What You Should Know
The Milestone: Butterfly Network has received FDA clearance for a fully automated Gestational Age (GA) Tool integrated directly into its handheld, semiconductor-based ultrasound devices. It is the first FDA-cleared "blind-sweep" ultrasound AI tool for estimating gestational age.The Efficacy & Scale: The tool is proven to deliver results equivalent to a trained sonographer for patients between 16 and 37 weeks. Backed by the Gates Foundation, the tool is already
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Archives for 2026
Abbott Integrates Precision Oncology Portfolio into Flatiron Health’s OncoEMR to Streamline Cancer Care
What You Should Know:
Integration: Abbott has partnered with Flatiron Health to natively integrate its Precision Oncology testing portfolio directly into OncoEMR®, Flatiron’s cloud-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform.
Impact: This integration allows oncology providers to order Abbott's specialized cancer tests and view the results without ever leaving their primary clinical workflow.
The Technology Integration
Instead of logging into separate portals or dealing
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How Small Medical Practices Can Build HIPAA-Aligned DevSecOps Without Enterprise Budgets
When people discuss healthcare security, they often think about large hospital systems with dedicated security teams and expensive compliance programs. But a big part of U.S. healthcare looks very different. It is made of small practices, local clinics, and independent providers with limited staff, limited IT support, and very little room for operational mistakes.
At the same time, these organizations still handle sensitive patient data every day. They use patient portals, scheduling systems,
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DAS Health Appoints Lee Horner as Chief Executive Officer
What You Should Know:
- DAS Health, a provider of healthcare IT, managed services, and business solutions, has officially appointed Lee Horner as its new Chief Executive Officer.
- The leadership change is aimed at driving the company's next phase of growth, innovation, and expansion across the North American healthcare landscape.
Lee Horner Bio/Background
Horner brings over 20 years of executive leadership experience specifically within the healthcare software and
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Building an ‘AI-Ready’ Healthcare Enterprise Using NIST and ISO Frameworks
Technology leaders across diagnostic organizations, radiology practices, pharmacies, and specialty pharmacies are hearing a consistent message from technology providers: “Adopt AI or fall behind.”
The problem is that “adopt AI” is not a strategy. It’s an activity, and too often, it turns into a series of pilots that never become fully integrated enterprise capabilities.
That failure is well-documented. According to a 2025 “State of AI in Business” report on enterprise AI implementation by
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Vida Health Launches Metabolic Control Framework to Manage Obesity, Diabetes, and MASH
What You Should Know
The Launch: Vida Health, a major virtual cardiometabolic provider, has officially launched its Metabolic Control Framework, moving away from single-condition point solutions toward a unified, population-level approach.The Clinical Scope: Rather than treating diseases in isolation, the framework manages interconnected metabolic conditions simultaneously. This includes obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and increasingly critical cost-drivers like MASH (liver
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Health Management Associates (HMA) Acquires HealthTech Solutions to Expand Government IT Capabilities
What You Should Know
The Acquisition: Health Management Associates (HMA), a massive national health and human services consulting firm, has acquired HealthTech Solutions, a premier provider of Medicaid-focused technology and analytics.The Target: HealthTech Solutions brings serious technical firepower to the table. The company features a modular cloud-based platform and a specialized workforce of over 300 professionals dedicated to state agency systems modernization, reporting, and regulatory
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How Workflow-Embedded Learning Solves the Healthcare Compliance and Staffing Crisis
On a busy hospital floor, a reminder pops up on a nurse’s screen. She needs to complete a mandatory compliance training by the end of the week, but a glance at the census board tells her that’s not feasible. Fourteen patients need support, they’re down three nurses this week and there’s a long list of people waiting in the ER for a bed on her floor. She closes the tab. Compliance is important to her, but she doesn’t have the capacity to step away from patient care to watch a 90-minute training
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Leaders in Lab Automation: Diagnostic Companies Setting the Standard for Efficiency
The pressure to deliver faster, accurate results has become a universal challenge. Efficiency and quality must go hand in hand, so as testing volumes rise and workflows grow complex, labs are implementing automation as a primary strategy. Here is how modern diagnostics companies are setting efficiency standards.
How Do the Leading Clinical Laboratory Automation Vendors Compare on Pre-Analytic and Post-Analytic Capabilities?
Selecting the right automation partner is consequential for life
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Collectly Acquires AI Automation Startup Pledge Health to Streamline Pre-Service Workflows
What You Should Know
The Acquisition: Collectly, a dominant AI-powered patient financial experience platform that has processed over $1 billion in payments across 3,000+ facilities, has acquired Y Combinator-backed Pledge Health.The Missing Piece: Collectly has historically owned the post-visit patient billing and engagement experience. Pledge Health brings powerful, upstream pre-service automation (coverage verification, upfront cost estimates, prior auth readiness).The Tech Upgrade: Pledge
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