There was a time when legacy applications in healthcare were viewed as an inconvenience. They were something to manage, but not something to worry about.
That time has passed.
Today, the accumulation of outdated systems and inaccessible data has become a systemic risk, one that extends far beyond IT departments. It is showing up in delayed care, incomplete clinical decisions, rising cybersecurity exposure, and increasing regulatory scrutiny.
What many organizations still treat as a
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PHTI Launches New Digital Diabetes Evaluation Centered on GLP-1s and CGMs
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The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) will conduct a comprehensive new independent evaluation of digital health tools for type 2 diabetes, slated for publication in 2027.The evaluation re-evaluates the market three years after its landmark March 2024 assessment, which determined that widely used digital diabetes tools relying on noncontinuous glucometers failed to deliver meaningful clinical improvements and drove up net healthcare spending.Focuses on the
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Kettering Health and ASHN Partner with WellBeam to Embed Home Health Workflows in Native EMRs
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Healthcare technology firm WellBeam formed a strategic partnership with Kettering Health (a regional health system in western Ohio) and Alternate Solutions Health Network (ASHN) (a national provider of home health joint ventures).Embeds home health clinical workflows—including order management, electronic plan-of-care signing, and clinical communication—directly into existing physician electronic medical record (EMR) environments.Eliminates the traditional post-acute
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The Governance Gap: Why Observability is the New Control Plane for AI-Led Care
There is an interesting shift happening in healthcare’s digital transformation efforts. We are no longer simply using software to support clinicians; we are operating within a software-defined clinical environment. Today, clinical workflows, revenue cycles, patient engagement platforms, analytics pipelines, and AI models run on shared digital infrastructure affecting key care outcomes. A radiology model, for example, is not just producing an image; it is feeding clinical decision engines,
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M&A: Globus Medical Acquires Duke Incubator Higgs Boson Health to Expand Surgical Intelligence
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Musculoskeletal technology leader Globus Medical, Inc. announced the acquisition of Higgs Boson Health, a digital healthcare experience company based in Durham, North Carolina, and incubated out of Duke University.Integrates Higgs Boson’s software engineering and artificial intelligence research teams into Globus Medical to develop a seamless, connected digital care environment spanning the entire musculoskeletal patient journey.The acquisition positions Higgs Boson’s
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 Gartner Research: Healthcare Supply Chain Leaders Must Transition to Self-Managing AI Inventory Rooms
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Gartner advises healthcare Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) to replace manual inventory counting and legacy scanning tools with autonomous supply rooms driven by computer vision and artificial intelligence.Garner reveals advances in computer vision, spatial sensing, and workflow automation enable Periodic Automatic Replenishment (PAR) rooms to autonomously monitor inventory levels, predict demand, and trigger reorders with minimal human involvement.Autonomous supply
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Philips Wins $33.7M ARPA-H Award to Scale Autonomous Robotic Thrombectomy
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Philips secured an award of up to $33.7M from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) under its Autonomous Interventions and Robotics (AIR) program, led by Dr. Ileana Hancu.Develops AI-enabled robotic procedure automation and remote-assisted capabilities for endovascular stroke treatment (mechanical thrombectomy) built on the Philips Azurion image-guided therapy platform.The program integrates AI navigation algorithms, robotic catheter control, and
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The Healthcare Experience Is Broken: Why Healthcare Must Rethink the Way Work Gets Done
Every industry reaches a point where incremental improvements are no longer enough. I believe healthcare has reached that point.
In recent decades, we’ve invested heavily in digital transformation. EHRs, patient portals, cloud platforms, and now AI have fundamentally changed what’s possible.
Yet despite extraordinary investment and innovation, many healthcare organizations still wrestle with familiar challenges.
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Metriport Raises $26M to Scale Open-Source Point-of-Care Clinical Intelligence
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Open-source healthcare data infrastructure company Metriport secured $26M in new funding led by TJ Parker, General Partner at Matrix, with participation from ARTIS Ventures and Y Combinator, bringing its total capital raised to $28.4M.The platform eliminates point-of-care blind spots and weeks-long manual chart chasing across hospitals, pharmacies, and outpatient clinics by unifying and deduplicating medical records into a standardized, searchable data model. Replaces
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Trump Administration Deploys $93.3M to Scale Surgical Robotics and Telehealth Across Georgia Rural Hospitals
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The Trump Administration announced a $93.3M federal investment under the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) to expand telehealth, surgical robotics, and modern care models across rural Georgia.Completes Georgia’s $218+ million Year-1 funding commitment under the broader $50 billion federal RHTP framework established by the Working Families Tax Cuts Act.Prepares 87 rural Georgia hospitals to transition toward value-based and total cost of care payment models by
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