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MRO’s Automated Retrieval Technology Drives Significant Efficiency
MRO, a provider of clinical data management and intelligent data exchange, announces the findings of a new KLAS Research First Look Emerging Insights Report. The report emphasizes high satisfaction rates across healthcare provider organizations using MRO’s Auto Retrieval technology.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Ankura Expands Global Digital Transformation Capabilities with Acquisition of Omniscient Platforms
Ankura Consulting Group, a global services and advisory firm, announced its acquisition of Omniscient Platforms and its subsidiary, Omniscient Health (collectively, “Omniscient”). This acquisition enhances Ankura’s first-in-class capabilities in digital transformation, including data and AI advisory, technology strategy, and data analytics and marks another step in the Firm’s growth strategy as it continues to build a comprehensive suite of multidisciplinary advisory services and solutions.
Imprivata Acquires Verosint to Add AI-Powered Risk Signaling to its Leading Enterprise Access Management Platform
Imprivata, a provider of access management solutions for healthcare and other mission-critical industries, announced the acquisition of Verosint, a leader in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) solutions. The acquisition represents Imprivata’s latest strategic investment in modernizing enterprise access management with solutions that deliver advanced, frictionless, and passwordless access for every user type, including frontline staff, knowledge workers, and third-party identities, while strengthening security, streamlining compliance, and reducing total cost of ownership.
HarmonEyes Completes Acquisition of iFocus Health, Bringing AI-Powered Clarity to ADHD Treatment
HarmonEyes, the AI-driven eye-tracking software innovator, announced the successful acquisition of iFocus Health, a clinically validated ADHD treatment monitoring solution that tracks eye movement to objectively assess patient response to medication.
Contract Announcements
Brevard Health Alliance Improves Hypertension Control with RPM Program Utilizing Rimidi’s Platform and Connected Devices
Rimidi, a digital health company that supports healthcare providers with EHR-integrated software, services, and connected devices, recently partnered with Brevard Health Alliance (BHA), a federally qualified health center in Florida, on the implementation of a Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) program. The initiative, which utilizes Rimidi’s EHR-integrated platform and connected devices, was launched with support from the State of Florida, Department of Health, through a Cinotti Grant and has demonstrated clinical success that has led to program expansion and improved patient outcomes.
World Class Health Partners with GAM to Select and Directly Contract with Top Quality Surgeons
World Class Health, a global leader in medically led Centers of Excellence networks, announces their strategic partnership with Global Appropriateness Measures, an innovative, physician-led healthcare analytics company dedicated to reducing clinical waste and driving high-value care. Through this partnership, WCH will embed GAM’s novel quality and appropriateness data into its network selection methodology.
Briya Listed on Epic Connection Hub, Accelerates Data-Driven Healthcare Innovation
Briya, the health AI technology company redefining healthcare research, announced its availability in the Epic Connection Hub on Showroom, expanding access to its medical research and data-sharing capabilities to hospitals and health systems using Epic’s EHR software. As part of this initiative to increase secure access to real-world data, Tanner Health System, the premier provider of healthcare in west Georgia and east Alabama, has integrated Briya’s platform across its Epic environment.
Carta Healthcare Partners with Fivos to Elevate Data Quality and Advance Vascular Patient Care
Carta Healthcare, a provider of AI-powered clinical data abstraction solutions, announced a strategic partnership with Fivos, a provider of data solutions for medical research organizations and device manufacturers, as well as the clinical data registry provider for the Society for Vascular Surgery’s Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI®).
Conifer Health Announces New Multi-Year Revenue Cycle Partnership with Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center
Conifer Health Solutions, a provider of tech-enabled revenue cycle services for healthcare organizations, is excited to announce a new multi-year partnership managing end-to-end revenue cycle operations for Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center (RMC), the premier regional healthcare provider in northeast Alabama.
athenahealth Collaborates with Microsoft to Offer Microsoft Dragon Copilot as Ambient Notes Option, Enhancing Choice and Flexibility for Ambulatory Clinicians
athenahealth, a provider of network-enabled software and services for healthcare practices and systems nationwide, announced a partnership with Microsoft. Microsoft Dragon Copilot is joining athenaOne’s Ambient Notes, a fully-integrated AI-driven ambient solution that simplifies documentation for ambulatory clinicians. Available in the first half of 2026, Microsoft Dragon Copilot will be embedded directly into athenaOne as the latest ambient model for clinicians to choose from. athenaOne is the only EHR that allows individual clinicians within a practice to choose the ambient model that best suits the way they practice – all as part of a single contract. This latest collaboration underscores athenahealth’s ongoing commitment to offering clinicians flexible, choice-driven tools tailored to their unique needs.
