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
What You Should Know:
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
What You Should Know
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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The Push for Side-by-Side Prescription Pricing in EHR Workflows
Prescribing has evolved into a financial decision as much as a clinical one. As a result, one of the most consequential access moments is now occurring inside the electronic health record (EHR) during the prescribing workflow, when cost information surfaces and treatment decisions are finalized.
As affordability pressures intensify across commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid populations, patient out-of-pocket costs have become a primary driver of whether therapy is initiated or abandoned.
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Death by a Thousand Vendors: Solera Report Reveals The Hidden Costs of Digital Health
What You Should Know:
The Report: Solera Health released a research report titled "Death by a Thousand Vendors: The Hidden Costs of Digital Health". The survey included 106 senior benefits leaders at organizations with 1,000 or more employees.The Financial Drain: 90% of organizations spend more than $1 million annually on digital health. The estimated median annual cost of simply managing these vendors—including full-time employees and consultants—is approximately $580,000 on top of the
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Qventus Report: 94% of Healthcare CIOs Say AI Delays Create Competitive Disadvantage
What You Should Know:
Qventus released a new industry report surveying 60+ CIOs, Chief AI Officers, CMIOs, and other senior IT leadership from national health systems, including HonorHealth, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Rochester Regional Health to uncover how they are spending, evaluating, and regulating AI.The report, Beyond the Pilot: How CIOs Are Operationalizing AI Across Health Systems in 2026, confirms that the AI market is at a pressure point. As EHR giants
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The Perioperative AI Reality Check: Why Hospital Tech Fails Without Clinician Co-Design
When hospital administrators started talking about "AI-powered solutions" for perioperative care a few years ago, I was deeply skeptical. I'd watched too many technology promises fail to deliver. EHR modules that were supposed to streamline workflows but actually made them more cumbersome. "Intelligent" scheduling systems that didn't account for clinical realities. Patient portals that patients didn't use.
The problem wasn't the technology, it was that most solutions were designed by people
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EBSCO Clinical Decisions Report: 80% of Clinicians Trust Evidence-Based AI Tools
What You Should Know
The Trust Divide: A newly released report from EBSCO Clinical Decisions highlights a massive disconnect between clinical readiness and patient confidence regarding AI in healthcare. While 89% of clinicians believe AI for clinical decision support (AI-CDS) will ultimately lead to better patient outcomes, 64% of consumers would prefer to see a healthcare professional who does not use AI at all.General vs. Evidence-Based AI: Consumer skepticism is heavily tied to the type of
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