JAKARTA, Indonesia—Celo, a secure messaging platform for health care, is implementing its messaging platform across EMC Healthcare hospitals in Indonesia. With the partnership, Celo aims to transform EMC's clinical communications and enhance patient care and operational efficiency.
SAN JOSE, California—HealthEM.AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) driven care management data platform company committed to streamlining care delivery and optimizing cost of care, announced a strategic partnership with WellBe Senior Medical, an organization delivering home-based medical care for older patients with multiple comorbidities.
NEW JERSEY—Vismo, a specialist in employee tracking, monitoring and safety solutions, announced a partnership with RapidSOS, the safety platform that securely links life-saving data from 500 million connected devices, apps and sensors to RapidSOS Safety Agents, 911 telecommunicators and first responders. The partnership provides United States-based lone workers in health care with more immediate access to first responders whenever and wherever they feel unsafe or are in an emergency.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee—Luna, a provider of in-home, in-person physical therapy, and Adventist Health Simi Valley, a nonprofit, integrated health system serving more than 80 communities on the West Coast, announced a partnership to improve access to in-home, in-person outpatient physical therapy across the greater Los Ange
MINNEAPOLIS and DANVILLE, Pa.—Best Buy Health and Geisinger announced that they will expand their work together to bring care to more patients within the Geisinger network.
MINNEAPOLIS & DANVILLE, Pennsylvania—Building on the success of delivering in-home care for patients with chronic conditions through Geek Squad, Best Buy Health&n
MONTEBELLO, New York, BROOKLYN, New York—Empeon, a human capital management (HCM) platform for health systems, announced its partnership with Keeper, a leading earned wage access (EWA) platform for health care workers. The two software providers are joining forces to give health care organizations a powerful tool to combat chronic health care labor shortages and give health care workers more financial freedom.
BRENTWOOD, Tennessee—IntellaTriage, a provider of after-hours nursefirst triage services for hospice and home health, named Tony Schulte as chief operating officer in July. Schulte will oversee all departments on the operations team at IntellaTriage including quality assurance, training and education, workforce management and a team of hospice and home health Triage Nurses nationwide, with more than 250 nurses and growing.
Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED) stockholders voted in favor of the pending acquisition from UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) on Friday, Sept. 8.
WIXOM, Michigan—J&B Medical, a provider of health care services, and Strongbow Strategies, a Navajo Native American and women-owned company, announced the formation of Strongbow Health, a new partnership aimed at servicing the health care needs of more than 4 million Native Americans in the United States.
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland—Acuity Medical announced it is hosting a one-day event for its home medical equipment (HME) customers on Wednesday, Nov. 8. The event will combine education, new product launches, industry updates, sales training, panel discussions and peer networking time. Manufacturers attending include Golden Technologies, Nova, Stander, Pedifix, Strongback, Liviliti, ARJO and others.
NEW YORK—HHAeXchange, a provider of homecare management solutions for providers, managed care organizations (MCOs) and state Medicaid agencies, announced it has named technology veteran,
LOS ANGELES—M&A Healthcare Advisors (MAHA) announced the sale of Advent Home Health, an award-winning home health provider located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since 2008, Advent has been owned and operated by Salvador Agonias and his family.
LONDON—CareLineLive, an all-in-one homecare management software company, announced its acquisition of the business behind CareFor IT and Ulysses (UDMS).
WASHINGTON—Home health agencies didn’t report more than half of the falls that Medicare home health patients hospitalized for falls with major injury experienced, according to a new study by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
BLUFFTON, South Carolina—Hospice Care of the Lowcountry, a provider of end-of-life care services in Beaufort and Jasper counties in South Carolina, announced the hire of industry veteran Dr. Carl Derrick as the organization's new Medical Director. Hospice Care of the Lowcountry said Derrick brings a wealth of expertise to the role and is set to further expand the care and support that it provides to patients and their families.
WASHINGTON—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a new payment model that will give states more flexibilities in how they manage health care, and could ultimately shift focus to home- and community-based services. The States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development Model (“States Advancing AHEAD” or “AHEAD Model”) aims to better address chronic disease, behavioral health and other medical conditions.
LAS VEGAS—Intermountain Health’s acquisition of Advent Home Health, a home health agency in southern Nevada, has been finalized and Advent Home Health is now officially part of Intermountain.
ROCHESTER HILLS, Michigan—InfuSystem Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: INFU), a national health care service provider, facilitating outpatient care for durable medical equipment manufacturers and health care providers, announced that Richard DiIorio, chief executive officer, Barry Steele, chief financial officer, and Carrie Lachance, president and chief operating officer will participate in Lake Street Capital Markets’ 7th Annual Best Ideas Growth (BIG7) Conference on Thursday, Sept. 14.
