What You Should Know:
- A new report from healthcare consultancy Sage Growth Partners has revealed a growing disconnect between the potential of AI in healthcare and the preparedness of hospital and health system leaders to implement it.
- The report, The Healthcare C-Suite's Take on AI, is the first in a three-part series based on an annual survey of 101 C-suite leaders from various integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, and independent hospitals.
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How Healthcare CIOs Can Solve the Unstructured Data Crisis and Reduce Storage Costs
Healthcare organizations are experiencing a seismic shift in how they handle unstructured data. From digital pathology to high-resolution imaging, genomic sequencing, and machine-generated sensor data, the volume of data that doesn’t fit neatly into rows and columns of a database has exploded across hospitals, research labs, and academic institutions.
While this unstructured data is intrinsic to patient care and scientific discovery, it’s also creating a mounting crisis for
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Barti Software Secures $12M Series A to Expand AI-Powered EHR for Eye Care
What You Should Know:
- Barti Software, a AI-powered company that provides innovative electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software built for eye care practices, announced a $12 million Series A investment led by Five Elms Capital.
- This partnership will enable Barti to scale its go-to-market efforts, grow its team across key functions, and accelerate development of new AI capabilities and workflow automation as Barti expands into ophthalmology. The company will
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ModMed Launches AI-Powered Enhanced Faxing for EMA®, Reducing Admin Time by 80%
What You Should Know:
- ModMed®, a leader in healthcare technology, today announced a major advancement aimed at relieving healthcare providers from heavy administrative burdens. With the release of Enhanced Faxing for EMA®, which uses AI to categorize, extract and direct key information from the faxed document directly into the EHR with minimal human intervention, ModMed is streamlining one of healthcare's most stubborn manual processes: faxing.
- Unlike third-party fax solutions that
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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Guide to Precision Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
Personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, is redefining healthcare by tailoring medical treatment to the unique characteristics of each individual. This approach integrates genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors to enhance disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The potential benefits of precision medicine are profound, and include numerous foundations and applications which we will explore in this piece. It must be noted, however, that the implementation of
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Rimidi Partners with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on Food as Medicine Trial
What You Should Know:
- Rimidi, a digital health company that supports healthcare providers with EHR-integrated software and connected devices, has announced its participation in the Health Care by Food (GoFreshSoutheast) Trial. The trial is managed by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and funded by The American Heart Association.
- The goal of the trial is to evaluate the impact of DASH-aligned grocery store delivery in reducing high blood pressure in adults.
- The
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Oracle Clinical One Data Collection Enhanced with AI and EHR Integration
What You Should Know:
- Oracle has introduced significant advancements to its Electronic Data Capture (EDC) solution, Oracle Clinical One Data Collection. These new capabilities are designed to simplify clinical workflows and eliminate data friction across systems, which helps accelerate research, improve safety reporting, and bring new therapies to market faster.
- The updates, developed in collaboration with pharmaceutical industry leaders and Oracle's CRO Growth Network collaborators,
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CareCloud Acquires Medsphere, Creating a Unified Healthcare Technology Platform
What You Should Know:
- CareCloud, a provider of healthcare technology and AI-powered solutions, has announced its acquisition of the business assets of Medsphere Systems Corporation. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Medsphere is a provider of enterprise inpatient and ambulatory solutions with a 23-year legacy and over 600 clients across 50 states and U.S. territories.
Comprehensive Hospital IT Ecosystem
Medsphere’s hospital IT ecosystem, now
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Preparing for the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’: How Digitization Can Streamline Medicaid Eligibility & Social Care Delivery
The Senate Finance Committee released its version of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” but social safety net providers and managed care organizations (MCOs) are holding their breath, anticipating how potential changes to Medicaid eligibility and funding might impact their operations and vulnerable individuals.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, some 7.8 million people could lose Medicaid coverage under the bill, adding nearly 11 million more people to the roster of uninsured
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AI Is Supercharging Phishing Scams – Are Hospitals Ready?
Hospitals and healthcare systems are facing a growing cyber threat, one that’s being greatly accelerated by generative AI. While much of the public conversation around AI has focused on job displacement or deepfakes, AI’s role in cybercrime has expanded. Phishing attacks, in particular, have become more effective and easier to launch, posing serious risks to healthcare organizations, which already operate under intense operational pressure.
In the second half of 2024, phishing incidents
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