Five years into caring for a patient, a primary care physician saw her again shortly after she delivered her first child. The visit was scheduled as a routine six-week newborn evaluation. As is common in primary care, the encounter extended beyond the infant to include the mother’s well-being.
During the appointment, the new mother appeared upbeat. “I’m doing great — it’s such a joy to have my baby at home and to be through the process of pregnancy,” she said. On the surface, there were no
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3 in 4 Compromised Healthcare Devices Expose Patient Records, Flare Report Reveals
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The Cyber Threat Surge: In its newly released report, The State of Healthcare Credential Exposure in 2026, Threat Exposure Management leader Flare documented a 33% year-over-year increase in compromised healthcare credentials.EHR Systems Compromised: Flare's analysis of over 154,000 infostealer malware logs revealed that nearly 74% of infected healthcare devices contained credentials for Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems.The U.S.
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Briya and InterSystems Partner to Launch Natural Language Medical Curation Across Global Markets
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Health AI technology company Briya finalized a strategic partnership with InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering more than one billion health records globally.The collaboration integrates Briya’s end-to-end AI research platform, Briya AIRE™, directly over InterSystems’ data infrastructure and IRIS platform, allowing researchers to query complex, longitudinal datasets using simple natural language.To adhere strictly to rigorous GDPR and HIPAA
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Wheel and b.well Connected Health to Launch AI-First Virtual Care Infrastructure
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Strategic Collaboration: Wheel and b.well Connected Health have announced a strategic partnership to create a turnkey infrastructure for AI-native and consumer-driven healthcare experiences.Platform Integration: The collaboration integrates b.well’s consumer health data and access infrastructure with Wheel’s Horizon™ platform, which handles clinical delivery and nationwide clinician operations.Overcoming the Action Wall: The combined offering addresses the operational
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Reimagining Medical Devices in the AI Era: The 3 Structural Shifts Driving Venture-Scale Growth
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In their newly released whitepaper, Medical Devices in the AI Era, Aegis Ventures outlines how the medical device sector has historically underperformed in venture portfolios, remaining completely flat at just 2% to 3% of overall healthcare venture capital since 2018, despite representing a $200 billion annual market.The Software Evolution: The axis of competition is moving from physical hardware ("atoms") to intelligent software ("algorithms"), opening the door to
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Atropos Health and Guidehouse Launch Point-of-Care Clinical Decision Support Solution
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Atropos Health and Guidehouse have launched a jointly developed clinical decision support (CDS) solution designed to operationalize real-world evidence (RWE) directly within clinical workflows.The Combined Offering: The solution pairs Atropos Health’s predictive modeling and evidence generation with Guidehouse’s commercialization, medical strategy, and market access expertise.EHR Integration: Built on predictive algorithms using real-world data, the platform embeds
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M&A: Qualtrics Completes $6.75B Acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta
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Qualtrics has officially completed its acquisition of healthcare experience leader Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75B, marking the largest technology acquisition in Utah history.Category Expansion: The deal fuses Qualtrics’ experience management (XM) AI and data platform with Press Ganey Forsta's massive clinical, operational, and regulatory benchmarking footprint.The "Experience Gap" Mandate: Driven by consumer expectations permanently altered by AI, modern patients no longer
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Viz.ai Launches Viz Pulmonary™ Suite: AI-Powered Workflows for COPD, Lung Nodules, and PE
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Viz.ai has introduced the Viz Pulmonary™ Suite, an integrated AI solution designed to manage acute and chronic pulmonary conditions in a single platform.The suite targets three major pulmonary challenges: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), lung nodules, and pulmonary embolism (PE).Clinical Impact: In a single-center study, the integrated Viz PE tool reduced time to treatment from 1.75 days to 0.56 days and lowered in-hospital mortality among high-risk
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Healthcare AI Evaluation Frameworks: Moving Beyond Accuracy to Safety and Fairness
AI adoption is rapidly growing in healthcare across everything from clinical documentation to diagnostic imaging, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement. As per the 2023-24 American Hospital Association Information Technology Supplement, predictive AI integrated with EHR systems were already used in 71% of hospitals; this has increased rapidly with the advent of generative AI.
However, many AI deployments tend to fail in the real world, and do not deliver the expected improvements
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FDA Grants 510(k) Clearance for Glooko’s EndoTool IV Cloud Insulin Dosing Platform
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Glooko has received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for EndoTool IV Cloud, making it the first cloud-based, patient-specific insulin dosing platform cleared for hospital use.The system is the cloud-native evolution of EndoTool IV, a clinical decision support solution used to manage intravenous (IV) insulin therapy for hospitalized patients.The cloud architecture is designed to reduce on-premise infrastructure requirements, streamline maintenance, and support centralized updates
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