In healthcare, emergencies are visible — alarms sound, monitors beep, and doctors rush. But not all crises are loud. Some, like poor hospital asset management, unfold quietly, costing time, money, and sometimes even lives. Amid the rush to adopt cutting-edge surgical robots, digital diagnostics, and AI-powered diagnostics, one foundational area continues to be overlooked: the way hospitals manage, maintain, and utilize their physical assets — from infusion pumps and ventilators to mobile
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Healthcare Leaders Prioritize AI and Payer Integration for Reimbursement Resilience
What You Should Know:
- A new survey conducted by Becker's Healthcare and Net Health reveals that healthcare leaders are making strategic technology investments to ensure financial resilience amid ongoing regulatory and reimbursement shifts.
- The survey, which polled 100 health system and hospital CFOs, finance VPs, and clinical technology leaders, highlights that leaders are concerned about payer integration challenges and view Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a key tool for
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Independent Providers Lose $2.2M Annually Due to Referral Backlogs, Tennr Report Finds
What You Should Know:
- Tennr, a company automating the labor-intensive workflows of referral-based care, has released its first Healthcare Provider Benchmark Report. The study uncovers a significant financial challenge: independent healthcare providers lose over 10% (or $2.2M) every year due to claim denials that originate during the patient referral backlog.
- The report analyzed data from healthcare organizations using Tennr's platform to process tens of millions of patients,
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Collette Health Acquires VNA: The New Standard for Scaling Virtual Nursing Programs
What You Should Know:
- Collette Health's acquisition of the Virtual Nursing Academy (VNA) is a pivotal move that bundles best-in-class technology with the essential education and clinical expertise required to build and sustain successful virtual care delivery models.
- With technology, education, and clinical expertise seamlessly integrated, Collette Health has made a decisive move to ensure that healthcare organizations no longer need to navigate the complex challenges of virtual
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AI Reality Check: How Bad Data Is Undermining AI Implementations in Healthcare
What if the biggest threat to AI implementation in healthcare isn't regulation or funding, but impatience?
According to IBM's recent CEO survey, only 25% of AI initiatives have delivered expected ROI over the last few years, and only 16% have scaled enterprise-wide. Healthcare isn't immune to this AI disappointment. A Bessemer Venture Partners survey found that only 30% of AI pilots in healthcare reach production, held back by factors like data readiness.
With mounting pressures to
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Koda Health Secures $7M to Scale AI-Enhanced Patient Decision Platform
What You Should Know:
-Koda Health, a digital health company building an AI-enhanced patient decision support platform that enables health systems and payers to scale advanced care planning (ACP) and goals-of-care conversations secures $7M in Series A funding round led by Evidenced, with participation from Mudita Venture Partners, Techstars, and Texas Medical Center.
- The new capital will enable Koda to scale its operations and meet surging demand nationwide. To support this growth,
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We Can’t Wait for Washington to Act on Healthcare Cybersecurity
Over the past few years, I’ve watched as the number of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations across America has continued to trend upwards - undermining patient care and exposing millions of medical records.
Since January alone: a cyber criminal copied the sensitive data of 5 million patients through IT vendor Episource; a hacker breached Connecticut Community Health Center’s systems accessing the medical records of 1 million patients; and a ransomware
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Osso VR Launches Osso Nurse Training Platform to Accelerate Nursing Onboarding with Virtual Reality
What You Should Know:
- Osso VR, a leader in immersive healthcare training, has announced early access to its new virtual reality (VR) nursing solution, Osso Nurse Training. The platform is designed to optimize how health systems onboard new graduate nurses, addressing a top concern for hospital executives: finding ways to onboard nurses faster without compromising patient care.
- Developed in collaboration with frontline educators, the solution combines the Osso VR Nursing Series
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M&A: Fortified Health Security Acquires Latitude to Scale HITRUST and Advisory Services
What You Should Know:
- Fortified Health Security (Fortified), a managed security services provider (MSSP) specializing in healthcare cybersecurity acquires Latitude Information Security.
- Latitude is a healthcare-focused cybersecurity advisory firm known for its expertise in HITRUST CSF, risk assessments, and third-party risk management.
Expanding End-to-End Capabilities
The strategic acquisition scales Fortified's ability to deliver essential healthcare advisory and
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Briya and Tanner Health Partner to Launch New Patient Data Network
What You Should Know:
- Briya, the health technology company redefining healthcare research, today announced a strategic partnership with Tanner Health, the premier provider of healthcare in west Georgia and east Alabama, on the creation of the Briya/Tanner Network, a new patient data network to support clinical innovation and healthcare research by providing secure access to high quality real-world data (RWD).
- The collaboration integrates Briya's secure data access platform with
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