Millions of Americans are currently facing a difficult choice: either pay for expensive biologic medications or ration doses to afford basic needs. Cost-related nonadherence (CRN) is where patients either skip or delay their medication due to cost concerns, a challenge that is widespread throughout the U.S. The financial burden is even greater for those managing multiple chronic conditions, where prescription costs can quickly add up to unmanageable amounts.
Despite the financial strain,
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Smarter Technologies Launches AI-Driven Platform to Tackle Hospital RCM Inefficiencies
What You Should Know:
- Smarter Technologies, an automation and insights platform focused on healthcare efficiency, announced its official launch.
- The new company brings together the strengths of Access Healthcare, SmarterDx, and Thoughtful.ai, three entities that recently received strategic growth investments from New Mountain Capital, LLC, a growth investment firm with over $55B in assets under management.
- Smarter Technologies debuts as the industry’s first
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Microsoft Launches Healthcare Agent Orchestrator
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft announced the availability of its healthcare agent orchestrator in the Azure AI Foundry Agent Catalog.
- The platform features pre-configured AI agents, multi-agent orchestration, and open-source customization options, designed to help developers and researchers build sophisticated AI solutions that can coordinate complex, multidisciplinary healthcare workflows, such as those required for cancer tumor boards.
- The initiative aims to
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athenahealth Launches athenaOne® for Community Health Centers
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth, a provider of network-enabled software and services for healthcare practices and systems nationwide launches athenaOne® for Community Health Centers.
- This expanded offering builds upon its robust solution already serving over 13,000 community health providers and signals the company's deepening commitment to improving equitable healthcare access for diverse and underserved communities across the country.
- athenaOne for Community
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TruBridge Integrates Microsoft Dragon Copilot into EHR
What You Should Know:
- TruBridge, Inc., a healthcare solutions company announced the integration of Microsoft Dragon Copilot with its electronic health record (EHR) solution.
- The collaboration is set to enhance care delivery, bolster financial stability, and improve operational efficiency for the thousands of hospitals and health systems TruBridge serves across the country.
- The integration will empower more than 18,000 TruBridge users with Microsoft Dragon Copilot's
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How Payer-Provider Collaboration is Creating A More Patient-Friendly Healthcare Industry
A KFF survey from 2023 revealed nearly one in five adults had health insurance claims denied in the previous year. On a national level, that suggests millions of disaffected patients. As the calendar turned to 2025, the growing public frustration with the cracks in the U.S. healthcare industry had exploded into a national conversation.
The chorus of complaints might have reached its crescendo recently, but insurance companies
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Iodine Software Launches Next-Gen Pre-Bill Solution
What You Should Know:
- Iodine Software, the leader in healthcare AI for revenue cycle optimization, today launched the next generation of its pre-bill solution, AwarePre-Bill, designed to help health systems close critical revenue gaps before claims are submitted.
- Built on years of proven success, the solution enables health systems to conduct financially targeted retrospective reviews, improving code accuracy and documentation to help right-size reimbursement. With Iodine, clients
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Avanade and Duke Health Partner to Launch AI Governance Platform, SAIGE
What You Should Know:
- Avanade, a Microsoft solutions provider, and Duke Health announced a strategic partnership to design, build, and implement Avanade’s Smart AI Governance Engine (SAIGE).
- SAIGE is a first-of-its-kind, healthcare-specific AI governance platform that will leverage the power of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric to advance Duke Health’s commitment to maintaining the highest ethical and responsible standards while deploying artificial intelligence in
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Healthcare Supply Chain: GHX Unveils New AI-Powered Innovations
What You Should Know:
- Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), a platform for smarter and more resilient supply chains, today unveiled a suite of new data and AI-powered innovations at its annual GHX Summit. These new capabilities are designed to help healthcare organizations transition from reactive operations to proactive resilience amidst growing fragility in the global healthcare supply chain.
- GHX data reveals a concerning 31% increase in order delays compared to pre-COVID levels,
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Beyond FHIR: Why True Healthcare Interoperability Needs AI
It’s time to flip the script on interoperability—specifically, how to achieve it.
For years, there’s been a push for a FHIR-only standard for interoperability. It’s based on the idea that if organizations are going to seamlessly send, receive, find, and integrate information, they need a common standard for communication.
This movement marked an important step forward for the healthcare industry, and on the surface, it seems like a viable path forward. The problem: Some
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