Health IT Business News – February 3, 2022

Trending News

Windows Server 2022 Is Now Available on the Atlantic.Net Cloud Platform (ACP)
Atlantic.Net (@atlanticnet) now supports Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Edition with Desktop Experience installed on its Cloud Platform.

CareCloud Extends the Power of its Business Intelligence Platform to Independent Practice Market Segment
CareCloud, Inc. (@CareCloud), a leader in healthcare technology solutions for medical practices and health systems nationwide, announced the launch of its abridged business intelligence platform, PrecisionBI Lite (PBI Lite), to expand the company’s addressable market and extend powerful, financial analytics and business insights to small, independent practices.

MRO named a winner of the Top Workplaces 2022 Award in USA
MRO (@MROCorp), a clinical data workflow platform and the KLAS-rated No. 1 provider of release of information (ROI) solutions, announced that it has been awarded a Top Workplaces USA 2022 honor. The list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage, LLC. The anonymous survey uniquely measures 15 drivers of engaged cultures, which are critical to the success of any organization—including alignment, execution and connection.

Introducing SameSky Health: A cultural experience company that removes barriers to care
SameSky Health Inc. (@sameskyhealth), formerly known as ConsejoSano, Inc., announced its new brand, which reflects its mission to create cultural connections for a healthier, more equitable world. The meaning behind the new name represents the idea that we all live under the same sky — that we’re in this together. As a result, we all deserve equitable access to healthcare, and the opportunity to enjoy the best possible health and wellness.

KLAS Spotlight Report Finds 100% of Carium Clients Interviewed Would Choose the Virtual Care Platform Again
In a newly published KLAS® Research Emerging Technology Spotlight Report, 100% of Carium (@cariumcares) clients interviewed said they would buy the virtual care platform again. Eighty-three percent of the individuals surveyed rated their customer experience as “high satisfaction” and 17% indicated “satisfaction.” No customers indicated dissatisfaction.

Financial News

Reimagine Care Secures $25 Million in Series A Funding to Drive Commercialization of Home-Centered, Value-Based Cancer Care
Reimagine Care, a provider of technology-enabled services that supports oncologists in delivering high-quality, home-centered, value-based cancer care, announced it has completed a $25 million capital raise led by Santé Ventures, Martin Ventures, and LRVHealth. The funding will be leveraged to further develop and commercialize the company’s first-of-its kind technology-enabled services platform, launch the virtual care center, and expand the patient care team.

ZeOmega Reports Sizable Growth in 2021, Key Partnerships and Executive Hires Highlight Strong Momentum Amid Pandemic
ZeOmega® (@zeomega), a population health management organization, announced that 2021 represented a record year for the company, with unprecedented growth from new and existing clients, who provide coverage to over 38 million people. ZeOmega also introduced numerous innovative updates to its sophisticated population health analytics offerings, including launching its all-encompassing ZeOmega Health Cloud and adding several strategic new leaders to help meet and exceed business and market needs.

Glooko Acquires Germany-Based xbird, a Medical AI Company
Glooko, Inc., a provider of remote patient monitoring and digital health solutions for diabetes and other chronic conditions announced it has acquired xbird, a Berlin-based health AI company developing JITAI (Just In Time Adaptive Intervention) technologies to support patients and their providers in predicting behavior and managing diabetes.

Vynca Secures $30 Million in Funding to Expand Integrated Palliative Care Platform
Vynca (@vyncahealth), a technology-enabled provider of holistic care for those with serious illnesses, raised $30 million in growth capital. The investment was led by Questa Capital with participation from existing investors including Generator Ventures, First Trust, 4100 Group and OCA Ventures.

Rimidi Achieves 72% Revenue Growth, Grows Client Base by 141% in 2021
Rimidi (@Jointherimidi), a clinical management platform designed to optimize clinical workflows, enhance patient experiences and achieve quality objectives, announced that the company increased its revenue by 72% and grew its client base by triple digits in 2021.

