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Healthcare revenue cycle management leader R1 announced the launch of Phare Utilization Management (Phare UM), an AI-enabled solution moving hospital utilization management from retrospective chart auditing to proactive, real-time decisioning.The Guthrie Clinic—a non-profit, integrated health system serving northern Pennsylvania and upstate New York—is among the first health systems to deploy Phare UM across its acute care operations.Built directly on Phare OS, R1’s core
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Healthcare’s Cyber Playbook Was Built for Another Era. Here’s How Leaders Can Adapt
Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in cybersecurity over the past decade. Yet many of the assumptions those programs were built upon—how quickly threats emerge, where risks originate, and how disruption unfolds—are increasingly being challenged by artificial intelligence (AI), digital care delivery, and growing ecosystem interdependence.
The challenge is no longer simply protecting data or preventing breaches. It is ensuring organizations can continue delivering care when
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M&A: MRO Acquires Vyne Medical to Expand Intelligent Healthcare Intake Automation
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Healthcare clinical data management leader MRO announced it acquired Vyne Medical, a specialist in healthcare data intake and intelligent document processing (IDP) serving more than 800 hospitals nationwide.The transaction scales MRO’s enterprise market footprint to serve more than 2,500 hospitals and 35,000 ambulatory clinics, creating a unified clinical data pipeline across the patient encounter lifecycle.Vyne Medical specializes in converting unstructured
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Cedar Gate Survey Reveals 83% of Health Plans Miss VBC Outcomes Due to Fragmented Data
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A national research study conducted by Wakefield Research for Cedar Gate Technologies (an IQVIA business) surveyed 100 senior U.S. health plan executives (VP level and above) across actuarial science, clinical operations, VBC strategy, and IT.The Adoption-Performance Paradox: 83% of payer executives report they are not achieving the cost and quality outcomes they expected from value-based care (VBC), yet 72% intend to continue or expand their alternative payment
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Rutgers, RWJBarnabas Health, and AWS Launch Innovation Hub at HELIX
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Rutgers University and RWJBarnabas Health—New Jersey’s largest academic health system spanning 14 hospitals and over 5 million annual patients—have partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch the Rutgers/RWJBarnabas Health Innovation Hub.Housed inside the Health and Life Science Exchange (HELIX) in New Brunswick, N.J., which serves as the physical home for the unified Rutgers School of Medicine (merging Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical
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MEDITECH Completes Expanse Implementation Across 34 Hospitals in HCA Healthcare’s First Two U.S. Divisions
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Healthcare IT leader MEDITECH has completed the enterprise deployment of its Expanse electronic health record (EHR) platform across 34 acute care hospitals in HCA Healthcare’s Capital and North Florida divisions.Represents the first two U.S. operating divisions to achieve full Expanse deployment across HCA Healthcare’s 15 nationwide operating divisions:Capital Division: 18 hospitals operating across Virginia and New Hampshire.North Florida Division: 16 hospitals operating
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Imprivata Report Reveals 72% of Healthcare Organizations Run Unapproved AI as Autonomous Agents Enter Clinical Care
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Healthcare access management and identity security leader Imprivata released national research conducted by independent research firm Vanson Bourne, surveying 250 U.S. healthcare leaders responsible for identity security and AI strategy across health systems, IDNs, and academic medical centers.The Shadow AI Crisis: 72% of healthcare organizations report that AI tools or agents are deployed without formal IT approval at least occasionally, while 37% cite an ad hoc or
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M&A: Hello Patient Acquires Converse Health to Unify Outpatient Front-Office Voice with Back-Office EHR Automation
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Hello Patient (Austin, TX) announced that it has acquired Converse Health, an AI workflow automation company built for independent outpatient medical practices.Founded in 2023 by CEO Louis Sallerson, CTO Val Zinchenko, and CRO Adam Teitelman (with Trenton Williams joining as VP of Sales in early 2024), Converse Health previously raised $1.3 million to deploy custom chart and document automation across dermatology, orthopedics, women's health, and pain medicine.Directly
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The ROI of Simplicity: Why Less Digital Friction Delivers More in Healthcare
More is not always better when it comes to digital engagement. While healthcare executives have prioritized investments in digital front doors in recent years, patient experience remains fragmented.
Usher in the era of digital fatigue in healthcare, and many organizations are finding that investments are not producing the intended ROI. The reason is that a disconnect exists between how digital tools are designed and how patients actually want to engage, as evidenced by a recent Journal
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M&A: Medallion Acquires Andros to Unify One Million Providers onto an AI-Native Credentialing Platform
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Medallion, the AI-assisted healthcare credentialing and payer enrollment platform, announced on September 15, 2026, that it has acquired Andros, an NCQA-certified credentials verification organization (CVO) serving health plans and provider networks since 2013.The transaction combines systems to manage over one million healthcare providers across nearly 400 healthcare organizations and commercial health plans onto a single credentialing and data management
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