The main exhibition floor at the Venetian Convention & Expo Center officially opened its doors today, shifting the HIMSS26 energy from high-level preconference strategy directly into live, unscripted product demonstrations.
The major themes of the day centered on native EHR integration, the
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The Milestone: Snowflake and Hakkoda have released "The Future of AI + Interoperability in Healthcare" report, surveying 183 senior healthcare leaders. The central finding is
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Copilot Health Report: Microsoft published new data exploring the ways people use the consumer version of Copilot for health-related topics, having analyzed over 500,000
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The Launch: At the HIMSS26 conference, Zoom announced a massive wave of healthcare-focused innovations aimed at deeply embedding its tools into clinical and operational
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The Launch: At the HIMSS26 conference, MEDITECH announced a major expansion of its Expanse AI portfolio, signaling a shift toward natively embedded artificial
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The Launch: Greenway Health has officially launched Novare, an integrated clinical and revenue cycle platform built specifically for ambulatory care and powered by "agentic
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The Launch: b.well Connected Health and Samsung Electronics have launched an end-to-end integration that turns Samsung Galaxy smartphones into a centralized hub for patient
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The Integration: Atropos Health has officially integrated its Atropos Evidence Agent with Microsoft Dragon Copilot, bringing personalized real-world evidence (RWE) directly
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Healthcare technology is increasingly shaped by private capital, not just clinical demand or regulatory pressure. Over the past few years, private equity and institutional investors have poured record
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The Launch: Aquila has officially emerged from stealth mode with active state and federal contracts already underway. The company is deploying a healthcare data integration
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If previous years at HIMSS were defined by the promise of generative AI, the overarching theme of HIMSS26 is the execution of autonomous operations. Health systems, crushed by workforce shortages and
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The Deal: Universal Health Services (UHS) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Talkspace for $5.25 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately
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The Report: ECRI, a globally recognized patient safety organization, has released its highly anticipated 2026 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns report.The #1 Threat: For the first
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The Partnership: Verily Life Sciences and Samsung Electronics America are collaborating to integrate the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 directly into Verily’s precision health
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The Launch: WellSpan Health has launched "Fresh Take Eatery," an AI-powered robotic dining system located at WellSpan York Hospital. It provides 24/7, on-demand food service
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The Launch: Walgreens has officially launched Walgreens Weight Management, expanding its Virtual Healthcare platform to offer personalized, clinician-guided weight loss support
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The Transition: Effective March 16, 2026, Ric Sinclair (formerly Chief Business Officer at Waystar) will take over as Chief Executive Officer of Cotiviti.The Legacy: Emad Rizk,
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The Clearance: GE HealthCare has officially received FDA 510(k) clearance for View, a fast, zero-footprint diagnostic viewer. This viewer serves as the core anchor of the
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The Launch: Amazon Pharmacy has officially expanded its weight management portfolio by adding Eli Lilly's Zepbound® KwikPen® to its digital shelves.The Hardware: Unlike
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The Launch: Innovaccer has launched Flow Capture, an autonomous medical coding solution designed to eliminate the manual bottleneck in the hospital revenue cycle.The Metric:
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The Deal: Swedish medical imaging and cybersecurity giant Sectra has entered into an agreement to acquire Oxipit, a Lithuanian startup specializing in AI-based radiology
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The Funding: Grow Therapy has secured a $150M Series D led by TCV and Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives with new participation from BCI and Menlo Ventures, the round
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The Launch: Elation Health, a clinical-first technology platform for primary care, has launched new AI-powered billing workflows featuring a "touchless fast lane" for
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The Announcement: Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate has officially welcomed its newest cohort, selecting 18 national and international healthcare technology companies to
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Pharma medical affairs teams have spent the last decade investing heavily in digital transformation. Virtual advisory boards, omnichannel platforms, CRM systems, and analytics dashboards are now
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The Integration: LexisNexis Risk Solutions is significantly expanding its footprint within the Epic Connection Hub, allowing U.S. hospitals using Epic to natively deploy a
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The Launch: Thyme Care, a leading value-based cancer care enabler, has officially launched its Integrated Social Support (ISS) model.The Paradigm Shift: Instead of waiting for
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The Deal: Guideway Care, a leader in evidence-based patient activation, has acquired and integrated Waypoint Healthcare Solutions. Waypoint's entire team, including founders
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The Launch: AWS has officially launched Amazon Connect Health, the company's first purpose-built, agentic AI solution designed specifically for healthcare providers and their
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The Evolution: At HIMSS 2026, Microsoft announced that Dragon Copilot is evolving from a standalone ambient documentation tool into a unified AI clinical assistant. It now
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The Paradigm Shift: At HIMSS 2026, Google Cloud officially signaled the end of the "point-and-click" software era in healthcare, ushering in the age of "agentic AI"—systems
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The Funding: Sage, an integrated care platform for senior living and skilled nursing, has raised a $65M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing
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The Acquisition: Health Recovery Solutions (HRS), a dominant player in remote patient monitoring (RPM) and enterprise remote care, has officially acquired Rimidi, an
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From my experience working with healthcare providers and payers, there’s one thing that stands out to me: the most important insights for compliance are almost never in the data fields you expect.
