What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate has announced its latest cohort of health tech startups, featuring national and international businesses poised to transform healthcare.
- These 11 companies will participate in an immersive, 30-week program, gaining unparalleled access to expert mentors, industry-leading technologies, and millions of de-identified, longitudinal clinical records to develop and validate their artificial intelligence (AI)-driven healthcare
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Solving Healthcare Data Silos: The Power of the Data Lakehouse Architecture
Data analytics stands as the foundation that supports individualised patient treatment while maximising operational capabilities and business development potential by using strategic resource distributions and analytic insights. Healthcare organisations collect enormous datasets from four primary sources, including Electronic Health Records (EHRs), IoT-enabled medical devices, medical imaging, and insurance claims. The various information sources exist as isolated data collections that present
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Huddle Up: Modernizing Patient Safety with Real-Time Intelligence
Patient safety and quality issues can result in suboptimal outcomes for patients and operational and financial challenges for health systems and hospitals.
Each year, an estimated 400,000 hospitalized patients experience preventable harm in the U.S., while more than 200,000 deaths are attributed to avoidable medical errors, according to the book “Medical Error Reduction and Prevention.” Medical errors are responsible for an estimated $20 billion in costs annually.
Avoiding these
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Cleveland Clinic Deploys GenAI for Coding and CDI Across Enterprise Powered by AKASA
What You Should Know:
- Cleveland Clinic, one of the top academic medical centers in the U.S., has significantly expanded its partnership with AKASA, a leader in healthcare AI, to deploy an advanced Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) solution across all of its U.S. locations.
- The enterprise deployment follows a successful pilot and the system-wide adoption of AKASA’s AI coding tool, solidifying Cleveland Clinic’s position as a pioneer in applying generative AI (GenAI) to
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Infinx Invests in Voxology AI: Voice-First Automation Transforms Patient Access and Revenue
What You Should Know:
- Infinx, a prominent provider of AI-powered solutions for patient access and revenue cycle management (RCM), announced a strategic investment in Voxology AI, a healthcare technology company specializing in conversational AI agents for the front office.
- The partnership integrates voice-first automation directly into Infinx’s contact center solutions, creating a unified platform that manages both patient-facing front-office workflows and back-office
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Rewriting the Health Economy: 6 Trends Shaping the Future of US Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. health economy is at a critical juncture, defined by unchecked prices, inefficiency, and mounting political pressure for reform, according to Trilliant Health’s latest report.
- The report, 2025 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report, reveals that the fundamental driver of high costs is price, not utilization, necessitating a radical shift in how healthcare value is purchased and delivered.
U.S. Healthcare At A Crossroads
The U.S. spends
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Cisco’s Outshift & Infinitus Align on Standards for Interop Agents in Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Infinitus Systems, healthcare’s leading agentic communications partner powering more than 100 million minutes of clinical and administrative conversations, today announced that the company has partnered with Outshift by Cisco to streamline healthcare operations, leveraging the orchestration layer of discoverable, secure, and distributed AI agents in healthcare.
- Healthcare clinicians and staff face a flood of time-consuming tasks, from patient communication and
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Beyond EHR Migration: Why Legacy Data is the Strategic Asset Healthcare CIOs Can’t Ignore
When healthcare organizations undertake system transitions, whether migrating to a new EHR, consolidating platforms through M&A, or onboarding new providers through collaborative systems like EPIC Community Connect, the focus is often on what’s ahead. New systems. Streamlined operations. Integrated care. But what’s left behind matters just as much.
Legacy data has long been seen as a liability, whether it be a cost center, a compliance risk, an operational hurdle– or all the above. Yet
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Building Resilient Healthcare Teams with Distributed Staffing
In an industry defined by its human element, the resilience of our healthcare system is fundamentally tied to the well-being and effectiveness of its workforce. And to build a truly robust healthcare infrastructure for the future, leaders must look beyond conventional hiring strategies and embrace a more diverse, distributed approach to staffing.
Integrating remote talent is a crucial aspect for ensuring operational continuity while enhancing security and building a sustainable work
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Why RCM Performance Hinges on Supporting and Empowering Your Workforce
We talk a lot about improving revenue cycle performance: better workflows, fewer denials, faster reimbursement. And most of the time, the default solution is a new technology, a better process, or another vendor.
As someone who’s spent my career in revenue cycle, and is passionate about building tech that addresses its unique challenges, I can tell you this:
Even the smartest systems won’t fix a workforce that’s disengaged, under-supported, or misaligned.
Great technology is
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