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Moffitt Cancer Center has announced the expansion of its hybrid virtual oncology care program with Reimagine Care, deploying the conversational AI-powered assistant Remi alongside a dedicated virtual clinical team.An initial implementation phase covering nearly 7,000 digital patient interactions demonstrated that 97% of patient encounters were independently resolved virtually without requiring escalation to Moffitt providers.Continuous home monitoring and automated
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Archives for 2026
Building Bridges: Academic-Practice Partnerships as the Future of New Graduate Nurse Preparedness
Building Bridges: Academic-Practice Partnerships as the Future of New Graduate Nurse Preparedness
The nursing workforce is at an inflection point. As experienced nurses retire or leave the profession and care delivery continues to shift in complexity, health systems are increasingly dependent on new graduate nurses to sustain operations, ensure patient safety, and deliver high‑quality care. Many organizations are finding that today’s graduates are entering practice underprepared for the
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Kin Health Raises $9M to Launch Free Conversational App for Patients
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Kin Health has closed an oversubscribed $9M seed financing round led by Maveron, featuring participation from Town Hall Ventures, Flex Capital, and the co-founders of GoodRx.The free mobile application directly addresses clinical data showing that patients accurately recall only 49% of medical advice from doctor visits, with roughly half forgetting their treatment plans entirely.While ambient scribe technology has reached a massive 75% to 90% adoption rate on the
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Beyond Compliance: What KLAS’ Brief Reveals About the Real ROI of Legacy Data Decommissioning
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KLAS latest report, Data Archiving 2026, interviewed 36 vendor-identified deep adopters between September 2025 and March 2026 to evaluate how health organizations utilize archiving software beyond basic legal and retention requirements.Advanced capabilities like AI-driven clinical decision support and real-time analytics are rarely in production, with 60% of deep adopters showing no interest in using archived data for AI or research enablement.Financial return on
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Demystifying the Blood Panel: Labcorp Launches HIPAA-Compliant Mobile AI Advisor
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Global laboratory services leader Labcorp has officially launched MyLabcorp™, a secure, AI-powered mobile patient application available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.The application directly addresses a massive consumer shift toward digital data interpretation, with recent survey findings showing that 55% of consumers view AI as important for understanding health information.Backed by OpenAI's advanced reasoning models, the app introduces an
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Cedars-Sinai Deploys OpenEvidence Enterprise Platform to Drive Precision Clinical Decision Support
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Los Angeles-based health system Cedars-Sinai has deployed OpenEvidence systemwide, giving its entire enterprise care team access to an AI-enabled clinical reference tool directly integrated within the Electronic Health Record (EHR).The AI platform functions at the point of care by dynamically linking the latest peer-reviewed medical literature and scientific findings with an individual patient’s unique history, including comorbidities, prior procedures, medications,
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The Compliance Bottleneck in Connected Health: Why Cloud-Based Medical Devices Need a Different V&V Approach
Most verification and validation (V&V) frameworks in medical devices were built on a foundational assumption: the device you ship is the device that gets used. A fixed product, a fixed software version, and a defined validation cycle.
That assumption no longer holds.
Cloud-based connected health platforms operate as continuously evolving systems rather than static devices. Software updates dynamically, data flows bidirectionally between patient and infrastructure, and system boundaries
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Surescripts Expands Prior Authorization Automation: Slashing Prescription Approval Times as New CMS Interoperability Rules Loom
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Surescripts has expanded its Prior Authorization Automation solution, increasing the number of enabled clinicians by 50% since December 2025 to reach 68,000 prescribers across 42 major health systems.Automated prior authorization systems achieved a median approval time of just 18 seconds when clinical determination criteria were met, bypassing traditional manual forms, faxes, and telephone calls.Real-Time Prescription Benefit tools saved patients $19.7 million from
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Spero Health Partners with UnityAI to Deploy PatientOps Platform Across National Network
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Healthcare operations company UnityAI has launched a strategic partnership with national substance use disorder (SUD) treatment provider Spero Health to automate inbound patient intake and scheduling.Spero Health will deploy UnityAI’s PatientOps platform across its network of over 60 locations to eliminate long hold times, missed patient connections, and front-line friction during critical moments of treatment readiness.The platform utilizes an agentic workforce
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HealthEx and 23andMe Partner to Unify Medical Records and Genomics
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Consumer identity and health data platform HealthEx has partnered with 23andMe to allow users to securely link their comprehensive electronic medical records directly to their genetic profiles.The integration enables 23andMe to combine real-world clinical data—such as laboratory results, historical diagnoses, and active prescription histories—with genomic profiles to build dynamic, personalized disease risk models.By utilizing HealthEx's specialized digital identity
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