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WELL Health’s Subsidiary WELLSTAR Provides Corporate Update on its Recent Acquisitions and Announces Strategic Additions to its Management Team

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WELLSTAR has made two key additions to its management team, Sarah Xu has joined as Vice President of Growth Operations and Frank Seiferth has joined as Vice President of Product. Sarah and Frank bring deep industry experience and leadership backgrounds including Google, Ambience Healthcare, Blue-Dot and Amdocs.WELLSTAR also welcomes the operators and teams behind its newest acquisitions and partnerships, Microquest and Bluebird iT. Microquest is a leading EMR provider serving the Province of Alberta with over 375 clinics and 1600 providers. Bluebird iT supports over 700 medical clinics and hospitals across Canada, making it the largest provider of IT solutions and services to outpatient healthcare clinics in Canada, and the leading deployment provider of technology solutions for Canadian doctors.WELLSTAR delivers technology solutions to over 40% of all physicians in Canada and is committed to further expansion through organic and inorganic growth, underpinned by continuing to deliver tangible, innovative and valuable tools to healthcare providers nationwide.

VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 19, 2025 /CNW/ – WELL Health Technologies Corp. (TSX: WELL) (OTCQX: WHTCF) (“WELL” or “the Company”), a digital healthcare company focused on positively impacting health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their patients globally, is pleased to announce key updates regarding its subsidiary WELLSTAR Technologies Corp. (“WELLSTAR”), the leading provider of healthcare technology solutions in Canada. WELLSTAR announces key additions to its management team, Sarah Xu as Vice President of Growth Operations and Frank Seiferth as Vice President of Product. The Company also provides an update on its recent acquisitions of Microquest and Bluebird iT.

Amir Javidan, CEO of WELLSTAR, commented, “As WELLSTAR scales its operations and prepares to be spun out of WELL, as a separate public company that will be majority owned and controlled by WELL, we are delighted to announce the recent addition of tremendously talented senior leaders to the WELLSTAR team. Sarah and Frank have been appointed to new senior roles within the company, while Brandon Blanck, CEO of Microquest and John Solomos, CEO of Bluebird iT, have joined us through the acquisitions of those two companies. In previous roles, Sarah spent significant time and effort at Google in global business strategy and operations, using her knowledge of customer acquisition to help scale some of the most important and valuable brands we see in the HCIT marketplace. Frank, as Head of Product at BlueDot, leveraged AI to anticipate, understand, and respond to threats by building a best-in-breed infectious disease intelligence provider.”

Mr. Javidan further adds, “We are also very pleased to welcome Brandon Blanck and John Solomos, as well as their talented teams to the WELLSTAR family. Brandon and John will stay in their current operator roles and focus on growing their businesses while delivering value to their customers and ecosystem partners. Microquest and Bluebird iT are proving to be key assets that expand WELLSTAR’s footprint across Canada and complement our existing solutions.”

Microquest is a leading EMR solution serving 375 clinics and 1,600 providers in the province of Alberta. Bluebird iT is the largest provider of IT services to outpatient healthcare clinics in Canada, making it the leading deployment provider of technology for Canadian doctors.

Bluebird iT supports over 700 clinics and hospitals across Canada and will be looking to expand organically and inorganically as a trusted, vendor-agnostic provider that delivers exceptional technology solutions and services to its clinic customers. WELL has acquired a 51% stake with founder ownership maintaining 49%.

With these acquisitions, WELLSTAR now has over 330 team members and delivers technology solutions to over 40% of all physicians in Canada, reinforcing its position as an enabling force in digital health. The Company’s experienced leadership team is focused on driving innovation, expanding technology offerings, and strengthening relationships with healthcare providers. WELLSTAR’s goal is to support providers in overcoming the significant administrative burden they currently face through the use of next-generation digital and AI-enabled software solutions. WELLSTAR supports one of the largest ecosystems of solutions for the digital enablement of healthcare in Canada, including:

Provincially integrated primary and specialty-care EMRs.Revenue optimization, including automated insured and uninsured billing management.Patient engagement solutions, including online booking, secure messaging, and E-referrals.AI-enabled automation solutions, including ambient scribe, inbox management, and rare and chronic disease decision support tools.

By delivering scalable, interoperable solutions, the Company is committed to enhancing practice efficiency, improving patient care, and creating long-term value for Canadian healthcare.

WELLSTAR is pleased to announce that it has appointed two new leaders to key posts in the company’s senior leadership team:

Sarah Xu – Vice President Growth Operations

Sarah Xu brings extensive experience in growth strategy, business intelligence, and healthcare technology. As VP of Growth Operations at WELL, she will play a key role in scaling WELLSTAR’s market presence and optimizing growth initiatives across its portfolio.

