Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – March 5, 2026

Trending News

Lumina Health Partners Joins ECG Management Consultants
Lumina Health Partners has joined ECG Management Consultants, a leading healthcare consulting firm. The group, including Lumina’s cofounders, Daniel Marino and Lucy Zielinski, will integrate with ECG’s Payer Strategy and Contracting Division. The partnership brings even greater depth to ECG’s managed care expertise, particularly in value-based care, enhancing the firm’s ability to drive stronger alignment between providers and payers.

Introducing Rhapsody Axon, the AI Agent Built for Healthcare Interoperability
Rhapsody, a global leader in infrastructure for agent-ready interoperability, announced the general availability of Rhapsody® Axon, the AI agent that radically transforms healthcare integration workflows, to help teams build, manage, and scale more efficiently in increasingly complex environments.

Mergers and Acquisitions

RevSpring Acquires TrustCommerce®, Expanding Integrated Payments and Delivering End-to-End Payment Visibility Across Healthcare
RevSpring, a Frazier Healthcare Partners portfolio company, has acquired TrustCommerce®, a portfolio company of Waud Capital Partners and a leading provider of end-to-end integrated healthcare payment and security solutions. Building on RevSpring’s Best in KLAS® patient financial experience foundation, the combined company will accelerate innovation in financial engagement and integrated payments, helping provider and payer organizations simplify payment complexity, consolidate vendors, and improve operational control from transaction through reconciliation.

MedStar Health Selects Withings Health Solutions as Partner to Elevate Concierge Care
Withings Health Solutions, a pioneer in digital health technology, announced a strategic collaboration with Signature by MedStar Health, the health system’s innovative, premier concierge medicine service.

MedScout Raises $10M and Launches AI Agents for MedTech Commercial Teams
MedScout, the commercial engine for MedTech, announced a $10M growth round led by Fulcrum Equity Partners, with participation from existing investors Live Oak Venture Partners and Stage 2 Capital. The round, which more than doubled the company’s valuation from its Series A, will fuel continued investment in MedScout’s AI capabilities and support growing demand from enterprise customers.

Quantum Health Acquires CirrusMD to Advance Healthcare Navigation with Physician-Led Virtual Care
Quantum Health, a healthcare navigation company, announced it has acquired CirrusMD, a premier on-demand virtual care company. The acquisition brings together navigation and physician-led virtual care to drive more immediate care integration and stronger outcomes for members across their healthcare journey.

Adobe Population Health Expands Services with Acquisition of Eventa LLC, Adding Respiratory Care Solutions
Adobe Population Health, a provider of integrated population health management solutions, announced the acquisition of Eventa LLC, a specialized provider of respiratory services. This strategic partnership expands Adobe’s service offerings and extends its footprint into Florida, Illinois, and Tennessee. Eventa will continue to operate under its own name, with founders Gene Gantt and Scott Gantt remaining actively involved.

Contract Announcements

Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise Extends Partnerships with 14 Hospital Systems
Altera Digital Health, a global health IT leader, announced that 14 clients have renewed their contracts for the Sunrise™ electronic health record (EHR), reinforcing continued confidence in the platform’s direction, performance and value. The partnership renewals follow a year of significant platform advancement with the release of Sunrise 25.1, which added approximately 700 system enhancements, and the expansion of its product portfolio to support more connected and efficient clinical, financial and operational workflows across the enterprise.

Ellit Groups, Talkdesk partner to deliver contact center as a service and customer experience automation for healthcare service desks
Talkdesk®, Inc., a provider of Customer Experience Automation (CXA), announced a strategic partnership with healthcare IT consulting and managed services organization Ellit Groups to support the delivery of AI-powered contact center as a service (CCaaS) and CXA across healthcare service desk operations.

