Is our siloed approach to health surveillance creating the perfect conditions for the next pandemic?
Recent outbreaks—from avian influenza to E. coli contamination in leafy greens—highlight the urgent need for integrated disease surveillance systems. Yet, many public health surveillance systems still operate in isolation, creating dangerous blind spots in our ability to detect and respond to zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and environmental contamination.
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Health IT’s New Chapter: IPOs Return, Resilient M&A, Valuations Rise in 1H 2025
What You Should Know:
- The first half of 2025 presented a volatile backdrop of policy shocks and economic uncertainty, yet the Health IT sector demonstrated remarkable resilience, seeing a rebound in M&A valuations and a surge in AI adoption, according to a new report from Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP).
- The HGP July 2025 Health IT Market Review highlight these dynamic trends, alongside evolving EHR markets in Asia/Oceania and the transformative impact of ambient
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PwC Report: US Medical Cost Trend to Remain Elevated at 8.5% in 2026
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. healthcare system is entering 2026 with medical cost trends reminiscent of 15 years ago, facing persistent inflationary forces and significant federal policy changes, according to a new report from PwC.
- The report, "Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2026," projects the Group medical cost trend to remain at 8.5% in 2026 (the same level as 2025) and the Individual market trend at 7.5%. Pharmacy costs are a particular concern, projected 2.5
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Pediatric Care: 3 Strategic Ways to Improve Pediatric Engagement
Providers can improve pediatric care by boosting engagement with parents and caregivers throughout the care process to promote education and increase awareness.
When parents and caregivers are more educated on their children’s health conditions, treatment options, and preventative care, they are more empowered to make informed healthcare decisions and participate actively in their child's health.
By adopting patient engagement technology such as portals, mobile apps, and
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CareCloud Launches Integrated, AI-Driven Dermatology EHR for Seamless Care
What You Should Know:
- CareCloud, a leader in healthcare technology and generative AI solutions launches its fully integrated, AI-driven dermatology Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.
- The new solution is designed to streamline clinical workflows and collections, while simultaneously enhancing patient engagement and improving financial outcomes for dermatology practices nationwide.
CareCloud’s End-to-End Dermatology EHR Key Features
CareCloud’s Dermatology EHR combines
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Methodist Le Bonheur Selects Ensemble as Strategic RCM Partner
What You Should Know:
- Ensemble, a revenue cycle managed services partner for healthcare organizations, announced that Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) has selected it as its strategic revenue cycle management (RCM) partner.
- Ensemble will assume full responsibility for end-to-end revenue cycle operations across all six hospitals in the Memphis-based health system, bringing advanced technology, deep operational expertise, and a shared commitment to delivering exceptional
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Wellsheet Launches Care Team AI Copilot to Halve Charting Time and Streamline Inpatient Workflows
What You Should Know:
- Wellsheet, a leader in AI clinical workflows and operations launches its new Care Team Copilot, a solution that combines chart summarization, multidisciplinary rounding and discharge, and AI-generated documentation into a cohesive user experience designed for inpatient settings. Unlike AI scribes that primarily document patient conversations, Wellsheet's AI reads the full patient chart and generates documentation based on that data in real-time, facilitating a
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Philips Launches ECG AI Marketplace, Partnering with Anumana to Enhance Cardiac Care with AI-Powered Diagnostics
What You Should Know:
- Philips announced the launch of the Philips ECG AI Marketplace, a new platform that provides cardiac care teams with a central location to access multiple vendor offerings, simplifying the management and implementation of AI-powered diagnostic tools.
- Anumana, an AI-driven health technology company focused on transforming cardiac care, is the first organization to leverage this platform, with its FDA-cleared ECG-AI™ LEF (Low Ejection Fraction) algorithm
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Beyond SaaS: How Agent as a Service is Transforming Healthcare Automation
Agent as a service (AaaS) goes beyond SaaS to offer greater automation, fewer errors, and to perform more tasks in real time while requiring less effort from humans. For specific healthcare use cases, it can be very effective. This article explores the basics of Agentic AI and the ways in which it is more capable than a typical SaaS-based architecture.
Agentic AI basics
Agents are essentially autonomous or semi-autonomous codebases that perform three key sub-tasks:
Accessing
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Advocate Health to Deploy Aidoc’s FDA-cleared AI Algorithms With It’s Clinical Imaging Workflows
What You Should Know:
- Advocate Health, the nation’s third-largest nonprofit integrated health system, has announced an agreement with Aidoc to expand the use of its AI platform. Following a successful pilot study, this expansion aims to support faster diagnosis, earlier intervention, and more connected delivery of care for patients across its network.
- Advocate Health will leverage Aidoc’s aiOS™ platform to embed FDA-cleared AI algorithms into its clinical imaging workflows,
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