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Smart hospital and clinical AI platform provider Artisight has acquired TMG Global, a specialized technology services firm focused on healthcare infrastructure readiness, physical site surveys, and large-scale hardware implementations.The strategic acquisition directly addresses a major failure point in hospital digital health rollouts: the operational bottleneck of managing fragmented third-party subcontractors across physical IT infrastructure, leading to installation
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Why Hospitals Can No Longer Predict Readmissions After the Fact
A 72-year-old woman goes home from a mid-size community hospital after a successful knee replacement. Her vitals are stable, her incision is healing, her discharge paperwork is textbook. Three weeks later she's back in the emergency department, not because of her knee, but because her zip code is a food desert with no easy way to reach a pharmacy or a grocery store. Nothing in her chart captured that risk, because nothing ever asked about it.
That gap isn't rare, and it points to something
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Notable Appoints Former Houston Methodist Executive Dr. Nicholas Desai as Chief Medical Officer
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Healthcare AI workforce platform Notable has named Dr. Nicholas Desai as its Chief Medical Officer (CMO), adding extensive executive health system leadership across clinical technology, acute operations, and quality.Dr. Desai joins Notable directly from Houston Methodist, where his career spanned dual executive tracks across system-wide clinical informatics and hospital-level operating responsibility:Served as system-wide Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO).Held
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Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent for Nurses Expands Inpatient EHR Automation Across U.S. Hospitals
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Oracle Health has launched the U.S. commercial availability of Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent for nurses, embedding voice-driven and generative AI capabilities directly into the inpatient Oracle Health Foundation EHR (formerly Cerner Millennium).Directly targets the largest clinical workforce: while generative AI has predominantly focused on ambulatory physician note drafting, nurses represent the primary operational users of inpatient EHRs and face severe documentation
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Behavior Change Isn’t a One-Time Achievement Because Barriers Are Constantly Changing
Health plans have invested heavily in engaging members. Text messages, mobile apps, outbound calls, direct mail and digital portals have created more opportunities than ever to connect with people throughout their healthcare journey. Yet many organizations continue to face persistent challenges with medication adherence, preventive care and chronic disease management.
The issue isn't that members aren't being reached. It's that their lives don't stand still.
Healthcare often treats
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Hanger to Acquire Numotion in Cash Transaction to Create “Hanger Numotion” Under Patient Square Capital
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Orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) patient care leader Hanger, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Numotion, a major provider of Complex Rehabilitation Technology (CRT) and mobility solutions, forming Hanger Numotion.Structured as an all-cash acquisition of Numotion by Hanger. The combined entity will be majority-controlled by healthcare private equity firm Patient Square Capital (which took Hanger private in 2022). Numotion is being sold by primary
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What CMS’s Medicare App Library Means for Patient Access, Transparency, and Trust
CMS’s launch of the Medicare App Library marks an important step forward for consumer-directed healthcare. For years, interoperability efforts across the industry focused primarily on enabling patients to access and share their health information more easily. The App Library reflects how far the industry has come in making that vision more practical and accessible.
It also signals a broader shift. Health data is increasingly moving beyond traditional provider and payer environments into a
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ARPA-H Awards UpDoc Up to $9.2M to Lead ADVOCATE Autonomous Clinical AI Program
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has selected clinical AI company UpDoc as a lead performer in its Agentic AI-Enabled Cardiovascular Care Transformation (ADVOCATE) program, granting an award of up to $9.2M.The award assembles a high-profile technology syndicate: UpDoc leads the clinical AI development, supported by Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA.Represents the first federal health research program designed to produce an autonomous, FDA-authorized
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PHTI Assessment Finds Virtual CKD Management Fails to Slow Disease Progression or Cut Costs
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The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) has released an independent health technology assessment evaluating virtual solutions for chronic kidney disease (CKD) management across stages 3–5.PHTI evaluated eight prominent commercial companies representing billions in private capital and market capitalization: DaVita Integrated Kidney Care (IKC), Evergreen Nephrology, Healthmap Solutions, Interwell Health, Kidneylink, Monogram Health, Somatus, and Strive Health.The
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H1 Acquires Healthcare Data Company Defacto Health to Bolster Provider Network Intelligence
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Healthcare professional intelligence leader H1 has acquired Defacto Health, a specialized healthcare data company focused on payer-provider networks, accepted insurance plans, and directory accuracy.The transaction formalizes a long-term data partnership, absorbing Defacto's proprietary directory auditing, error-cluster isolation, and network benchmarking engines directly into H1’s global platform.Defacto will operate directly within H1; co-founders Ron Urwongse and Tarun
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