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Healthcare company-creation platform Redesign Health and ARC Global, the healthcare transformation engine established at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, announced a definitive merger.Concurrently, the combined enterprise has agreed to acquire AVIA, the leading U.S. health system digital transformation advisory network (subject to final regulatory approvals).The combined conglomerate unifies more than 100 health systems spanning five continents, creating an end-to-end
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Beyond 8 P.M. Charting: Why Solving “Pajama Time” Demands Upstream Pre-Visit Intake
For most physicians, the workday does not end when the last patient leaves. Notes still need to be finished. Messages are still waiting. Administrative tasks are still open. This after-hours work has a name, pajama time, and healthcare has treated it as an unavoidable cost of practicing medicine for far too long.
Because the truth is, it isn’t unavoidable. And the fix has almost nothing to do with the time of day. Most of what follows clinicians home starts hours earlier, before the patient
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M&A: Sagility Acquires Chirok Health to Anchor AI-Driven CDI and Revenue Integrity Across Enterprise Providers
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Healthcare business operations and AI-led technology company Sagility announced its strategic acquisition of Chirok Health, a specialized provider of Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI), medical coding, coding quality assurance (QA), and revenue integrity services.Carried out through its U.S. operating subsidiary, Sagility (US) Holdings Inc., the transaction is valued at approximately $32.35M. Canaccord Genuity LLC served as the exclusive financial advisor to Chirok
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Blue Cross MA and Tufts Medicine Partner with Humata Health and NEHEN to Automate Prior Authorization
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) and regional health system Tufts Medicine announced a comprehensive alliance, focused on prior authorization automation, value-based care design, and integrated clinical network delivery.Tufts Medicine is deploying Humata Health to automate and streamline prior authorization for Blue Cross members, starting with outpatient diagnostic imaging (such as MRIs), with scheduled expansion across additional clinical service
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Talkiatry Scales Employed Therapy Nationwide Across 50 States and 170M Lives
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Leading virtual behavioral health group Talkiatry announced the nationwide expansion of its psychotherapy services, making coordinated, in-network therapy available alongside psychiatric care across all 50 U.S. states.Reinforces its clinical scale as the nation's largest private employer of psychiatrists: directly employs over 400 full-time therapists alongside more than 800 full-time psychiatrists, avoiding 1099 contractor gig models to drive clinical collaboration and
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WebMD Ignite Ruby Launches Agentic AI Growth Ecosystem Across 2.7B Clinical Encounters
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Healthcare growth and engagement partner WebMD Ignite (a division of WebMD and Internet Brands) announced the launch of WebMD Ignite Ruby, an agentic AI growth ecosystem engineered specifically for acute health systems, academic medical centers, and healthcare provider organizations.Directly addresses the changing operational profile of healthcare marketing, where marketing leaders project the proportion of work automated by artificial intelligence will more than double
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Why AI Must Contextualize, Not Automate, Crisis Hotlines
Put yourselves in the shoes of a health plan’s behavioral health hotline responder. This is a person, typically a clinician, whose job it is to provide immediate support as soon as members are flagged as a risk – a routine call that is made every day.
Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death in the United States, with the CDC reporting over 48,000 suicide deaths in 2024. For a health plan’s response services team, the interaction likely begins before the member ever picks up the
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b.well and MyDirectives Connect Advance Directives to Daily Consumer Health Records
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Consumer health data integration platform b.well Connected Health and digital advance care planning (ACP) leader MyDirectives announced an enterprise partnership to integrate advance care planning documents directly alongside longitudinal medical records.Represents a major milestone in health data rights: b.well serves as the first consumer-facing organization to integrate directly with MyDirectives’ nationwide registry for a direct patient access use case, expanding
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Med Tech Solutions Retires Stoltenberg and Avarion Brands: Unifying Cloud Hosting, EHR Support, and HIT Advisory Under MTS
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Healthcare IT managed services and cloud hosting provider Med Tech Solutions (MTS) announced the official brand consolidation of Stoltenberg Consulting and Avarion under the unified Med Tech Solutions (MTS) enterprise name.Stoltenberg Consulting (acquired by MTS in 2024): Brings three-time Best in KLAS recognition for Partial IT Outsourcing, providing deep acute-care electronic health record (EHR) systems consulting, specialized Tier 1 service desk operations, clinical
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Elucid Scores FDA Clearance for FFR-IQ to Unify Plaque Biology and Hemodynamics
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Cardiovascular imaging AI innovator Elucid has received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance (K262015, authorized September 29, 2026) for FFR-IQ™, its software for the non-invasive estimation of fractional flow reserve derived from coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA).Introduces BioIntegrated FFR-CT: a computational modeling approach that integrates coronary vascular anatomy, plaque tissue morphology, and vascular biology directly into hemodynamic estimations, departing
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