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Global laboratory informatics provider Clinisys officially unveiled its AI Innovation Roadmap, establishing an open, governed platform strategy designed to embed artificial intelligence, analytics, and workflow automation into routine laboratory operations.The roadmap articulates a compounding evolutionary progression that advances laboratory informatics across four distinct architectural phases: from a System of Record to a System of Workflow, a System of Intelligence,
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ONC Finalizes HTI-5 Deregulatory Rule to Cut $1.55B in Health IT Compliance and Accelerate FHIR APIs
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially released the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: ONC Deregulatory Actions to Unleash Prosperity (HTI-5) Final Rule.Directly implements the administration’s regulatory reform directives under Executive Order 14192 (Unleashing Prosperity through Deregulation) and Executive Order 14267 (Reducing Anti-Competitive
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Evolving the EHR from a System of Record to a System of Action
The EHR is poised to evolve from its original role as a place to store patient information. The next step is for it to take a more active role in the patient care journey.
As more of the journey becomes digitized, the EHR can help move work forward by connecting workflows, surfacing what needs attention, and using AI to reduce administrative burden. This shifts the EHR from a system of record to a system of action.
In ambulatory care, that shift has practical implications. Scheduling,
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Rezilient Health Appoints Workplace Health Veteran Lisa Ness as Chief Revenue Officer
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Rezilient Health announced that Lisa Ness, MBA, RD, CDE, has joined the executive leadership team as Chief Revenue Officer.Lisa Ness brings more than three decades of enterprise healthcare experience, having previously held senior commercial growth roles at QuadMed, CareATC, Proactive MD, Premise Health, and Pfizer.In her new capacity, Ness will direct Rezilient’s commercial growth strategy, expanding national distribution across self-funded employers, benefits broker
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symplr Launches AI-Powered Time and Scheduling to Unify Workforce Operations
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Healthcare operations and enterprise software provider symplr officially launched symplr Time and Scheduling, introducing an integrated workforce management platform that merges AI-driven scheduling with complex healthcare timekeeping.The new platform integrates predictive scheduling algorithms with complex healthcare timekeeping into a single architecture, enabling nurse managers to forecast and resolve staffing deficits hundreds of days in advance while cutting the time
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Why Behavioral Health Demands Purpose-Built CRM Architecture
When my business partner and I ran a multi-state behavioral health organization, one of our top challenges was accounting for how we spent our marketing dollars. Like many owner-operators, we also struggled to track conversations with potential clients and our business development team’s plans and pipeline. In the early days of our operation, which was more than 10 years ago, we tracked admissions with generic customer relationship management, or CRM, software. My partner and I spent hundreds of
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Redesign Health Merges with Sheba Medical Center’s ARC Global and Agrees to Acquire AVIA
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Healthcare company-creation platform Redesign Health and ARC Global, the healthcare transformation engine established at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, announced a definitive merger.Concurrently, the combined enterprise has agreed to acquire AVIA, the leading U.S. health system digital transformation advisory network (subject to final regulatory approvals).The combined conglomerate unifies more than 100 health systems spanning five continents, creating an end-to-end
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Beyond 8 P.M. Charting: Why Solving “Pajama Time” Demands Upstream Pre-Visit Intake
For most physicians, the workday does not end when the last patient leaves. Notes still need to be finished. Messages are still waiting. Administrative tasks are still open. This after-hours work has a name, pajama time, and healthcare has treated it as an unavoidable cost of practicing medicine for far too long.
Because the truth is, it isn’t unavoidable. And the fix has almost nothing to do with the time of day. Most of what follows clinicians home starts hours earlier, before the patient
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M&A: Sagility Acquires Chirok Health to Anchor AI-Driven CDI and Revenue Integrity Across Enterprise Providers
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Healthcare business operations and AI-led technology company Sagility announced its strategic acquisition of Chirok Health, a specialized provider of Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI), medical coding, coding quality assurance (QA), and revenue integrity services.Carried out through its U.S. operating subsidiary, Sagility (US) Holdings Inc., the transaction is valued at approximately $32.35M. Canaccord Genuity LLC served as the exclusive financial advisor to Chirok
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Blue Cross MA and Tufts Medicine Partner with Humata Health and NEHEN to Automate Prior Authorization
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) and regional health system Tufts Medicine announced a comprehensive alliance, focused on prior authorization automation, value-based care design, and integrated clinical network delivery.Tufts Medicine is deploying Humata Health to automate and streamline prior authorization for Blue Cross members, starting with outpatient diagnostic imaging (such as MRIs), with scheduled expansion across additional clinical service
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