Poorly managed and uncontrolled chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States, and represent a growing national crisis. Five of the top 10 causes of death – heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension – are chronic conditions, or closely linked to preventable and treatable chronic conditions. The prevalence of these diseases has steadily increased over the past two decades. Today, 42% of Americans have two or more chronic conditions, and the
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Emory Healthcare Invests $10M in Guidehealth to Advance AI-Driven Care
What You Should Know:
- Guidehealth, an AI-driven healthcare technology and services company, today announced a $10M strategic investment from Emory Healthcare.
- The funding is aimed at accelerating Guidehealth’s next phase of growth and strengthens both organizations' commitment to transforming patient care, advancing disease prevention, and expanding access to high-quality, value-based healthcare. The collaboration builds on an existing relationship between the two organizations,
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The Future of RCM: Ensemble Deploys Cohere’s Agentic AI for Hospitals
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- Ensemble, a leading provider of end-to-end revenue cycle management (RCM), has partnered with Cohere, a security-first enterprise AI company, to introduce the first fully integrated agentic AI platform for revenue cycle orchestration in healthcare.
- This collaboration merges Ensemble’s decade-long RCM expertise with Cohere’s enterprise-grade AI infrastructure to deliver faster, smarter, and more secure financial operations for hospitals and health
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Wysa Launches AI-Powered Chatbot to Streamline Mental Health Patient Intake
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- Wysa, the global leader in AI-guided mental health support, today announced the U.S. launch of Wysa Gateway, an AI-powered chatbot designed to streamline how therapy providers and health plans facilitate patient access to care.
- The platform uses a conversational AI to automate clinical screenings, providing a faster, more accurate, and personalized pathway into therapy.
- Developed to meet the rising demand for mental health services, Wysa Gateway
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85% of Cancer Patients Face Unnecessary Insurance “Red Tape” Due to Prior Authorization, Says New CancerCare Report
What You Should Know:
- A new national survey from CancerCare reveals how insurance utilization management practices, particularly prior authorization, create serious and stressful barriers to care for cancer patients. The report, titled "The Health Insurance Maze: How Cancer Patients Get Lost in the Red Tape of Utilization Management," found that these requirements frequently delay diagnosis and treatment, adding significant "time toxicity" to patients' lives.
- The
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Komodo Health Launches MapLab Enterprise to Accelerate Healthcare Insights
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- Komodo Health launches MapLab Enterprise, a powerful, full-stack analytics platform designed to transform how Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations generate and operationalize healthcare insights.
- The new platform empowers diverse teams—from data scientists to business executives—to collaborate seamlessly, accelerate time to insight, and make faster, more confident decisions based on unified healthcare data.
From Months to Hours: Accelerating
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2025 State of Nursing: AI, Burnout, Compensation, Staffing, Politics
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- Incredible Health today announced the release of its sixth annual State of U.S. Nursing & Technicians Report, the largest of its kind with insights from over 1 million nurses and, for the first time, technicians, reveals a healthcare workforce under immense pressure.
- The 2025 findings show that while the nursing shortage persists, an even more severe crisis is unfolding among technicians. Both groups are feeling the weight of staffing gaps,
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Healthcare IT Dangerously Overconfident in Email Security, New Report Finds
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- A new 2025 report from Paubox reveals a critical disconnect between the perceived security readiness and actual email vulnerability within healthcare organizations. While 92% of healthcare IT leaders express confidence in their ability to prevent email-based data breaches, 8 out of 10 admit to worrying about their HIPAA compliance status, highlighting a dangerous overconfidence that leaves patient data exposed.
- The report, “2025 Healthcare Email Security Report”
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Healthcare’s Cybersecurity Overhaul: Navigating the New Federal Security Standards for Hospitals
As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, proposed updates to federal healthcare cybersecurity standards have reignited debate across the industry. Introduced in December 2024, these regulations represent the first significant update to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) Security Rule, aiming to address the advent of AI, quantum computing and virtual reality. These changes mandate that HIPAA-covered entities encrypt data, implement multifactor
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MD Anderson and HealthEx Collaborate to Develop AI-Powered Patient Data Consent Platform
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and HealthEx announced a strategic collaboration to develop tools aimed at streamlining the patient consent process, while simultaneously creating greater transparency and control for patients over how their data is used in research.
- As part of this collaboration, the two organizations will work on the continued development and future implementation of HealthEx’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven global
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