FDB Velaâ„¢ and Photon Collaborate to Expand Cost Transparency and Patient Choice in ePrescribing
FDB (First Databank, Inc.), a provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise medication decisions, and Photon Health (Photon), an innovative prescription platform that empowers patients with medication choice and transparency, announced an agreement to connect the FDB Vela™ ePrescribing Network with Photon’s digital prescription marketplace. This collaboration will extend the reach and automation of the patient-facing marketplace experience, bringing greater transparency and choice in prescription routing to more patients and providers nationwide.

OnPage & Elad Health Announce Integration Partnership to Advance Secure Clinical Communications Across Israeli Hospitals
OnPage Corporation, a provider of an advanced, secure critical communication and collaboration platform that ensures urgent alerts are never missed, announced an integration partnership with Elad Health, a leading EHR solution provider in Israel. The integration embeds OnPage’s secure, HIPAA-compliant messaging and alerting capabilities directly into Elad’s Chameleon EHR, enabling hospitals and healthcare providers to move from ad hoc messaging tools to a more proactive, reliable clinical communications model.

SuperDial and Omega Healthcare Partner to Scale Voice AI Automation, Optimizing Revenue Cycle Operations for Customers
SuperDial, a healthcare automation platform designed to streamline payer and provider outreach workflows, announced a formal commercial partnership with Omega Healthcare, an AI-driven healthcare solutions company. Omega Healthcare will enhance its agentic AI platform by integrating with SuperDial’s voice AI automation solution to help customers reduce administrative burdens and accelerate the time to cash.

Venture Capitol and Funding

UnityAI Raises $8.5M to Expand an Autonomous AI Workforce for Healthcare Operations
UnityAI, an agentic AI company building an autonomous workforce for healthcare operations, announced the close of an $8.5 million Series A funding round, bringing total capital raised to $15 million. The round was led by Third Prime, with participation from Nashville Capital Network, Whistler Capital Partners, Max Ventures, Company Ventures, and other existing investors.

Making the Cut, Milestones, Accolades, Awards and More

Ambience Healthcare Recognized as 2026 KLAS/CHIME Trailblazer Award Winner
Ambience Healthcare, an intelligence platform for clinical documentation and revenue integrity, announced it has been named the 2026 KLAS/CHIME Trailblazer Award winner. Now in its second year, the Trailblazer Award recognizes an emerging vendor demonstrating exceptional leadership in innovation, impact, and client success.

eClinical Solutions Highlights 2025 Achievements and Announces Latest Innovations to Accelerate and Future-Proof Clinical Trials
eClinical Solutions, a global provider of digital clinical software and services, announced 2025 milestones along with new 2026 innovation to support the end-to-end clinical research lifecycle, bringing breakthrough therapies to patients faster. Last year the company added over 20 net new customers to its portfolio of biopharma and CRO clients, which now includes 18 of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies in the world, supporting clinical trial leaders with an AI-first, risk-based approach.

QT Imaging Achieves Major Reimbursement Milestone with AMA Category III CPT Code for 3D Breast Ultrasound Tomography
QT Imaging Holdings, a medical device company dedicated to transforming breast health management through innovative, radiation-free imaging technology, announced that the American Medical Association (AMA) CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) Editorial Panel has approved a new Category III CPTTM code for 3D quantitative transmission volumetric ultrasound tomography of the breast.

Sagility Named a Leader in the Everest Group Healthcare Payer Intelligent Operations PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026
Sagility, a tech-enabled business operations solutions and services provider in the healthcare sector, has been named a Leader in the Everest Group Healthcare Payer Intelligent Operations PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026. The PEAK Matrix® is a proprietary framework used by Everest Group to assess service providers based on their overall vision, capability, and market impact.

Ochsner Health wins 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award
Ochsner Health, a nonprofit healthcare provider in the Gulf South, has been honored with the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for the second year in a row, recognizing it as one of the most engaged company cultures in the world. This prestigious award highlights Ochsner’s unwavering dedication to fostering an environment of excellence, both as a workplace and in its delivery of exceptional patient care.