What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic has announced the launch of Mayo Clinic Platform_Orchestrate, a new program designed to accelerate clinical development and help biopharma and medical device companies bring innovative therapies to patients faster.
- The program achieves this by providing collaborators with a single point of access to Mayo Clinic's world-class research and clinical expertise, de-identified clinical data, and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
A Single
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How Voice-Driven AI is Rebuilding Trust Between Clinicians and Tech
While artificial intelligence promises to revolutionize patient care, a fundamental trust deficit between clinicians and technology threatens to undermine its potential. The solution may not lie in more sophisticated algorithms or faster processors, but in something far more intuitive: the human voice. Voice-driven AI is emerging as the bridge that could finally reconcile clinicians with healthcare technology, transforming both the practice of medicine and the patient experience
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Combating the New Face of Healthcare Phishing and Medical Identity Theft
In 2024 alone, more than 276 million patient records were compromised in cyber attacks targeting healthcare organizations, a figure that equates to 758,000 exposed records every single day. The scale of the problem is shocking, but what’s even more sobering is that 92 percent of healthcare organizations reported experiencing at least one cyberattack last year. These aren’t just numbers; they reflect a growing crisis in trust, safety, and operational integrity across the entire healthcare system.
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The AI Malpractice Paradox: Why Healthcare Organizations Bear Full Legal Responsibility for Patient Harm
Healthcare organizations are installing artificial intelligence tools across their operations — diagnostic algorithms, predictive models, patient monitoring systems — while avoiding a fundamental question: Who gets sued when these systems harm patients?
Healthcare organizations bear full legal responsibility for any patient harm caused by AI tools they choose to use. This is direct medical malpractice liability, whether the AI was built internally or bought from a vendor. Yet while executives
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Ambience Healthcare Launches Inpatient ICD-10 CDI Assistant to Elevate Hospital Documentation
What You Should Know:
- Ambience Healthcare has announced the launch of the industry’s first Inpatient ICD-10 CDI Assistant.
- The new solution is designed to help hospitalists document precise, compliant diagnoses during the patient encounter, ensuring that clinical complexity is accurately captured and is audit-ready from the start.
Bridging the Gap Between Complexity and Compliance
Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) is the discipline of ensuring that the medical
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Homecare Homebase Launches AI and Automation Tools to Transform Home-Based Care
What You Should Know:
- Homecare Homebase (HCHB), a leader in software for home-based care launches three new automation and AI-driven tools.
- The solutions are designed to create crucial workflow efficiencies in areas of home-based care that have historically been manual and time-consuming. The new products are part of the HCHB Intelligence Suite and are accessible directly through the Homecare Homebase EHR, ensuring a seamless user experience.
Streamlining Workflows
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How Agentic AI Automates Healthcare Admin and Combats Burnout
Seventy minutes is enough time to complete a colonoscopy or a hernia repair; it's also the average time saved per patient visit when healthcare providers use fully automated administrative workflows that not just collect, but also act on data.
Clinicians are drowning in alerts, forms, and follow-ups, while $90 billion per year is spent on routine administrative tasks. Agentic AI brings a breakthrough, taking these informative alerts, and making decisions based on their context.
In
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KLAS Report: Epic’s Native Ambient Speech Tool Reshapes Customer AI Strategies
What You Should Know:
- A new KLAS Flash Insights report explores how Epic’s native clinician-facing ambient AI speech tool has the potential to reshape the market.
- Initially, Epic provided ambient speech through integrations with partners like Microsoft and Abridge. However, at its annual UGM in August 2025, Epic announced its own native clinician-facing ambient speech tool, developed with Microsoft.
- To understand the industry reaction, KLAS
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CareCloud Acquires HFMA’s MAP App to Infuse AI into Hospital Benchmarking
What You Should Know:
- CareCloud, a leader in AI-driven healthcare technology solutions, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire MAP App, an industry-leading hospital benchmarking tool created by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).
- The acquisition, which is scheduled to close on October 1, 2025, is supported by a long-term joint marketing agreement that will enable the expansion of MAP App’s capabilities, particularly through the introduction of
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Seattle Children’s to Deploy Abridge AI to Combat Documentation Burden
What You Should Know:
- Seattle Children’s, a major health system with over 2,000 clinicians and half a million patient visits annually, has finalized an enterprise-wide agreement to deploy Abridge’s AI-powered ambient clinical intelligence platform.
- The implementation follows a successful 90-day pilot spanning 18 pediatric specialties. The decision to scale Abridge is part of Seattle Children’s long-term strategy to reduce documentation burden and advance innovation in
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