What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a significant policy shift aimed at restoring compliance with federal law and ensuring that taxpayer-funded program benefits, originally intended for American citizens, are not diverted to subsidize illegal aliens.
- HHS has formally rescinded a 1998 interpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), which it states improperly
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Hospital M&A Activity Rises in Q2 2025, While Financial Performance Remains Stable Despite Challenges
What You Should Know:
- Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for hospitals and health systems saw an uptick in the second quarter of 2025, rising to eight transactions from the previous quarter’s five, according to Kaufman Hall’s latest analysis. Simultaneously, new data from Kaufman Hall’s May 2025 National Hospital Flash Report reveals that hospitals’ financial and operational performance, while slightly less robust than in prior months, remained stable overall.
- These trends unfold
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Canopy and Commure Partner to Enhance Healthcare Staff Safety
What You Should Know:
- Canopy, a leader in wearable safety and real-time location systems (RTLS) for healthcare, and Commure, the company behind next-generation AI infrastructure for health systems, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing support for Commure Strongline customers and ensuring continued innovation in staff safety.
The strategic collaboration is designed to provide a seamless experience for existing customers and to leverage the combined expertise of
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Rush University System for Health Partners with Fabric to Launch AI-Powered On-Demand Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Fabric, a provider of care delivery and consumer experience announced a strategic partnership with Rush University System for Health, Chicago’s first healthcare institution. The collaboration will power Rush Connect and Rush Connect+, the academic health system’s new platform for on-demand and subscription-based digital-first access to care.
- Utilizing Fabric’s AI assistant and virtual care platform, Rush Connect aims to deliver faster and easier
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Connexall Achieves Epic Toolbox Designation for Alert Manager Integration
What You Should Know:
- Connexall, a global leader in clinical communication, alarm management, and workflow optimization, announced its designation in the “Alert Manager Integration” category in Epic Toolbox on Showroom.
- The achievement highlights Connexall’s expertise in driving seamless integration with disparate systems to provide intelligently routed clinical and operational alerts directly into Epic, including Epic Rover, Haiku, and Canto.
Enhancing Alert Management
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Navigating the Policy Fog: Healthcare Organizations Adapt to Unprecedented Uncertainty in 2025
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) are grappling with significant financial, legal, and operational challenges stemming from proposed economic and healthcare policy changes from Congress and the new administration, according to a new KLAS report. This high level of uncertainty, intensified by unrecovered pre-COVID margins, staffing shortages, and rising costs, is forcing HDOs to proactively adapt their strategies.
- The report, "Navigating the
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US Hospitals Show Strong Engagement in Public Health Data Reporting Amidst Persistent Challenges
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- A new brief utilizing the latest 2024 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) data reveals significant progress in patient and caregiver access to online medical records and patient portals. The report also highlights that nearly all non-federal acute care hospitals in the U.S. were engaged in electronic public health reporting in 2024, a crucial step in modernizing public health data exchange. However, despite marked progress, more than 8 in 10
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Health Equity 2.0 – Bridging Health Equity Gaps with AI Agents
Despite decades of panels, pledges, and policy proposals, healthcare inequity remains a systemic issue in day-to-day experience of the American healthcare consumer. The data is overwhelming - patients in lower-income ZIP codes have worse healthcare outcomes, people of lower socio-economic tiers are more likely to suffer from preventable conditions. Access to timely, quality care is still a privilege. Equity in healthcare is different from the equity discussion that’s playing out right now in
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Artificial Intelligence Integration with Epic EHR: Promise and Practicalities
The integration of artificial intelligence into healthcare environments represents one of the most significant technological shifts in the industry today. For organizations running Epic, which powers the electronic health records of approximately 250 million patients across major health systems, the question is no longer if AI will transform their operations, but how and when. As healthcare IT leaders navigate this landscape, they face complex decisions balancing technical feasibility, clinical
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Ciba Health Launches Nation’s First GLP-1 Step-Down Program, Addressing Post-Medication Metabolic Health
What You Should Know:
- Ciba Health today announced the launch of its new GLP-1 Step-Down Program, marking the first national offering designed to guide individuals off popular weight loss medications like Ozempic and Wegovy.
- Ciba Health's virtual program aims to help members either avoid GLP-1 medications entirely or safely taper off them by rebuilding metabolic health through personalized care.
Addressing an Overlooked Gap in GLP-1 Care
GLP-1s, originally developed
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