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Innovaccer and Coforge Partner on G-Forge: A New Center of Excellence for Healthcare AI

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Innovaccer and Coforge Partner on G-Forge: A New Center of Excellence for Healthcare AI

What You Should Know The News: Healthcare AI company Innovaccer has partnered with digital services giant Coforge to launch G-Forge, a joint initiative designed to operationalize AI in healthcare.The Strategy: The partnership combines Innovaccer’s "Gravity" AI infrastructure with Coforge’s implementation muscle, creating a "Healthcare AI Center of Excellence" to bridge the gap between having data and using it.The Focus: The initiative targets the heavy-lifting areas of healthcare operations:
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Aptar Digital Health Partners with ŌURA to Integrate Biometrics into Migraine Buddy

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Aptar Digital Health Partners with ŌURA to Integrate Biometrics into Migraine Buddy

What You Should Know The Deal: Aptar Digital Health is integrating data from the ŌURA Ring directly into Migraine Buddy, the world’s most popular migraine tracking app.The Tech: The integration combines subjective patient data (symptom logs) with objective biometric data (sleep, HRV, temperature) to help users identify invisible triggers.The Focus: The partnership places a heavy emphasis on women’s health, leveraging Oura’s cycle tracking insights to illuminate the often-overlooked link
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Suki Selected for athenahealth Preferred Partner Program in Ambient Intelligence

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Suki & Google Cloud Partner to Provide Clinicians with Patient Summaries and Q&A Functionality

What You Should Know The News: Suki has been selected as a "Preferred Solution Partner" by athenahealth, effectively giving the ambient AI platform a formal stamp of approval for the network’s 150,000+ providers.The Scale: Suki is already generating 500,000 clinical notes monthly for athenahealth users, with adoption growing 50% in the last six months alone.The Access: Uniquely, the technology is available in two ways: as a standalone app (Suki for Clinicians) or deeply embedded directly into
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The Shadow AI Crisis: Why 1 in 5 Healthcare Workers Are Going Rogue with Algorithms

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The Shadow AI Crisis: Why 1 in 5 Healthcare Workers Are Going Rogue with Algorithms

What You Should Know The Trend: Wolters Kluwer Health report reveals "Shadow AI"—the use of unauthorized AI tools by employees—has permeated healthcare, with nearly 20% of staff admitting to using unvetted algorithms and 40% encountering them.The Motivation: The driver isn't malice, but burnout. Clinicians are turning to these tools to speed up workflows and reduce administrative burden, often because approved enterprise alternatives are missing or inadequate.The Risk: The gap in governance
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The Walking ICU: Wandercraft and Brigham and Women’s Test Robotics on Critical Patients

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The Walking ICU: Wandercraft and Brigham and Women’s Test Robotics on Critical Patients

What You Should Know The News: Wandercraft has enrolled the first patient in a groundbreaking clinical trial at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital) to test its self-balancing exoskeleton in the ICU.The Goal: The study aims to determine if the Atalante X robot can safely mobilize fragile thoracic surgery patients days earlier than current standards, potentially improving cardiorespiratory function and mental well-being.The Implications: Beyond patient
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The Self-Driving Revenue Cycle: Claim Health Raises $4.4M to Fix Post-Acute Care’s Biggest Bottleneck

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The Self-Driving Revenue Cycle: Claim Health Raises $4.4M to Fix Post-Acute Care's Biggest Bottleneck

What You Should Know The News: Claim Health has raised a $4.4 million Seed round led by Maverick Ventures to scale its "AI-native" revenue operations platform for post-acute care.The Traction: Since exiting Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, the company has grown revenue 30x in under a year, driven by providers seeking to replace legacy manual workflows.The Tech: The platform offers a "self-driving" revenue cycle—automating everything from patient intake to payment reconciliation—delivering a
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Kontakt.io Launches “Patient Flow Agent” to Reclaim the 22% of Hospital Days That Are Unnecessary

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Kontakt.io Launches "Patient Flow Agent" to Reclaim the 22% of Hospital Days That Are Unnecessary

What You Should Know The Launch: Kontakt.io has introduced the "Patient Flow Agent," an orchestration platform designed to reduce hospital length of stay (LOS) by blending real-time location data (RTLS) with electronic health records (EHR).The Thesis: The company argues that hospitals are suffering from a "flow orchestration problem," not a bed shortage. By fixing decision-making context, they aim to eliminate the 22% of inpatient days deemed clinically unnecessary.The ROI: For an average
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Vizient 2026 Forecast: 65+ Population to Drive Hospital Utilization as AI Spend Hits $100B

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Vizient 2026 Forecast: 65+ Population to Drive Hospital Utilization as AI Spend Hits $100B

What You Should Know The Reality: The U.S. healthcare system is in a "structural pressure" cooker. While patient outcomes are improving (mortality down 33%), the financial model is fracturing under the weight of an aging population and rising supply costs.The Shift: 2026 marks the end of the "Megadeal" era. Hospital M&A has pivoted to distressed asset acquisitions, while successful systems are moving toward vertical partnerships rather than buying more hospitals.The Future: AI is the only
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Ventra Health Launches “vCision” – An Agentic AI Platform to Combat Revenue Leakage

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Ventra Health Launches "vCision" – An Agentic AI Platform to Combat Revenue Leakage

What You Should Know The News: Ventra Health has launched vCision, a new revenue intelligence platform powered by "Agentic AI" (autonomous digital agents) to optimize the revenue cycle for facility-based physicians.The Partnership: The platform was developed in partnership with healthcare engineering firm CitiusTech, combining Ventra’s RCM expertise with CitiusTech’s generative AI capabilities.The Goal: vCision aims to move beyond simple automation by using adaptive models to anticipate payer
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Greenway Health, AWS Build an Agentic AI Factory for Medicine

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Greenway Health, AWS Build an Agentic AI Factory for Medicine

What You Should Know The News: Greenway Health, in collaboration with AWS, has launched the "Agentic AI Factory," a platform designed to mass-produce secure, compliant AI agents for healthcare.The Shift: Unlike standalone chatbots, these "agentic" tools are built to actively execute tasks—from patient registration to billing—within the existing EHR workflow, effectively creating an "Automated Healthcare Practice."The Governance: To counter trust issues, Greenway introduced the AIRE (AI
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