What You Should Know:
- Wolters Kluwer Health has launched its new Advanced Compounding module for Simplifi 797, providing a comprehensive, closed-loop solution to meet the rigorous 2023 USP Chapter 797 requirements.
- The module is designed for pharmacies performing complex, high-risk sterile compounding, offering essential tools for batch tracking, extended beyond-use dating, and stringent documentation. This upgrade ensures confidence with every inspection, cementing
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Lightbeam Acquires Syntax Health to Unify VBC Contracting and Population Health Platforms
What You Should Know:
- Lightbeam Health Solutions, a leader in AI-enabled Population Health Management, has acquired Syntax Health, an enterprise SaaS platform specializing in value-based care (VBC) contract modeling. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The strategic acquisition unifies the traditionally separate functions of predictive analytics and collaborative contract design into a single VBC operating system.
- The combined platform aims
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HHS Launches ‘OneHHS’ AI Strategy to Integrate AI Across CDC, CMS, and FDA for Efficiency and Public Trust
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released its comprehensive AI Strategy, fulfilling the Trump Administration's commitment to utilize leading technologies across the federal workforce.
- The "OneHHS" approach aims to integrate AI across all divisions—including the CDC, CMS, and FDA—to enhance internal operations, foster innovation, and ultimately improve patient outcomes. The strategy is built on five pillars, prioritizing
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GE HealthCare and Mayo Clinic Launch GEMINI-RT to Personalize Radiation Therapy with AI and Connected Care
What You Should Know:
- GE HealthCare and Mayo Clinic today announced the GE HealthCare-Mayo Clinic Initiative in Radiation Therapy, known as GEMINI-RT, an ambitious new collaboration that aims to transform personalized radiation therapy and cancer care.
- Building on decades of collaboration and the original Strategic Radiology Research Collaboration signed in 2023,GEMINI-RT plans to drive innovation in prediction, planning, automation, workflow and monitoring for radiation
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ECU Health and Artisight Launch ’Smart Hospital’ Tech to Bring Specialty Telehealth to Rural North Carolina
What You Should Know:
- ECU Health, a rural health system serving 29 counties in eastern North Carolina, has partnered with Artisight to introduce Smart Hospital technology across its facilities, starting with five hospitals and expanding to more in the coming year.
- This new platform will make telehealth services more efficient by expanding specialized care from ECU Health Medical Center to patients in ECU Health hospitals across eastern North Carolina and improve the
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Beyond Transcription: 3 Ways AI Can Automate Full Healthcare Workflows
In 2024, two in three physicians reported using AI – representing a wider shift in the healthcare industry to drive efficiency and generate better outcomes for patients with new technology advancements. But many of these use cases have been limited to administrative tasks like voice transcription.
Given all the data that healthcare systems, hospitals and clinics are already gathering as part of their everyday work, the opportunity for AI to reimagine the way they operate–from optimized
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Inova Health to Deploy Signal 1’s AI Management Platform to Centralize Governance and Track Value of AI Portfolio
What You Should Know:
- Inova Health, a nonprofit health system, has adopted Signal 1’s AI Management Platform to centralize the oversight, governance, and performance monitoring of its growing portfolio of artificial intelligence tools.
- The move is critical for ensuring that every AI solution deployed is safe, equitable, and compliant with standards like those set by the Joint Commission. The platform will provide essential visibility, automated monitoring, and impact
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The Clinical AI Paradox: Why Data Scarcity and Synthetic Over-Reliance Threaten Healthcare LLM Revolution
Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly moving from the lab to the administrative suite, promising to revolutionize efficiency in healthcare by automating clinical documentation, streamlining scheduling, and accelerating claim processing. For an industry buckling under administrative overhead, the immediate value proposition is immense.
However, beneath this promise lies a fundamental vulnerability that threatens to undermine the entire AI revolution in medicine: the quality, diversity, and
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Commure Autonomous Coding Scales to 200+ Sites with OBHG: Clinicians Reduce Charge Time by 83%
What You Should Know:
- Commure, a healthcare technology company, and Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG), the nation's largest provider of OB/GYNs, have formed a strategic partnership to deploy Commure’s Autonomous Coding solution across nearly 2,000 clinicians and over 200 care sites.
- Early results are compelling: within three months, clinicians reduced the time spent entering charges by an impressive 83%, with AI now coding over 85% of all charges. This deployment strengthens
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Clinician Turnover Crisis: KLAS Report Identifies Dissatisfied Leadership as the Top Predictor of Physician and Nurse Attrition
What You Should Know:
- A new report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative finds that dissatisfaction with organizational leadership is the primary non-personal reason at-risk clinicians plan to leave their jobs.
- The dissatisfaction is strongly correlated with a poor EHR experience , meaning IT investment is now a critical leadership strategy for reducing costly clinician turnover. Healthcare organizations face significant financial risk, as losing a physician can cost up to
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