There is an interesting shift happening in healthcare’s digital transformation efforts. We are no longer simply using software to support clinicians; we are operating within a software-defined clinical environment. Today, clinical workflows, revenue cycles, patient engagement platforms, analytics pipelines, and AI models run on shared digital infrastructure affecting key care outcomes. A radiology model, for example, is not just producing an image; it is feeding clinical decision engines,
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M&A: Globus Medical Acquires Duke Incubator Higgs Boson Health to Expand Surgical Intelligence
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Musculoskeletal technology leader Globus Medical, Inc. announced the acquisition of Higgs Boson Health, a digital healthcare experience company based in Durham, North Carolina, and incubated out of Duke University.Integrates Higgs Boson’s software engineering and artificial intelligence research teams into Globus Medical to develop a seamless, connected digital care environment spanning the entire musculoskeletal patient journey.The acquisition positions Higgs Boson’s
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 Gartner Research: Healthcare Supply Chain Leaders Must Transition to Self-Managing AI Inventory Rooms
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Gartner advises healthcare Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) to replace manual inventory counting and legacy scanning tools with autonomous supply rooms driven by computer vision and artificial intelligence.Garner reveals advances in computer vision, spatial sensing, and workflow automation enable Periodic Automatic Replenishment (PAR) rooms to autonomously monitor inventory levels, predict demand, and trigger reorders with minimal human involvement.Autonomous supply
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Philips Wins $33.7M ARPA-H Award to Scale Autonomous Robotic Thrombectomy
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Philips secured an award of up to $33.7M from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) under its Autonomous Interventions and Robotics (AIR) program, led by Dr. Ileana Hancu.Develops AI-enabled robotic procedure automation and remote-assisted capabilities for endovascular stroke treatment (mechanical thrombectomy) built on the Philips Azurion image-guided therapy platform.The program integrates AI navigation algorithms, robotic catheter control, and
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The Healthcare Experience Is Broken: Why Healthcare Must Rethink the Way Work Gets Done
Every industry reaches a point where incremental improvements are no longer enough. I believe healthcare has reached that point.
In recent decades, we’ve invested heavily in digital transformation. EHRs, patient portals, cloud platforms, and now AI have fundamentally changed what’s possible.
Yet despite extraordinary investment and innovation, many healthcare organizations still wrestle with familiar challenges.
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Metriport Raises $26M to Scale Open-Source Point-of-Care Clinical Intelligence
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Open-source healthcare data infrastructure company Metriport secured $26M in new funding led by TJ Parker, General Partner at Matrix, with participation from ARTIS Ventures and Y Combinator, bringing its total capital raised to $28.4M.The platform eliminates point-of-care blind spots and weeks-long manual chart chasing across hospitals, pharmacies, and outpatient clinics by unifying and deduplicating medical records into a standardized, searchable data model. Replaces
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Trump Administration Deploys $93.3M to Scale Surgical Robotics and Telehealth Across Georgia Rural Hospitals
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The Trump Administration announced a $93.3M federal investment under the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) to expand telehealth, surgical robotics, and modern care models across rural Georgia.Completes Georgia’s $218+ million Year-1 funding commitment under the broader $50 billion federal RHTP framework established by the Working Families Tax Cuts Act.Prepares 87 rural Georgia hospitals to transition toward value-based and total cost of care payment models by
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Savista Acquires ABW Medical to Expand Ambulatory and FQHC Revenue Operations
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Healthcare operations and revenue cycle management (RCM) company Savista has acquired ABW Medical, an ambulatory RCM provider specializing in the non-acute healthcare sector.The transaction expands Savista’s operational footprint into community health centers, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), physician medical groups, management services organizations (MSOs), rural health providers, and virtual care platforms.Integrates ABW Medical’s preferred partner status
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Array Behavioral Care 2026 Report Reveals 95% Clinician Strain Amid False Capacity Confidence
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According to a nationwide survey released by Array Behavioral Care, 100% of hospital and health system leaders believe their behavioral health capacity meets or exceeds current demand, and 83% consider their models sustainable.Yet on the ground, 40% of those same administrators admit their facilities have turned away patients or instituted waitlists over the past year. The strain is acutely felt by clinical staff: 95% of surveyed clinicians report being forced to make
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Hospital Board Safety Can’t Clock Out: In Pursuit of Zero Harm 24/7
Vince Lombardi told his players that perfection is not attainable, but that if you chase it, you can catch excellence. And that’s exactly how to think about approaching safety in healthcare.
The goal of eliminating preventable harm in healthcare may sound like a utopian promise, a slogan on a hospital wall. But patient and employee safety is one of the most urgent and least acknowledged public health crises of our time. It desperately needs attention from hospital
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