Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – April 14, 2022

Trending News

Health Catalyst, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Team Up to Achieve Sustainable Clinical Improvements
Health Catalyst, Inc. (@HealthCatalyst), a provider of data and analytics technology and services to health care organizations, announced an expansive, multi-year strategic partnership with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH), a private, not-for-profit community healthcare system serving a 17-county region in North Florida and South Georgia.

The Academy and Cedar Partner to Launch The Academy-Cedar Consumer Co-Lab
As health systems work toward a consumer-oriented healthcare experience that patients value, The Health Management Academy (The Academy) has partnered with Cedar (@CedarNY) to launch The Academy-Cedar Consumer Co-Lab.

Sphere’s Integration with Epic MyChart Now Supports Google Pay™ and Apple Pay®
Sphere (@SphereCommerce), a provider of end-to-end integrated healthcare payments and security software, announced that its TrustCommerce platform supports Google Pay™ and Apple Pay® within its Epic MyChart integration.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Clinigence Holdings and Nutex Health Announce Completion of Merger and Listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market
Clinigence Holdings, Inc., a primary care-centric, technology-enabled, risk-bearing population health management company, and Nutex Health Holdco LLC, together with its affiliates comprising one of the largest independent operators of micro hospitals and hospital outpatient departments in the United States, announced the successful completion of their business combination.

Contract Announcements

Cognosante Teams with Consensus Cloud Solutions to Provide Leading Cloud Fax Technology to Department of Veterans Affairs’ Digital Communications Program
Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. (@consensuscs) announced it will provide its Cloud Fax Technology as a subcontractor to Cognosante, a mission-driven technology company, to deliver the Enterprise Cloud Fax (ECFax) Platform to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. began as a secure digital document transmission solution 25 years ago and has grown to be a global leader of digital cloud fax technology.

Banner-University Medicine Transplant Institute Chooses eHealth Technologies to Streamline Patient Intake
eHealth Technologies’ (@eHealthTec) poster presentation will examine the implementation and the gains achieved at the Banner-University Medicine Transplant Institute in Phoenix and Tucson.

eVisit Selected for AWS Health Equity Program to Bring Telehealth to the Underserved
eVisit (@evisit), an enterprise care delivery platform built for modern health systems and hospitals, announced that it has been selected to receive cloud computing credits through a global program from Amazon Web Services (AWS), supporting organizations that are developing solutions to advance health equity.

Blessing Health System Partners with Biofourmis to Launch Home Hospital Services
Biofourmis (@biofourmis), a Boston-based global virtual care and digital therapeutics company, announced that it was selected by Blessing Health System in Quincy, Ill., as the technology solutions partner for its newest program, which delivers acute-level hospital care inside patients’ homes.

Qure4u announces key partnership with Wayne Health to provide innovative digital health solutions
Qure4u (@Qure4u), the industry leader in digital health solutions, is proud to announce a new partnership with Wayne Health to create innovative population health services for patients throughout southeastern Michigan.

DrFirst Medication Management Solution Now Available in Allscripts App Expo
MedHx from DrFirst (@DrFirst) is now available on the Allscripts App Expo. MedHx enables users of Allscripts Sunrise™ EHR access to complete, clean, and consumable medication history data in the EHR workflow. This supports accurate medication reconciliation and informs clinical decision-making to prevent adverse drug events and reduce readmissions.

SCL Health Selects S3 Consulting to Modernize Identity Governance
Strategic Security Solutions (S3), a provider of information security consulting services for identity and access management (IAM), governance, risk and compliance, and SAP Security, announced its successful partnership with SCL Health, to strengthen company-wide identity management. SCL Health is a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization dedicated to improving people’s health to offer guidance and support in identity and access management.

Rady Children’s Selects Luna to Broaden its Outpatient Physical Therapy Services with Home-Based Care
Luna (@getlunacare), a provider of on-demand physical therapy, and Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego announced a partnership through which Luna will provide home-based outpatient physical therapy to Rady Children’s patients, greatly expanding patient access and ensuring continuity of care.

Epic Selects Lyniate for Integration within the Epic Garden Plot Offering
Epic has selected Lyniate (@lyniate), a global leader in healthcare data interoperability, for health data integration requirements within Garden Plot, Epic’s new hosted and supported Software as a Service (SaaS) model for independent medical groups. This SaaS solution further underlines the company’s commitment to support providers and their patients.

Sensely Announces Partnership with Keralty S.A.S.
Sensely (@Sense_ly) announced a multi-year partnership with Keralty S.A.S, a multinational health organization, and its American affiliate Sanitas USA, Inc. In the United States, Sanitas plans to integrate white-labeled Sensely technology into its patient facing mySanitas app, a full-featured integrated solution that modernizes the patient experience by offering one-tap or one-click access to complete care, disease and wellness programs, real-time and virtual assistance, access to patient’s medical history, records, and health and social services resources.

WoW Health Solutions, a direct pay healthcare marketplace, launches AristaMD’s eConsult services, expands specialty medicine access in Pakistan
WoW Health Solutions, a U.S.-based international healthcare company, and AristaMD (@Arista_MD), a digital health company, announced the availability of electronic physician-to-physician consultations in Pakistan.

Funding

NCPDP Foundation Announces FDB as its Inaugural Patient Safety Founders Gift Donor to Advance Research Priorities
The NCPDP Foundation announced FDB (@FDB_US) as its inaugural Patient Safety Founders Gift Donor. FDB’s donation of $100,000 will support future research projects over the next two years that demonstrate and measure one or more existing or future NCPDP standards that align with the Foundation’s strategic initiative to enhance patient safety.

IntelyCare Secures $115 Million Series C Financing Led by Janus Henderson Investors
IntelyCare (@intelycare), a tech-enabled nurse staffing platform for healthcare organizations in the United States, announced it has secured $115 million in a Series C financing round led by Janus Henderson Investors, a global investment firm and asset manager.

Clarify Health Closes $150M Series D Funding to Unlock the Promise of Value-Based Care with End-to-End Intelligence on Every Patient Journey
Clarify Health (@ClarifyHealth), a cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, announced that it secured $150 million in Series D financing.

Healthtech Leader Eon Announces $16MM Growth Equity Investment Led by Integrity Growth Partners
Eon (@eonhealth), a provider of incidental findings and screening patient management software, announced that it received a significant minority equity investment led by Integrity Growth Partners (“IGP”). The investment marks the first time Eon has raised an institutional round of outside capital; Eon will remain independent and founder-led.

Diligent Robotics Raises Over $30 Million in Series B Funding Round to Deploy Collaborative Robots to Healthcare Systems Across the Nation
Austin-based robotic automation company, Diligent Robotics, announced that it has closed over $30 million in Series B funding, bringing the total investment raised to date to nearly $50 million. Diligent Robotics develops socially-intelligent service robots and artificial intelligence solutions that enable robots to collaborate within and adapt to human environments.