AI is accelerating everything, from how fast an individual can make a grocery list to the speed at which drug discovery timelines play out for pharmaceutical manufacturers. However, many in the healthcare industry are clinging to the old R&D playbook, and legacy strategies will no longer cut it in the time of automation and machine learning. The shift is structural, so it can’t be gradual. Those who remain slow and steady will not win this race.
As AI and personalized medicine reshape the
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Adonis Launches AI-Powered Revenue Cycle Orchestration in Epic Connection Hub
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AI-driven revenue cycle management (RCM) pioneer Adonis has officially launched its platform in the Epic Connection Hub, enabling health systems to deploy its intelligence layer directly over their native Epic environments.The strategic deployment addresses severe operational strain inside health system billing offices, where teams are frequently left to reactively mine thousands of disjointed, legacy administrative work queues.Instead of replacing foundational systems of
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The Financial Pressure on Hospitals is Real — Here’s One Place to Find Relief
Hospital finance leaders don’t need a report to tell them things are difficult, but the American Hospital Association’s latest “Costs of Caring” report does something extremely useful: it puts concrete numbers behind pressures that have been building for years and shows just how much they’ve compounded.
The picture the report paints is one of mounting strain across the industry. Total hospital expenses grew 7.5% in 2025, more than twice the rate of growth in hospital
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Thoreau Enters Definitive Agreement for Strategic Growth Investment in Ensemble Health Partners
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Revenue cycle managed services leader Ensemble Health Partners has announced a definitive agreement for a strategic growth investment from Thoreau, the healthcare investment platform founded by veteran private equity executive Matt Holt.The transaction values Ensemble at an estimated $12 billion, positioning the newly launched, Apollo Global Management-backed Thoreau platform at the epicenter of scaled healthcare administrative outsourcing.Legacy institutional
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Kinomatic Secures $4M to Expand AI-Enabled Surgical Planning Platform
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Orthopedic technology innovator Kinomatic has successfully finalized a $4M seed funding round led by healthcare-focused venture firm Waterline Ventures.The company has demonstrated significant commercial scale, documenting 7x revenue growth over four years, a 5x expansion in regional provider networks, and a world-class Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 85.Renowned orthopedic specialist and opioid-reduction advocate Dr. Andrew B. Wickline, MD, FAAOS, joins the executive
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Marathon Health and Lantern Partner to Launch Integrated Primary and Specialty Care Model
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Advanced primary care leader Marathon Health and premier specialty care platform Lantern have formalized a strategic commercial partnership targeting skyrocketing employer specialty healthcare spend.The collaborative model integrates Marathon's value-based, on-site and virtual primary care networks directly with Lantern’s specialist "Network of Excellence" and bundled payment workflows.An early adopter pilot program focused on musculoskeletal and orthopedic care yielded
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Opmed and Mayo Clinic Unveil Multimodal AI Platform at ACC.26 to Optimize Surgical Capacity
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Healthcare operations AI pioneer Opmed has announced the results of a multi-year collaborative study with the Mayo Clinic aimed at optimizing operating room (OR) efficiency.Presented at the ACC.26 (American College of Cardiology Expo), the study proves that Opmed's multimodal deep learning platform reduces cardiovascular (CV) procedure scheduling errors by approximately 50%.Traditional scheduling methods rely on historic human averages, generating an inaccurate status quo
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Vali Health Emerges from Stealth with $6M to Scale Responsible AI Across Home Care EHRs
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San Francisco-based health technology innovator Vali Health has emerged from stealth with a $6M funding round led by Bonfire Ventures, Supernode, and Comma Capital.The financing features prominent backing from Jacquelyn Kung, co-founder of ClearCare (now WellSky), aligning the startup with deep clinical and operations software lineage.The platform tackles the acute, multi-layered "no-show crisis" impacting home care, where sudden caregiver call-outs leave vulnerable aging
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Model N Acquires Kalderos to Expand 340B Capabilities and Gross-to-Net Analytics
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End-to-end life sciences revenue management pioneer Model N has announced its strategic acquisition of drug discount analytics platform Kalderos.The transaction consolidates Kalderos’ proprietary Truzo platform into Model N’s commercial infrastructure to provide real-time, claims-level visibility into complex 340B discount networks.Life sciences manufacturers face intensifying gross-to-net (GTN) pressures, driven by ongoing Medicare drug price negotiations,
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Prior Authorization Technology Is the Weakest Link in the GLP-1 Revolution
The clinical case for GLP-1 receptor agonists in obesity management is no longer a debate. Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated sustained weight reduction of 15 to 22 percent of body weight, meaningful improvements in cardiovascular outcomes, and reductions in obesity related comorbidities including type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinology, the American Gastroenterological Association, and major cardiology societies have all updated their
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