Healthcare revenue cycle software provider FinThrive has named Brandon Burnett as its Chief Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Officer. The move brings 25 years of provider-side operational experience directly into FinThrive’s executive ranks as the company expands the use of artificial intelligence across hospital billing and patient access workflows.
In the newly created role, Burnett will bridge the gap between software development and the day-to-day realities of hospital finance teams,
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HIMSS Signs Historic MOUs at HIMSS26 APAC to Measure AI Value and Accelerate Malaysia’s ‘1 Person, 1 Record’
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At the HIMSS26 APAC Health Conference & Exhibition in Singapore (co-hosted with SingHealth), HIMSS executed two major Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) and a national digital health maturity partnership.Establishes the HIMSS AI Outcomes Framework, the world’s first evidence-based, longitudinal standard for measuring the clinical, operational, and financial impact and ROI of healthcare artificial intelligence.Founding healthcare provider partners contributing
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ECRI Calls on Health Systems to Report Clinical AI Errors and Malfunctions
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Global patient safety nonprofit ECRI expanded its Problem Reporting Network to explicitly capture, investigate, and triage errors, malfunctions, and near misses involving artificial intelligence (AI) tools and AI-enabled medical devices used in patient care.Addresses a critical clinical oversight deficit: while AI is deployed across diagnostic imaging, clinical decision support, and ambient scribes, the industry lacks a centralized, healthcare-specific mechanism to track
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Who Gets to Become a Doctor? How Federal Loan Caps Could Reshape the Physician Pipeline
The conversation around federal student loan caps has focused almost entirely on undergraduates. That's understandable as undergrads are the largest borrowing population, but for medical education, the consequences of the proposed legislation may be more immediate and far less visible to both policymakers and wider audiences.
To set context, let me be specific about what's in the bill: The legislation would cap annual federal borrowing for professional school at $50,000 and impose an
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PatientPoint Releases 2026 Patient Confidence Index on Healthcare Anxiety, Provider Trust, and AI
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PatientPoint® released the findings of its fifth annual Patient Confidence Index, conducted in partnership with Talker Research among 2,000 U.S. adults who attended a medical appointment within the past year.Rising Systemic Anxiety vs. High Provider Trust: 43% of respondents reported increased healthcare anxiety over the past year—driven by care affordability (54%), inflation (41%), and policy changes (39%)—causing 47% of patients to delay preventive care.Despite broad
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Juno Health Integrates SlicedHealth to Deliver Native Revenue Intelligence for Rural Hospitals
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Juno Health announced a strategic partnership with SlicedHealth to offer SlicedHealth’s revenue cycle and operations intelligence tools as a fully integrated, included complement to Juno EHR’s native revenue cycle management (RCM) suite.The partnership specifically targets rural hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), delivering advanced revenue protection and contract intelligence tools historically reserved for large health systems.SlicedHealth brings proven
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Bypassing Decisional Friction: How Kaiser Permanente Cut 12 EHR Instances to 2 in Under Three Hours
CIOs today are being asked to accelerate technology transformation while still managing the cost and complexity of legacy technology. Organizations are racing to keep up with the pace of change and investing billions in modernizing platforms, data, AI -- often all at once. Yet, when transformation stalls, the root cause is rarely technical. More often, the challenge is execution.
Technology can enable transformation, but execution determines whether transformation succeeds.
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OmicsBank Secures $2.25M from Redesign Health to Scale Global Multi-Omics Data Infrastructure
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OmicsBank, a clinical data infrastructure company connecting fragmented hospital archives for biopharma and frontier AI developers, raised $2.25M in seed funding from global venture capital and applied technology firm Redesign Health.Founded in 2025 by serial entrepreneurs Sumit Sinha (CEO) and Vijay Goel, the company has deployed its infrastructure inside 90+ hospitals and diagnostic laboratories across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.The data network
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M&A: WellStack Acquires DeLorean AI to Advance Predictive Decision Intelligence
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WellStack announced the acquisition of DeLorean AI, a healthcare artificial intelligence company specializing in predictive analytics, clinical risk stratification, and prescriptive decision support.The transaction unifies WellStack’s agentic healthcare data management platform and modular Decision Hubs with DeLorean AI’s predictive intelligence and next-action recommendation engine.The combined entity bridges the gap across the healthcare analytics maturity curve:
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Suki Launches Standalone AI Dictation Integrated Natively into Epic and MEDITECH Workflows
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Ambient Clinical Intelligence (ACI) leader Suki announced the launch of Suki Dictation, an AI-powered clinical dictation solution built natively inside Epic and MEDITECH electronic health records (EHRs).The solution can be deployed as an independent standalone replacement for legacy dictation tools or used alongside Suki’s ambient listening documentation on a single unified platform.Breaks the traditional vendor packaging model where health systems are forced into costly,
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