PointClickCare Technologies Announces Intent to Acquire Audacious Inquiry
PointClickCare Technologies (@pointclickcare), a healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real-time insights, announced its intent to acquire Audacious Inquiry, an industry-shaping connected care platform.

InsightRX Reports Record Growth In Platform Adoption By Health Systems And Biopharma Companies
InsightRX (@insightrx), a healthcare technology company that provides precision dosing intelligence from clinical development to the point of care, announced a year of record growth in clinician users, active hospitals, treatment courses, and clinical trial deployments.

SyTrue Seizes Health Payer Market Share with Suite of NLP-Based Solutions
SyTrue, a company modernizing payer workflows to reduce costs and increase efficiencies, has capped off a year of tremendous growth in the company’s client base, number of employees and transaction volume.

Neura Health Raises $2.2M to Improve Access and Quality of Care for Neurologic Conditions
New help is on the way for the more than 100 million Americans who suffer from a neurological disorder. Neura Health (@neurahealthco), which was built to close the massive access and quality gap in neurological care, announced it has closed a $2.2 million seed funding round.

Collaboration News

DeliverHealth Brings the Future of Consumer-Centered, Digital Care into Focus with Addition of Award-Winning Patient Engagement Suite
DeliverHealth (@deliverhs), a provider of technology-enabled solutions for hospitals, health systems and group practices, announced it has expanded its proven portfolio that simplifies the complexities of healthcare by integrating Gemini, a mobile-first patient engagement application developed by DuetHealth, to conveniently connect patients to their health system’s digital front door.

Azalea Health Partners with MD Revolution to Empower Healthcare Providers with Integrated Remote Care Management Programs
Azalea Health Innovations Inc. (@AzaleaHealth), a provider of cloud-based patient management and health IT solutions, announced their integration with RevUp by MD Revolution, a provider of full-suite Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) solutions.

Mathematica and HHS Technology Group to Deliver Claims and Clinical Data Analytics Platform
HHS Technology Group, LLC™ (@hhstechgroup) announced that it is collaborating with Mathematica, a market leader and insight partner in health care analytics and services, to deliver an all-payer claims and clinical data analytics platform to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

AdhereHealth and Levrx Technology Announce Strategic Partnership to Improve Medication Optimization and Reduce Pharmacy Costs
AdhereHealth (@AdhereHealth), a healthcare technology company in medication adherence insights and health outcomes, announced a new integration partnership with Levrx Technology Inc, a digital health technology company that drives prescription efficiencies and maximizes savings. Their combined solution enables health plans and self-insured employers to realize immediate pharmacy cost savings and near-term medical cost reductions by integrating Levrx’s plan-specific and real-time prescription insights into the Adhere Platform’s Medication Optimization solution.

AI Automates Data Migration Between Incompatible Healthcare Systems
Clinicians rely on accurate information in electronic health record (EHR) systems so that medication, allergy, and immunization data can trigger automatic safety alerts during prescribing and transitions of patient care. But that data can be compromised when moving it from one system to another because of varying terminology, disparities in formulary service vendors, imperfect interoperability standards, and inconsistent use of national drug codes. Now, a new partnership by InfoWerks Data Services, a provider of healthcare data services, and health technology pioneer DrFirst (@DrFirst) is using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to automate the process of sharing structured data between different systems.

Butterfly Network Announces Partnership with Ambra Health to Enhance Ultrasound Data Integration
Butterfly Network, Inc. (@ButterflyNetInc), a digital health company transforming care with handheld, whole-body ultrasound, and Ambra Health (@ambrahealth), an Intelerad Company, and maker of a cloud-based, medical image management suite, announced a partnership to accelerate and simplify interoperability for bedside imaging data.

Product News

Vibrent Health Powers NIH Precision Nutrition Research Project to Accelerate Discoveries in Food and Dietary Patterns
Vibrent Health (@VibrentHealth), a health technology startup powering the future of precision health research, announced that the company’s Digital Health Solutions Platform (DHS Platform) will support the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund’s Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program (NPH). The NPH will explore the dietary health of All of Us participants to inform the development of evidence-based, personalized nutrition recommendations. The NIH is awarding $170 million over five years, pending the availability of funds, to clinics and centers across the country to conduct the study.

