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KLAS latest report, Data Archiving 2026, interviewed 36 vendor-identified deep adopters between September 2025 and March 2026 to evaluate how health organizations utilize archiving software beyond basic legal and retention requirements.Advanced capabilities like AI-driven clinical decision support and real-time analytics are rarely in production, with 60% of deep adopters showing no interest in using archived data for AI or research enablement.Financial return on
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Demystifying the Blood Panel: Labcorp Launches HIPAA-Compliant Mobile AI Advisor
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Global laboratory services leader Labcorp has officially launched MyLabcorp™, a secure, AI-powered mobile patient application available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.The application directly addresses a massive consumer shift toward digital data interpretation, with recent survey findings showing that 55% of consumers view AI as important for understanding health information.Backed by OpenAI's advanced reasoning models, the app introduces an
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The Compliance Bottleneck in Connected Health: Why Cloud-Based Medical Devices Need a Different V&V Approach
Most verification and validation (V&V) frameworks in medical devices were built on a foundational assumption: the device you ship is the device that gets used. A fixed product, a fixed software version, and a defined validation cycle.
That assumption no longer holds.
Cloud-based connected health platforms operate as continuously evolving systems rather than static devices. Software updates dynamically, data flows bidirectionally between patient and infrastructure, and system boundaries
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Surescripts Expands Prior Authorization Automation: Slashing Prescription Approval Times as New CMS Interoperability Rules Loom
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Surescripts has expanded its Prior Authorization Automation solution, increasing the number of enabled clinicians by 50% since December 2025 to reach 68,000 prescribers across 42 major health systems.Automated prior authorization systems achieved a median approval time of just 18 seconds when clinical determination criteria were met, bypassing traditional manual forms, faxes, and telephone calls.Real-Time Prescription Benefit tools saved patients $19.7 million from
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HealthEx and 23andMe Partner to Unify Medical Records and Genomics
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Consumer identity and health data platform HealthEx has partnered with 23andMe to allow users to securely link their comprehensive electronic medical records directly to their genetic profiles.The integration enables 23andMe to combine real-world clinical data—such as laboratory results, historical diagnoses, and active prescription histories—with genomic profiles to build dynamic, personalized disease risk models.By utilizing HealthEx's specialized digital identity
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Commure Secures $70M to Drive 85% Autonomous Revenue Cycle Execution
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Commure, an AI platform for healthcare operations, secured a $70M financing round at a $7 billion post-money valuation led by General Catalyst, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Kirkland & Ellis.Tackling the $1 Trillion Problem: The company’s agentic AI infrastructure targets administrative waste—a sector that consumes an estimated $1 trillion annually in the U.S. alone.Proven Operational Automation: Commure’s end-to-end revenue cycle
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Vocal Biomarkers: Helping Clinicians Detect What Patients Hesitate to Share
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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