Business Briefs

May 23, 2019 at 09:24 am by Staff


Nashville-based Bridge Connector, a health data integration startup, recently landed another $10 million in funding to continue growth.

Last month, HealthStream, a leading provider of workforce development and provider solutions for the healthcare industry, announced the first cohort of companies integrating their solutions with hStream™, the Nashville-based company's new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology.

Last month, AdhereHeatlh™, the Brentwood-based health technology company focused on medication adherence, announced the addition of healthcare veteran Brad Fluegel to the company's board. Fluegel is the former chief healthcare commercial market development officer for Walgreens.

Software and benefits advisory company Bernard Health recently launched BernieForms, a modern, affordable software solution for health questionnaires. Required for self-funded benefits plans, the health questionnaire process can represent an administrative challenge for brokers, employers and employees. Inefficiencies in distributing, collecting and submitting the health questionnaire forms led to the development of BernieForms, a user-friendly, simplified online questionnaire platform that features single sign on functionality with BerniePortal's HRIS.

Technology enabled compliance company ProviderTrust has moved to the Capitol View complex in the North Gulch.

In the wake of continued healthcare cyber attacks, Nashville-based Clearwater Compliance has released new, breakthrough risk identification technology. Clearwater's new Component Expert System (CES) enables hospitals and health systems to complete the security risk analysis (SRA) process more efficiently across the enterprise by logically grouping similar information system components based on their properties and associated controls. The patent-pending technology automatically identifies relevant cyber and information risk scenarios, thereby facilitating a more effective risk assessment process.

Community Health Systems, Inc. announced last month that many of its affiliated hospitals now support Health Records on iPhone, which brings together hospitals, clinics and the existing Apple Health app to make it easy for patients to see their available medical data from multiple providers whenever they choose. Approximately 100 CHS-affiliated hospitals are participating to help patients easily aggregate medical data.

Alive, the only nonprofit provider of hospice care and end-of-life services for Middle Tennessee, has been named the sole palliative care provider for Tennessee Oncology. Services are already available in clinics in Centennial Medical Center and in its Saint Thomas West, Chattanooga, and Murfreesboro locations. Alive will roll out these services in Tennessee Oncology's additional clinics by the end of the year and expects to serve 1,600 patients annually through the agreement.

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