A well-orchestrated healthcare cybersecurity tabletop exercise (TTX) can greatly benefit any healthcare organization. Unfortunately, some TTXs are chaotic and unproductive. When 25 hospital leaders are tied up in a disorganized TTX for four hours, that’s 100 hours of lost productivity.
Here are some tips for how to conduct successful healthcare TTXs that can dramatically improve your preparedness for cyber crises:
Choose your invitations carefully – I’ve been in tabletop exercises that
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Archives for 2026
The Autonomous Revenue Cycle: Waystar Launches Agentic AI to Prevent Billions in Denials
What You Should Know
- Healthcare payment provider Waystar has announced the introduction of agentic intelligence to its cloud-native platform, marking a pivotal step toward the industry's first autonomous revenue cycle.
- Powered by the Waystar AltitudeAI™ engine and a dataset comprising 7.5 billion annual transactions, the new agentic network is designed to execute defined tasks and learn from outcomes with minimal intervention, significantly reducing administrative friction for
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A Practical Sleep-Based Framework for Digital Phenotyping in Bipolar Care
Digital phenotyping has held promise in mental healthcare for over a decade, but until recently, few approaches offered both a stable evidence base and a clear path to clinical deployment. That’s starting to change — particularly for bipolar disorder. Recent studies published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica and npj Digital Medicine show that variations in sleep-wake timing, total sleep time, and daily activity regularity can signal near‑term mood instability in bipolar disorder, reflecting
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5 Different Types of Software Used in Healthcare Industry
Healthcare organizations run on connected systems that support clinical care, operations, and the patient experience. When people search for types of software used in healthcare industry, they usually mean the core platforms that keep clinics and hospitals moving without delays, errors, or data gaps. Competitor guides tend to cluster around EHR/EMR, practice management, telehealth, imaging, and decision support.
Below are 5 different types of software used in the healthcare industry,
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Epic and Health Systems Sue Health Gorilla Over Alleged Medical Record ‘Syndicate’ and Data Monetization
What You Should Know
- Epic Systems—alongside OCHIN, Reid Health, Trinity Health, and UMass Memorial Health—has filed a major lawsuit against the health information network Health Gorilla and companies including Mammoth and RavillaMed.
- The lawsuit alleges the defendants operated an "organized syndicate" to improperly access and monetize nearly 300,000 patient records from the Epic community, alongside an unknown number of records from the VA and other EHR providers, for purposes
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HPS/PayMedix Secures $33M to Scale Guaranteed Healthcare Payments
What You Should Know
- HPS/PayMedix secures $33M in combined equity and debt financing to accelerate the growth of its healthcare financing and payments platform.
- Led by HLM Investment Partners, the funding will be used to expand the PayMedix solution, which unifies all healthcare stakeholders through guaranteed provider payments, interest-free patient financing, and a consolidated SuperEOB® experience.
The Affordability Mandate: Unifying the Payment Experience
As
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Converge Bio Lands $25M to Replace Trial-and-Error Drug Discovery
What You Should Know
- Converge Bio has announced a $25M Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing its total raised to $30M.
- Moving beyond the "AI promise" gap, the company provides end-to-end AI systems that plug directly into existing drug development workflows, already serving over a dozen pharmaceutical and biotech customers to optimize target discovery and protein manufacturing.
The Systemic Pivot: Bridging the Gap Between Promise and Reality
While
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M&A: Net Health Acquires Keet Health to Scale Remote Monitoring
What You Should Know
- Net Health has announced the acquisition of Keet Health from WebPT as part of a major strategic collaboration focused on Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) and outcomes measurement. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Through this deal, Net Health’s Limber platform will become the preferred solution for WebPT and Clinicient customers, with a deep integration targeted for early 2026 to support hybrid care models and value-based
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FinThrive Report Reveals 71% of RCM Leaders Prioritize Experience Over Revenue
What You Should Know
- FinThrive's 2026 Transformative Trends Report marks a historic turning point: for the first time, improving the patient experience has surpassed increasing revenue as the top strategic goal for healthcare financial leaders, with 71% identifying it as their primary focus.
- The shift indicates that leaders are moving away from short-term fixes toward AI-enabled platform consolidation and automation to drive long-term stability and workforce
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Firstsource Acquires TeleMedik to Scale Clinical BPaaS Across the U.S. and Puerto Rico
What You Should Know
- Firstsource Solutions has announced the acquisition of TeleMedik, a Puerto Rico-based pioneer in technological healthcare solutions. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The strategic move significantly strengthens Firstsource’s Business Process as a Service (BPaaS++) offering, integrating digital and generative AI capabilities into clinical operations to help health plans manage rising utilization rates and transition to value-based care
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