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Middle-market investment banking firm Capstone Partners (a subsidiary of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated) released its September 2026 Healthcare Information Technology (IT) Market Update, documenting an acceleration in healthcare artificial intelligence dealmaking and B2B workflow automation.Overall Healthcare IT merger and acquisition (M&A) deal volume reached 179 announced or completed transactions year-to-date (YTD) 2026 (a 22.6% increase year-over-year),
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M&A: Venture Medical Acquires Wound Care EHR Startup Medipyxis to Unify Clinical Documentation and Billing
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Advanced wound care solutions enterprise Venture Medical, LLC announced the acquisition of Medipyxis, Inc., developer of a purpose-built electronic medical record (EMR) and practice operating system engineered specifically for wound care providers; financial terms were not disclosed.Medipyxis will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Venture Medical, maintaining its standalone platform roadmap under the continued executive leadership of founder Damon Ebanks, who will
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PHTI Survey Reveals Majority of Employers and Health Plans Tie Digital Health Payments to Performance
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The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) released its 2026 State of Digital Health Purchasing survey report surveying 321 digital health purchasing decision-makers across U.S. health plans (n=106), employers (n=115), and health systems (n=100) in partnership with KRC Research.The findings demonstrate a structural transition toward risk-bearing procurement, with a majority of commercial purchasers—including 68% of employers and 55% of commercial health plans
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Basalt Health Raises $20M to Scale Post-Acute AI Transition Platform Across 111 Markets
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Basalt Health, an AI-driven platform automating patient transitions and admissions into post-acute care facilities, raises $20M Series A financing round, bringing its cumulative capital raised to $24.5M.The financing was led by return investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with continued participation from healthcare venture funds Frist Cressey Ventures (FCV) and 25m Health (the healthcare venture studio of 25madison, backed by Apollo Global Management).The technology
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CancerIQ Expands Native Epic Integrations to Automate Cancer Screening and Survivorship Across 275 Clinics
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Precision oncology and cancer risk intelligence platform CancerIQ announced a major architectural upgrade to its Epic Systems integrations, introducing a redesigned patient experience via Risk Hub and a consolidated provider application deployed natively inside Epic workflows.Built natively on the HL7 FHIR R4 interoperability standard, the provider integration enables chart-aware risk assessment that automatically pulls existing clinical variables from Epic—including
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Everlywell Appoints Chief Commercial and Product Officers to Expand Payer Diagnostic Care Platforms
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Diagnostics and virtual care platform Everlywell announced the strategic expansion of its enterprise executive leadership team, appointing Charles Cuzzell as Chief Commercial Officer and Mike Considine as Chief Product Officer.Cuzzell will oversee enterprise sales, strategic health plan partnerships, account management, and customer success, while Considine will direct enterprise product architecture, digital design, and clinical UX across the company’s diagnostic and
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Oracle Health Partners with ID.me to Embed Reusable Digital Identity Across Patient Portals and EPCS
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Oracle Health and digital identity network ID.me announced a strategic enterprise partnership at the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit in Orlando, Florida, natively embedding ID.me’s high-assurance verification infrastructure into Oracle Health’s clinical and operational software portfolio.The collaboration addresses two critical healthcare access bottlenecks: eliminating repetitive paper intake workflows for patients at the digital front door and automating identity
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Ensemble Health Partners with Penelope to Shift Real-Time Policy Intelligence Upstream
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End-to-end revenue cycle management leader Ensemble Health Partners announced at its Healthcare Leadership Exchange, a strategic enterprise partnership with Penelope Health ("Penelope"), a real-time healthcare policy intelligence platform.The collaboration natively embeds Penelope’s structured clinical policy engine directly into Ensemble’s proprietary revenue cycle intelligence layer, shifting policy and medical necessity verification upstream before clinical care is
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Trilliant Health Launches Oria AI Strategist to Replace Manual Healthcare Advisory
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Healthcare market intelligence and analytics firm Trilliant Health announced the commercial launch of the premium version of Oria, an enterprise AI Strategist engineered to deliver market-specific strategic planning on demand.The release directly challenges traditional management consulting economics, citing a peer-reviewed JAMA study revealing that U.S. nonprofit hospitals spent at least $7.8 billion on management consultants over roughly a decade with zero measurable
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America’s Elder-Care Crisis Has Arrived. We’re Not Ready.
For years, America has talked about the aging population as a problem we will need to solve somewhere down the road. That framing is outdated. The crisis is already here.
The population of older adults grew 13% between 2020 and 2024, far faster than the working-age population. There are over 61 million older adults in the United States. By 2030, every Baby Boomer will be at least 65 years old.
After decades in healthcare, I have seen how quickly demographic trends become realities
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