Sarah is a healthcare go-to-market leader with a proven track record of scaling growth-stage companies and startups across Google, Ambience Healthcare, and Circle Medical. She has rejoined WELL, having previously led Circle Medical as Head of Growth, where she built the growth engine that profitably drove 10X revenue growth over 18 months and scaled the company from 8 to 200+ clinicians. Sarah led companies through hypergrowth at Google, partnering closely to identify and execute transformative strategies that unlocked 2X-10X profitable growth. Her success in consistently driving outsized revenue growth and identifying opportunities to profitably leverage Google’s machine learning capabilities across its SEO and paid acquisition channels enabled her to scale companies in the D2C and enterprise SaaS space effectively.

Sarah most recently brought to market leading healthcare AI technology at US-based Ambience Healthcare, where she established the sales and marketing teams and successfully launched the non-founder sales motions driving the first seven-figure sales of ambient scribing tools with leading enterprise health systems in the US. Sarah joined the company pre-revenue as its first business hire and led its go-to-market function through its USD$70M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and OpenAI.

At WELLSTAR, Sarah is focused on accelerating growth initiatives, optimizing data-driven strategies, and expanding market penetration through strategic partnerships and operational efficiencies. Her expertise in scaling healthcare technology businesses will be instrumental in driving WELLSTAR’s next growth phase.

Frank Seiferth – Vice President of Product

Frank is a seasoned SaaS product leader with over 25 years of experience driving innovation, growth, and market expansion across health-tech, cybersecurity, e-commerce, and supply chain. He has successfully led multiple companies through high-growth transitions, IPOs, and successful exits, shaping product strategy and execution. At health-tech Bluedot, he led the product strategy for its AI-driven disease outbreak intelligence, enabling the company to detect COVID-19 in China first—nine days ahead of global health organizations.

Previously, Frank held senior product leadership roles at Tecsys and Amdocs, where he spearheaded digital transformation initiatives, expanded market presence, integrated acquisitions, and drove product innovation. Known for building high-performance teams and fostering innovation, he excels in scaling products, leading AI-driven transformation, and driving product-led growth. Frank is an inventor with multiple patents and holds a master’s degree in Communication Technology (Diplom-Ingenieur FH) from the University of Zwickau, Germany.

At WELLSTAR, Frank will be responsible for leading product strategy and execution across all the portfolio of products, including EMR, digital apps, AI tools, medical billing and clinic back-office solutions.

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About WELL Health Technologies Corp.

WELL’s mission is to tech-enable healthcare providers. We do this by developing the best technologies, services, and support available, which ensures healthcare providers are empowered to positively impact patient outcomes. WELL’s comprehensive healthcare and digital platform includes extensive front and back-office management software applications that help physicians run and secure their practices. WELL’s solutions enable more than 38,000 healthcare providers between the US and Canada and power the largest owned and operated healthcare ecosystem in Canada with more than 200 clinics supporting primary care, specialized care, and diagnostic services. In the United States WELL’s solutions are focused on specialized markets such as the gastrointestinal market, women’s health, primary care, and mental health. WELL is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “WELL” and on the OTC Exchange under the symbol “WHTCF”. To learn more about the Company, please visit: www.well.company

About WELLSTAR

WELLSTAR (WELLSTAR.health) empowers healthcare providers with innovative technology and services to enhance patient care and operational efficiency. WELLSTAR offers a comprehensive suite of solutions tailored to meet the needs of healthcare providers, including: (i) Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software for primary care and specialist providers; (ii) Digital Health Apps including OceanMD and a suite of AI automation solutions, as well as the apps.health marketplace; and (iii) Medical billing and back-office solutions including revenue cycle management (RCM) and technology solutions. WELLSTAR’s comprehensive range of products and solutions are designed to streamline care delivery, integrate fragmented healthcare systems, reduce provider burnout, and improve patient healthcare experiences and outcomes.

 

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Safetyfirst Systems, LLC Provides Notice of Data Security Event

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PARSIPPANY, N.J., July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Safetyfirst Systems, LLC (“SFS”) is providing notice of a data security event that may involve information relating to certain individuals. While SFS is not aware of any misuse of information associated with this event, it is providing notice to potentially affected individuals out of an abundance of caution.

On January 19, 2026, SFS identified suspicious activity involving a limited portion of its server environment. Upon discovering the activity, SFS quickly took steps to secure its systems, notified federal law enforcement, engaged leading third-party forensic specialists, and performed a detailed investigation into the nature, scope, and impact of the activity. The investigation determined that an unauthorized actor accessed and/or acquired certain files from limited SFS systems between January 16, 2026, and January 19, 2026. SFS then conducted a comprehensive review of the affected files to determine what information may have been involved and identify the individuals to whom the information relates. The review has recently concluded, and SFS is providing this notification to potentially impacted individuals out of an abundance of caution. Although the types of information vary by individual, the affected information may include names, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license numbers.

