What You Should Know:
- For decades, the "revenue cycle"—the complex machinery of medical billing, coding, and reimbursement—has been the unglamorous back office of healthcare. But in 2025, it has become the frontline of AI adoption.
- According to a new survey released by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and AKASA, the adoption of Generative AI has moved past the experimental phase into operational necessity. With nearly 9% of hospital revenue now evaporating
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The Rise of Hybrid Intelligence: Healthcare Leaders Reject Autonomous AI in Favor of Clinical Validation
What You Should Know:
- A new market survey from Carta Healthcare reveals that hospital leaders are overwhelmingly rejecting fully autonomous AI in favor of "hybrid intelligence" models that pair technology with clinical expertise.
- With 62.5% of respondents citing data misinterpretation as a critical risk of "black box" systems, the industry is cementing a preference for AI that augments rather than replaces human decision-making.
The End of the "Black Box": Why Hospitals
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Fragile Lifelines: How AI Can Reinforce Pharma Supply Chains
Drug shortages have surged to their highest levels in decades. In early 2024, U.S. pharmacies reported more than 323 active shortages, spanning essential generics, injectables, and even critical cancer therapies. These numbers echo findings from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which tracks persistent disruptions that ripple through hospitals, pharmacies, and ultimately to patients in urgent need of care.
While the pandemic made those cracks impossible to ignore, the reality
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40% of Nurses Planning to Quit: How Streamlined EHR Workflows Can Save the Profession
What You Should Know:
A new report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative reveals that the overwhelming burden of documentation is a primary driver of nurse burnout, with 40% of nurses intending to leave the profession by 2029.
- The study also highlights that meaningful progress is possible: organizations that have implemented specific strategies to streamline charting—such as eliminating redundant fields and utilizing AI—have seen dramatic improvements in nurse
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The Compliance Blind Spot: Why Traditional Backups Fail HIPAA Integrity Standards
Healthcare organizations face a uniquely challenging compliance landscape. HIPAA requirements mandate robust data protection and breach notification protocols, while simultaneously, the sector has become the most targeted industry for ransomware attacks. There is now a growing gap between what compliance frameworks require and what traditional security measures can realistically deliver.
The stakes extend beyond regulatory fines. When ransomware strikes a hospital system, the consequences
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The Rise of AI Documentation Tools in Mental Health Practice
The behavioral health sector faces a documentation crisis that threatens both provider well-being and patient care quality. Mental health professionals spend a disproportionate amount of their workweek on clinical documentation, leaving less time for the therapeutic work that drew them to the field.
This administrative burden has become unsustainable. Research from Nuance and Ignetica found that healthcare professionals now spend an average of 13.5 hours per week on clinical documentation.
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Democratizing Data: How WellSky and uMed Are Bringing Clinical Trials into the Living Room
What You Should Know:
- WellSky and uMed have formed a strategic partnership to integrate clinical research opportunities directly into the workflows of home-based care providers. By combining WellSky’s network of 10,000 providers with uMed’s automated registry platform, the initiative allows patients—particularly in underserved and rural areas—to participate in national research registries without leaving their homes.
- The model is designed to generate high-quality real-world data
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2026 Healthcare Executive Predictions: Why the AI “Pilot Era” Is Officially Over
If the last two years were defined by the breathless hype of experimentation, 2026 marks the healthcare industry’s decisive transition from "flashy, one-off experiments" to "top-down programs designed for measurable impact". Across the digital health landscape, executives agree that the "pilot era is ending," with the focus shifting entirely to systems that can be "governed, audited, and trusted" at scale.
The narrative for the coming year is no longer about the novelty of generative AI
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PwC 2026 Outlook: Health Services M&A Poised for Rebound as AI Becomes “Core Driver” of Value
What You Should Know:
- According to PwC's 2026 Health Services Deals Outlook, the M&A market is set to regain momentum in both deal value and volume after a cooling period in 2025.
- The report highlights a strategic pivot among private equity investors away from reimbursement-heavy assets toward AI-enabled software and services that drive margin expansion without adding labor. With the IPO window reopening and "mega-funds" returning to offense, the winners in 2026 will be
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The Healthcare Balancing Act: How AI, RPM, and Predictive Analytics Cut Costs Without Sacrificing Care
Calling healthcare a balancing act is probably not doing it justice: Costs are rising, reimbursements are dwindling, and Medicaid is under the knife, but health organizations are still tasked with providing the highest quality of care to the most people they can without breaking the bank.
Under unprecedented financial strain, providers and payers need to optimize operations and trim the budget wherever they can, but never at the expense of quality patient care. That’s why many are investing
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