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The Federal Government’s First Fully Cloud-Native EHR
The deployment of PATH EHR establishes a major technological milestone within federal digital health modernization:
Built upon the commercial Oracle Health enterprise software core and implemented by enterprise prime contractor GDIT, PATH EHR represents the first federal electronic health record system architected and hosted entirely within a cloud environment. Unlike earlier federal EHR deployments that relied
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Why Patient Access Is Healthcare’s Highest-Leverage Growth Lever
Patient access has long been managed as an operational necessity — scheduling, registration, referral intake — the plumbing that keeps the clinical enterprise running. Revenue cycle is measured on collections. Digital engagement is judged on portal logins. Each function optimizes for its own number.
Treated together, these three functions tell a more useful story: how easily a patient can get an appointment and navigate their next step in care determines whether that patient — and their
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M&A: Ellipsis Health Acquires Kouper Health to Unify Vocal Empathy with Native EHR Navigation
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Coupling the Empathy Engine with EHR Pipelines
The combination directly addresses the gap between external conversational engagement and active clinical scheduling:
Mainul Mondal, Founder and CEO of Ellipsis Health, framed the operational integration: “Healthcare has enormous potential to benefit from AI, but the hard part has been making that technology work for patients and care teams. We have extraordinary clinicians, but we can’t solve access and
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FinThrive Appoints Ex-Optum Executive Sam Meckey as CEO to Accelerate End-to-End RCM AI Orchestration
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Operational Scale from Optum to AI Engagement
Sam Meckey brings more than 25 years of executive leadership spanning enterprise healthcare software, global operational services, and customer engagement platforms. His operational background aligns closely with FinThrive’s mission to unify fragmented healthcare workflows through intelligent automation:
Most recently, Meckey served as President of WestCX, an operating division of West Technology Group that delivers
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Do Patients Need to Understand AI Before They Can Trust It?
AI is being rapidly integrated into healthcare, and its role is expanding quickly. Yet, despite this rapid adoption, AI trust among patients remains critically low. That is a problem because trust is fundamental to healthcare. Patients who trust their healthcare providers are more likely to share information, follow recommendations, and actively engage with their care. In my current professional role, I spend a considerable amount of time thinking about the reasons why patients should trust
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Altera Digital Health Files WARN Notice to Cut 133 Melville Roles as Client Contracts Expire
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Anatomy of the WARN Filing: Contract Expiration and Facility Context
The New York Department of Labor filing classifies the affected positions within professional, scientific, and technical services, identifying the specific work site as the second floor north of 3 Huntington Quadrangle. The regulatory notice categorizes the action as a permanent layoff rather than a complete facility closure, explicitly citing contract expiration as the underlying reason for the
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Why Healthcare Can’t Skip Steps on the Way to Conversational AI
Healthcare software is moving toward a future where clinicians can simply say what they need. Document this encounter. Show me the latest CBC. Pull up the relevant imaging. Start an order. Instead of navigating a maze of screens, clinicians can interact with clinical software and data through natural language.
There is good reason to want that future. Physicians spend an average of 13 hours each week on indirect patient care, including documentation, order entry, test results, and referrals.
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Fairview Health Services Selects Layer Health to Automate Enterprise Clinical Registry Abstraction
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Longitudinal Chart Synthesis and Source-Linked Traceability
The deployment addresses the primary challenge that has traditionally prevented health systems from automating clinical chart review: the unstructured nature of complex clinical narratives. Traditional natural language processing tools often fail because they lack longitudinal context or produce unreferenced outputs that require clinicians to re-read the entire chart to verify accuracy.
Layer Health’s
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CMS Finalizes CY 2027 Physician Fee Schedule to Accelerate Value-Based Prevention and Curb Duplicate Billing
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Sunsetting Traditional MIPS and Accelerating Value Pathways
A central structural update is the official sunset of the traditional Merit-based Incentive Payment System reporting option, concluding more than a decade of MACRA implementation. CMS finalized that traditional MIPS reporting will terminate beginning with the CY 2031 performance period, granting clinicians through the CY 2030 performance year to fully transition into MIPS Value Pathways or qualifying
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Wolters Kluwer Survey Exposes the Chasm Between Enterprise AI Acceleration and Consumer Drug Safety Trust
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The Consumer Trust Deficit and Channel Skepticism
The survey data highlights a distinct threshold where patient comfort breaks down whenever automated clinical decision-making displaces human oversight. Only twenty-seven percent of surveyed consumers strongly trust automated systems to accurately detect and flag potential drug-drug or drug-disease interactions without a healthcare professional directly involved. Demonstrating defensive behavior against perceived
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