Digital transformation in pharma usually starts off strong, big vision, budget gets approved, everyone’s aligned, but scaling it is where things get messy. At the leadership level, this really becomes an orchestration problem. It’s like trying to expand a manufacturing plant while everything is still running. You can’t pause production, you can’t mess up compliance, and you definitely can’t create chaos on the floor. Scaling digital works the same way. You’re layering in new systems, new
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Archives for 2026
What Senior Leaders Actually Need to Know About Scaling Digital in
Vali Health Emerges from Stealth with $6M to Scale Responsible AI Across Home Care EHRs
What You Should Know
San Francisco-based health technology innovator Vali Health has emerged from stealth with a $6M funding round led by Bonfire Ventures, Supernode, and Comma Capital.The financing features prominent backing from Jacquelyn Kung, co-founder of ClearCare (now WellSky), aligning the startup with deep clinical and operations software lineage.The platform tackles the acute, multi-layered "no-show crisis" impacting home care, where sudden caregiver call-outs leave vulnerable aging
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Model N Acquires Kalderos to Expand 340B Capabilities and Gross-to-Net Analytics
What You Should Know
End-to-end life sciences revenue management pioneer Model N has announced its strategic acquisition of drug discount analytics platform Kalderos.The transaction consolidates Kalderos’ proprietary Truzo platform into Model N’s commercial infrastructure to provide real-time, claims-level visibility into complex 340B discount networks.Life sciences manufacturers face intensifying gross-to-net (GTN) pressures, driven by ongoing Medicare drug price negotiations,
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Prior Authorization Technology Is the Weakest Link in the GLP-1 Revolution
The clinical case for GLP-1 receptor agonists in obesity management is no longer a debate. Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated sustained weight reduction of 15 to 22 percent of body weight, meaningful improvements in cardiovascular outcomes, and reductions in obesity related comorbidities including type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinology, the American Gastroenterological Association, and major cardiology societies have all updated their
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What Unstructured Data is Really Costing Healthcare
At the center of some of healthcare’s most important conversations about patient access, provider burnout, and interoperability is a single pain point: unstructured data.
When the HITECH Act pushed healthcare into the digital age, it prompted a shift to structured data formats that our industry has yet to master. As a result, interoperability suffers, patient data is incomplete or missed, and providers and staff spend more time than ever wading through data that may not net relevant
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Abridge Unveils AI-Native Clinician Intelligence Platform with Enterprise-Wide Northwestern Medicine Rollout
What You Should Know
At its keynote in New York City, generative AI pioneer Abridge unveiled the first AI-native clinician intelligence platform built to orchestrate clinical, financial, and evidence-based decisions.The expansion shifts Abridge from a passive, post-visit ambient documentation tool to an active, end-to-end intelligence layer spanning pre-visit chart synthesis, intra-visit clinical decision support, and real-time billing codes.Expanding its inpatient care footprint, Abridge
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Where IME Documentation Breaks Traditional Healthcare Workflows
Independent Medical Examination (IME) documentation exposes a gap in how healthcare systems handle documentation. While most clinical workflows are designed around structured, encounter-based documentation, IME reporting operates outside those assumptions.
The result is a category of documentation that is essential to administrative, insurance, and legal processes, but poorly aligned with the systems used to manage clinical data.
The issue is not that IME documentation is complex. It’s
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Louisiana Department of Health Partners with Phenomune to Launch Free Statewide At-Home Immune Profiling
What You Should Know
The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) and biotechnology innovator Phenomune have launched a first-of-its-kind statewide public health initiative providing residents with no-cost, at-home immune insight test kits.Backed by Governor Jeff Landry, the preventative program will distribute up to 250,000 noninvasive kits designed to empower proactive health choices and mitigate structural strain across rural and Medicaid care networks.Grounded in peer-reviewed research
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Wearable Tech Startup The90 Launches $299 UV-Tracking Smart Jewelry
What You Should Know
Preventative skin health wearable pioneer The90 has formally launched out of stealth with The90™ Gem, a high-end smart jewelry pendant and companion app designed to track personal UV exposure.The device targets a massive market gap in healthy skin aging: up to 90% of visible skin damage, wrinkles, and fine lines are caused by cumulative, everyday ultraviolet light exposure rather than chronological aging.Unlike generic, location-based smartphone weather apps, the wearable
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Nordic Appoints Alicia Harkness as Chief Executive Officer
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Global health technology and consulting firm Nordic has announced the appointment of Alicia Harkness as Chief Executive Officer, effective June 15, 2026.Harkness succeeds a strong baseline, transitioning into the role after a distinguished tenure as a founding partner at Guidehouse, where she built and scaled their Global Health business into a dominant market sector within six years.The executive onboarding lands as Application Managed Services (AMS) undergo a major
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