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Specialty practice EHR and practice management leader Nextech announced major strategic partnerships with Assort Health and EliseAI in October 2026 (showcased at the AAO 2026 Annual Meeting in New Orleans), embedding conversational and agentic AI directly into its specialty healthcare operating system.Directly addresses the front-office access bottleneck: specialty practices face growing clinical demand and acute administrative staffing shortages, where unanswered calls,
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When Cybercriminals Impersonate Care: Why Trust Is Part of the Treatment
For years, healthcare organizations have encouraged patients to become more digitally connected to their care.
Use the patient portal. Check your test results online. Respond to appointment reminders. Communicate electronically with your care team. Use digital tools to take a more active role in managing your health.
Patients listened.
That progress has made digital engagement an important part of the healthcare experience. Unfortunately, cybercriminals understand that relationship,
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Healthleap Raises $38M for Clinical AI Screening Platform Targeting Overlooked Inpatient Conditions
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Clinical artificial intelligence platform Healthleap announced that it has raised $38M in combined seed and Series A financing backed by Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, and Hummingbird Ventures (consisting of an $8M seed round co-led by Sequoia and First Round and a $30M Series A led by Hummingbird).Directly targets an entrenched inpatient diagnostic blind spot: up to 50% of hospitalized patients are clinically at risk for disease-related malnutrition, yet
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Health Systems Can’t Optimize What They Can’t See: TeleTracking on Ambulatory Capacity, Leakage, and Operational AI
For decades, health systems have invested in creating operational visibility inside the hospital. Leaders are accustomed to tracking bed capacity, anticipating demand, identifying bottlenecks and coordinating the movement of patients and resources within the four walls of the hospital.
But healthcare no longer begins and ends at the hospital doors.
Care continues to move into physician practices, specialty clinics, imaging centers, ambulatory surgery centers, and at home with virtual care.
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Vitalize Raises $31M to Scale Real-Time Hospital Workforce and Capacity AI
Equitable Care Depends on Intelligent Infrastructure: Actuarial AI and Value-Based Risk Contracts
Equitable access to health care is more than just about geographical coverage. It depends on the healthcare system’s ability to identify risk early, intervene intelligently, and sustain those interventions across the most clinically and socially complex populations.
This is why many value-based care (VBC) models struggle. Underserved Medicaid and Medicare populations frequently experience a disproportionate burden of chronic diseases, behavioral health challenges, transportation barriers,
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Bain & Bessemer 2026 Scorecard Reveals Healthcare AI Delivers 3.5x ROI in 12 Months
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Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain & Company published their joint benchmark report, The 2026 Healthcare AI ROI Scorecard, surveying 226 healthcare C-suite executives across 65 discrete use cases spanning health systems, commercial payers, and biopharma enterprises.The multi-year transformation has compressed rapidly: while 84% of healthcare executives in 2025 expected generative AI to transform treatment decisions within three to five years, 71% confirm it already
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Arcadia Unveils Ascent, CareJourney, and LifeScience to Operationalize Agentic Population Health
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Healthcare data platform Arcadia announced a major product portfolio restructuring during its annual customer conference, Aggregate, introducing three core solutions: Arcadia Ascent™, Arcadia CareJourney™, and Arcadia LifeScience.The solutions transition healthcare organizations from retrospective data reporting into active, coordinated execution across clinical, operational, and financial domains using embedded artificial intelligence and agentic workflows.The portfolio
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GenAI’s First Steps Toward Measurable Therapeutic Impact in Mental Health: Reviewing the READI Framework
Over the past two years, generative AI has already shown its value in healthcare documentation and workflow support. Ambient scribing is one of the clearest examples: by reducing note-taking burden, it helps clinicians spend less time on routine tasks and more time with patients.
The next logical question that is gaining traction now is whether generative AI can deliver measurable therapeutic benefit in mental health care.
A serious test of that notion came from Therabot, a purpose-built
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Why EHR Delivery Has Become a Strategic Decision: Operating Models and Clinician Burnout
For years, healthcare organizations have pursued IT cost optimization through familiar tactics: renegotiating contracts, extending hardware refresh cycles, consolidating vendors, and managing cloud spending. Those efforts can produce incremental savings, yet many organizations find themselves confronting the same financial pressures a few years later. The larger challenge is often architectural.
Increasingly, healthcare organizations are discovering that the design of their IT operating
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