Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – April 28, 2022

Trending News

CareCloud to Announce First Quarter 2022 Results
CareCloud, Inc. (@CareCloud), a company in healthcare technology solutions for medical practices and health systems nationwide, will release its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022 before the market opens on Monday, May 9, 2022.

Chi St. Vincent Selects Mobilesmith Health For Perioperative Improvement Initiative
CHI St. Vincent Infirmary announced that it is partnering with MobileSmith Health (@TheMobileSmith), a comapny in the digital health and mobile development sector that is changing traditional healthcare patient engagement and adherence management. The initiative will focus on improving practice-to-center surgical patient management while increasing patient adherence to pre-and post-surgical instructions across multiple specialty groups within the health system. CHI St. Vincent’s implementation of MobileSmith Health’s PeriOp patient adherence management solution is also designed to relieve several levels of staff burden in pre-op patient assessment, information gathering, confirmations, and post-op patient management.

Contract Announcements

Equality Health Selected for CMS Direct Contracting Payment Model Program
Equality Health (@equalityhealth), a provider of value-based physician networks uniquely equipped to address the needs of diverse and historically underserved populations, announced that it has been accepted as a Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) in Arizona, under the name “Equality Health Direct.”

Yosi Health Patient Intake Solution Demonstrates Successful Results with Cerner Users
Yosi Health (@YosiHealth), a provider of digital patient scheduling, registration, payment, and communication cloud-based software solutions, announced that their award-winning Yosi Health platform is now interoperable with Cerner, a worldwide electronic health record (EHR) working across diverse healthcare settings and care models, via its Cerner Millennium® EHR.

Vanguard Laboratories Selects PreciseMDX to Improve the Laboratory Testing Experience, Achieve Better Visibility and Efficiency
PreciseMDX, a digital health experiences company, and Vanguard Laboratories, a PCR molecular lab, announced the integration of the PreciseMDX digital health platform to drive, track and improve testing throughout the patient journey. The customizable PreciseMDX platform integrates seamlessly with Vanguard Laboratories’ existing laboratory information management (LIM) system, serving as one cohesive unit to enhance PCR and diagnostic testing operations.

Neura Health Announces In-Network Agreement with Medicare in Florida
Neura Health (@neurahealthco), which was built to close the massive access and quality gap in neurological care, is pleased to announce that it is now an in-network provider for Medicare in Florida. Effective immediately, Florida-based Medicare participants can benefit from unparalleled levels of access to high-quality care for chronic headaches and migraines.

Curebase Selected to Launch a Clinical Investigation of a Digital Therapeutic for IPF
Curebase (@CurebaseDCT), a company committed to democratizing access to clinical studies, announced the initiation of the pilot phase of COMPANION, the first clinical investigation of a new digital therapeutic (DTx) for patients with IPF, a rare lung disease. The DTx is owned by Vicore Pharma, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company.

Motient Expands into Nebraska to Support Critical Access Patient Transfers
Motient announced that Phelps Memorial Health Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Holdrege, Nebraska, has chosen its web-based Mission Control platform to ensure quality care throughout the patient transfer process. The Motient platform helps hospitals and health systems establish universal workflows for emergent patient movement, smoothing interfacility communication and enabling the capture of previously inaccessible data.

Expands into Nebraska to Support Critical Access Patient Transfers
Motient announced that Phelps Memorial Health Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Holdrege, Nebraska, has chosen its web-based Mission Control platform to ensure quality care throughout the patient transfer process.

Funding

Biofourmis Receives Significant Growth Investment from General Atlantic to Surpass Unicorn Status
Biofourmis (@biofourmis), a virtual care and digital medicine company, announced it has surpassed unicorn status with a $300 million Series D investment led by leading global growth equity firm General Atlantic. CVS Health and existing investors also participated in the round, which will help fuel the company’s next phase of growth.

IMPLICITY Raises $23M to Broaden Use of Its Cardiac Remote Monitoring Platform
IMPLICITY (@ImplicityHealth), a remote patient monitoring and cardiac data management solutions company, announced it has raised $23 million in Series A funding led by new investors: Crédit Mutuel Innovation and Bpifrance.

Making the Cut, Milestones, Accolades, Awards and More

Lightbeam Health Recognized as One of The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2022 by The Financial Times
Lightbeam Health Solutions (@LightbeamHealth), a company in population health management solutions and services, has been recognized as part of The Financial Times list of The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2022. This prestigious award is presented by The Financial Times (FT) and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider.