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Healthcare navigation platform Quantum Health (Dublin, OH) announced on September 15, 2026, the appointment of Dr. Susan Mani as its new Chief Medical Officer (CMO).Dr. Mani brings extensive executive leadership in value-based care and population health, having previously directed clinical and cost-containment initiatives at Humana and regional health system LifeBridge Health.Clinical pedigree includes completing medical school and internal medicine residency at the Johns
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GE HealthCare Launches CareIntellect for Operations to Deliver 72-Hour Predictive Inpatient Capacity Forecasting
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GE HealthCare announced on September 15, 2026, the launch of CareIntellect™ for Operations, a cloud-native, AI-enabled Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application engineered to forecast hospital capacity constraints up to 72 hours in advance.Duke Health and The Queen’s Health Systems (The Queen’s Medical Center) will be the first health systems to implement the platform, providing frontline operational and clinical feedback to guide engineering iterations.Built on Amazon Web
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Why Asset Visibility Is Healthcare’s Next Operational Advantage
Some of healthcare’s most expensive equipment shortages aren’t shortages at all. They’re visibility failures.
A hospital can own enough infusion pumps, monitors, or mobile diagnostic equipment and still have clinicians struggling to find what they need. The problem is not always insufficient capacity. Sometimes the capacity is already there—distributed across departments, waiting for cleaning or maintenance, sitting idle, or represented inaccurately in systems that no longer reflect what is
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Abridge Enters the Mid-Revenue Cycle with Pre-Bill AI for CDI and Coding Teams
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Ambient clinical AI leader Abridge has expanded its enterprise clinician intelligence platform into the mid-revenue cycle, launching an AI-powered pre-bill review capability tailored for Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI), coding, and health system revenue cycle management (RCM) teams.Marks Abridge’s formal product expansion from point-of-care ambient documentation into institutional revenue integrity, auditing inpatient claims before submission for
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Khosla Ventures Backs Nara Health with $14M to Rebuild Self-Insured Health Plans via Agentic AI
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Nara Health, an AI-native Third-Party Administrator (TPA) rebuilding employer health insurance infrastructure, announced $14 million in total funding across combined pre-seed and seed rounds led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Long Journey Ventures, Superior Studios, and strategic angel investors.Nara Health tackles a macroeconomic employer crisis: 170 million Americans receive employer-sponsored insurance, where average family premiums reached $27,000
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How AI Agents Are Streamlining Everyday Clinical Operations
Healthcare organizations have spent the past decade digitizing workflows, expanding access to data, and introducing automation to reduce administrative burden. However, for many clinicians and operational teams, the complexity of day-to-day tasks remains. Regulatory requirements continue to evolve, reporting frameworks are becoming more detailed, and there is ongoing pressure to do more with fewer resources.
This complexity is represented in programs like Merit-based Incentive Payment
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Artisight Acquires Healthcare Infrastructure Firm TMG Global to Accelerate Enterprise Smart Hospital Rollouts
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Smart hospital and clinical AI platform provider Artisight has acquired TMG Global, a specialized technology services firm focused on healthcare infrastructure readiness, physical site surveys, and large-scale hardware implementations.The strategic acquisition directly addresses a major failure point in hospital digital health rollouts: the operational bottleneck of managing fragmented third-party subcontractors across physical IT infrastructure, leading to installation
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Why Hospitals Can No Longer Predict Readmissions After the Fact
A 72-year-old woman goes home from a mid-size community hospital after a successful knee replacement. Her vitals are stable, her incision is healing, her discharge paperwork is textbook. Three weeks later she's back in the emergency department, not because of her knee, but because her zip code is a food desert with no easy way to reach a pharmacy or a grocery store. Nothing in her chart captured that risk, because nothing ever asked about it.
That gap isn't rare, and it points to something
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Notable Appoints Former Houston Methodist Executive Dr. Nicholas Desai as Chief Medical Officer
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Healthcare AI workforce platform Notable has named Dr. Nicholas Desai as its Chief Medical Officer (CMO), adding extensive executive health system leadership across clinical technology, acute operations, and quality.Dr. Desai joins Notable directly from Houston Methodist, where his career spanned dual executive tracks across system-wide clinical informatics and hospital-level operating responsibility:Served as system-wide Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO).Held
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Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent for Nurses Expands Inpatient EHR Automation Across U.S. Hospitals
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Oracle Health has launched the U.S. commercial availability of Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent for nurses, embedding voice-driven and generative AI capabilities directly into the inpatient Oracle Health Foundation EHR (formerly Cerner Millennium).Directly targets the largest clinical workforce: while generative AI has predominantly focused on ambulatory physician note drafting, nurses represent the primary operational users of inpatient EHRs and face severe documentation
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