What You Should Know:
- Several Kansas City area-based employees at Oracle have received layoff notices, according to at least two sources with knowledge of the company's actions, KMBC reports. The company, which is now headquartered in Nashville, did not announce a total number of layoffs, but sources confirmed that several long-tenured employees have lost their jobs.
- The latest round of workforce reductions comes three years after Oracle's acquisition of healthcare technology
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Medable Launches Agent Studio, the First Agentic AI Platform for Life Sciences
What You Should Know:
- Medable, a technology provider for clinical development, has launched Agent Studio, which it calls the industry's first agentic AI platform purpose-built for life sciences.
- Agent Studio is a no-code agent-builder that allows clinical teams to quickly custom-configure AI agents. Medable also introduced CRA Agent, a pre-built agent designed for clinical trial monitoring that runs on the Agent Studio platform. Both Agent Studio and CRA Agent are intended
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PurpleLab Acquires KAID Health to Create AI-Powered Healthcare Intelligence Platform
What You Should Know:
- PurpleLab, a healthcare analytics company, has acquired KAID Health, an AI-powered clinical analytics and care management company. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition combines PurpleLab’s large-scale structured claims data with KAID Health’s artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technology. This creates a more complete view of patient journeys across both structured and unstructured data
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Philips SpeechLive Partners with Corti to Integrate Ambient AI for Clinical Documentation
What You Should Know:
- Speech Processing Solutions (SPS), the global leader behind Philips SpeechLive, has announced a strategic partnership with Corti, an AI infrastructure company for healthcare.
- The partnership will introduce ambient clinical documentation directly into the SpeechLive platform. By integrating Corti's real-time medical reasoning engine, the SpeechLive AI Assistant will transform the dictation platform into a "fully AI-powered documentation ecosystem".
Transforming
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Nuclear Care Partners Launches Care+ Kidney Program for Atomic Workers with CKD
What You Should Know:
- Nuclear Care Partners, a leading provider of specialized in-home care for former Department of Energy (DOE) and nuclear weapons workers, has announced the launch of Care+ Kidney.
- The new program is designed specifically for former atomic workers who are living with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Care+ Kidney was developed by nurses with deep clinical expertise in occupational illness and delivers a personalized, outcomes-driven approach to managing CKD
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DUOS Survey: Americans Lack Confidence in Medicare/Medicaid and Face Economic Hardship
What You Should Know:
- A new survey conducted by Dynata and commissioned by DUOS, a digital health company for Medicare beneficiaries, reveals a significant level of consumer concern about the future of healthcare in the U.S..
- The survey, which polled 1,000 consumers aged 18 and older in July 2025, found that Americans are worried about access, affordability, and benefit loss, especially with a new administration on the horizon.
Barriers to Access to Care
A major
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CMS Launches “Crushing Fraud Chili Cook-Off” Challenge to Combat Medicare Fraud with AI
What You Should Know:
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) has launched a new market-based research challenge called the Crushing Fraud Chili Cook-Off Competition. The goal of the competition is to use explainable artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models to identify anomalies in Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) claims data that can be translated into new indicators of fraud.
- The challenge also seeks scalable technologies that can reduce
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Veeva Systems and Amgen Partner to Advance Clinical Trial Innovation
What You Should Know:
- Veeva Systems has announced a new collaboration with Amgen, a global leader in biotechnology, to advance clinical trial innovation.
- Amgen will use the Veeva Clinical Platform to find and implement efficiencies across its clinical trial processes.
Connected Platform for Clinical Development
The Veeva Clinical Platform is a complete and connected platform that covers clinical operations and data applications. This end-to-end platform includes
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Reach7 Diabetes Studios and Trileas Partner to Launch CARES Program for At-Risk Communities
What You Should Know:
- Reach7 Diabetes Studios has announced that Trileas is the first official sponsor and founding member of its CARES Program. The program is a third-party sponsored initiative that provides screenings for high-risk individuals and subsidized memberships for those most in need.
- The partnership with Trileas, a company dedicated to delivering affordable connectivity and healthcare solutions, will help the CARES Program reach further, expand access, and transform
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Artisight Launches AI Platform to Autonomously Document Operating Room Activity into EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Artisight, a Smart Hospital platform, has announced a new capability that autonomously documents operating room (OR) activity into a patient's electronic health record (EHR) using advanced AI and computer vision.
- This eliminates the need for clinicians and other healthcare staff to manually document key milestones in a procedure. This technology not only provides real-time updates that boost patient satisfaction but also makes a more productive use of high-demand
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