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- The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and GE HealthCare have established a seven-year Care Alliance to enhance system-wide efficiencies and patient access.
- The partnership will deploy new, AI-enabled imaging solutions, including one of the first Aurora SPECT/CTs in the U.S., and standardize patient monitoring with the Carescape™ platform. Crucially, URMC is working to acquire an on-site cyclotron to enable in-house production of radioisotopes for
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Sleep Cycle Launches Luma, a Proprietary AI-Powered Sleep Coach
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- Sleep Cycle, a leading sleep technology company, today announced the launch of Luma, a proprietary AI-powered sleep coach designed to revolutionize how users understand and improve their sleep.
- Built on Sleep Cycle’s proprietary machine learning and audio analysis technology, Luma now takes the app’s data visualization one step further by providing context, clear explanations, and step-by-step recommendations that evolve with each
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Transact + CBORD Rebrands to Illumia: Greg Brown Appointed as New CEO
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- Transact + CBORD, following their merger in 2024, will officially rebrand as Illumia in March 2026, creating a unified technology partner for healthcare, senior living, and higher education institutions.
- To lead this strategic consolidation, the company has appointed Greg Brown, former CEO of Udemy, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Brown's mandate is to leverage his expertise in scaling SaaS businesses and integrating AI to transform mission-critical
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The Hidden Value of HTM: How Healthcare Technology Management Directly Impacts Hospital Financial Performance and Patient Satisfaction
Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) departments have been thought of as a background operation, being called in when devices fail or compliance checks are due, rather than partners in shaping hospital operations. However, HTM has a direct line to hospital performance, impacting financial outcomes, asset utilization, clinical safety, and cyber programs in ways that hospital executives should no longer ignore.
By inviting the HTM teams to be at the table within different hospital operational
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Aledade Lands $500M Credit Facility to Scale Value-Based Primary Care Network
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- Aledade, the largest network of independent primary care, has secured a $500M senior secured credit facility from Ares Commercial Finance, which can expand up to $650 million.
- The financing doubles Aledade's current committed capacity , providing essential working capital flexibility to manage the timing gaps in Medicare payments and accelerate shared savings distributions to its clinician partners.
- The capital fuels the company’s continued
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How Ghost Assets Undermine Compliance and Integration in Healthcare
The second quarter of 2025 saw a modest rebound in hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with Kaufman Hall reporting eight announced deals. Yet the trend lines tell a more complicated story: half were divestitures, there were no mega-mergers, and the average seller size was just $175 million in annual revenue, well below historical norms.
This smaller-scale, divestiture-heavy deal landscape may seem less dramatic than the headline-grabbing mega-mergers of past years, but it introduces
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Briya Joins Epic Connection Hub, Integrates w/Tanner for RWD Access Expansion
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- Briya, a health AI technology company focused on research, has expanded its reach by becoming available in the Epic Connection Hub on Showroom.
- The integration provides hospitals and health systems using Epic's EHR software with secure and efficient access to real-world data for medical research. Tanner Health System is the first provider to leverage this integration, using Briya’s platform across its Epic environment to draw insights from patient data,
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Busting the EHR Myths: Why SYaaS Models Are the New Gold Standard for Healthcare Transformation
The world is expected to generate up to 181 zettabytes of data by the end of 2025, with healthcare contributing up to 36% of that total. But up to 97% of that data goes unused, trapped in electronic health record (EHR) systems that don’t effectively use, organize, analyze, secure, share, or make accessible the valuable data contained within them. This results in compounding effects on efficiency, decision-making, burnout, and even reliability. For CIOs managing outdated EHRs that don’t meet the
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EHR Interoperability 2025: KLAS Reports Usability Gaps Hinder Data Sharing Succes
What You Should Know:
- EHR interoperability holds immense potential to improve patient care decisions, enable innovation, and reduce administrative churn. However, a new report from KLAS Healthcare IT Insights reveals that despite advancements in data-sharing technology, interoperability is still far from achieving its desired state.
- The report emphasizes that true interoperability is a team effort requiring healthcare organizations, payer organizations, and vendors to work
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ATA CODE Report: 74% of Medicare Telehealth Visits Are Substitutive, Not Additive
What You Should Know:
- A new, collaborative analysis conducted by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Center of Digital Excellence (CODE) and nine major U.S. health systems provides critical operational evidence on Medicare telehealth utilization patterns.
- The findings, based on real-world data across 1.67 million Medicare beneficiaries challenge traditional assumptions by demonstrating that virtual care is overwhelmingly substitutive—replacing, rather than adding to,
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