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During the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit, Oracle Health has announced a new AI capability for its Patient Portal that will provide patients with secure, plain-language explanations of their medical records.
- The new feature, which uses OpenAI’s technology, is designed to help patients better understand diagnoses, test results, and treatment options.
Delivering ChatGPT-Like Conversational Experiences in Oracle Health Patient Portal
The new
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athenahealth Launches AI-Native athenaClinicals with Predictive Diagnoses and Ambient Notes
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- athenahealth, a provider of network-enabled software and services, has announced new advancements in its electronic health record (EHR), athenaClinicals.
- The new features are part of the company's ongoing launch of its AI-native athenaOne platform and are designed to simplify clinical workflows, automate routine tasks, and deliver personalized insights to enable a more patient-centered approach to care.
Intelligent and Adaptive Clinical
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US Court Allows Particle’s Antitrust Claims Against Epic to Proceed
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- A U.S. District Court judge in the Southern District of New York, Judge Naomi Buchwald, has allowed Core Antitrust Claims against Epic to proceed.
- The ruling found that Particle Health, a healthcare data platform, may move forward with its claims that Epic holds a monopoly in the payer platform market with a 90% market share and has engaged in anti-competitive conduct. The ruling marks as the first time an antitrust case against Epic has progressed
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Oracle Confirms Layoffs in Kansas City
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- 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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Epic Launches Comet: A New AI Platform to Predict Patient Health Journeys
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- Today, Epic announced the launch of a new form of healthcare intelligence, named Comet, developed to help clinicians, health systems, and patients make more informed decisions.
- Built on Epic Cosmos, a secure data platform, Comet is designed to predict what is likely to happen next in a patient’s journey by estimating disease risk, length of stay, and treatment outcomes. The platform has learned from more than 100 billion patient medical events to
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Onvida Health and Ambience Healthcare Launch Ambient AI Integration with Epic
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- Onvida Health and Ambience Healthcare have announced the launch of new ambient AI capabilities directly inside Epic's Hyperspace and Haiku applications.
- This enterprise-wide deployment gives Onvida clinicians seamless access to Ambience's chart summarization, ambient scribing, coding, and patient summary technology without ever leaving the Epic platform.
Epic Integration Impact
The Epic integration builds on a successful partnership announced in
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The Siloed Trap: Why Fragmented EHR Workflows Are Failing Primary Care
It’s 4:37 p.m. in a primary care clinic in Mississippi. The waiting room is still half full. Dr. Rubin, a pediatric specialist, just wrapped up with a newborn’s checkup, and now faces an uphill sprint: reconciling three faxes, documenting vitals from two overlapping visits, and reviewing the urgent message from a parent sent through the portal. All before she can log off.
None of this is unfamiliar. For many primary care providers, this daily scramble is the byproduct of fragmented workflows,
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Scribematic Launches Matic Inside, an Embedded AI Scribe Solution for EHR Vendors
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- The team behind Scribematic has launched Matic Inside, a fully embedded AI clinical documentation solution specifically built for EHR vendors.
- The launch comes at a time of a significant shift in the market, as the largest EHR vendor has announced it will implement its own embedded AI scribe across nearly half of the U.S. hospital market in 2026.
EHRs Face a "Right Now Crisis"
This move is creating a "right now crisis" for other EHR companies.
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Artisight Launches AI Platform to Autonomously Document Operating Room Activity into EHRs
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- 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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Barti Software Secures $12M Series A to Expand AI-Powered EHR for Eye Care
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- Barti Software, a AI-powered company that provides innovative electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software built for eye care practices, announced a $12 million Series A investment led by Five Elms Capital.
- This partnership will enable Barti to scale its go-to-market efforts, grow its team across key functions, and accelerate development of new AI capabilities and workflow automation as Barti expands into ophthalmology. The company will
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