What You Should Know
The Partnerships: Enterprise AI platform Abridge has secured multi-year content partnerships with the NEJM Group (publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine) and the American Medical Association (publisher of the JAMA Network).The Workflow Shift: The integration allows clinicians to ask complex clinical questions and receive evidence-based answers directly within their existing workflow. Historically, finding this literature required breaking focus, leaving the EHR,
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The Clinical Resolution Gap: Why AI Can’t Fix Broken MSK Care Platforms
For years, clinicians have complained about the same thing: they became doctors to care for patients, not to stare at screens.
The electronic health record inserted a keyboard into the most important relationship in medicine. Now, for the first time in decades, artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to remove it. Ambient listening technology is giving providers back the focused attention that documentation demands have quietly eroded. That is not a minor workflow improvement. It is a
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HHS Launches $4M EMPOWER Prize Challenge to Enhance Living Kidney Donation
What You Should Know
The Challenge: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched the 2026 KidneyX EMPOWER Prize Challenge, a $4M national competition to accelerate innovations supporting living kidney donors.The Core Problem: The math surrounding kidney disease is incredibly bleak. Over 100,000 Americans are waitlisted for a kidney, and more than a dozen die each day waiting. Despite being one of the most effective treatments, the number of living kidney donors has
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CMS Establishes New Billing Code for AI-Driven Calcium Analysis on CT Scans
What You Should Know
The Reimbursement Milestone: Effective April 1, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a new national billing code and payment pathway under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for the algorithmic analysis of coronary artery calcium (CAC) and aortic valve calcium (AVC) on chest CT scans.The FDA Clearance: In tandem with the CMS news, Bunkerhill Health received FDA clearance for Bunkerhill Contrast CAC and
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Wavelet Medical Secures $7M to Scale AI Fetal Brain Monitoring Globally with Aegis Ventures
What You Should Know
The Raise & Partnership: Wavelet Medical, an AI-powered fetal brain monitoring startup spun out of Yale, has raised $7M in seed funding and entered into a co-creation partnership with the venture studio Aegis Ventures.The Solution: Wavelet has developed the first non-invasive, AI-powered fetal electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring platform. Instead of looking at the heart, Wavelet measures the organ that directly reflects neurological status: the brain.The Tech
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Finding the Right Five Percent: How Machine Learning Is Reshaping Care Management
Population Health Has a Precision Problem
Population health programs continue to rely on blunt tools. Many risk stratification approaches emphasize historical utilization—basic risk scores or vendor-generated models that explain who was expensive—rather than identifying emerging clinical risk. These methods struggle to detect deterioration early enough to influence outcomes.
At the same time, care management teams face persistent resource constraints. Organizations cannot provide intensive
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Ultralight Raises $9.3M to Launch AI-Native Operating System for Healthcare
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The Rebrand and Raise: Vibrant Practice has officially rebranded to Ultralight and announced a $9.3M funding round to build an AI-native operating system for modern medicine.The Backers: The round was led by The General Partnership, with participation from Wisdom Ventures, Anthemis Group, Emerson Collective, GSBackers, and notable angel investors, including former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
The DPC Tipping Point
Direct Primary Care (DPC) practices tripled among
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The AI Arms Race: Why PHTI Warns Healthcare ‘Bot Wars’ Are Inflating Medical Costs
What You Should Know:
- A newly released report from the Peterson Health Technology Institute finds that while AI is reducing administrative burden for individual organizations, it is not lowering system-wide costs—and may, in fact, be increasing them.
- The reason: AI is accelerating activity across the system—more prior authorization submissions, more billing complexity, and more back-and-forth between providers and payers—without fixing the underlying structural
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ModMed Expands Multi-Year Cloud Agreement with AWS to Scale Healthcare AI Solutions
What You Should Know
ModMed, a massive provider of specialty-specific EHRs, has signed a new multi-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS has been ModMed's primary cloud provider since its inception, but this expanded agreement specifically designates AWS as the engine for ModMed’s "AI-Powered Practice" initiative.
The Clinical Vision
The goal of the expanded partnership is to embed AI—such as the generative AI tool ModMed Scribe 2.0—into every corner of a
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symplr Appoints Former Edifecs Executive Venkat Kavarthapu as CEO
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The Appointment: Enterprise healthcare operations software giant symplr has appointed Venkat Kavarthapu as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.The Leadership Transition: Kavarthapu succeeds Chris Colpitts, who had been serving as interim CEO since November 2025. Colpitts will remain heavily involved, maintaining his role as Executive Chairman of the Board.
Kavarthapu Background
Kavarthapu is a 25-year veteran of health-tech, but he most recently
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