For decades, healthcare leaders and physicians have been promised that digital tools would streamline operations and boost revenue. Yet, history has repeatedly shown the opposite: documentation inefficiencies and fragmented tech stacks have slowed practices, burdened clinicians and chipped away at financial margins. What began as an effort to modernize recordkeeping too often left providers drowning in siloed systems that robbed them of both time and revenue.
Despite massive investments in
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AI as the New Primary Care Extender: A Solution to Physician Shortages
If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it is this: primary care physicians are the backbone of a functioning health system. Yet, in the United States, the supply of those physicians is dwindling at precisely the moment demand is peaking. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for example, projects a shortage of up to 124,000 physicians by 2034, including at least 17,800 in primary care. For patients, that shortage translates into longer wait times, rushed
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Marketing Meets Revenue Cycle: Why Healthcare’s Next Competitive Edge Is Communication
As the healthcare industry evolves, effective communication has become one of the most powerful differentiators. From transparent billing to AI-driven patient engagement, the ability to communicate clearly across every touchpoint is reshaping how providers build trust, retain patients, and sustain growth.
Integrated communication strategies are quickly redefining industry standards. When marketing, billing, and care teams work together, they create a unified patient experience. Breaking down
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How AI Is Poised to Cut Lung Cancer Mortality by Accelerating Early Detection
With lung cancer being the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, advancements in AI-powered healthcare technology are offering newfound hope. Over the span of the next few decades, AI is poised to revolutionize lung cancer outcomes by detecting cancer at its earliest stages. By improving upon and providing proactive detection by accelerating the identification of high-risk patients, this technology has the capability to dramatically lower mortality rates.
A major milestone
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AI Startup VitVio Raises $8M to Autonomously Optimize Hospital Operating Rooms
What You Should Know:
- VitVio, an AI-powered platform designed to autonomously coordinate surgical staff and flag procedural delays secures $8M in seed funding round led by Bek Ventures and joined by LDV Capital, Balnord.
- The funding brings the company’s total funding to $10M and will be used to aggressively scale the platform across U.S. hospitals.
The Core Problem: Costly Surgical Inefficiency
Hospitals face a perfect storm of rising operational costs, personnel
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Laudio Debuts AI Insights to Help Hospital Leaders Coach at Scale
What You Should Know:
- Laudio announced the launch of Performance Insights, the newest addition to its AI-powered platform.
- Performance Insights is specifically designed to restore the shrinking bandwidth of frontline leaders, allowing them to effectively coach, recognize, and retain their teams—a critical function that often collapses under large spans of control (often 50+ direct reports).
The Bandwidth Crisis: Why Leaders Are Under Strain
Frontline leaders are
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RTLS for the CIO: How Scalable Location Platforms Drive Operational Excellence and Reduce Cost
Healthcare facilities today face unprecedented challenges: from rising expectations for a seamless digital experience to staffing shortages, safety concerns, increasing operational costs, and mounting pressure to improve efficiency and outcomes through timely, coordinated care. In response, many organizations are turning to proven technologies like Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) to drive efficiency, enhance safety, and improve patient care.
Even so, not all location technologies and
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HLTH 2025 Day 2 Summary & Insights: Strategic Partnerships, New Offerings
Strategic Partnerships & Collaborations
Oracle Health & Baylor College of Medicine
The partners will leverage Oracle’s AI data platform and Real-World Data (RWD), containing over 120 million patient records, to create one of the nation's largest cohorts for alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) research. The goal is to accelerate the earlier identification and more effective treatment of ALD.
Certara & Veeva
Certara has joined the Veeva AI Partner Program to integrate
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The Invisible Risk Factor: Why Chronic Loneliness Is Sabotaging Chronic Care and Medication Adherence
Connectivity was supposed to bring us closer. Instead, it’s exposing a dangerous gap in our healthcare system. The very tools designed to link us have scaled rapidly, but without addressing one of the most urgent and invisible threats to health: loneliness.
Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently delivered a stark reminder: Chronic loneliness carries the same mortality risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. His warning hits especially hard in healthcare, where digital relationships are on
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Stop Losing Mobile Workstations: A Healthcare IT Guide to Fleet Management Success
Healthcare IT professionals understand just how big an impact technology can have on positive patient outcomes, provider engagement, and an efficient technical infrastructure. However, onboarding new technology can often come with a steep learning curve that can feel like more work than it’s worth.
With the right tools and focus for both providers and IT teams, technology can facilitate favorable outcomes both efficiently and effectively to achieve streamlined workflow
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