Wolters Kluwer and American Board of Medical Specialties team up to expand quality and safety improvement initiatives across healthcare
Wolters Kluwer Health announced a new collaboration with the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Portfolio Program to leverage Ovid Synthesis as an official quality improvement (QI) workflow platform for physicians and medical specialists with an active certification from a participating ABMS Member Board. With the launch of this new relationship, QI work completed within Ovid Synthesis at an ABMS Portfolio Program Sponsor institution can be recognized as supporting physician and physician assistant (PA) professional development, which will help to streamline the process of awarding continuing certification credit to physicians and PAs for their engagement in improvement work.
Ensemble Forges Transformative Revenue Cycle Partnership with Children’s Minnesota
Ensemble, a national revenue cycle managed services partner for healthcare organizations, announced it has been selected by Children’s Minnesota as their strategic revenue cycle management (RCM) partner.
Venture Capitol and Funding
Aledade Secures $500 Million Credit Facility from Ares to Support Growth
Aledade, the nation’s largest network of independent primary care, and Ares Commercial Finance announced a $500 million senior secured credit facility, led by Ares Credit funds, to support the Company’s continued growth and scale. The new credit facility, which has flexibility to expand to up to $650 million, doubles Aledade’s current committed financing capacity.
Artera Secures $65M Growth Investment and Reaches $100M CARR
Artera.io, combining human and AI agent intelligence to fix patient communications, announces a $65 million growth investment and a major milestone of reaching $100 million in Contracted Annual Recurring Revenue (CARR) by the end of 2025. Healthcare organizations have used Artera’s AI solutions to engage more than 200 million patients. With over 1,000 healthcare organization customers, including specialty groups, FQHCs, healthcare providers, and federal agencies, Artera supports over 2 billion patient-to-provider communications annually.
Empathy Health Raises $7.6M to Make Sober Sidekick the Standard in Relapse Prevention for Substance Use Disorder Care
Empathy Health Technologies, the makers of the Sober Sidekick platform, announced a $7.6 million funding round to advance its mission to define relapse prevention as a measurable and system-wide outcome in modern healthcare. The round was led by HealthX Ventures, with participation from Nina Capital, Ikigai Healthcare Funds, American Heart Association Ventures, Suncoast Ventures, Cortado Ventures and Wilson Sonsini Investment Company, bringing its total funding to $11.4 million. The funding comes as the company grows its global membership and expands enterprise relationships with U.S. payers under value-based care (VBC) models.
Healthcare Can’t Afford Downtime: Spare Tire Raises $3 Million to Keep EHRs Running
Spare Tire, the healthcare mission-critical, category-leading EHR downtime resilience solution and the world’s first on-demand backup platform that can be activated within minutes to ensure uninterrupted access to Electronic Health Records during cyberattacks, system outages and planned downtime, announced it has raised $3 million in Series A funding. The round was filled quickly and backed exclusively by returning ShelterZoom investors, Spare Tire’s parent company, reflecting heightened confidence in the company’s mission and rapid market traction.
Making the Cut, Milestones, Accolades, Awards and More
Omega Healthcare Named a Leader in the 2025-2026 IDC MarketScape for U.S. Revenue Cycle Management Service Solutions
Omega Healthcare, a provider of technology-driven healthcare solutions, announced it was recognized as a Leader in the “IDC MarketScape: U.S. Revenue Cycle Management Service Solutions 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment.”
Consensus Cloud Solutions Recognized Among Top Healthcare Technology Companies by The Healthcare Technology Report
Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc., a global provider of digital cloud fax technology and trusted provider of interoperability solutions, has been named a Top Healthcare Technology Company by The Healthcare Technology Report for the second year in a row. Consensus ranked #22 overall and #8 in the Healthcare Software category for its proven efforts to facilitate and improve secure data exchange.