic conditions.
In Canada, 23 hospitals form a shared services IT organization as they implement a shared instance of Meditech Expanse.
Other
The Bermuda Hospitals Board provides a breakdown of costs and timelines associated with the rollout of its Oracle Cerner-based PEARL system, noting that its staff had to work through several COVID waves and a hurricane as its October 29 go-live approached. The board saved $1.3 million by hosting planning meetings remotely, though it spent $1.7 million to feed and house 160 extra support staff at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club. The net cost of the project is expected to be $30 million paid over 10 years.
The Better Business Bureau alerts consumers to the shady business practices of North Texas-based telemedicine company Doctor Alexa. The bureau revoked the company’s accreditation last June after it failed to address 24 of the 46 consumer complaints filed on the BBB’s website. Complaints related to paying for services never rendered, chronic lack of communication, and failure to send prescriptions to pharmacies after virtual consults. The BBB received over 300 complaints related to telemedicine between 2019 and 2021.
Sponsor Updates
- AdvancedMD announces that it has been awarded 21st Century Cures Act Certification from ONC.
- Baker Tilly releases a new BuzzHouse Podcast, “Fostering healthcare and housing through relationships as a community investment.”
- ChartSpan welcomes Lauren Wyatt (Change Healthcare) as client success director and Shelby Statom (Everly Health) as implementation project manager.
- Netsmart’s MyUnity earns ONC’s Cures Update certification, the first post-acute EHR to do so.
- CHIME releases a new Leader2Leader Podcast featuring Symplr Chief Product Officer Brian Fugere.
- Diameter Health again achieves the Certified Partner designation in NCQA’s Data Aggregator Validation program.
Blog Posts
- What does Experity do? (Experity)
- Improving Business Development at Your Medical Practice (AdvancedMD)
- The Role of RCM in Health Equity (AGS Health)
- CMS National Healthcare Directory RFI Blog Series: Provider Response (CareMesh)
- The Secret to One Hospital’s $115k Savings in EHR Build Costs (CereCore)
- Content Roundup: Top 5 Blog Posts of 2022 (Optimum Healthcare IT)
- Talking Cyber Resilience and Business Risk to Your Board and Executives (Clearwater)
- 3 Tips for Optimizing Your Cloud Costs (CTG)
- The Right Analytics Solution Involves More Than Data Alone (Dimensional Insight)
- A Renewed Focus on Employee Engagement (Direct Recruiters)
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“I will repeat my skepticism expressed years ago about this concept – it might make sense for women, but behavior change will be required to get men to sit instead of stand.”
Behavior change: as in clean the bathroom ??
“In another CES-announced rush to quantified-self the toilet, Casana displays its Heart Seat.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_unexamined_life_is_not_worth_living
“I will repeat my skepticism expressed years ago about this concept – it might make sense for women, but behavior change will be required to get men to sit instead of stand.”
Behavior change may arrive in the Morse Code years. Who can maintain accuracy for that time duration?
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668737611/tv-producer-chuck-lorre-gets-personal-in-the-kominsky-method
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, “THE KOMINSKY METHOD”)
MICHAEL DOUGLAS: (As Sandy Kominsky) How’s it going in there?
ALAN ARKIN: (As Norman) Why, you got somewhere to be?
DOUGLAS: (As Sandy Kominsky) No, you’ve been there a while.
ARKIN: (As Norman) What can I tell you? I urinate in Morse code – dots and dashes.
“Epic can broadly hint to customers that they would be displeased to see free movement of Epic-certified people from one site to another”
HAHA
More like Epic will tell company #2 that they can’t do business with you because company #1 doesn’t want you to leave and they want to make it more difficult and/or punish you for leaving. The result is Epic ticking the box in their system to blackball for 3-4-6 months. I saw it happen to the first 6-7 people that tried to leave an old org. Me too. “Epic has told us we can’t do business with you because your previous place does not want you to leave and we have to stay on their good side so you no longer work for us” once the name is submitted to Epic for access to the new system. The good ole boy network and mafia blush.
In reply to EpicBlackball.
Pretty messed up that the DOJ has a web page about no-poach agreements, and a PDF for HR professionals clearly explaining that no-poach agreements are illegal and will be prosecuted criminally. And yet no one cares, because no employer (or wronged employee) actually believes the DOJ will lift a finger to enforce the law in favor of worker rights. And even if the DOJ does take action, does anyone expect anything more than a relatively modest fine? At the current rate seems like the DOJ is going after only a small handful of companies every decade or so. Not very effective enforcement at all.
https://www.justice.gov/atr/division-operations/division-update-spring-2019/no-poach-approach
‘User’ -> ‘Client’
This hurts ease of understanding in context of computing where client already has an additional meaning – a description about a computer’s role in computer-to-computer communication.
You end up with things like this:
The client client reported that the client’s client is showing an error. The client was replaced but the client still reported an error. Client was shadowed and the error only happened with that specific client. The client record was updated and end-client training was recommended.
Stanford’s list hurts ease in understanding everything, not just in the context of computing. But….systemic oppression or something…?
Workers definitely shouldn’t rely on the DOJ to protect them, but there are plenty of employment lawyers who may be willing to help if new regulations are implemented related to non-compete or no-poach agreements. However, if the winds blow in another direction and Lina Khan is out at the FTC or Ron DeSantis is our next president, the DOJ won’t care so much about this.