Protecting the privacy and security of the information entrusted to SFS is a responsibility the company takes very seriously. In response to this event, SFS promptly strengthened security measures, continues to enhance its technical safeguards and monitoring capabilities, and is reviewing existing policies and procedures to further protect against similar incidents in the future. SFS is also providing notice to potentially affected individuals and, where required, appropriate regulatory authorities.

Although SFS is unaware of any misuse of personal information impacted by this event, individuals are encouraged to remain vigilant against events of identity theft by reviewing account statements, explanation of benefits, and monitoring free credit reports for suspicious activity and to detect errors. Any suspicious activity should be reported to the appropriate insurance company, health care provider, or financial institution.

Individuals seeking additional information regarding this event can contact SFS’s dedicated assistance line at 1-833-289-5523 between the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Individuals may also write to SFS at PO Box 101, 3299 US Highway 46, Parsippany, NJ 07054-9998.

 

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Sunrate and Mastercard Release White Paper on Agentic AI and the Future of B2B Global Payments

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SHANGHAI, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sunrate, the global payment and treasury management platform, and Mastercard, a global technology company in the payments industry, unveiled a joint white paper, Beyond Automation: Defining Agentic Global Payments, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC).

Among the first reports in the payments industry to examine the impact of Agentic AI on B2B cross-border payments, the white paper provides a comprehensive framework for understanding how AI agents are reshaping enterprise payment operations. It proposes that cross-border payments are evolving beyond digitisation and automation into a new stage: Autonomy—where AI agents with reasoning, planning, and execution capabilities can independently orchestrate and optimise end-to-end payment and treasury workflows within defined governance frameworks.

As businesses expand across borders, B2B cross-border payments continue to be constrained by fragmented workflows, disconnected systems, foreign exchange inefficiencies, rising compliance requirements, and complex reconciliation processes. While traditional automation improves individual tasks, the white paper demonstrates that Agentic AI represents a fundamental shift by enabling intelligent agents to coordinate entire payment journeys across systems, counterparties, and approval workflows.

Drawing on Sunrate’s global payment infrastructure and AI-native product capabilities, together with Mastercard’s expertise in secure payment networks and data intelligence, the white paper defines Agentic Global Payments — a new category of AI-native global payment infrastructure built to automate and manage complex enterprise workflows.

The report identifies 16 major pain points across the B2B payment lifecycle and outlines 13 high-value AI use cases spanning supplier onboarding, accounts payable and receivable, virtual commercial cards, payment routing, foreign exchange management, compliance screening, fraud detection, reconciliation, and conversational operational support. It also demonstrates how AI agents can automate complex workflows—from extracting information across multiple document formats and conducting compliance checks to initiating payments, optimising FX execution, and completing reconciliation—while operating within enterprise governance and control frameworks.

The white paper further highlights that trusted adoption of agentic payments depends on more than technological capability. It identifies governance, transparency, security, and ecosystem collaboration as essential foundations for enterprise deployment, supported by frameworks such as Know Your Agent (KYA), payment tokenisation, auditability, and cross-industry interoperability.

Sunrate.AI portfolio currently includes the Payment Agent, FX Agent, Compliance Agent, Onboarding Agent, and Chat Agent, designed to help enterprises automate and optimise critical payment and treasury processes while maintaining compliance and operational control.

Mastercard has also been actively building the foundations for trusted agentic commerce – combining AI capabilities with verifiable authorisation, clear accountability and proven payments security. Its work in this area, including Agent Pay (alongside Agent Pay for Machines) and Verifiable Intent, are proof points in how Mastercard is enabling AI to participate in commerce safely and transparently. 

“Our mission is to make global payments seamless, compliant, and intelligent,” said Paul Meng, Co-founder and CEO of Sunrate. “As businesses continue expanding internationally, AI agents will fundamentally reshape how enterprises manage global payments—enabling smoother capital flows, reducing operational friction, and embedding real-time intelligence into every payment decision. This white paper represents an important step in helping the industry understand how Agentic AI can be deployed responsibly at enterprise scale.”

“Agentic commerce is changing how businesses make and execute payment decisions, but speed without accountability creates new categories of risk,” said Anouska Ladds, Executive Vice President, Commercial & New Payment Flows, Asia Pacific, Mastercard. “As AI starts to act on behalf of businesses, autonomous payment decisions need a clear, auditable chain of identity, intent and action. That’s what allows organisations to delegate with genuine confidence — and what will determine whether agentic commerce scales past pilots.”

Released under WAIC 2026’s theme, “Intelligent Partners, Co-creating the Future,” the white paper provides business leaders with practical guidance on adopting AI-driven payment capabilities, covering implementation approaches, governance considerations, and real-world enterprise applications.

