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“One Health” Disease Surveillance: Why Integrated Systems Are Critical for Public Health and Economic Stability

“One Health” Disease Surveillance: Why Integrated Systems Are Critical for Public Health and Economic Stability

07/18/2025 By Heidi Steinecker, Resultant Health and Human Service Practice Lead Leave a Comment

Is our siloed approach to health surveillance creating the perfect conditions for the next pandemic?  Recent outbreaks—from avian influenza to E. coli contamination in leafy greens—highlight the urgent need for integrated disease surveillance systems. Yet, many public health surveillance
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by Jasmine Pennic 07/18/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - CareCloud, a leader in healthcare technology and generative AI solutions launches  its fully integrated, AI-driven dermatology Electronic Health Record (EHR)
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Navigating Clinical Trials: New Report Reveals Physicians Face Major Hurdles in Accessing Innovative Treatments

Navigating Clinical Trials: Physicians Face Major Hurdles in Accessing Innovative Treatments

by Fred Pennic 07/18/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - myTomorrows, a global health technology company connecting patients and physicians with pre-approval treatments, published a new data report, "Searching for solutions:
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Ensemble Health Partners, Microsoft Strengthens AI-Powered Revenue Cycle Management with Expanded Partnership

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by Jasmine Pennic 07/18/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - Ensemble, a revenue cycle managed services partner for healthcare organizations, announced that Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) has selected it as its strategic
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Wellsheet Launches Care Team Copilot to Halve Charting Time and Streamline Inpatient Workflows

Wellsheet Launches Care Team AI Copilot to Halve Charting Time and Streamline Inpatient Workflows

by Jasmine Pennic 07/18/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - Wellsheet, a leader in AI clinical workflows and operations launches its new Care Team Copilot, a solution that combines chart summarization, multidisciplinary
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Philips Launches ECG AI Marketplace, Partnering with Anumana to Enhance Cardiac Care with AI-Powered Diagnostics

Philips Launches ECG AI Marketplace, Partnering with Anumana to Enhance Cardiac Care with AI-Powered Diagnostics

by Fred Pennic 07/17/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - Philips announced the launch of the Philips ECG AI Marketplace, a new platform that provides cardiac care teams with a central location to access multiple vendor
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Beyond SaaS: How Agent as a Service is Transforming Healthcare Automation

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by Rahul Sharma, CEO at HSBlox 07/17/2025 Leave a Comment

Agent as a service (AaaS) goes beyond SaaS to offer greater automation, fewer errors, and to perform more tasks in real time while requiring less effort from humans. For specific healthcare use cases,
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Define Ventures Report Reveals Pharma Accelerates AI Investment for Enterprise-Scale Deployment

Define Ventures Report Reveals Pharma Accelerates AI Investment for Enterprise-Scale Deployment

by Fred Pennic 07/17/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - Define Ventures, one of the largest venture capital firms focused on early-stage health tech companies, today released a report revealing how Big Pharma is
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Advocate Health to Deploy Aidoc’s FDA-cleared AI Algorithms With It’s Clinical Imaging Workflows

Advocate Health to Deploy Aidoc’s FDA-cleared AI Algorithms With It’s Clinical Imaging Workflows

by Fred Pennic 07/17/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - Advocate Health, the nation’s third-largest nonprofit integrated health system, has announced an agreement with Aidoc to expand the use of its AI platform. Following a
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Patient-Centric Approaches in an Era of Multi-Indication Therapies

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by Vipasha Paul, MIDAS Project Lead, IQVIA and Sarah Bickley, MIDAS Offering Director, IQVIA 07/17/2025 Leave a Comment

The life sciences industry has undergone a profound transformation over the past decade, evolving from a product-centric model to one that places patients at the center of its business strategy. This
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HOPPR Launches New Chest Radiography Model with API Access

HOPPR Launches New Chest Radiography Model with API Access

by Jasmine Pennic 07/17/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - HOPPR, a secure AI development platform for medical imaging announced the commercial release of its HOPPR Marie Curie Chest Radiography Foundation Model and
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MedeAnalytics and ZeOmega Partner to Launch Population Health Navigator

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by Jasmine Pennic 07/17/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - MedeAnalytics, a healthcare enterprise data enrichment platform and analytics software-as-a-service (SaaS) leader announced its partnership with DecisionRx, a
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athenahealth Released Enhanced Capabilities for Value-Based Care

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by Jasmine Pennic 07/17/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - athenahealth, a provider of network-enabled software and services for healthcare practices nationwide releases new and enhanced capabilities designed to further help
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Century Health Brings AI Curated Datasets to Life Sciences Companies Through Datavant Connect and AWS Clean Rooms

Century Health Brings AI Curated Datasets to Life Sciences Companies Through Datavant Connect and AWS Clean Rooms

by Syed Hamza Sohail 07/17/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know: -  Century Health has announced a strategic partnership with Datavant Connect—powered by AWS Clean Rooms—to bring AI-curated, disease-specific datasets directly to
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ShiftMed Unveils AI Suite to Optimize Healthcare Workforce Management

by Jasmine Pennic 07/17/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - ShiftMed, a provider of healthcare workforce technology, today announced the launch of its Workforce AI Suite, a set of intelligent tools designed to automate shift
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OpenEvidence Secures $210M, Launches Free AI Agent for Clinicians

OpenEvidence Secures $210M, Launches Free AI Agent for Clinicians

by Fred Pennic 07/16/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - OpenEvidence, the most widely used medical search and AI application among verified U.S. clinicians raises $210M in Series B funding round, valuing the company at $3.5
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American Heart Association Ventures™ Invests in Auxira Health to Transform Cardiology Care

American Heart Association Ventures™ Invests in Auxira Health to Transform Cardiology Care

by Fred Pennic 07/16/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - Auxira Health, a virtual cardiology platform announced a strategic collaboration with and investment from American Heart Association Ventures™, the venture capital arm
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Inbox Health Launches AI Agent for Billing and Patient Support

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by Syed Hamza Sohail 07/16/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know: -   Inbox Health today launched its AI-powered assistant for patient billing support, fully integrated into its industry-leading patient billing platform. - The assistant
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Hippocratic AI Launches Early Access Partnership Program with Providers to Shape the Future of AI-Powered Patient Care

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What You Should Know:  - Hippocratic AI, a global leader in generative AI healthcare agents announced a strategic partnership with Sheba Medical Center, a global beacon of medical innovation
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by Jasmine Pennic 07/16/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - A recent survey conducted by The Harris Poll and commissioned by Backline by DrFirst reveals a significant national shortfall in advance care planning. Only 5% of
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New Opportunities for Healthcare AI: Decoding the 2026 Medicare Advantage Rate Hike

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by David Talby, CEO, John Snow Labs 07/16/2025 Leave a Comment

Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2026 Medicare Advantage (MA) Rate Announcement, projecting a 5.06% average increase in payments to MA plans. That’s a
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ZeOmega Partners with Massachusetts Health Data Consortium to Launch Nation's First Statewide FHIR-Based Prior Authorization System

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by Fred Pennic 07/16/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - ZeOmega®, a population health and interoperability technology company announced it has been selected by the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MHDC), a nonprofit
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by Jasmine Pennic 07/16/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launches its Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Access Model, a new approach to delivering cutting-edge treatments for
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by Jasmine Pennic 07/16/2025 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know:  - FFL Partners (“FFL”), a private equity firm focused on growth investments in tech-enabled business services and healthcare companies, today announced the completion of
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by Syed Hamza Sohail 07/15/2025 Leave a Comment

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