What You Should Know:
- Several Kansas City area-based employees at Oracle have received layoff notices, according to at least two sources with knowledge of the company's actions, KMBC reports. The company, which is now headquartered in Nashville, did not announce a total number of layoffs, but sources confirmed that several long-tenured employees have lost their jobs.
- The latest round of workforce reductions comes three years after Oracle's acquisition of healthcare technology
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Epic Launches Comet: A New AI Platform to Predict Patient Health Journeys
What You Should Know:
- Today, Epic announced the launch of a new form of healthcare intelligence, named Comet, developed to help clinicians, health systems, and patients make more informed decisions.
- Built on Epic Cosmos, a secure data platform, Comet is designed to predict what is likely to happen next in a patient’s journey by estimating disease risk, length of stay, and treatment outcomes. The platform has learned from more than 100 billion patient medical events to
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WellSpan Health and General Catalyst Partner to Transform Healthcare Delivery
What You Should Know:
- WellSpan Health and General Catalyst’s Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATCo) have announced an expanded collaboration.
- The new initiative builds on a strategic partnership that began in 2023, with WellSpan Health becoming the first Transformation Partner to HATCo. The two organizations will work together to modernize and transform healthcare delivery through the development of new AI technologies.
Targeting Three Critical Areas of
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Onvida Health and Ambience Healthcare Launch Ambient AI Integration with Epic
What You Should Know:
- Onvida Health and Ambience Healthcare have announced the launch of new ambient AI capabilities directly inside Epic's Hyperspace and Haiku applications.
- This enterprise-wide deployment gives Onvida clinicians seamless access to Ambience's chart summarization, ambient scribing, coding, and patient summary technology without ever leaving the Epic platform.
Epic Integration Impact
The Epic integration builds on a successful partnership announced in
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PurpleLab Acquires KAID Health to Create AI-Powered Healthcare Intelligence Platform
What You Should Know:
- PurpleLab, a healthcare analytics company, has acquired KAID Health, an AI-powered clinical analytics and care management company. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition combines PurpleLab’s large-scale structured claims data with KAID Health’s artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technology. This creates a more complete view of patient journeys across both structured and unstructured data
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Meroka Launches With $6M to Fight Healthcare Corporate Consolidation with Employee-Owned Practices
What You Should Know:
- Meroka, a company focused on restoring humanity in healthcare, has publicly launched with a $6M in seed funding round led by Better Tomorrow Ventures and Slow Ventures, with participation from 8VC and other investors.
- Meroka's unique approach combines an employee ownership model with technology that reduces the administrative burden of running a practice. The company's mission is to help independent care teams focus on what they do best: caring for
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Philips SpeechLive Partners with Corti to Integrate Ambient AI for Clinical Documentation
What You Should Know:
- Speech Processing Solutions (SPS), the global leader behind Philips SpeechLive, has announced a strategic partnership with Corti, an AI infrastructure company for healthcare.
- The partnership will introduce ambient clinical documentation directly into the SpeechLive platform. By integrating Corti's real-time medical reasoning engine, the SpeechLive AI Assistant will transform the dictation platform into a "fully AI-powered documentation ecosystem".
Transforming
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How Hospitals Can Reduce the Threat of Workplace Violence
A recent report from the American Hospital Association draws welcome attention to a long-festering problem: the impact of violent attacks on a cornerstone of our healthcare system.
The report finds that hospitals in 2023 spent $18.27 billion to contend with a rising tide of violence both inside and outside their four walls. That includes $3.62 billion to protect workers, including violence prevention programs, training, technology, and other facility security measures.
It adds to a
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Evernorth Health Services Invests $3.5B in Shields Health Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Evernorth Health Services, a subsidiary of The Cigna Group, has announced a $3.5B investment in Shields Health Solutions, a specialty pharmacy management company.
- The investment coincides with Shields' establishment as a private standalone company following its acquisition by Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm.
- Evernorth's investment is in the form of preferred stock and is not expected to have a material impact on The
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HHS Regulatory Breakthrough to Streamline Prior Authorizations and Improve Drug Price Transparency
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a new regulatory reform that will give doctors and patients real-time access to prescription drug information.
- The rule, which takes effect on October 1, will allow millions of Americans for the first time to compare drug prices, view out-of-pocket costs, and access prior authorization requirements. The reform aims to help them identify the most cost-effective treatments and prevent
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