Americans are living longer lives than ever before, but are we living better? The data is sobering: while life expectancy continues to rise, healthspan, or the number of years spent in good health, isn’t keeping up. A recent study published in the JAMA Network highlights this growing gap, with the United States facing a troubling 12-year disparity between lifespan and healthspan. That means millions of Americans are spending over a decade grappling with chronic illness, mobility issues and
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Knowtion Health Acquires Switch RCM to Enhance AI-Powered Revenue Recovery Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Knowtion Health, a healthcare revenue cycle company, has acquired Switch RCM, a data- and technology-first company that uncovers and resolves overlooked reimbursement opportunities through intelligent automation and data-driven innovation.The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
- The combination of Knowtion and Switch RCM is designed to address the growing challenges faced by health systems, including increasing payer complexity, shrinking
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Clearsense and Nordic to Deliver End-to-End Application Portfolio Management Solution
What You Should Know:
- Clearsense®, a cloud-based data enablement platform company, and Nordic®, a global healthcare consulting firm announced a strategic collaboration to offer the industry’s only end-to-end solution for Application Portfolio Management (APM).
- The partnership is designed to help health systems assess, prioritize, and eliminate redundant or outdated software applications, unlocking immediate savings and modernizing their IT infrastructure.
Addressing the Challenge
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Diabetes-Related Healthcare Costs Have Plateaued, Marking a Rare Opportunity for Employers, Nomi Health Report Finds
What You Should Know:
- After decades of relentless increases, diabetes-related healthcare costs have finally plateaued, according to a new analysis by Nomi Health. The key finding from the company's latest "Trends in Spend" report marks a rare moment of opportunity for self-funded employers to re-evaluate how they manage one of their highest-cost conditions before the next wave of expenses hits.
- Analyzing employer-sponsored claims data from 2021–2024, Nomi Health found that while
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Layer Health and Intermountain Health to Deploy AI for Clinical Data Abstraction
What You Should Know:
- Layer Health, an artificial intelligence (AI) company in healthcare announced a strategic collaboration with Intermountain Health, one of the nation’s top integrated health systems. The collaboration includes a strategic investment from Intermountain Ventures, Intermountain’s innovation and venture capital arm, and a multi-year initiative to deploy the Layer Health AI platform across multiple clinical registries.
- The partnership aims to improve the accuracy,
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Huron to Acquire Revenue Cycle Consulting Firm Eclipse Insights
What You Should Know:
- Huron has entered into an agreement to acquire Eclipse Insights, a revenue cycle consulting firm dedicated to helping healthcare organizations maximize revenue and improve cash flow. This acquisition is set to enhance Huron’s ability to drive revenue cycle yield and efficiencies for its clients.
- The move comes as healthcare providers continue to face significant financial challenges, including ongoing margin pressures, workforce shortages, declining
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Commure Raises $200M to Accelerate AI-Powered RCM Platform
What You Should Know:
- Commure, the fast-growing enterprise AI healthcare technology company, today announced it has secured $200M in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). The funding will be used to meet the surging demand for Commure’s full-stack AI platform, which spans revenue cycle management (RCM), ambient AI clinical documentation and workflows, and practice management solutions.
- The CVF transaction enables Commure to scale its investment in
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Abridge’s AI Assistant Expands to Inpatient Notes and Orders in Epic
What You Should Know:
- Abridge, a generative AI platform for clinical conversations, is expanding its capabilities to support inpatient care settings and to queue up outpatient orders.
- The extension of its platform is part of the Workshop program, through which Epic and Abridge have collaborated to develop new, innovative healthcare technologies that are piloted and refined before wider release.
Abridge Inside for Inpatient: Bringing AI Documentation to the
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Collectly Launches “Billie,” an AI Agent for 24/7 Patient Billing Support
What You Should Know:
- Collectly, the AI-powered platform reshaping patient billing and revenue cycle management (RCM), today announced the launch of Billie—a breakthrough AI agent for patient billing and RCM. Billie is available to patients 24/7 across chat, email, text, and voice, providing real-time answers to complex medical billing questions and simple, one-click payment options.
- The launch comes at a critical time when patients are often overwhelmed by confusing medical
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Healthcare’s Big Blind Spot: The Measurement Crisis in Inpatient Psychiatry
Healthcare is moving deeper into the value-based era. Metrics drive decisions, outcomes define quality, and performance data shapes reimbursement. Yet amid this transformation, inpatient psychiatry and behavioral healthcare remain the most notable outlier—excluded for a variety of reasons including stigmatization, subjectivity, and a high degree of variation in clinical operations from site to site.
Behavioral healthcare lacks the foundational standards and management models that have
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