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Foothold Technology Acquires Relevant Health Homes, Adding an Industry Leading Care Management Platform to Its Product Offerings
February 10, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 10, 2021
Today, Foothold Technology, a leading cloud-based behavioral health and human services EHR software provider backed by ASG, announced its acquisition of Relevant Health Homes, the leading care management platform for Health Homes in New York, from Relevant Healthcare.
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The Relevant Health Homes product has joined the Foothold umbrella and will soon become known as Foothold Care Management. The entire Relevant Health Homes team has also joined Foothold, and will continue to support the product’s customers. Jacob Hodes, a co-founder at Relevant, has joined Foothold as VP of Care Management, and will continue to lead the Health Homes team. Foothold’s AWARDS product will remain Foothold
Cooper Smith sat at home before his computer screen as part of a virtual small-group meeting with the Etowah County 4-H Youth Council. A seventh-grader at Hokes Bluff Middle School, Cooper was attending his first meeting as a member of the Etowah County 4-H Youth Council, and even though it was a virtual small-group meeting, he was excited.
His group leader, Jacob Hodes, explained that they were looking for ways to hold their end-of-year 4-H banquet, which had been canceled because of COVID-19. Jacob asked the group to brainstorm ways that 300 people might socially distance, yet safely celebrate the accomplishments of all Etowah County 4-H’ers.
Jacob Hodes
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