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The Crisis: A new Harris Poll/Surescripts survey reveals that 56% of U.S. patients face challenges filling prescriptions, with 25% abandoning medication entirely due to cost.The Gap: Despite high digital literacy, only 20% of patients feel "empowered" to manage their meds, largely because they don't know where to find accurate pricing information (48%).The Fix: The data suggests a massive appetite for provider-led digital tools. 84% of patients want their doctors to
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Kodiak Solutions Acquires BESLER to Close the “Revenue Leakage” Gap
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The Deal: Kodiak Solutions has acquired BESLER & Company, integrating a 40-year veteran of revenue recovery into its modern analytics platform.The Tech Synergy: The acquisition adds BESLER’s specialized Transfer DRG software—used to detect Medicare underpayments—to Kodiak’s broader net revenue reporting suite.The Strategy: This is a "platform play." Kodiak is consolidating niche revenue cycle tools under one roof, allowing hospital CFOs to replace fragmented point
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HGP 2026 Market Review: Why Two Decades of Health IT Failed to Bend the Cost Curve
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The Reality Check: In HGP’s 20-year retrospective, the verdict is harsh: technology delivered on workflows but failed on economics. Since HGP's founding, U.S. healthcare spending has doubled to $5.3 trillion, proving that digitization alone does not equal efficiency.The Market Rebound: Despite the cynicism, the deal market is roaring back. Q3 2025 saw a record 136 M&A deals, and valuations have settled comfortably above pre-pandemic levels (approx. 5.1x revenue),
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Nurses Are Embracing AI to Survive Burnout, But Hospitals Are Lagging Behind
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The Trend: A new report from Wolters Kluwer reveals that nurses are aggressively adopting Generative AI, with 58% using it personally and 46% already using it in the workplace.The Motivation: The driver is survival. With staffing shortages and burnout plaguing the profession, 45% of nurses see GenAI as a critical tool for reducing burnout by automating documentation and routine tasks.The Risk: A dangerous governance gap exists. While usage is high, only ~20% of
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Oath Surgical Launches AI-Native Surgical Centers Powered by NVIDIA
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The Collaboration: Oath Surgical is partnering with NVIDIA to power OathOS, a "multimodal" operating system for surgery that uses spatial AI to analyze video, audio, and device data in real-time.The Differentiator: Unlike software vendors trying to retrofit legacy hospitals, Oath is vertically integrated—it owns and operates its own "AI-native" surgical centers, allowing it to architect the physical and digital environment simultaneously.The Promise: The system aims for
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Nextech Launches Cora Scribe: An Embedded AI Assistant for Specialty Practices
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The News: Nextech has launched Cora Scribe, an AI clinical assistant designed specifically for specialty practices, starting with ophthalmology.The Differentiator: Unlike generic "bolt-on" scribes that generate a summary PDF, Cora Scribe is embedded in the EHR. It streams discrete clinical data directly into specific chart fields in real-time.The Impact: By maintaining a "two-way conversation" with the patient chart, the tool reduces documentation time for both physicians
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Bicycle Health Appoints Rick Dean CEO to Tackle the $214B Opioid Crisis
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The News: Bicycle Health, a leader in virtual opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, has appointed Rick Dean (formerly of OncoHealth) as its new CEO.The Transition: Founder Ankit Gupta, who built the company to serve 50,000 patients across 49 states, will step down to a Board/Advisor role, signaling a shift from "building the product" to "scaling the business."The Stakes: With 9 million Americans suffering from OUD and an annual economic cost of $214 billion, the company is
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Why Healthcare AI Will Fail Without a Strong Provider Data Foundation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading through healthcare at an unprecedented pace, faster than any other wave of health technology adoption. According to a report from Menlo Ventures, the industry has invested over $1.4 billion in AI in 2025, nearly tripling the total investment in 2024. From prior authorization to directory accuracy, AI now sits at the center of each strategic planning and board level conversations across the healthcare ecosystem.
Yet as organizations accelerate AI
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The $20B Opportunity: Transforming Unused Health Data into a Strategic Asset
Healthcare's digital transformation has generated an unprecedented volume of information: 65 zettabytes and counting. Yet despite this abundance of data, most health systems are struggling to translate it into real value. In fact, 97% of existing health data goes unused. The issue is not a lack of data, but the absence of a foundation that makes data trustworthy, connected and ready to act upon.
Solving these long-standing challenges is what will allow data to shift from a liability into one
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Innovaccer and Coforge Partner on G-Forge: A New Center of Excellence for Healthcare AI
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The News: Healthcare AI company Innovaccer has partnered with digital services giant Coforge to launch G-Forge, a joint initiative designed to operationalize AI in healthcare.The Strategy: The partnership combines Innovaccer’s "Gravity" AI infrastructure with Coforge’s implementation muscle, creating a "Healthcare AI Center of Excellence" to bridge the gap between having data and using it.The Focus: The initiative targets the heavy-lifting areas of healthcare operations:
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