For many private practitioners, getting one brick-and-mortar medical or dental office up and running is hard enough. The thought of going from zero to one location — let alone scaling your practice from one to 100 — is hard to fathom. Yet the path from one to 100 isn’t as arduous as it might seem.
Well-run practices that have the personnel and ability to scale might not do so simply because they lack important knowledge — and leave millions of dollars on the table as a result. The
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Strata 2026 Healthcare Financial Outlook Report: Medicaid Cuts and Labor Costs Top CFO Concerns
Strata 2026 Report: U.S. Healthcare Finance Leaders Pivot from Volatile Recovery to Strict Operational Discipline
What You Should Know
Government funding and Medicaid cuts have surged to the top of the executive agenda, cited by 66% of healthcare finance leaders as their primary concern for 2026. While 43% of leaders expect margin increases, the dominant theme for the year is margin protection, with 25% anticipating declines and 22% projecting flat performance.According to the 2026
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The AI Therapy Crisis: Why the AMA is Urging Congress to Regulate Mental Health Chatbots
Why the AMA Says Mental Health Chatbots Need Crisis Detection
What You Should Know
The Legislative Push: In letters to the Congressional AI Caucus, the Congressional Digital Health Caucus, and the Senate AI Caucus, the American Medical Association (AMA) officially urged federal lawmakers to establish strict guardrails for mental health AI chatbots.The Core Risks: While acknowledging that AI can expand access to resources, the AMA warned that unregulated chatbots present serious risks,
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From Governance to Enablement: How Healthcare CIOs Can Stop Killing AI Innovation
AI governance in healthcare has a branding problem. The word "governance" alone is enough to make half the room shut down. I've seen it happen. You put that word on a meeting invite, and suddenly everyone assumes this is the conversation where someone tells them what they can't do. That framing kills innovation before it starts.
I spent nearly a decade leading data and analytics teams at the largest healthcare system in Indiana, and we eventually stopped calling it governance altogether. We
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Amperos Health Raises $16M for Agentic AI Denial Management and Revenue Recovery Platform
What You Should Know:
The Funding: Amperos Health has closed a $16M Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Uncork Capital and Neo. This follows a $4.2M seed round in June 2025.The Core Technology: Amperos has launched the industry’s first AI-native, end-to-end denial management platform. Unlike fragmented tools that only draft appeal letters or offer predictive scoring, Amperos uses agentic AI (state-of-the-art LLMs with computer and voice
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Real-Time Enrollment: Covered California Scales Google Cloud AI to Transform CalHEERS
Real-Time Verification: How Covered California is Using Google's Document AI to Fix Health Insurance Enrollment
What You Should Know
The Partnership: Covered California is expanding its partnership with Google Public Sector and Deloitte to overhaul CalHEERS, the state’s integrated health insurance eligibility and enrollment platform.The Technology: The system utilizes Google Cloud’s Document AI (DocAI) to automate the complex document verification process required for millions of residents
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Lumeris Launches Native Audio for Tom Platform to Address US Primary Care Physician Shortage
Lumeris Integrates Google Gemini Native Audio into Tom Platform to Revolutionize Patient-Provider Interactions
What You Should Know
Lumeris has officially launched Native Audio for Tom, introducing real-time, speech-to-speech AI capabilities to its Primary Care as a Service (PCaaS) platform.The technology is built on Google Cloud’s Gemini native audio infrastructure, allowing for empathetic, low-latency dialogue that understands urgency and emotional nuance in a patient’s voice.The rollout
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Eleos Debuts Agentic AI Suite for Community-Based Care
Eleos Debuts Agentic AI Suite for Community-Based Care
What You Should Know
The Launch: Eleos, a technology platform built for community-based care, has expanded its suite by launching new agentic AI tools across Clinical Insights, Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), and Compliance. The technology is debuting at NatCon 2026.The "Shadow IT" Crisis: Currently, 57% of providers admit to using unauthorized AI tools, risking massive HIPAA violations and PHI exposure. Eleos combats this by embedding
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Why UT Austin is Building an ‘AI-Native’ Hospital from Scratch
What You Should Know
The Launch: The University of Texas at Austin has announced the UT Dell Medical Center, a comprehensive, "tech-native" academic medical center slated to open in 2030.The MD Anderson Integration: Central to the facility's clinical strategy is a unique collaboration with UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, which will be fully integrated into the Austin campus to deliver elite, coordinated care for complex conditions.The "Greenfield" Tech Stack: Because the hospital is being built
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AcuityMD Secures $80M to Bring Agentic AI to MedTech Sales
What You Should Know
The Funding: AcuityMD has secured an $80M Series C led by StepStone Group, with participation from Benchmark, Redpoint Ventures, ICONIQ, and Atreides Management. The company has now raised over $160M and boasts a $955M valuation.The Market Traction: The platform is currently used by over 400 MedTech companies, including 16 of the top 20 global organizations. To date, AcuityMD has helped customers identify over $34 billion in pipeline.The Agentic AI Rollout: AcuityMD is
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