Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – August 7, 2025
Business and financial news from Collette Health, Caregility, Point of Care Partners, Ambience Healthcare, Arcadia, Carta Healthcare, ACU-Serve, CliniComp, and more.
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Clinical Calculators in Healthcare and EHRs
By Victoria Mendonca MS MBA & Shane Bell – If you’ve spent any time around clinicians, you’ve probably heard names like CHAâ‚‚DSâ‚‚-VASc or HAS-BLED thrown around. These are not secret codes but examples of clinical calculators—tools that help healthcare professionals evaluate risks, guide diagnostic decisions, and determine appropriate treatments.
What Comes Next for Price Transparency?
By Vanessa Candelora – In our May 2025 HIT Perspectives article, we unpacked the decade-long journey of healthcare price transparency and why most stakeholders would agree we’re still not where we need to be. Despite multiple rounds of rulemaking, patient usage of price tools remains low, and many organizations remain out of compliance with core requirements.
Prescribing Clarity Isn’t Optional
By Amy Johnson – For pharmaceutical manufacturers and life sciences organizations, ensuring patients use medications as intended is central to outcomes, safety, and adherence. But when EHR prescribing workflows introduce ambiguity, especially with patient instructions, those goals become harder to achieve.
CMS Releases a Flurry of Updates: What Stakeholders Should Know
By Mary Griskewicz – CMS has reengaged with the healthcare industry and the public for comment after a period of silence, now with the Department’s reorganization well underway. In a relatively short period, CMS has put out three requests for information, new strategic guidance for its Center of Innovation, and announced rescinding previously published documentation.
CMS is Asking Big Questions. Your Voice Can Shape the Future of Policymaking
By Mary Griskewicz – At first glance, the latest Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Request for Information is short, coming in at 3 pages. But don’t be fooled. It is asking some big, open-ended questions that could shape the future of the Medicare program for years to come.
Health IT Appointments & Hires
Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include CrossMed Healthcare, Modern Health, Health Gorilla, Caregentic, ID.me, Synapse Health, Vital, Ventra Health, Sollis Health, Sift Healthcare, CVS Health, Medicus IT, CHG Healthcare, Strive Health, Intelerad, Point-of-Care Partners, & CareSource.
Should Life Sciences Manufacturers Care about FQHCs?
By Amber Glende – If you work in life sciences, whether in pharma, diagnostics, or vaccines, Federally Qualified Health Centers might not be on your radar. Many manufacturers focus their commercial strategies on large health systems, private practices, and specialty networks, leaving FQHCs largely untapped.
Health IT Hires, Appointments, and Who’s Hiring
Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include symplr, ReferWell, Hallmark, The Alliance for Smart Healthcare, May Health Inovalon, Point-on-Care Partners, Amwell, CereCore, and Mediquant.