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Precision oncology and cancer risk intelligence platform CancerIQ announced a major architectural upgrade to its Epic Systems integrations, introducing a redesigned patient experience via Risk Hub and a consolidated provider application deployed natively inside Epic workflows.Built natively on the HL7 FHIR R4 interoperability standard, the provider integration enables chart-aware risk assessment that automatically pulls existing clinical variables from Epic—including
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Everlywell Appoints Chief Commercial and Product Officers to Expand Payer Diagnostic Care Platforms
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Diagnostics and virtual care platform Everlywell announced the strategic expansion of its enterprise executive leadership team, appointing Charles Cuzzell as Chief Commercial Officer and Mike Considine as Chief Product Officer.Cuzzell will oversee enterprise sales, strategic health plan partnerships, account management, and customer success, while Considine will direct enterprise product architecture, digital design, and clinical UX across the company’s diagnostic and
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Oracle Health Partners with ID.me to Embed Reusable Digital Identity Across Patient Portals and EPCS
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Oracle Health and digital identity network ID.me announced a strategic enterprise partnership at the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit in Orlando, Florida, natively embedding ID.me’s high-assurance verification infrastructure into Oracle Health’s clinical and operational software portfolio.The collaboration addresses two critical healthcare access bottlenecks: eliminating repetitive paper intake workflows for patients at the digital front door and automating identity
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Ensemble Health Partners with Penelope to Shift Real-Time Policy Intelligence Upstream
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End-to-end revenue cycle management leader Ensemble Health Partners announced at its Healthcare Leadership Exchange, a strategic enterprise partnership with Penelope Health ("Penelope"), a real-time healthcare policy intelligence platform.The collaboration natively embeds Penelope’s structured clinical policy engine directly into Ensemble’s proprietary revenue cycle intelligence layer, shifting policy and medical necessity verification upstream before clinical care is
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Trilliant Health Launches Oria AI Strategist to Replace Manual Healthcare Advisory
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Healthcare market intelligence and analytics firm Trilliant Health announced the commercial launch of the premium version of Oria, an enterprise AI Strategist engineered to deliver market-specific strategic planning on demand.The release directly challenges traditional management consulting economics, citing a peer-reviewed JAMA study revealing that U.S. nonprofit hospitals spent at least $7.8 billion on management consultants over roughly a decade with zero measurable
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America’s Elder-Care Crisis Has Arrived. We’re Not Ready.
For years, America has talked about the aging population as a problem we will need to solve somewhere down the road. That framing is outdated. The crisis is already here.
The population of older adults grew 13% between 2020 and 2024, far faster than the working-age population. There are over 61 million older adults in the United States. By 2030, every Baby Boomer will be at least 65 years old.
After decades in healthcare, I have seen how quickly demographic trends become realities
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Vonage Brings Branded Calling to Epic Hello World to Drive 45% Patient Answer Rates
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Cloud communications provider Vonage, a subsidiary of Ericsson, announced the deployment of its Branded Calling technology natively within Epic Systems’ Hello World communication platform.Built using the programmable Vonage Voice API, the integration enables hospitals and ambulatory clinics to display their verified organization name, corporate logo, and specific reason for calling directly on a patient’s mobile handset before the call is answered.The feature addresses
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CertifyOS Launches National Shared Credentialing with UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, and Centene
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Provider data infrastructure company CertifyOS launches its National Shared Credentialing Program, establishing a unified, multi-payer verification network designed to eliminate duplicative credentialing and recredentialing workflows.Flagship commercial participants at launch include three of the nation’s largest health insurance payers: UnitedHealthcare, Cigna Healthcare, and Centene Corporation.The program addresses an administrative crisis where the United States
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Oracle Health Unveils Upstream AI Revenue Cycle Portfolio at Health and Life Sciences Summit
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At the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit, Oracle Health announced a major portfolio-wide expansion of embedded artificial intelligence capabilities across its Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) suite, scheduled for rollout in the coming months across U.S. healthcare organizations.The strategic deployment brings machine learning and generative workflows upstream into the earliest operational stages—spanning patient scheduling, financial clearance, clinical documentation,
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Healthcare AI Governance: Moving from Data-Sensitivity Tiers to Reversibility Controls in Agentic Systems
Ashok Benial is right. His argument in these pages last week — that most hospitals are buying AI faster than they can govern it, that "the tools go live while the guardrails are still on a slide deck" — is the most useful thing anyone has said about healthcare AI governance this quarter. His three controls are the correct ones: validate locally against your own population, monitor for drift after go-live, and fund the human review layer as a control system rather than overhead. Every health
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