As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services moves forward with the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), hospitals are taking on financial accountability for Medicare’s most complex and costly surgical episodes. Hospitals that don’t take action to achieve better patient outcomes could find themselves owing Medicare money.
While TEAM shifts meaningful risk to hospitals, it also creates an opportunity often missing in value-based care: true collaboration with
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CharmHealth Launches MCP Server to Give AI Direct Access to the EHR
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The Tech: CharmHealth has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Originally championed by companies like Anthropic, MCP is an open standard that allows AI models to securely connect to local data sources without needing custom-built APIs for every single action.The Impact: Instead of forcing developers to read extensive API documentation and build complex connectors, the MCP server allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to use natural language requests to fetch
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Alira Health Sued for Stock Manipulation and Fraud
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The Lawsuits: Several startup founders, including PatchAi's Alessandro Monterosso and RedCrow's Jerry Harrison (of the Talking Heads), are suing Alira Health and CEO Gabriele Brambilla for fraud, unjust enrichment, and Securities Exchange Act violations.The Alleged Scheme: The founders claim Brambilla orchestrated a systematic freeze-out. Alira allegedly acquired startups using inflated stock, set impossible performance goals to justify firing the founders, and then
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Elsevier ClinicalKey AI Adds NEJM, The Lancet, and HIPAA Compliance
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The Upgrade: Elsevier has significantly expanded its ClinicalKey AI platform, adding full-text access to over 130 premium medical journals (including NEJM and The Lancet) and clinical guidelines from top medical societies.The Trust Factor: Addressing the reality that only 40% of clinicians trust AI, the tool now features unmatched "traceability"—linking generated answers to the exact paragraph in peer-reviewed sources, backed by a rigorous "clinician-in-the-loop"
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Frist Cressey Ventures Raises $425M Fund to Invest in AI-Native Care
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The Raise: Frist Cressey Ventures (FCV) has closed an oversubscribed $425M Fund IV, bringing its total assets under management to nearly $1 billion.The Strategy: The new fund will focus on early-stage healthcare companies transforming care delivery, with a specific emphasis on AI-native business models and tech-enabled services.The "Moat": FCV’s strategic Limited Partners (LPs)—including The Cigna Group, MedStar Health, and OhioHealth—provide healthcare to over 50% of the
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Rainfall Health Raises $15M to Turn CMS Team Mandates into Revenue
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The Raise: Rainfall Health, an AI-driven compliance platform, has closed a $15M Series A funding round led by Two Bear Capital, along with support from other notable investors.The Catalyst: The investment coincides with the launch of the CMS Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) on January 1, 2026. This mandate incentivizes hospitals to improve outcomes for five high-spend surgical procedures.The Opportunity: While compliance is often seen as a cost, Rainfall
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Merck to Leverage Mayo Clinic Platform_Orchestrate for AI-Enabled Drug Discovery
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The Deal: Merck and Mayo Clinic have signed a strategic research agreement to apply AI and multimodal data to drug discovery. This is Mayo Clinic's first collaboration of this scale with a global biopharma company.The Data: Merck gains access to Mayo Clinic Platform_Orchestrate, a treasure trove of de-identified clinical data, genomic datasets, lab results, imaging, and clinical notes from the world's top-ranked hospital system.The Focus: The partnership will initially
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Imprivata Patient Access Launches in Epic Toolbox for Identity Verification
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The Launch: Imprivata, the digital identity company, has officially launched its Patient Access solution within Epic Toolbox. This means it is now a native, vetted integration for hospitals using the Epic EHR.The Tech: The tool uses facial recognition and high-assurance identity verification (IAL2 standards) to let patients create MyChart accounts securely from home, without needing a code or a phone call.The Goal: By matching a patient’s face to their existing medical
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Flatiron Launches AI-Powered Panoramic Prostate Cancer Datasets for UK and Germany
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The Launch: Flatiron Health has expanded its Panoramic platform to include prostate cancer datasets from the UK and Germany, creating a unified, global standard for Real-World Evidence (RWE).The Scale: The dataset encompasses nearly 400,000 patients across the US and Europe. It leverages proprietary AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract unstructured data from Electronic Health Records (EHRs).The Depth: Unlike standard claims data, this platform captures deep
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Why Clinical Communication Projects Die in the Boardroom (And How to Save Them)
Most clinical communication business cases fail at the board level.
Not because the technology doesn't work. Not because the clinical need isn't real. The problem is simpler: the financial framing doesn't match what decision-makers actually care about when allocating capital.
After sitting in board meetings across hospitals in Asia Pacific and the Middle East, I've watched proposals succeed and fail. The ones that get approved do something different. They connect clinical communication
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