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Qualtrics has officially completed its acquisition of healthcare experience leader Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75B, marking the largest technology acquisition in Utah history.Category Expansion: The deal fuses Qualtrics’ experience management (XM) AI and data platform with Press Ganey Forsta's massive clinical, operational, and regulatory benchmarking footprint.The "Experience Gap" Mandate: Driven by consumer expectations permanently altered by AI, modern patients no longer
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Viz.ai Launches Viz Pulmonary™ Suite: AI-Powered Workflows for COPD, Lung Nodules, and PE
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Viz.ai has introduced the Viz Pulmonary™ Suite, an integrated AI solution designed to manage acute and chronic pulmonary conditions in a single platform.The suite targets three major pulmonary challenges: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), lung nodules, and pulmonary embolism (PE).Clinical Impact: In a single-center study, the integrated Viz PE tool reduced time to treatment from 1.75 days to 0.56 days and lowered in-hospital mortality among high-risk
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Healthcare AI Evaluation Frameworks: Moving Beyond Accuracy to Safety and Fairness
AI adoption is rapidly growing in healthcare across everything from clinical documentation to diagnostic imaging, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement. As per the 2023-24 American Hospital Association Information Technology Supplement, predictive AI integrated with EHR systems were already used in 71% of hospitals; this has increased rapidly with the advent of generative AI.
However, many AI deployments tend to fail in the real world, and do not deliver the expected improvements
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FDA Grants 510(k) Clearance for Glooko’s EndoTool IV Cloud Insulin Dosing Platform
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Glooko has received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for EndoTool IV Cloud, making it the first cloud-based, patient-specific insulin dosing platform cleared for hospital use.The system is the cloud-native evolution of EndoTool IV, a clinical decision support solution used to manage intravenous (IV) insulin therapy for hospitalized patients.The cloud architecture is designed to reduce on-premise infrastructure requirements, streamline maintenance, and support centralized updates
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KLAS 2026 EHR Market Share Report: Epic Gains as Oracle Health Faces Third Year of Losses
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The number of hospitals impacted by EHR purchase decisions dropped 40% compared to 2024 and nearly 50% compared to 2023, according to a new KLAS 2026 EMR Market Share report.Shift to AI: Health systems redirected capital toward technologies with immediate financial returns, specifically AI and operational efficiency solutions, rather than core EHR upgrades.Epic Dominance: Epic was the only vendor selected by large health systems (>10 hospitals) in 2025 and added 77
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Signant Health Acquires Ametris to Combine Wearable Data and eCOA Technology
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Signant Health has acquired Ametris (formerly known as ActiGraph) to combine electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) technology with wearable-based digital measurements. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The deal addresses a primary industry bottleneck by replacing multiple disconnected vendors with a single platform for both subjective patient feedback and objective sensor data.The integrated system is designed to support decentralized
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Shyld AI Secures $13.4M to Scale Agentic AI and Autonomous Disinfection Across U.S. Health Systems
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Shyld AI has closed a $13.4M seed round led by Aulis Capital, marking one of the largest early-stage rounds in the healthcare AI sector.The company is moving beyond "passive" ambient AI to Active Intelligence, deploying Agentic AI systems that take real-time action inside physical hospital environments.Flagship Technology: The system combines AI with UV-C light technology to autonomously disinfect rooms; a Stanford University study found it reduced contamination by more
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IKS Health Acquires ARAI Solutions to Build Full Agentic AI Stack for Healthcare
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IKS Health has acquired ARAI Solutions, a provider of specialized artificial intelligence, to accelerate the development of a full agentic AI technology stack.The acquisition allows IKS Health to create its own efficient small language models (SLMs), reducing dependency on third-party AI infrastructure.ARAI’s contribution centers on a clinical knowledge infrastructure consisting of interconnected biomedical knowledge graphs based on peer-reviewed research.The integrated
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Chromie Health Raises $2M to Automate Hospital Operations via AI Agent “Dispatch”
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Chromie Health, a provider of AI-powered hospital management tools, has closed a $2M pre-seed round led by AIX Ventures.The company has launched Chromie Dispatch, an SMS-native AI agent that fills internal nursing shift gaps in under five minutes—a process that typically takes five hours manually.There is currently a waitlist of 750 hospitals seeking to implement the platform.Chronic nursing shortages and turnover are estimated to cost the U.S. healthcare system more than
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2026 Locum Tenens Physician Report Reveals 41% of Physicians Now Have Locums Experience
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Physicians across the U.S. are increasingly rethinking how they practice medicine as career pressures mount at every stage, according to the 2026 Locum Tenens Physicians Report released this week by Weatherby Healthcare.Market Growth: The percentage of physicians currently working locum tenens has nearly tripled in a decade, rising from 5% to 14%.Mainstream Adoption: Nearly half of all physicians (41%) now have locums experience, doubling the rate from 2016.Burnout
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