By combining Sunrate’s expertise in global payments and treasury management with Mastercard’s trusted payment infrastructure and network capabilities, the collaboration reflects a shared commitment to accelerating the next generation of intelligent, secure, and autonomous B2B global payments.

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About Sunrate

Sunrate is a leading global payment and treasury management platform for businesses worldwide. Founded in 2016, Sunrate has enabled companies to operate and scale both locally and globally in 190+ countries and regions with its cutting-edge infrastructure, global network, and unified solutions.

Sunrate operates through offices across key markets, including Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London. The company partners with the top global financial institutions, such as Citibank, Standard Chartered, Barclays, J.P. Morgan. Sunrate is also the principal member of Mastercard and Visa. To learn more about Sunrate, visit https://www.sunrate.com/.

About Mastercard

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building a resilient economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. 

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JAMS Launches AI for Enterprise Job Scheduling: JAX and JAMS MCP

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A new AI agent and an open-standard connector let IT teams query, diagnose, and manage automation in plain language, on the model they choose, with operational data able to stay onshore inside their own network

SYDNEY, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — JAMS Software, an orchestration solution for scheduled and event-driven automation, today announced the general availability of two AI capabilities for enterprise job scheduling: JAX, an AI agent built into the JAMS Web Client, and JAMS MCP, a connector built on the open Model Context Protocol standard that brings JAMS into external AI coding tools. Both capabilities ship at no additional cost as part of JAMS Web.

Automation environments grow faster than the teams that run them. Jobs multiply across SQL Server, Azure Data Factory, Airflow, SAP, JDE, and Banner, and when one fails, finding the root cause often means searching several consoles at once, frequently outside business hours. At the same time, IT leaders carry pressure to adopt AI while staying accountable for where operational data goes. JAX and JAMS MCP close both gaps together.

Full details on how JAX and JAMS MCP work, including the control model behind every action, are available at jamsscheduler.com/product/ai.

JAX is an AI agent that runs inside the JAMS Web Client. It finds jobs, troubleshoots failures, and answers how-to questions in plain language, with each response grounded in the JAMS user guide and checked against a built-in glossary. JAX acts only when a user asks it to. Reads flow freely, and every write action pauses for the user’s explicit approval before it runs. JAX does not learn between sessions, and conversations are not retained on the server.

JAMS MCP is a connector, built on the open Model Context Protocol standard, that brings JAMS into the AI tools engineering teams already use, including Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Codex. Users query jobs, investigate failures, and manage runs in plain language without leaving their tool.

Both capabilities run inside the customer’s own network and act as the signed-in user, with that user’s exact JAMS permissions. There is no elevated AI account: whatever a user cannot do in the JAMS interface, JAX and JAMS MCP cannot do on that user’s behalf. Every JAX and MCP operation is recorded in its own dedicated log, and changes made through the JAMS API land in the JAMS audit trail like any other change. Customers choose their own AI model, whether a commercial provider such as OpenAI or Anthropic or a model running entirely on their own hardware, and JAMS never trains on customer data. In the current release, neither feature edits or deletes a job, folder, schedule, or agent definition. For teams that need operational data to stay onshore, JAX runs on a local model entirely inside the customer’s own network, so nothing leaves at all.

“Adopting AI usually means giving something up, most often visibility into where your data goes,” said Pete Hegland, Chief Executive Officer of JAMS Software. “We built JAX and JAMS MCP so that trade does not have to happen. Every action runs as the signed-in user, every change waits for approval, and the model can run on the customer’s own hardware, keeping operational data onshore.”

“For teams across Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, two things matter: keeping data onshore, and getting answers when a job fails after hours,” said Shayne Cooper, Account Executive for APAC at JAMS Software. “JAX and JAMS MCP address both. The model can run on the customer’s own hardware, and the answer arrives in plain language at the moment it is needed.”

JAX and JAMS MCP are available now to all JAMS Web customers across Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, with no separate licence, SKU, or additional cost. AI-assisted creation of new jobs and workflows from a plain-language description is on the roadmap for a future release, gated by the same approvals and permissions as every other action.

Learn how JAX and JAMS MCP work at https://jamsscheduler.com/product/ai.

Fast facts

JAX is an AI agent built into the JAMS Web Client for job scheduling and workflow automation.JAMS MCP is a connector built on the open Model Context Protocol standard, for Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Codex.Both act as the signed-in user, with that user’s exact JAMS permissions, and there is no elevated AI account.Customers choose the AI model, including a local model that runs entirely inside their own network.JAMS never trains on customer data.Both are available now at no additional cost as part of JAMS Web.

About JAMS Software
Founded in 1987, JAMS Software is an orchestration solution that helps IT teams centralize, automate, and manage scheduled and event-driven jobs across complex, hybrid environments. Over 850 customers rely on JAMS to run their automated workloads. JAMS Software, LLC is headquartered at 108 Patriot Drive, Suite A, Middletown, DE 19709.

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