Health IT Business News – March 18, 2021

Collaboration News

Lyniate Collaborates with Sensato and Secure Exchange Solutions to Further Empower Provider and Public Health Organizations
Lyniate (@lyniate), a healthcare data interoperability company, announced new partnerships with two healthcare technology innovators: clinical exchange technology provider Secure Exchange Solutions (@secure_exchange) and healthcare cybersecurity firm Sensato (@SensatoCybersec).

Northeast Georgia Health System Elevates Its Digital Consumer Experience with Self-Service Capabilities from Kyruus
Kyruus (@kyruus), a company offering provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems, announced that Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS), a not-for-profit community health system serving more than one million people in Georgia, is now offering consumers a new digital access experience through the Kyruus ProviderMatch® platform.

THREAD and CureClick Partner to Accelerate Recruitment for Decentralized Clinical Trials
THREAD (@THREADresearch), a technology and service provider that enables decentralized clinical research, and CureClick (@CureClickTeam), a community-powered platform that revolutionizes participant recruitment for clinical trials, announced a new partnership focused on engaging social media influencers to increase recruitment outcomes in decentralized clinical trials (DCTs).

FDS Amplicare and BestRx Establish Preferred Partnership to Extend Comprehensive Medical Billing to Independent Pharmacies
FDS Amplicare (@FDSRx), a pharmacy technology provider, and BestRx (@BestRxSoftware), a software solutions company whose mission is to deliver affordable, easy-to-use, tailored pharmacy software solutions that address the unique demands of independent community pharmacies, announced a preferred partnership that will enable pharmacies to integrate FDS Amplicare’s MedBill medical billing solution with BestRx’s Pharmacy Management System with little disruption to current pharmacy workflows.

Product News

CyVision Technologies, Inc. Expands into Healthcare
CyVision Technologies, Inc. (@Cyvision_Tech), a provider of cyber vulnerability assessments, announced the expansion of its offerings into the healthcare sector. This move will extend the reach of the company’s Enhanced Cyber Vulnerability Assessment Service, allowing healthcare organizations of all sizes to mitigate risk factors; protect their networks; and preserve the trust of patients, partners, and other stakeholders.

Chasm Launches New ChasmDILIGENCE Solution to Help Venture Capital and Private Equity Investors Evaluate Leadership
Responding to evolving Venture Capital and Private Equity market needs when evaluating the leadership teams of their portfolio company investments, Chasm Partners (@ChasmPartners) announced the introduction of ChasmDILIGENCE. ChasmDILIGENCE builds on Chasm’s deep expertise in evaluating executive talent for high-growth healthcare organizations, providing insights to help investors perform human capital diligence at deal stage.

MEDITECH Expanse Genomics opens new doors to precision medicine
Now physicians can have discrete patient genetic data integrated into their workflow as well as the tools to understand and apply it with Expanse Genomics. MEDITECH’s (@MEDITECH) groundbreaking, integrated EHR-based solution allows users to receive, store, and present complex genomic information to clinicians in intuitive ways at the point of care.

4medica Earns HITRUST CSF Certification, Demonstrating a High Standard of Proficiency to Manage Risk, Improve Security and Meet Compliance Requirements
4medica® (@4medica), a 23-year trusted hospital, lab, imaging, health information exchange (HIE), health plan and physician connectivity network leader, announced the 4medica Health Data Exchange Platform, 4medica Big Data MPI™ and Marina Del Rey Corporate Office Supporting Infrastructure have earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST.

Sphere Launches Software Platform that Transforms the Patient Check-In and Payment Experience
Sphere (@SphereCommerce), a provider of end-to-end integrated payments and security software, announced the launch of the next generation of its patient payment platform. The expanded solution closely integrates Health iPASS’s market-leading patient intake and engagement software with Sphere’s broad payment acceptance functionality and elite-level security, creating a unique end-to-end solution. Sphere acquired Health iPASS in December.

Greenway Health Launches New Revenue Services Offering, GRS Select™, as Ambulatory Practices Seek to Rebuild in 2021
Greenway Health (@greenway), a health information technology services provider, announced the launch of its new Greenway Revenue Services offering, GRS Select™, a customizable revenue cycle management (RCM) offering designed to meet the unique, individualized needs of healthcare practices as they rebuild and improve the profitability of their practices a year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Financial News

FDS & Amplicare Announce New Name Following 2020 Merger
FDS (@FDSRx) and Amplicare (@Amplicare), its sister company since their merger in Sept. 2020, announced a new brand: FDS Amplicare. The new brand embodies the collective strength the organization offers pharmacies and patients through its suite of software solutions.

Omega Healthcare Acquires himagine Solutions
Omega Healthcare (@Omega_HMS), a provider of outsourced revenue cycle management and other healthcare support services, announced the acquisition of himagine Solutions, a St. Louis, MO-based provider of medical coding and registry services. The transaction expands the service capabilities and geographical footprint of both companies, enhancing the ability to service clients globally.

Contract News:

VisualDx Now Available at Northeast Ohio Medical University
VisualDx (@visualdx), a web-based clinical decision support system headquartered in Rochester, NY and Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) have entered into an agreement to license VisualDx to students and faculty.

Making the Cut:

Capsule Receives Frost & Sullivan 2021 New Product Innovation Award
Frost & Sullivan, a research and consulting firm that helps clients accelerate growth, named Capsule Technologies (@capsule_tech) the recipient of its 2021 New Product Innovation Award in the North American remote ventilator surveillance industry.

Firstsource Selects IntelliH as Technology Partner to Deliver Turn-key Telehealth Solutions to Health Plans and Provider Organizations
Firstsource Solutions Limited (@firstsource), a provider of Business Process Management (BPM) services and an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company; and IntelliH (@h_intelli), a multi-disease, patient engagement and remote monitoring company, announced that Firstsource has selected IntelliH as its technology partner to deliver turn-key remote patient monitoring solutions to health plans and provider organizations in the U.S. The combined offering will focus initially on areas of critical need, including proactively managing Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), diabetic and post-acute care patients.

Allscripts rated #1 in Black Book™ Research’s 2021 Community Health Systems Vendors Report
Allscripts (@Allscripts) has been recognized as the top-rated electronic health record vendor for community hospitals according to new survey results from Black Book Research. This is the fifth consecutive year Allscripts has earned the top rating in this annual survey.