Few phrases raise blood pressure among doctors and patients like “prior authorization.” Ask any clinician and you’ll hear the same story: delayed treatments, endless back-and-forth, and vulnerable individuals left waiting while paperwork wins the day.
For providers, prior authorizations are a constant drain of time and energy. For patients, they can mean worsening conditions, missed windows for effective treatment, or even care that never arrives at all. And for payers, prior
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State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2025: Exploited Vulnerabilities Top Cause, Staff Capacity Biggest Weakness
What You Should Know:
- Sophos's State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2025 report reveals exploited vulnerabilities are now the leading technical cause of attacks (33%).
- The study highlights a sector becoming more resilient to encryption but facing soaring extortion-only attacks and high pressure on IT teams.
Root Causes Shift: Capacity Gaps and Exploited Vulnerabilities Lead
The latest Sophos study, based on the experiences of 292 healthcare providers, shows a significant
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TeleTracking Launches Decision IQ: First AI-Driven Solution to Manage Hospital Patient Flow at Scale
What You Should Know:
- TeleTracking Technologies today announced the launch of Decision IQ, the first AI-driven solution designed to manage patient throughput at scale.
- The platform creates a computational twin that simulates capacity needs and provides real-time, proactive guidance to eliminate hospital bottlenecks.
Ending the Lag: Proactive AI Replaces Retrospective Patient Flow Management
Hospitals have traditionally relied on retrospective data to manage patient
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AdvancedCare Launches Inbox Health Partnership for 350 Behavioral Health Clinics
What You Should Know:
- Inbox Health, a patient billing and engagement technology platform, today announced a strategic partnership with AdvancedCare, an AI-driven practice management, EMR, and revenue cycle solution.
- The collaboration integrates Inbox Health’s automated billing communication and payment technology with AdvancedCare’s AI Clinical and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) platform. This unified solution directly targets behavioral health and psychiatry clinics, segments often
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GE HealthCare Acquires Intelerad for $2.3B to Create Cloud-First, AI-Enabled Imaging Ecosystem
What You Should Know:
- GE HealthCare announced the acquisition of Intelerad, a medical imaging software provider, for $2.3 billion in cash.
- The deal is set to accelerate GE HealthCare's shift to a SaaS business model and expand its AI-enabled imaging solutions across high-growth outpatient and ambulatory care settings.
Strategic Merger: Expanding Cloud-First Imaging to Outpatient Care
The strategic acquisition underscores GE HealthCare's commitment to cloud-enabled and
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How eClinicalWorks is Harnessing AI and Telehealth to Support Rural Healthcare Organizations
Rural communities face a complex web of barriers that hinder access to quality healthcare, including long travel distances, workforce shortages, limited broadband for telehealth, underinsurance, low health literacy, and social stigmas. These obstacles often discourage individuals from seeking timely medical care and contribute to disproportionate health burdens such as shorter life expectancy, higher rates of chronic disease, and fewer preventive care options compared to urban areas. Despite
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How Female Bodies Became Political Weapons
Hormones are having their 120th birthday this year—in 1905, British scientist Ernest Starling first coined the term “hormone.” And while so much has developed scientifically since then, so much has stayed the same.
Women and their reproductive systems governed by sex hormones have been pathologized as having “hysteria” for centuries (really–the ancient Greek term for uterus came from the word hysteron). Almost immediately after hormones were discovered, estrogen was named in 1906, after
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WellTheory and Instacart Partner to Expand Access to Food-as-Medicine for Autoimmune Patients
What You Should Know:
– WellTheory, the leading whole-person care platform for autoimmune disease, today announced a partnership with Instacart (NASDAQ: CART), the leading grocery technology company in North America, to address a critical gap in autoimmune care: access to nutritious, anti-inflammatory foods.
– The collaboration integrates Instacart Health Fresh Funds into WellTheory’s evidence-based care model, empowering members to purchase clinically recommended groceries to support
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Why Healthy Aging Will Not De Delivered By Innovation Alone
We are entering an era where aging is no longer seen as a passive decline, but as a dynamic, measurable, and critically modifiable process. Across biotech, diagnostics, and AI-driven research, the question is no longer can we detect disease, but how early, how precisely, and how personally?
But as our capabilities grow, so too does the infrastructure gap. We now have the tools to map the biological signatures of aging across entire populations through genomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics,
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Greenway Health Launches “The Automated Healthcare Practice” with Agentic AI to Redefine Ambulatory Care
What You Should Know:
- Greenway Health announced the launch of The Automated Healthcare Practice at its annual customer event, ENGAGE 2025.
- The platform represents a fundamental shift in healthcare technology. Unlike traditional systems that layer automation on top of legacy Electronic Health Records (EHRs), this solution is built from the ground up to orchestrate clinical, financial, and patient engagement workflows into a single, intelligent network.
Immediate Impact:
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