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According to a new report from CHG Healthcare, advanced practice providers (APPs)—including NPs, PAs, and CRNAs—have shifted from temporary coverage to foundational infrastructure, with 92% of surveyed healthcare facility leaders rating APPs as "very" or "extremely" important to workforce strategy.The report, Advanced Practice Provider Workforce Trends Report, reveals that nearly all healthcare facilities (97%) plan to maintain or increase APP utilization in 2026,
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GE HealthCare Launches Invenia ABUS Prime for Dense Breast Screening
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GE HealthCare officially launched Invenia™ ABUS (Automated Breast Ultrasound) Prime and ABUS StreamVue™, extending its diagnostic ultrasound portfolio targeting dense breast tissue.ABUS StreamVue received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance and CE Marking as a zero-footprint, browser-based reading platform developed in collaboration with Candelis, Inc. to enable remote multi-site exam review.Dense breasts affect approximately 40% of women across the U.S. and Europe, elevating
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Why AI Finally Changes the Math on Fraud, Waste, & Abuse in Healthcare
The U.S. health care system loses more than $100 billion a year to fraud, waste, and abuse, and by some estimates several times that. We have known this for decades. What is new is that the technology to catch it has finally caught up. The question is no longer whether the tools work; it is whether the institutions processing and paying the faulty claims will finally use them.
What the system is actually losing
Three different problems get lumped together, so it is worth
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NYU Langone and Dana-Farber Co-Develop Solavia Decision Suite
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NYU Langone Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have co-developed the Solavia Decision Suite, an oncology decision support platform designed to deliver precise, evidence-based, and standardized care delivery at scale.Solavia launched internally at NYU Langone on June 30, 2026, and is now commercially available to external health systems and oncology centers.Commercialization and external licensing will be managed by NYU Langone’s Technology Opportunities and Ventures,
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CMS Releases FY 2027 IPPS and LTCH PPS Final Rule: Rates, Mandatory CJR-X Model, and EHR Changes
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its FY 2027 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS final rule, enacting a 2.3% net payment rate increase for both IPPS acute care hospitals and LTCHs.The rule mandates nationwide expansion of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model—dubbed CJR-X—beginning January 1, 2028, covering hip, knee, and ankle replacements across inpatient and hospital
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How to Automate Research Participant Payments: A Guide to Retention, Diversity, and Compliance
Paying people to take part in research is standard practice, a meaningful budget line and a documented factor in whether participants enroll and stay through completion. Yet the way participants are paid has often failed to keep pace with the rest of research operations. Mailed checks, site-held cash and manually distributed gift cards remain common, even as the rest of clinical operations has gone digital. That gap matters because participant payment is more than a thank-you; it is part of the
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J.D. Power 2026 U.S. Pharmacy Study: Digital Integration and Human Support Drive Customer Loyalty
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According to the J.D. Power 2026 U.S. Pharmacy Study, overall mail-order pharmacy satisfaction rose 2 points year-over-year to 699 (on a 1,000-point scale), while brick-and-mortar satisfaction dropped 7 points to 669.The divergence is driven by weakening consumer trust and perceived value in physical retail stores, whereas mail-order growth is fueled by strong live-agent phone support and seamless digital tools.Good Neighbor Pharmacy ranked highest among brick-and-mortar
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The Future of Pharmacy Procurement:
From Purchasing Function to Data-Driven Strategy
With drug prices soaring, shortages intensifying, and government-mandated cost-sharing in question, hospital-system pharmacy procurement is becoming an increasingly fraught enterprise. Pharmacy leaders are routinely expected to deliver on critical outcomes, including financial performance, operational resilience, and regulatory readiness.
Health systems – with margins currently hovering around 2% and cash reserves plummeting – are pressuring pharmacies to shore up institutional viability.
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Vizient’s Summer 2026 Outlook Projects 3.39% Overall Healthcare Inflation
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Healthcare performance improvement company Vizient released its Summer 2026 Spend Management Outlook, projecting an overall supply chain, capital, and purchased services price inflation rate of 3.39% for 2027.Indirect spend and purchased services represent the highest growth category at 4.73% projected inflation, heavily driven by investments in IT hardware and software (6.29%), IT security (8.50%), construction (4.70%), and non-medical capital equipment (4.15%).Total
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Wolters Kluwer Health Partners with Epic to Deliver Integrated Clinical Content Solutions
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Wolters Kluwer Health has collaborated with Epic to offer an integrated suite combining UpToDate Lexidrug, Medi-Span, and UpToDate Patient Education directly within Epic EHR workflows.The combined offering targets safety-net institutions facing budget and resource constraints, including rural hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), state hospitals, tribal healthcare organizations, and small ambulatory practices.The integrated bundle consolidates three
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