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Dr. Newman Executive Profile
Dr. Newman joins Navina during a period of sustained enterprise scale. The platform has expanded its clinical footprint across more than 20,000 clinicians and care team members at over 1,300 outpatient clinics nationwide, supporting the clinical management of approximately 3.5 million patient lives across prominent risk-bearing organizations, including Privia Health, agilon health, and Summit Health.
Dr. Newman spent nearly 14 years at
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Why the AMA’s AI Liability Policy Shifts Risk to Health System Data Access Logs
The AMA says physician oversight can’t substitute for adequate evidence and system design. That puts the burden on whoever holds the usage records.
In many hospitals, an AI tool is reading patient records through a shared service account that no one can tie to a person. That gap matters more now. The American Medical Association's new framework, released October 29, 2026, divides responsibility among developers, physicians, and the health systems that deploy AI tools. Of the three parties,
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CVS Health Formalizes Tax-Free Split-Off to Carve Out CVS Pharmacy by 2028
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The Spin-Off Blueprint: How the Assets Divide
The separation creates two distinct publicly traded companies via a tax-free distribution of shares to existing CVS Health stockholders:
Q3 2026 Financial Backdrop: A Separation "From Strength"
The breakup announcement arrived alongside CVS Health’s third-quarter 2026 financial release, which exceeded consensus Wall Street estimates across top and bottom lines:
Despite the earnings beat, Wall Street reacted
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VisiQuate Acquires Finvi’s Artiva HCx to Bridge Revenue Cycle Intelligence with Autonomous Workflow Execution
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Closing the Loop Between Revenue Intelligence and Account Queues
VisiQuate’s acquisition of Artiva HCx establishes an integrated operational pipeline engineered to eliminate the gap between financial insight and administrative action:
"Every revenue cycle problem worth solving takes deep expertise, and we just added a lot of it," said Derek Foster, Chief Strategy Officer at VisiQuate. "VisiQuate was built to show revenue cycle teams which deep insights and
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Humana and athenahealth Expand Nationwide FHIR-Based Electronic Prior Authorization Across 180,000 Clinicians
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In-Workflow FHIR Architecture and Automated Adjudication
Rather than merely verifying whether a prior authorization is required, the expanded athenaOne capability creates a bidirectional, automated data pipeline between the clinical encounter and Humana's adjudication engine.
The integration leverages the Da Vinci Project’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) interoperability standards:
By routing connectivity through athenaPayer, Humana
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M&A: LeanTaaS Acquires LookDeep Health to Connect In-Room Vision AI with Hospital Operations
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From Mathematical Scheduling to Spatial Telemetry: LeanTaaS Acquires LookDeep Health to Embed Computer Vision into Hospital Operations
In acute care hospital administration, an operational divide has long separated mathematical capacity optimization from physical conditions at the patient bedside. For over a decade, predictive capacity platforms have forecasted operating room block schedules, infusion chair turns, and inpatient bed availability by mining historical
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Mayo Clinic Platform Unveils EHR-Integrated Clinical Decision Support Engine Across 35+ Subspecialties
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Subspecialty Chat and Multimodal Calculators
Rather than requiring clinicians to open separate web browser tabs or log into standalone clinical portals, the CDS solution is designed to sit directly within the primary EHR interface:
Preserving Clinical Judgment
Designed to function strictly as an augmentative copilot rather than an autonomous prescriber, the system maintains clear boundaries. Gelareh Zadeh, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic in
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The Discharge Signal: What Length-of-Stay Creep Is Really Telling You
When hospital length of stay begins to rise, attention often turns immediately to the emergency department. The ED is the front door, the pressure is visible, and its leaders are often the first to raise concerns about boarding, admission delays, and patients leaving without being seen.
Yet length-of-stay unplanned increases frequently begin farther downstream. Patients may have completed the clinical portion of their stay but remain in beds while teams coordinate post-acute placement,
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GE HealthCare Expands Vscan Air with Lung Guidance and AutoAS for Bedside Cardiopulmonary Triage
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The Cardiopulmonary AI Architecture
The rollout builds directly on GE HealthCare’s acquisition of Caption Health in 2023, expanding an integrated cardiopulmonary AI stack that already includes Caption AI for real-time cardiac probe guidance and Caption Interpretation Auto EF for automated ejection fraction calculation.
Operating across the standard clinical eight-zone lung examination protocol, Lung Guidance assists non-expert clinicians through real-time probe
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nPhase Raises $30M to Scale AI-Native Clinical Data Fabrics and Agentic Workflows for Life Sciences
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Clinical research data platform provider nPhase, Inc., announced the closing of a $30M Series D financing round led by Viking Global Investors.The equity financing represents nPhase's first institutional equity capital raise since 2017, underscoring nearly a decade of disciplined capital self-sufficiency and operational growth.The capital injection will accelerate the global expansion of the enterprise nPhase.ai clinical data platform, which unifies a Unified Data
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