Health IT Business News, Financial Edition January 18, 2024

Trending News

NextGen Healthcare Selected by Spectrum Healthcare to Help Address Shortage of Primary and Behavioral Health Professionals
Working to address Arizona’s shortage of primary and behavioral health resources, Spectrum Healthcare, one of the state’s largest nonprofit healthcare providers, has selected NextGen Healthcare, a leading provider of cloud-based technology solutions, to support its delivery of whole-person care.

Contract Announcements

SinguLab and NADONA Partner to Enhance Educational and Informational Offerings
SinguLab, a nationwide provider of precision medicine solutions, announced its partnership with NADONA, an advocate and educational organization for DONs, ADONs, Infection Preventionists, and Nurse Leaders in long-term and post-acute care.

Bloomlife and PeriGen Partner to Improve Access to Critical Maternal and Fetal Health in the Face of Maternity Care Deserts
Bloomlife, a maternal health company, and PeriGen, a company applying artificial intelligence to improve safety in childbirth, announced a partnership to improve access to essential monitoring of high-risk pregnancies.

NuvoAir and Cary Medical Management announce partnership to bring high-quality cardiopulmonary care to rural North Carolina
NuvoAir Medical, a value-based specialty care provider for heart and lung conditions, and Cary Medical Management (CMM), a company transforming traditional primary care into high-performing value-based care clinics, announced their partnership to bring high-quality specialty care to patients in North Carolina.

Omada Health Joins Amazon’s Health Condition Programs as Launch Partner
Omada Health, a virtual-first healthcare provider, announced a partnership with Amazon Health Services to increase awareness and discoverability of its cardiometabolic programs through Amazon’s new Health Condition Programs.

Option Care Health Selects Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform for Enterprise-Wide Digital Transformation
Palantir Technologies Inc., a provider of AI systems, and Option Care Health Inc., an independent national provider of home and alternate site infusion services, announced a multi-year commercial partnership for Palantir’s software to be leveraged across the company to help improve patient outcomes and increase efficiency.

Amgen to Build Generative AI Models for Novel Human Data Insights and Drug Discovery
Amgen will build AI models trained to analyze one of the world’s largest human datasets on an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, a full-stack data center platform, that will be installed at Amgen’s deCODE genetics’ headquarters in Reykjavik, Iceland. The system will be named Freyja in honor of the powerful, life-giving Norse goddess associated with the ability to predict the future.

Ensemble Health Partners Announces Strategic Revenue Cycle Partnership with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare
Ensemble Health Partners, the industry leader in revenue cycle management, announced that is has been selected by Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare as their strategic revenue cycle management partner.

Three Regional Veterans Networks Expand Their Partnerships with CliniComp to Encompass the Full Care Continuum
CliniComp, the pioneer in high-performing, reliable electronic health record (EHR) solutions, announced that three Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs) are expanding their use of the CliniComp solution from Critical Care to encompass the continuum of care, adding Medical/Surgical, Post-Anesthesia, and Emergency Departments.

Veradigm Selects MedAllies as its Qualified Health Information Network™ (QHIN™) Partner
MedAllies, a healthcare interoperability and connectivity services provider, announced that Veradigm Inc., a provider of healthcare data and technology services, has selected MedAllies as its Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) partner.

AVIA Adds Five New Members to its Network of Leading Health Systems
AVIA, a national healthcare digital transformation partner, has announced that it has added five additional health systems to its network of over 55 leading healthcare organizations.

Funding

AION Labs Welcomes Amiti as Strategic Partner to Accelerate Israel’s Position as a Leading Hub for Transformative AI-Powered Drug Discovery Innovation
AION Labs, the first-of-its-kind venture studio spearheading the adoption of AI technologies and computational science to solve therapeutic challenges, announced a new strategic partnership with Amiti Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Israel.

Vita Health Announces $22.5M Series A Funding Round
Vita Health, the first provider of clinically validated suicide prevention through innovative care management, announced the close of a $22.5M Series A funding round.

Artisight to Scale and Advance AI-driven Smart Hospital Platform with Oversubscribed $42 Million Series B Round
Artisight, a smart hospital platform powered by industry-defining artificial intelligence to provide virtual care, quality improvement and care coordination solutions, announced that it raised $42 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round.

Making the Cut, Milestones, Accolades, Awards and More

CenTrak Secures “IoT Health & Wellness Company of the Year” Accolade in 8th Annual IoT Breakthrough Awards
CenTrak announced that it has been selected as the winner of the “IoT Health & Wellness Company of the Year” award in the 8th annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program.