In 1971, a small team at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital, led by Dr. Howard Bleich and Dr. Warner Slack, booted up the hospital’s first Center for Clinical Computing. Their PDP-11 minicomputer stored lab results and a few hundred ICD-8 codes on nine-track tape. Each evening, residents lined up to run charge‐slip reports and marvel at the glow of the terminal. Fifty years later, we still tabulate charges, but the code set has grown from those few hundred entries to nearly 70,000 in ICD-10-CM,
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Arbital Health Secures $31M to Accelerate Value-Based Care Contracting
What You Should Know:
- Arbital Health, a healthcare technology company providing critical infrastructure for providers and payers to successfully manage risk-based contracts secures $31M in Series B funding round led by Valtruis, with participation from existing investors Transformation Capital, Shaper Capital, and Healthy Ventures.
- The investment will expand Arbital Health’s payer and provider facing capabilities, accelerate value-based care contract performance monitoring,
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JotPsych Raises $5M to Build First Fully Agentic EHR for Behavioral Health
What You Should Know:
- JotPsych, creator of the leading AI-powered scribe for behavioral health, today announced it has raised $5M in seed funding led by Base10 Partners.
- The investment positions JotPsych to rapidly transform from a best-in-class AI scribe into the first fully agentic Electronic Health Record (EHR), aiming to fundamentally eliminate administrative tasks for behavioral health clinicians.
From AI Scribe to Agentic EHR: Accelerating Transformation
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Innovaccer Launches Comet™: AI-Powered Access Center Transforms Healthcare’s Digital Front Door
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare AI company, today announced the launch of Comet™, an AI-powered Access Center solution that transforms the traditional call center into an intelligent, always-on digital front door for care.
- Built to address long-standing operational inefficiencies in patient access, Comet™ integrates 24/7 omnichannel AI agents, intelligent bidirectional EMR connectivity, and real-time AI copilots to streamline scheduling, reduce hold
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Intermountain Health Taps Foundation Health to Automate Patient Outreach in Specialty Pharmacy
What You Should Know:
- In a new strategic partnership, Foundation Health’s PAIGE AI platform will be used to automate patient outreach and communication workflows in an initial 6-month program at Intermountain Health’s specialty pharmacy operations.
- Intermountain Health currently serves over 14,000 patients through its specialty pharmacy, based in Midvale, Utah. The PAIGE AI platform will offer scalable, always-on automation across this substantial operation, helping ensure
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HHS and Department of Education Demand Duke University Cooperation in Racial Discrimination Probe
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- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it has demanded Duke University’s cooperation in a federal investigation into serious allegations of systemic racial discrimination within Duke University School of Medicine and other components of Duke Health.
- The demand comes through a joint letter from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Education Secretary Linda McMahon, underscoring their agencies’ shared concerns.
- HHS’s
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Mayo Clinic Deploys NVIDIA Infrastructure to Drive GenAI Solutions in Medicine
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic announced a pivotal step toward integrating AI solutions in the clinical setting with the deployment of NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with NVIDIA DGX B200 systems.
- The advanced infrastructure provides state-of-the-art AI compute capabilities, poised to rapidly innovate and develop foundation models in support of Mayo Clinic’s platform approach to healthcare.
Foundation Model Development
The advanced computing infrastructure will initially
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GE HealthCare and Ascension Partner to Enhance Clinical and Operational Outcomes Across National Network
What You Should Know:
- GE HealthCare and Ascension forms a strategic collaboration designed to enhance clinical and operational outcomes across Ascension’s national network.
- The strategic partnership, focused on patient access and experience, supports Ascension’s Mission to serve all, with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable, aiming to deliver high-quality, respectful care using advanced technology and integrated solutions, with a shared focus on patient
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HHS Launches $100M Pilot Program to Combat Hepatitis C in Vulnerable Communities
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a $100M pilot funding opportunity aimed at preventing, testing for, treating, and curing Hepatitis C (HCV) in individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) and/or serious mental illness (SMI).
- The program is specifically designed to support communities severely affected by homelessness and to gain insights on effective ways to identify patients, complete treatment, cure infections,
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Waystar to Acquire Iodine Software for $1.25B, Enhancing AI-Powered Healthcare Payment Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Waystar, a provider of healthcare payment software announced a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Iodine Software (“Iodine”) for $1.25B.
- The proposed acquisition is expected to significantly accelerate Waystar’s ability to transform healthcare payments through its leading cloud-based software platform, empowering more than one million providers with advanced AI capabilities to prevent denials, reduce manual work, and improve financial
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