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Qventus released a new industry report surveying 60+ CIOs, Chief AI Officers, CMIOs, and other senior IT leadership from national health systems, including HonorHealth, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Rochester Regional Health to uncover how they are spending, evaluating, and regulating AI.The report, Beyond the Pilot: How CIOs Are Operationalizing AI Across Health Systems in 2026, confirms that the AI market is at a pressure point. As EHR giants
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The Perioperative AI Reality Check: Why Hospital Tech Fails Without Clinician Co-Design
When hospital administrators started talking about "AI-powered solutions" for perioperative care a few years ago, I was deeply skeptical. I'd watched too many technology promises fail to deliver. EHR modules that were supposed to streamline workflows but actually made them more cumbersome. "Intelligent" scheduling systems that didn't account for clinical realities. Patient portals that patients didn't use.
The problem wasn't the technology, it was that most solutions were designed by people
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Amazon Pharmacy Partners with Eli Lilly to Offer Foundayo GLP-1 with Same-Day Delivery
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The Drug: Amazon Pharmacy is now dispensing Foundayo™, Eli Lilly's recently approved, once-daily oral GLP-1 medication indicated for adults with obesity or overweight with weight-related medical problems.The Pricing: Amazon is utilizing radical price transparency and automatic couponing. With insurance, the drug costs $25 per month ($1 per day). For cash-pay customers, it is aggressively priced at $149 per month ($5 per day).
How Amazon Pharmacy's Same-Day GLP-1
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Click Therapeutics Secures $50M to Commercialize Schizophrenia Digital Therapeutic
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Boehringer Ingelheim and Click Therapeutics have restructured their commercialization agreement for CT-155. Boehringer is transferring all commercial and marketing rights to Click, backed by a $50M Series D strategic investment and undisclosed dedicated commercial funding.
The Clinical Moat: Conquering 'Negative' Symptoms
To understand why Boehringer is willing to pour $50M into Click's commercial engine, you have to look at the massive clinical unmet need
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Talkiatry Launches Talkiatry Connect for Cloud-Based EMR Psychiatric Referrals
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The Launch: Talkiatry, the nation’s largest private employer of psychiatrists, has launched Talkiatry Connect, a new referral tool that embeds directly inside a provider's existing cloud-based EMR.The Solution: Talkiatry Connect acts as a browser-based overlay (running on Chromium browsers) that integrates with over 30 cloud-based EMRs, including Athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, and Practice Fusion. A small icon alerts the provider if a patient might need psychiatric care,
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The Invisible Implementation: Why Healthcare IT Needs to Shift from Vendors to Partners
In healthcare, implementation has a reputation problem.
Too often, onboarding a new vendor, transitioning a program, or launching a platform is associated with disruption: extra meetings, unclear timelines, competing priorities, and last-minute data requests that strain already stretched teams.
But the best healthcare implementations rarely feel disruptive at all — because the most effective teams design simplicity into the process long before kickoff begins.
Smooth implementations
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eClinicalWorks Launches Production Support for CMS ‘Kill the Clipboard’ Initiative
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eClinicalWorks, one of the largest ambulatory cloud EHRs in the nation, has announced production support for the CMS’s Kill the Clipboard initiative to enable paperless patient intake at scale.When the patient arrives at the clinic, the provider simply scans the QR code using the eClinicalMobile app. The patient's verified medical records instantly populate into the eClinicalWorks EHR at the point of care.
How eClinicalWorks is Using QR Codes to Digitize Patient
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Mount Sinai Unveils Real-Time Intraocular Pressure Monitoring in Glaucoma Surgery
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The Technology: A team at Mount Sinai has developed miDOC (micro-interventional Dynamic Outflow Curve), a novel surgical technology designed to continuously measure critical fluid dynamics inside the eye during surgery.The Solution: miDOC provides real-time, intraoperative measurements of pressure, flow, outflow facility, and ocular compliance. This allows the surgeon to dynamically adjust the procedure based on the patient's immediate physiological response.
How Mount
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M&A: LivTech Acquires Alora Healthcare Systems to Expand Post-Acute Care Platform
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The Acquisition: LivTech, a comprehensive healthcare tech provider for long-term post-acute care (LTPAC), has acquired Alora Healthcare Systems, a premier developer of cloud-based, AI-enhanced home health software. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The Financial Backer: The acquisition is backed by PSG, a leading growth equity firm that partners with middle-market software companies, signaling strong private equity interest in the care-at-home
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Epic Customers First to Share Medical Records with Social Security Administration via TEFCA
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The Milestone: Customers of Epic are officially the first healthcare providers to share medical records with the Social Security Administration (SSA) through TEFCA (Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement), the federally sponsored interoperability network.The Pioneer Cohort: The first wave of Epic health systems connecting to the SSA via TEFCA includes AltaMed (CA), Citizen Potawatomi Nation Health Services (OK), Overlake Hospital Medical Center (WA), Saint
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