Healthcare cybersecurity is no longer just a technical discipline handled by IT teams. That view has changed. Cybersecurity in healthcare has grown. It now sits at the intersection of operations, compliance, and patient safety. When systems fail, care is disrupted. These disruptions go beyond data loss, reaching clinical outcomes, financial stability, and regulatory exposure.
This is not a future concern. It is already happening.
Cyber Risk Is Now Operational Risk
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MedTech Breakthrough Announces 2026 Award Winners: Celebrating a Decade of Health Technology Innovation
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MedTech Breakthrough has announced the winners of its 10th annual awards program, recognizing excellence in digital health and medical technology across more than 20 countries.The 2026 awards highlight a decade of evolution where artificial intelligence (AI), virtual care, and precision medicine have become central pillars of global healthcare delivery.This year's program received a record-breaking number of nominations from startups, health systems, and leading global
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Mid-Cycle Revenue Integrity: Leveraging Clinician-Governed AI to Reduce Denials and Understated Acuity
Health systems can deliver appropriate, high-quality care and still see financial and quality outcomes that do not reflect that care. Downgrades, understated acuity, and misaligned quality metrics often arise not because clinical decisions were wrong, but because the full complexity of those decisions and the resulting care were never clearly translated beyond the bedside. In today’s reimbursement environment, outcomes are shaped as much by how care is represented in documentation and coding as
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Eko Health Appoints Dr. Steven Steinhubl as CMO to Drive Cardiac AI and Global Clinical Strategy
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Eko Health has appointed Steven R. Steinhubl, MD, a prominent cardiologist and digital medicine pioneer, as its Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and executive leadership team member.Dr. Steinhubl will oversee Eko's clinical strategy, research initiatives, and scientific collaborations to accelerate the global adoption of AI-enabled cardiac detection.He currently serves as the Vincent P. Reilly Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University and is a member of the
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Artera Launches AI Services Model and Agentic AI Squads for Specialty Care and FQHCs
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Artera is the first agentic healthcare company to adopt an AI Services Model, moving away from traditional "homogeneous SaaS" to deliver bespoke, clinic-specific solutions.The company has deployed specialized AI Service Squads—small teams of AI builders who work directly with healthcare providers to co-innovate and eliminate legacy development cycles.The model supports high-demand solutions, including scheduling, prior authorizations, referral management, and closing care
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Elation Health Integrates New AHA and ACC PREVENT™ Cardiovascular Risk Standard
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Elation Health has licensed the American Heart Association (AHA) PREVENT™ risk equations, integrating them directly into its Clinical Insights AI tool.The PREVENT-ASCVD tool became the new clinical standard on March 13, 2026, replacing older models that often overestimated cardiovascular risk by 40–50%.The updated model now includes chronic kidney disease (CKD) as a risk factor for the first time.Leveraging Anthropic’s Claude for Healthcare, Elation achieved a rapid
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Kanvas Biosciences Raises $48M to Advance Spatial Biology Platform and Immuno-Oncology Trials
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Kanvas Biosciences has raised $48M in Series A funding co-led by DCVC and Lions Capital LLC, bringing total funding to $78M.The capital will fund clinical trials for KAN-001, an immuno-oncology drug candidate designed for cancer patients who do not respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs).The company utilizes a unique spatial mapping platform to visualize microbial and host cell interactions, overcoming traditional roadblocks in microbiome therapeutic
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Carlyle Acquires Knack RCM and EqualizeRCM to Build Global AI-Native Healthcare RCM Platform
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Carlyle has acquired a majority stake in Knack RCM and EqualizeRCM, merging them to create a global, multi-specialty, AI-native revenue cycle management (RCM) platform.The combined platform targets high-complexity segments, including rural hospitals, behavioral health, anesthesia, and durable medical equipment (DME).EqualizeRCM contributes proprietary AI tools like Bill Smart for denial prediction and an AI-native platform built on large language models (LLMs) and
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Fathom Secures Strategic Investment from CVS Health Ventures to Scale Autonomous Medical Coding
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Fathom, a leader in autonomous medical coding, has announced a strategic investment from CVS Health Ventures.The funding follows a period where revenue cycle management (RCM) has become the top priority for health IT investment, according to a 2025 Bain & Company/KLAS report.Fathom’s platform achieves 90%+ automation rates across multiple specialties, providing an alternative to slow, department-by-department AI rollouts.The company was recognized as the #1 solution
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The Hidden Data Discovery Problem Inside Modern Healthcare Enterprises
Enterprise data teams spend a great deal of time discussing infrastructure. Conversations often revolve around cloud warehouses, lakehouses, AI platforms, and the newest analytics tools. Organizations invest millions in modernizing their technology stacks, expecting that better platforms will automatically accelerate data initiatives.
Yet inside most enterprises, the biggest delay in data work has very little to do with technology. The real obstacle appears much earlier in the process. Before
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