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The Funding: Greater Good Health has secured a $20.5M Series B led by Allumia Ventures, alongside up to $12.5M in venture debt from HSBC Innovation Banking.The Backers: The
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The Evolution: Sword Health is expanding its highly successful Bloom product from a condition-specific pelvic care solution into a comprehensive, life-stage-based women's
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· The Launch: Salesforce has officially launched 6 new Agentforce Health agents, deploying an autonomous digital workforce to alleviate the crushing administrative burden on
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The Deal: Eight Sleep has secured a $50M strategic investment led by Tether Investments, pushing the smart sleep technology company to a massive $1.5 billion valuation.The
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The Funding: UnityAI has closed an $8.5M in Series A funding round led by Third Prime, with participation from Nashville Capital Network, Whistler Capital Partners, and others,
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The Affordability Crisis: According to the newly released 2026 Physician Sentiment Survey from athenahealth’s research hub, athenaInstitute, access to affordable healthcare has
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New innovation breeds new complexity, and that’s exactly what we’ve seen in the digital health market. Over the past decade, employers have invested heavily in point solutions to help address nearly
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The Partnership: Withings Health Solutions, a pioneer in connected health hardware, has partnered with 9amHealth, a leader in virtual cardiometabolic care, to deploy remote
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The Partnership: Hyro, a Responsible AI Agent Platform, has partnered with Seattle-region nonprofit Overlake Medical Center & Clinics to modernize patient access and
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The Funding: KeyCare, the nation's first Epic-based virtual care company, has closed a $27.4M financing round, bringing its total capital raised to over $55M led by HealthX
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The Deal: Healthcare navigation giant Quantum Health has acquired CirrusMD, a premier on-demand virtual care provider. Financial details of the acquition were not disclosed.
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The Market Burden: Gastrointestinal (GI) conditions affect one in five adults in the United States and generate a staggering $112 billion in annual healthcare spending.
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The Partnership: Pivot Point Consulting has partnered with the Microsoft Rural Health Resiliency Program to deploy Microsoft's Dragon Copilot AI to resource-strapped rural
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The Launch: DarcyIQ, an AI revenue acceleration platform developed by AWS Premier Tier Partner Innovative Solutions, has announced native integrations with Epic and
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The Launch: Digital care leader Medbridge has introduced a new Occupational Health Pathway, available within its Medbridge One Care platform.The Market Problem:
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The Partnership: Anterior, a clinician-led AI platform, is integrating its clinical reasoning engine directly into HealthEdge's GuidingCare®, a massive care management platform
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Telehealth’s biggest barrier for older adults isn’t lack of interest or access, but design choices that overlook cognitive, sensory, and usability needs.Age-inclusive design, like
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There's growing recognition that you and your IT teams now play a more integral role than ever in evaluating healthcare software and equipment purchases. What was once primarily the domain of clinical
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The Acquisition: RadNet, a massive U.S. outpatient imaging provider, is acquiring Paris-based radiology AI company Gleamer for up to €230M ($269.05M) in an all-cash
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The Funding: BrainCheck has raised an additional $13M in Series A financing, led by Next Coast Ventures, with participation from S3 Ventures and UPMC Enterprises.The Tech: The
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The Deal: Healthcare tech companies DoseSpot and Arrive Health have officially merged to form Interra Health.The Backers: The deal is backed by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities
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Revenue Cycle Feels Different Now
There was a time when revenue cycle performance was judged mostly by operational benchmarks. Claims processed. Days in accounts receivable. Staffing ratios. Those
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The Launch: Procode Inc., an AI-powered revenue cycle management (RCM) company for private practice surgeons, has officially emerged from stealth with $4M in funding.The
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The Finding: New research from workforce platform Edge reveals that 76.4% of healthcare leaders are overwhelmed by administrative workloads. This "silent bottleneck" is
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With age comes new challenges and opportunities. As people grow older, a desire to stay in place is common; individuals want to remain in familiar surroundings as they grow older. That is why in-home
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The Adoption Curve: KLAS Digital Pathology 2026 Report reveals the US digital pathology market is rapidly growing due to recent FDA clearances and progress toward specific
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