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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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Smokeless Tobacco and Oral Cancer: A Health System Unprepared
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S., with cigarette use responsible for one out of every three cancer deaths in the country. The rising use of smokeless tobacco is adding to these numbers by introducing a new set of health risks, as these products contain over 28 cancer-causing compounds. Although many people are turning to smokeless tobacco in an attempt to quit smoking cigarettes, the International Agency for Research on Cancer warns that smokeless tobacco may pose risks
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Why Claims Data Alone Leave Gaps in Understanding the Patient Journey
In today’s precision medicine landscape, pharmaceutical companies and access teams face a critical challenge: understanding not just whether therapies work, but how they are accessed, adopted, and experienced by real-world patients. This requires going beyond traditional data sources, particularly claims data, which—while useful—often fails to capture the nuanced clinical and diagnostic steps that define the patient journey. To truly understand and improve therapy adoption, stakeholders need a
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Drug Shortages Cost Hospitals Nearly $900M Annually in Labor
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- A new analysis from Vizient® reveals the staggering financial impact of drug shortages on U.S. hospitals, with labor costs for managing these disruptions more than doubling since 2019.
- The survey, "Beyond the Shortage: The Hidden Cost of Drug Supply Chain Disruptions," found that in 2023, hospitals spent roughly 20 million hours managing drug shortages, translating to nearly $900 million annually in labor costs.
The Hidden Costs Go Far Beyond
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