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Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, is the first hospital in Utah—and only the second in the United States—to deploy GE HealthCare’s SIGNA Sprint Elite MRI system.GE HealthCare’s SIGNA Sprint Elite MRI system utilizes embedded artificial intelligence reconstruction software and advanced high-performance gradient hardware to reduce scan acquisition times and enhance diagnostic clarity for complex cardiovascular and oncologic conditions.
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Transcarent Launches Bundled Payment Model for CAR T and BiTE Cancer Therapies Across Community Providers
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Transcarent launched a first-of-its-kind bundled payment model for bispecific T-cell engager (BiTE) and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies delivered through community oncology providers.Addresses the primary cost driver for self-insured employers: the Business Group on Health’s survey found that cancer is the No. 1 condition driving employer healthcare costs for the fifth consecutive year, with 70% of employers citing it as their top cost driver.Breakthrough
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M&A: Imagenet Acquires Analytica Consulting to Embed AI and Data Engineering in Payer Operations
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Healthcare operations and payer technology partner Imagenet announced the acquisition of Analytica Consulting, a California-based consulting firm specializing in data engineering, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, data science, visualization, and data governance.The transaction closed on August 21, 2026 (financial terms remain undisclosed), accelerating Imagenet's evolution from a transaction-processing business process operations (BPO) firm into an end-to-end
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How Specialized, Agentic AI Transforms Healthcare Decision Intelligence
The healthcare industry is currently drowning in data but starving for insight. For decades, the promise of big data in healthcare was tied to the consolidation of EHRs. Many assumed that once the data was digitized, the answers to healthcare's most pressing operational and clinical questions would be revealed.
Instead, we have entered an era of extreme data fragmentation. Research indicates that the average health system contends with 16-20 distinct EHR vendors, and this vendor fragmentation
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FinThrive Names Former Kaiser Permanente Leader Brandon Burnett Chief RCM Officer
Healthcare revenue cycle software provider FinThrive has named Brandon Burnett as its Chief Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Officer. The move brings 25 years of provider-side operational experience directly into FinThrive’s executive ranks as the company expands the use of artificial intelligence across hospital billing and patient access workflows.
In the newly created role, Burnett will bridge the gap between software development and the day-to-day realities of hospital finance teams,
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HIMSS Signs Historic MOUs at HIMSS26 APAC to Measure AI Value and Accelerate Malaysia’s ‘1 Person, 1 Record’
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At the HIMSS26 APAC Health Conference & Exhibition in Singapore (co-hosted with SingHealth), HIMSS executed two major Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) and a national digital health maturity partnership.Establishes the HIMSS AI Outcomes Framework, the world’s first evidence-based, longitudinal standard for measuring the clinical, operational, and financial impact and ROI of healthcare artificial intelligence.Founding healthcare provider partners contributing
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ECRI Calls on Health Systems to Report Clinical AI Errors and Malfunctions
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Global patient safety nonprofit ECRI expanded its Problem Reporting Network to explicitly capture, investigate, and triage errors, malfunctions, and near misses involving artificial intelligence (AI) tools and AI-enabled medical devices used in patient care.Addresses a critical clinical oversight deficit: while AI is deployed across diagnostic imaging, clinical decision support, and ambient scribes, the industry lacks a centralized, healthcare-specific mechanism to track
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Who Gets to Become a Doctor? How Federal Loan Caps Could Reshape the Physician Pipeline
The conversation around federal student loan caps has focused almost entirely on undergraduates. That's understandable as undergrads are the largest borrowing population, but for medical education, the consequences of the proposed legislation may be more immediate and far less visible to both policymakers and wider audiences.
To set context, let me be specific about what's in the bill: The legislation would cap annual federal borrowing for professional school at $50,000 and impose an
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PatientPoint Releases 2026 Patient Confidence Index on Healthcare Anxiety, Provider Trust, and AI
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PatientPoint® released the findings of its fifth annual Patient Confidence Index, conducted in partnership with Talker Research among 2,000 U.S. adults who attended a medical appointment within the past year.Rising Systemic Anxiety vs. High Provider Trust: 43% of respondents reported increased healthcare anxiety over the past year—driven by care affordability (54%), inflation (41%), and policy changes (39%)—causing 47% of patients to delay preventive care.Despite broad
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Juno Health Integrates SlicedHealth to Deliver Native Revenue Intelligence for Rural Hospitals
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Juno Health announced a strategic partnership with SlicedHealth to offer SlicedHealth’s revenue cycle and operations intelligence tools as a fully integrated, included complement to Juno EHR’s native revenue cycle management (RCM) suite.The partnership specifically targets rural hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), delivering advanced revenue protection and contract intelligence tools historically reserved for large health systems.SlicedHealth brings proven
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