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- Kaufman Hall has released its year-end analysis for 2025, reporting a total of 46 hospital and health system transactions. While total transacted revenue hit a historical low of $18.5 billion due to a slow start in the first half of the year, momentum surged in Q4 with 17 transactions, including four "mega mergers" where the smaller party’s annual revenue exceeded $1 billion.
- Crucially, financial distress drove a record 43.5% of all transactions, a trend
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Innovaccer and CCNC Ink 5-Year Partnership to Scale Population Health in North Carolina
What You Should Know
- Innovaccer Inc. and Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) have entered into a landmark five-year partnership to modernize the state's largest medical home system.
- Leveraging Innovaccer’s Healthcare Intelligence Cloud, the collaboration will empower CCNC’s care managers and CCPN clinicians with data-driven insights to manage financial risk and improve outcomes for more than one million members.
The Intelligence Cloud: Activating Data for One Million
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Why 90% of Healthcare AI Projects Fail Without AI-Driven Endpoint Management
Over the last two decades, the rapid surge in mobile and IoT-enabled devices has revolutionized patient care, but also created significant hurdles in managing, securing, and optimizing these devices to support seamless and secure clinician workflows. Healthcare CIOs face the daunting task of balancing accessibility, productivity, and security. In fact, a recent survey reveals that 83% of healthcare leaders are planning to invest in AI within the next three years, but fewer than 10% are investing
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HCA Healthcare Goes Live with MEDITECH Expanse Across 43 Hospitals
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- MEDITECH and HCA Healthcare have reached a major milestone in their 30-year partnership with the go-live of the MEDITECH Expanse EHR at 43 hospitals.
- The deployment represents the first large-scale wave of an enterprise-wide rollout for HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest providers, aimed at integrating data more seamlessly and accelerating the adoption of AI and digital innovations.
The Expanse Advantage: Intuitive, Mobile, and AI-Infused
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Why Axena Health and Mayo Clinic are Building an AI-Driven Future for Pelvic Health
What You Should Know
- Axena Health has announced a major expansion of its collaboration with Mayo Clinic to develop a new, AI-integrated solution for women with pelvic floor disorders.
- Building on their initial 2025 partnership, the new initiative aims to leverage Mayo Clinic’s clinical expertise to create personalized care pathways that improve treatment adherence for conditions like urinary incontinence and overactive bladder (OAB).
Solving the Adherence Gap: AI as a Clinical
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How to Run a High-Impact Healthcare Cybersecurity TTX
A well-orchestrated healthcare cybersecurity tabletop exercise (TTX) can greatly benefit any healthcare organization. Unfortunately, some TTXs are chaotic and unproductive. When 25 hospital leaders are tied up in a disorganized TTX for four hours, that’s 100 hours of lost productivity.
Here are some tips for how to conduct successful healthcare TTXs that can dramatically improve your preparedness for cyber crises:
Choose your invitations carefully – I’ve been in tabletop exercises that
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The Autonomous Revenue Cycle: Waystar Launches Agentic AI to Prevent Billions in Denials
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- Healthcare payment provider Waystar has announced the introduction of agentic intelligence to its cloud-native platform, marking a pivotal step toward the industry's first autonomous revenue cycle.
- Powered by the Waystar AltitudeAI™ engine and a dataset comprising 7.5 billion annual transactions, the new agentic network is designed to execute defined tasks and learn from outcomes with minimal intervention, significantly reducing administrative friction for
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Epic and Health Systems Sue Health Gorilla Over Alleged Medical Record ‘Syndicate’ and Data Monetization
What You Should Know
- Epic Systems—alongside OCHIN, Reid Health, Trinity Health, and UMass Memorial Health—has filed a major lawsuit against the health information network Health Gorilla and companies including Mammoth and RavillaMed.
- The lawsuit alleges the defendants operated an "organized syndicate" to improperly access and monetize nearly 300,000 patient records from the Epic community, alongside an unknown number of records from the VA and other EHR providers, for purposes
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HPS/PayMedix Secures $33M to Scale Guaranteed Healthcare Payments
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- HPS/PayMedix secures $33M in combined equity and debt financing to accelerate the growth of its healthcare financing and payments platform.
- Led by HLM Investment Partners, the funding will be used to expand the PayMedix solution, which unifies all healthcare stakeholders through guaranteed provider payments, interest-free patient financing, and a consolidated SuperEOB® experience.
The Affordability Mandate: Unifying the Payment Experience
As
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FinThrive Report Reveals 71% of RCM Leaders Prioritize Experience Over Revenue
What You Should Know
- FinThrive's 2026 Transformative Trends Report marks a historic turning point: for the first time, improving the patient experience has surpassed increasing revenue as the top strategic goal for healthcare financial leaders, with 71% identifying it as their primary focus.
- The shift indicates that leaders are moving away from short-term fixes toward AI-enabled platform consolidation and automation to drive long-term stability and workforce
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