Force Therapeutics Achieves Record Growth in Case Volume and Provider Utilization in 2021
Force Therapeutics (@FORCETherEx), a patient engagement platform and research network, announced record growth in the number of patients and providers using its episode of care management platform.

Biotricity receives FDA 510(k) clearance for its Biotres Cardiac Monitoring Device
Biotricity Inc. (@biotricity_inc), a medical diagnostic and consumer healthcare technology company, reported it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Biotres Cardiac Monitoring Device, a three lead device for ECG and arrhythmia monitoring that is intended for lower risk patients.

DxCG Intelligence Celebrates 25th Anniversary, Launches Version 6.0 with Enhanced Clinical and Pharmaceutical Classification Systems
Cotiviti (@Cotiviti) is celebrating the 25th anniversary of DxCG Intelligence, the healthcare industry standard in risk assessment and predictive modeling, by introducing major enhancements to enable healthcare organizations to more accurately measure risk and improve care for their populations. Containing enhanced clinical and pharmaceutical classification systems including an expanded set of Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs), DxCG Intelligence v6.0 expands social determinants of health (SDoH) classifications to identify health plan members experiencing socioeconomic and psychosocial difficulties such as homelessness, poverty, and abuse. The latest release also features newly recalibrated models based on the latest benchmark data for commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid populations.

In KLAS report, DeliverHealth’s patient engagement solution earns top satisfaction scores as providers seek to deliver an effective digital front door
DeliverHealth (@deliverhs), a global provider of technology-enabled solutions for hospitals, health systems and group practices, announced that its mobile-first patient engagement software has earned top customer satisfaction scores in a KLAS Emerging Technology Spotlight report.

Product Certification News

Vim Achieves HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification to Further Validate Compliance and Security in Point-of-Care Integration Platform
Vim (@getvim), a technology company building digital infrastructure for U.S. healthcare, has earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST. HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certified status demonstrates that key implemented systems within the organization are HITRUST certified and are appropriately managing risk.

Contract News

Firstsource Named Leader in Payer Digital Transformation Services and Rising Star in Payer BPaaS Services in ISG Provider Lens™ 2021
Firstsource Solutions Limited (@firstsource), a global provider of Business Process Management (BPM) services and an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, has been named a Leader in the Payer Digital Transformation Services category and a Rising Star in the Payer Business-Processes-as-a-Service (BPaaS) Services category by leading global technology research and advisory firm Information Services Group (ISG) in their quadrant report on Healthcare Digital Services – ISG Provider Lens™.

Value Specialty Pharmacy Selects The Inovalon ONE® Platform’s Leading SaaS Capabilities
Inovalon (@InovalonInc), a provider of cloud-based platforms empowering data-driven healthcare, announced a multi-year agreement with Value Specialty Pharmacy, an innovative leader in the pharmaceutical industry, providing a continuum of care and specialty medications across 50 states for thousands of patients. This engagement will provide cloud-based capabilities delivered through the Inovalon ONE® Platform and will support Value Specialty’s data-driven strategy to improve clinical and quality outcomes and economics for its patients.

Force Therapeutics Reduces 90-Day Readmissions for Total Joint Arthroplasty Patients
Force Therapeutics (@ForceTherEx) announced that its episode-based digital care management platform helped Community Hospital of The Monterey Peninsula, an acute care hospital in California, significantly reduce readmissions following total joint arthroplasty (TJA) procedures.

Making the Cut, Milestones, Accolades, Awards and More

DeliverHealth Earns High Ranking in KLAS Report Measuring EHR Go-Live Customer Satisfaction, Improvement
DeliverHealth (@deliverhs), a global provider of technology-enabled solutions for hospitals, health systems and group practices, announced that it is rated as a top performer in a new KLAS report on EHR “Go-Live Support,” with solution value, quality of staff, execution, and overall satisfaction earning some of its highest customer scores.