MIAMI & BOSTON-- CareCloud, the fastest-growing provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health records (EHR), and medical billing software and services, today announced it has secured an additional $9 million from Adams Street Partners as part of the Company’s Series B financing round. On June 18, 2013, CareCloud announced it had secured $20 million in Series B funding, led by Tenaya Capital and included existing investors Intel Capital and Norwest Venture Partners. This additional funding was the result of continued interest from investors to participate in CareCloud’s latest round, which is now closed at $29 million, and brings CareCloud’s total funding to $55 million. Adams Street Partners is one of the world’s largest managers of private equity for institutional investors and currently manages over $25 billion of committed capital for institutional investors.

As discussion rages on about specifics of objectives for Stage 3 Meaningful Use and whether the program should even continue on its current timeline, Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, announced that he will leave his position this fall.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-- Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), one of the nation’s leading health and well-being companies, recently announced its partnership with Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. to provide integrated technology to primary care providers, which will help doctors and payers exchange clinical information.

SAO PAULO, Aug. 9, 2013 -- Intensifying competition among private hospitals in Brazil has compelled them to use advanced clinical systems as a market differentiator, thereby driving the uptake of electronic medical records (EMR). The need to reduce expenses in both public and private hospitals has further fuelled EMR installations in the country.

Many critical access hospitals and other small hospitals are at risk of not achieving Meaningful Use and the coming associated Medicare payment penalties beginning in 2015.

ORANGE, Calif.--St. Joseph Hospital has been awarded a $710,252 grant from UnitedHealthcare to help implement St. Joseph Hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) system that will connect 27 community clinics throughout Orange County to improve care delivery to local patients.

The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act Workgroup, tasked with developing a report that contains a proposed strategy and recommendations on a regulatory framework for health IT, submitted its draft recommendations at the Aug. 7 Health IT Policy Committee meeting.

After the Meaningful Use Workgroup revealed an extensive list of proposed MU Stage 3 objectives at the Aug. 7 Health IT Policy Committee, the committee discussed the mounting concerns about the pace of the MU program.