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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Sentara Health Deploys Andor Health’s Agentic AI Across 12 Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- Andor Health, the AI company specializing in agentic AI software infrastructure for healthcare, and Sentara Health have announced an expanded agreement for an enterprise license of the ThinkAndor® platform. Sentara Health is one of the top 20 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the U.S., serving communities across Virginia, Northeastern North Carolina, and Florida through 12 hospitals and a robust health plan.
- Building on the early success of
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Longitude Rx to Deploy Innovaccer’s Gravity Platform to Unify Data and Boost Patient Access
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare AI company, and Longitude Rx, the specialty pharmacy company built by and for health systems, have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate specialty pharmacy innovation and improve patient outcomes.
- The collaboration addresses the significant complexity inherent in specialty pharmacy, which includes challenges across prior authorization, 340B compliance, and patient engagement.
- Through the partnership, Longitude Rx will
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RapidAI Partners with Saudi Health Holdings to Deploy Deep Clinical AI Across 20 Saudi Health Clusters
What You Should Know:
- RapidAI, the pioneer in Deep Clinical AI and intelligent imaging, has announced a major strategic partnership and co-development agreement with Saudi Health Holdings Company (HHC), the largest healthcare provider in the Middle East.
- The collaboration names RapidAI as HHC’s enterprise provider of deep clinical AI, which will be implemented across HHC’s vast network of 20 health clusters spanning all regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The technology will
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MedEvolve Acquired by Emergence: Accelerating AI-Powered Revenue Cycle Automation
What You Should Know:
- MedEvolve, Inc., a pioneer in AI-powered revenue cycle automation and analytics, today announced its acquisition by Emergence, an enterprise backed by The Pritzker Organization. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The strategic transaction combines MedEvolve’s proprietary Effective Intelligence® platform—which integrates workflow automation, analytics, benchmarks, and generative AI—with Emergence’s long-term orientation and deep
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