What You Should Know:
- Export Barbados (BIDC) and the Dubai-headquartered EarlyHealth Group (EHG), a global pharmaceutical services and life sciences company, have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly establish EarlyHealth City Barbados.
- The $200M world-class pharmaceutical and life sciences cluster aims to attract international pharmaceutical partners, drive industrialisation through sustainable contract manufacturing, and expand laboratory and clinical research capacity in
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HIT Professional Services Outlook 2025: CIOs Prioritize Investment in AI, Cybersecurity, and EHR Optimization
What You Should Know:
- The 2025 healthcare landscape is marked by significant uncertainty due to evolving reimbursement models and shifting federal policies. Margin pressures are intensifying across the industry. However, healthcare organizations are responding by intensifying, not cutting, investments in Health Information Technology (HIT) professional services.
- A survey of 105 CIOs by KLAS Research revealed that the vast majority plan to maintain or increase spending on
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CMS Notifies 742 Hospitals of Pricing Targets for New Value-Based Payment Model
What You Should Know:
- On November 15, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin notifying 742 hospitals and health systems of their 2026 pricing targets and quality scores for the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM).
- CMS issued a final rule in July codifying the TEAM model, which aims to reduce costs and improve the quality of outcomes for millions of Americans.
TEAM Model
The model focuses on the five highest-spend surgical
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CHIME-KLAS: The Digital Health Most Wired National Trends Report 2025
What You Should Know:
- The Digital Health Most Wired (DHMW) National Trends Report 2025, produced by CHIME and KLAS Research, signals a crucial evolution in healthcare technology.
- The insights in this report reveals how high-performing organizations achieve measurable outcomes across infrastructure, cybersecurity, analytics, interoperability, patient engagement, and clinical quality, turning digital investment into meaningful, sustainable impact.
Digital Maturity Defined by
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AI Risk Alert: Hospitals Underinvest in Governance Despite Looming 2026 Scrutiny
What You Should Know:
- Despite the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence across clinical and operational workflows, a new survey by Black Book Research of 182 U.S. hospital leaders reveals widespread underinvestment in AI governance, safety, and compliance.
- The survey reveals the median 2026 budget share for AI governance and safety is critically low, standing at just 4.2% of the combined IT and Quality/Safety budget.
The Quiet Risk: Widespread Underinvestment in AI
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AISAP Launches FDA-Cleared Platform in Ghana to Solve Cardiologist Shortage
What You Should Know:
- AISAP, an AI Point-of-Care Diagnostics company, announced a landmark field initiative in Ghana to deploy its FDA-cleared AI-powered cardiac diagnosis platform. This program directly addresses the profound challenge of healthcare access in Ghana, a country of approximately 35 million people served by fewer than 30 cardiologists.
- The initiative, in collaboration with the G-ACT Foundation, aims to establish a global model for bringing expert-level cardiac diagnostics
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InterSystems Launches: Generative AI AI Assistant for Faster Patient Record Access
What You Should Know:
- InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering over 1 billion health records worldwide, announced the launch of the InterSystems HealthShare AI Assistant.
- The new generative AI capability is designed to assist clinicians, case managers, and administrators in accessing and understanding patient information faster and more intuitively.
Generative AI: The New Conversational Interface for Health Records
Built on the trusted foundation
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Digital Health Meets Life Insurance: How Technology Is Redefining Financial Protection and Preventive Care
For decades, life insurance and healthcare operated in parallel but separate worlds — one focused on managing financial risk, the other on improving physical health. But in an era defined by digital transformation, that boundary is fading fast. Advances in health data, wearable technology, and artificial intelligence are bringing the two industries together in ways that could fundamentally reshape how people understand protection, prevention, and long-term wellness.
This convergence isn’t
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AI Digital Stethoscope Detects Heart Failure with Near-Echo Precision in Ghana
What You Should Know:
- Researchers from the G-ACT Foundation and Eko Health have announced groundbreaking results from the DAMSUN-HF (Detection and Management of Heart Failure with SENSORA in Underserved Nations) study.
- The prospective validation study demonstrated that AI-enabled digital auscultation can effectively identify Heart Failure with reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF) in patients who lack access to traditional echocardiography.
AI-Enabled Auscultation Achieves
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Luma Health Acquires Tonic Health, Expanding AI-Native Platform for Patient Intake and EHR Integration
What You Should Know:
- Luma Health, a leader in healthcare technology and services, has announced the acquisition of Tonic Health from R1. Tonic Health is a prominent provider specializing in dynamic intake, e-consents, and patient-reported outcomes. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The strategic acquisition significantly advances Luma’s mission to automate administrative tasks, reduce staff burden, and simplify patient access to care using its
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