What You Should Know:
- Deloitte’s 2026 US Health Care Outlook reveals a dangerous disconnect: while nearly 70% of health executives expect to outperform competitors next year, the "traditional playbook" of market expansion and cost-cutting is no longer sufficient.
- Amid rising regulatory uncertainty and financial pressure, the report identifies three mandatory pivots for survival: empowering consumer health with digital experiences, scaling generative and agentic AI across
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The VBC Paradox: Why Hospitals Are Doubling Down on Value-Based Care While Revenue at Risk Lags
What You Should Know:
- A new report from Sage Growth Partners reveals a striking disconnect in the healthcare industry: while only 20% of C-suite leaders believe progress has been made in value-based care (VBC) recently, 77% plan to increase their participation in these models over the next two years.
- The "plot twist" indicates that despite operational hurdles and low revenue exposure today, hospital executives view VBC as essential for long-term financial survival. The data
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FDA Clears Ceribell’s AI-Powered EEG as First Device for Continuous Delirium Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Ceribell, Inc. has secured FDA 510(k) clearance for the world’s first continuous, AI-powered delirium monitoring solution, expanding its existing EEG platform beyond seizure detection.
- The technology addresses a massive gap in critical care, providing objective, real-time tracking for a condition that affects up to 80% of ventilated patients and is often missed by manual assessments. The clearance positions Ceribell to significantly improve ICU
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Fighting Physician Burnout: OhioHealth Deploys Abridge AI Across 200+ Care Sites
What You Should Know:
- OhioHealth has announced a massive expansion of Abridge's generative AI platform to thousands of ambulatory clinicians across its 50-county network.
- The decision follows a pilot program that delivered a 59% reduction in cognitive load and a 28% decrease in after-hours documentation time for providers. By automating clinical notes and integrating deeply with the EHR, OhioHealth aims to restore the human connection in patient care, with plans to explore future
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AdventHealth and UCF Transform Lake Nona into a Robotic Surgery and Simulation Epicenter
What You Should Know:
- Lake Nona Medical City is accelerating its growth as a national hub for integrated health innovation with two major milestones: the topping off of AdventHealth’s new robotic surgery-focused hospital and the expansion of the University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Nursing.
- AdventHealth’s 25-acre campus will feature "incisionless" histotripsy technology and collaborative surgical robots, while UCF’s new pavilion triples simulation capacity to address
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KLAS 2025 Report: Chartis and Impact Advisors Lead as Hospitals Seek IT Planning Expertise
What You Should Know:
- As healthcare IT environments grow increasingly complex, a new KLAS Decision Insights report reveals that health systems are turning to external firms primarily for high-level strategic planning and IT assessments.
- The study, based on 38 purchase decisions between 2023 and 2025, identifies Chartis, Impact Advisors, and Healthlink Advisors as the most frequently considered partners. Crucially, the data shows that expertise and cultural alignment are the
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Valinor Raises $13M to Predict Clinical Trial Outcomes Using Multi-Omic AI
What You Should Know:
- Valinor has launched with $13M in seed funding to tackle one of the pharmaceutical industry's most expensive challenges: clinical trial failure led by CRV and Harpoon Ventures.
- The company uses proprietary AI models trained on matched multi-omic samples and clinical outcomes to predict how specific patient populations will respond to new therapies. This "response-first" approach aims to drastically de-risk drug development by identifying responders
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Subsense Raises $10M to Replace Brain Implants with Nasal Nanoparticles
What You Should Know:
- Subsense Inc. has raised an additional $10M, bringing its total funding to $27M, to develop a non-surgical brain-computer interface (BCI) that relies on engineered nanoparticles rather than implanted chips.
- Administered nasally to cross the blood-brain barrier, this technology aims to record and modulate brain activity with high precision without the risks associated with invasive surgery.
- The funding from Golden Falcon Capital
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Accenture Invests in Ryght AI to Accelerate Clinical Trials with Agentic AI and Digital Twins
What You Should Know:
- Accenture has made a strategic investment in Ryght AI through its venture capital arm, aiming to modernize the sluggish clinical trial process. Ryght AI utilizes "agentic AI" and its proprietary AI Site Twin platform to create dynamic digital replicas of research sites, allowing pharmaceutical companies to optimize site selection and patient enrollment.
- The strategic collaboration seeks to remove the manual bottlenecks that delay life-saving therapies,
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Kaufman Hall Report: Rising Non-Labor Costs and Payer Denials Squeeze Hospital Margins in 2025
What You Should Know:
- According to Kaufman Hall’s 2025 Health System Performance Outlook, hospitals are facing a "financial trifecta" of rising non-labor expenses, workforce instability, and aggressive payer reimbursement pressures.
- Nearly 60% of health systems reported non-labor cost increases of up to 10%, driven by inflation and tariffs, while 44% cited high claim denial rates as a top challenge. As bad debt rises and staffing levels tighten, the report urges leaders to
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