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- Heart failure is a critical health issue affecting millions of Americans, and despite decades of research, effective treatment options remain limited. Traditional drug development is a slow, costly, and high-risk process.
- Researchers at Mayo Clinic are pioneering a new approach using artificial intelligence (AI) and "virtual clinical trials" to accelerate the discovery of new therapies, particularly by repurposing existing drugs.
An Urgent Need for
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71% of Hospitals Now Use Predictive AI, But a Digital Divide Remains
What You Should Know:
- A recent data brief from the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the ASTP/ONC examines the trends in predictive AI adoption, evaluation, and governance using data from 2023 and 2024. The findings highlight both the widespread adoption of this technology and the persistent challenges in its equitable implementation.
- The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has seen significant growth over the past decade, with predictive AI becoming a key
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PwC Report: The $1 Trillion Opportunity to Reinvent Healthcare
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- The U.S. healthcare system is on the verge of a fundamental transformation. A new report from PwC,"From breaking point to breakthrough: the $1 trillion opportunity to reinvent healthcare," predicts a massive shift in how care is delivered, funded, and experienced.
- Over the next decade, PwC expects $1 trillion of annual healthcare spending to move away from fragmented, infrastructure-heavy models and toward a digital-first, proactive, and personalized
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Patient Experience is Employee Experience: Delivering Care is a Team Sport
"Teamwork" has become the most important driver of strong inpatient experiences. This might seem surprising, but it shouldn't be. Patients are extraordinarily sensitive observers of healthcare environments. They’re not just paying attention to how their care team interacts with them, but how clinicians interact with one another. When they leave the door open during a hospital stay, they're tuning in to the most compelling reality show in their lives at that moment: the team caring for
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The Future of Healthcare Is in Your Pocket: How AI and Smartphones Are Transforming Patient Care
The U.S. healthcare system is in crisis. Financial instability is straining hospitals, frontline staff are stretched beyond capacity, and patients continue to encounter disjointed care and unequal access. Decades of focusing on reactive treatment over prevention have left us ill-equipped to manage chronic conditions, rising costs, and growing health disparities.
Despite widespread consensus about the importance of population health management and value-based care, the current approach
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Innovaccer Acquires Story Health to Pioneer AI-Powered Specialty Care
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- Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare AI company, has announced the acquisition of Story Health, a pioneering AI-powered, tech-enabled platform focused on transforming specialty care from episodic to continuous, digital models.
- This marks Innovaccer's fourth acquisition in the past two years and expands its Healthcare Intelligence Cloud into agentic care augmentation.
Acquisition Impact
Story Health was founded in 2020 by Google veterans Tom Stanis, Nikhil
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Alita Launches AI Agent to Automate Post-Acute Care Workflows
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- Alita, a new AI agent purpose-built for post-acute care, has officially launched to help providers turn more conversations into care outcomes automatically, 24/7.
- The AI-powered agent brings empathetic automation to intake, hiring, and admissions workflows. It is designed to handle 90% of the busy work in client and resident intake and caregiver candidate screening, freeing up staff to focus on people, not paperwork.
A Broken System and the Cost
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Commure to Embed Ambient AI into MEDITECH Expanse Now Mobile EHR
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- Commure, a healthcare technology company, has announced the direct embedding of its Ambient technology within MEDITECH Expanse Now, the physician's mobile application in the MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform.
- The collaboration empowers healthcare organizations using Expanse Now to streamline clinical documentation and reduce administrative burdens, which allows clinicians to focus more fully on patient care within their familiar mobile workflows. This
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MEDITECH Unveils New AI Initiatives for Expanse EHR
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- MEDITECH has announced its latest strategic initiatives in artificial intelligence (AI), which will be shared at the company’s annual customer event, MEDITECH LIVE 2025. These advancements are accelerating an agentic user experience, where intelligent systems proactively support and automate tasks for clinicians, patients, and administrators within their native Expanse EHR workflows.
According to MEDITECH President and CEO Michelle O’Connor, the company is
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Report: Proactive Care Could Save Medicare $500B and the U.S. $2.2T Annually
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A new Deloitte report, "Safeguarding Medicare's future: Proactive care could unlock more than $500B in annual savings," finds that strategic investments in disease prevention, early detection, and other proactive measures could save the U.S. healthcare system up to $2.2 trillion annually by 2040. These investments could also help save Medicare more than $500 billion a year on medical and prescription drug claims and strengthen the program's long-term financial
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