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State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2025: Exploited Vulnerabilities Top Cause, Staff Capacity Biggest Weakness

by Fred Pennic 11/21/2025 Leave a Comment

Ransomware State of Healthcare 2025: Exploited Vulnerabilities Top Cause, Staff Capacity Biggest Weakness

What You Should Know:  - Sophos's State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2025 report reveals exploited vulnerabilities are now the leading technical cause of attacks (33%).  - The study highlights a sector becoming more resilient to encryption but facing soaring extortion-only attacks and high pressure on IT teams. Root Causes Shift: Capacity Gaps and Exploited Vulnerabilities Lead The latest Sophos study, based on the experiences of 292 healthcare providers, shows a significant
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GE HealthCare Acquires Intelerad for $2.3B to Create Cloud-First, AI-Enabled Imaging Ecosystem

by Fred Pennic 11/20/2025 Leave a Comment

GE HealthCare Acquires Intelerad for $2.3B to Create Cloud-First, AI-Enabled Imaging Ecosystem

What You Should Know:  - GE HealthCare announced the acquisition of Intelerad, a medical imaging software provider, for $2.3 billion in cash.  - The deal is set to accelerate GE HealthCare's shift to a SaaS business model and expand its AI-enabled imaging solutions across high-growth outpatient and ambulatory care settings. Strategic Merger: Expanding Cloud-First Imaging to Outpatient Care The strategic acquisition underscores GE HealthCare's commitment to cloud-enabled and
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How eClinicalWorks is Harnessing AI and Telehealth to Support Rural Healthcare Organizations

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How eClinicalWorks is Harnessing AI and Telehealth to Support Rural Healthcare Organizations

Rural communities face a complex web of barriers that hinder access to quality healthcare, including long travel distances, workforce shortages, limited broadband for telehealth, underinsurance, low health literacy, and social stigmas. These obstacles often discourage individuals from seeking timely medical care and contribute to disproportionate health burdens such as shorter life expectancy, higher rates of chronic disease, and fewer preventive care options compared to urban areas. Despite
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Arbiter Emerges from Stealth with $52M Funding to End Healthcare Fragmentation with AI

by Fred Pennic 11/19/2025 Leave a Comment

Arbiter Emerges from Stealth with $52M Funding to End Healthcare Fragmentation with AI

What You Should Know:  - Arbiter, a new AI-powered care orchestration platform, has launched from stealth with $52M in funding, led by TriEdge Investments and MFO Ventures, to unite payers, providers, and patients and rebuild the operating spine of U.S. healthcare. - The company is built and funded by leaders overseeing over $25B in annual healthcare payments and millions of patient lives. Its team combines executive leadership from major health systems and payers (Cigna,
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WellBeam Raises $10M Series A to Break EMR Silos Between Acute and Post-Acute Care

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WellBeam Raises $10M Series A to Break EMR Silos Between Acute and Post-Acute Care

What You Should Know:  - WellBeam, a healthcare technology company, announced that it has successfully raised $10M in Series A funding led by Wittington Ventures and included participation from F-Prime, Advocate Health, and Oncology Ventures. - The funding will accelerate WellBeam’s growth, significantly expanding its interoperability infrastructure across health systems, physician groups, and post-acute partners. The core mission is to break down EMR data silos and enable
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Denial Prevention AI: Ember Raises $4.3M to Cut Healthcare Denials by Over 57%

