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Oracle Health announced major new U.S. capabilities for the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, expanding its multi-agent architecture across ambulatory professional fee coding, clinician-controlled dictation, and EHR chart review.The professional fee coding capability analyzes visit conversations to suggest accurate charge codes directly within the orders workflow, speeding up charge capture and reducing downstream billing rework while keeping final submission approval with
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Labcorp and NACHC Form Alliance to Train CMOs and Leverage CHC Lab Data
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Labcorp and the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) have formed a strategic alliance to advance leadership development, practice improvement, and clinical outcomes across U.S. Community Health Centers (CHCs).The collaboration introduces the NACHC Leadership Exchange for Chief Medical Officers (CMOs), an executive development and peer-mentorship program designed to strengthen clinical and operational capabilities for health center leaders.CHCs
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Papa Expands Multi-Year Medicare Advantage Partnership with eternalHealth Across Massachusetts and Arizona
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Papa announced the expansion of its multi-year partnership with eternalHealth, a women-owned Medicare Advantage plan operating in Massachusetts and Arizona.The expanded agreement integrates Papa Plus pathways into eternalHealth’s companion care benefit, specifically targeting HEDIS and Health Outcomes Survey (HOS) performance to lift CMS Star Ratings.The collaboration introduces three structured, outcomes-driven in-home pathways:Post-Discharge Support: Focuses on the
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Lyric Establishes Nashville HQ to Scale Real-Time Claims Decision Intelligence
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Lyric, a healthcare decision intelligence company serving health plans, has officially established its new corporate headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, at 333 Commerce St., Suite 1400.The move follows Lyric's July 2026 acquisition of Concert (bringing machine-readable clinical policy technology) and its 2025 acquisition of ClaimShark (adding payment integrity and audit automation into Lyric42).Lyric's footprint includes existing collaboration spaces in Newtown Square,
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Accompany Health Report: Transforming Dual-Eligible Outcomes, Star Ratings, and MLR at Scale
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New data from Accompany Health rejects industry norms that count passive phone calls or consent checkboxes as engagement (which typically yields only 20–30% reach), setting a standard defined by a completed in-home visit conducted jointly by an Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) and a dedicated Health Advocate.Accompany Health achieves a 55% engagement rate among attributed dual-eligible and complex Medicare Advantage members, with 99% of engaged patients in 2024 remaining
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Epic Launches Coverage Requirements Discovery API with Ochsner, Froedtert, Denver Health, and Summit Health
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Four major health systems—Ochsner Health, Froedtert ThedaCare Health, Denver Health, and Summit Health—have deployed real-time prior authorization checks directly inside their native Epic EHR workflows.The rollout utilizes the industry-standard Coverage Requirements Discovery (CRD) API, enabling clinical and financial clearance teams to determine instantly whether a commercial or government payer requires prior authorization at the point of order entry or appointment
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Wellness Project Launches Verified Google Health Integration Ahead of Fitbit API Sunset
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Wellness Project launched a direct, verified integration with the new Google Health API, providing Fitbit and Pixel Watch users with an open pathway to sync wearable metrics into a unified, AI-ready longitudinal health record.The integration comes ahead of Google’s planned September 2026 retirement of the legacy Fitbit Web API, which requires developers to migrate to Google Health, adopt new OAuth infrastructure, and pass restricted-scope verification.In addition to
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Innovaccer Partners with Mastek to Expand Agentic Healthcare AI Globally
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Global digital, cloud, and AI services company Mastek has joined Innovaccer’s Platinum Global Systems Integrator (GSI) program, committing to Innovaccer's Gravity platform for large-scale enterprise deployments.The partnership bridges Innovaccer’s healthcare AI and data infrastructure with Mastek’s operational footprint across 40+ countries, accelerating expansion into the US, UK, Europe, and Middle East.Mastek will implement and localize Innovaccer’s full suite of
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How athenaOne’s Native Ambient AI Saves Two Workdays Monthly Per Clinician
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athenahealth announced the broad deployment of AI-native capabilities across its athenaOne network, extending native ambient features to over 170,000 physicians and clinicians.The core innovation, athenaAmbient, is built directly into athenaOne at no extra charge, capturing patient encounters to generate draft notes, suggested diagnoses, orders, and care-gap alerts.Network results since late 2025 show a reduction of nearly six minutes per patient encounter in chart
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Ubie Announces Smart Support as a Qualified Solution on Mayo Clinic Platform
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Healthcare AI leader Ubie announced that its patient access tool, Smart Support, has earned official qualification on Mayo Clinic Platform.Smart Support applies protocol-based clinical reasoning at the front door to evaluate urgency, clinical specialty, and visit type across phone calls, web chat, and patient portal messages before a patient is routed or scheduled.Mayo Clinic Platform's qualification process evaluated Smart Support's intended use, proposed clinical value,
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