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What You Should Know: - Ember, the AI-native solution for denial prevention secures $4.3M in seed funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners and Y Combinator. - Its platform uses deep knowledge of payer policies to cut denials by more than 57% and boost net collections by 25% for health systems. The Denial Crisis: Fueling Burnout and Financial Loss Healthcare providers nationwide face an intensifying crisis driven by claim delays and denials, which create significant anxiety for patients, frustration for doctors, and a massive drag on resources. The problem is growing exponentially: Public Concern: 73% of U.S. adults view delays and denials by insurers as a "major problem". Physician Burnout: 89% of physicians cite prior authorization as a contributor to burnout. Policy Complexity: Over 50% of billing codes are restricted to a single insurer, meaning providers must manage wildly different and ever-changing requirements for each payer. Ember’s AI-Native Solution: Preventing Denials Before They Happen Ember is designed to solve the problem at its root, recognizing that most denials are triggered by technicalities and the impossibility of human administrators keeping up with varied payer policies. Ember's platform gets to work the moment a provider signs off on treatment: Proactive Compliance: It assigns medical codes, pulls documentation, and ensures the claim complies with payer requirements before submission. Unwritten Rules: Ember analyzes trends and behaviors from across the country to identify unwritten rules and practices not found in any public database, which often mean the difference between approval and denial. Superior Accuracy: The AI consistently delivers better accuracy than certified human coders and general-purpose AI. The AI Appeals Engine and Rapid Value For claims that are denied, Ember’s unique AI Appeals Engine drastically reduces the labor-intensive task of appealing. Ember’s AI agents scour the declined request and patient records, identify the best clinical evidence, and draft a comprehensive appeal in minutes. The platform is built for rapid deployment and integrates seamlessly with all major EHR, PMS, and payer systems (including Epic, Oracle Cerner, and athenahealth). Providers begin seeing value immediately, with proven results: Denial Reduction: More than 57% reduction in denials. Net Collection Rate: 25% increase in net collection rate. Admin Time Savings: Providers spend 83% less time on admin.

What You Should Know:  - Ember, the AI-native solution for denial prevention secures $4.3M in seed funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners and Y Combinator.  - Its platform uses deep knowledge of payer policies to cut denials by more than 57% and boost net collections by 25% for health systems. The Denial Crisis: Fueling Burnout and Financial Loss Healthcare providers nationwide face an intensifying crisis driven by claim delays and denials, which create significant
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Doctors Can Now Search RWE on Microsoft Teams: Atropos Health Integrates Evidence™ Agent with Microsoft Teams

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Atropos Health Integrates Evidence™ Agent into Microsoft Teams to Deliver Real-Time RWE

What You Should Know:  - Atropos Health, a pioneer in translating clinical data into personalized Real-World Evidence (RWE) and insights, has launched the Atropos Evidence™ Agent.  - The expert agent is designed to integrate directly with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 to revolutionize how personalized evidence is delivered to the point of need. - The integration allows multidisciplinary care team members, such as those participating in Tumor Boards or care coordination
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Humana and Epic Launch Coverage Finder to Deliver Digital-First Medicare Advantage Check-In

by Fred Pennic 11/18/2025 Leave a Comment

Humana Partners with Sunrise to Expand Digital Sleep Apnea Diagnostics

What You Should Know:  - Humana today announced the broad activation of Epic’s Coverage Finder and Digital Insurance Card Exchange for its Medicare Advantage members.  - The partnership streamlines check-in and ensures automated, paperless insurance verification for over 800,000 members at hundreds of health systems today announced the broad activation of Epic’s Coverage Finder and Digital Insurance Card Exchange capabilities for its Medicare Advantage membership – marking a
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Distalmotion Closes $150M to Accelerate US Adoption of DEXTER® Robotic Surgery System

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Distalmotion Closes $150M to Accelerate US Adoption of DEXTER® Robotic Surgery System

What You Should Know: - Distalmotion, a MedTech company with a mission to empower access to the benefits of robotic surgery secures $150M in Series G financing round led by Revival Healthcare Capital.  - The new funding will primarily be used to accelerate the U.S. commercial adoption of its soft tissue robotic surgery system, DEXTER. A major focus of the U.S. expansion is the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) market, recognized as one of the fastest-growing segments in surgical care
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NVIDIA, Sheba, and Mount Sinai Partner to Decode 98% of Human Genome with LLM

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NVIDIA, Sheba, and Mount Sinai Partner to Decode 98% of Human Genome with LLM

What You Should Know: - ARC Innovation at Sheba Medical Center and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (part of the Mount Sinai Health System) have announced a major three-year collaboration with NVIDIA. The initiative focuses on applying Large Language Model (LLM) technology to genomic research. - The primary objective is to pioneer the decoding of the majority (98%) of the human genome that remains poorly understood. By deciphering this area—once labeled "junk DNA"—researchers
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