For children with special health care needs, the line between stability and crisis is razor-thin. A quiet day at home can quickly spiral into an unplanned hospital admission. Even during moments of calm, families live with constant anxiety that a small change in condition could trigger the next emergency.
It shouldn’t be that way.
Time at home should be safe and supported, not a fragile pause between hospitalizations. Yet today’s healthcare system still defaults to crisis response,
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Aeroflow Health and Molina Launch Virtual Diabetes Care Program in South Carolina
What You Should Know:
- Aeroflow Health has launched a statewide partnership with Molina Healthcare of South Carolina to expand access to virtual nutrition counseling and diabetes self-management education (DSME) for Commercial and Medicare members.
- The initiative is built to dismantle persistent access barriers by offering evidence-based metabolic and nutrition care at little to no cost, delivered entirely through Aeroflow’s virtual infrastructure.
Virtual program expands
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Atalan and Bon Secours Mercy Health Partner to Bridge Clinician Retention and Patient Experience with AI
What You Should Know:
- Atalan, the creator of the first Clinical Retention Intelligence (CRI) platform, has formed a strategic partnership with Accrete Health Partners, the venture arm of Bon Secours Mercy Health, to launch a new AI module called Atalan PX.
- The strategic collaboration aims to solve the critical disconnect between workforce stability and patient satisfaction by unifying fragmented data streams into a single platform for actionable insights. Following a successful
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Streamlining Discharge: WellSky Integrates 130,000 Providers Directly into Epic Case Management
What You Should Know:
- WellSky has announced that its CarePort Community Referral Network is now officially part of the Epic Toolbox, allowing Epic users to initiate referrals to over 130,000 post-acute providers without leaving their EHR interface.
- The integration streamlines discharge planning by replacing manual phone calls and faxes with a standardized, electronic workflow that boasts an average provider response time of just 24 minutes. The move signifies a major step
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athenahealth Partners with Microsoft to Embed Dragon Copilot in athenaOne EHR
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth, a leading provider of network-enabled software and services for healthcare practices and systems nationwide, today announced a partnership with Microsoft.
- Microsoft Dragon Copilot is joining athenahealth’s Ambient Notes, a fully-integrated AI-driven ambient solution that simplifies documentation for ambulatory clinicians.
A new chapter in ambient clinical documentation
Since its founding in 1997, athenahealth has focused on reducing complexity
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AngelEye Health Raises $9M Series C to Bring AI-Driven Insights to the NICU
What You Should Know:
- AngelEye Health secures $9M Series C funding round led by Mountain Group Partners, with strategic investment from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a new debt facility from Live Oak Bank.
- The capital will fuel the commercial launch of AIVision, an AI-driven monitoring tool designed to provide earlier safety insights for neonatal care teams. Currently serving over 350 hospitals and 20% of NICU families in the U.S., AngelEye is pivoting from family
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Sword Health Launches MindEval: The First Clinical Benchmark for AI in Mental Health
What You Should Know:
- Sword Health has unveiled MindEval, the industry's first benchmark designed to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) based on American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines and realistic, multi-turn conversations.
- The initial study of 12 leading models revealed significant deficiencies in clinical safety and effectiveness, particularly as conversations lengthened or symptoms became severe. By open-sourcing this tool, Sword Health aims to establish a
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Report: 52% of Healthcare Email Breaches Involve Microsoft 365 as “Silent Fallback” Exposes Patient Data
What You Should Know:
- A new report from Paubox reveals that email remains the number one source of HIPAA breaches, with 107 incidents reported in the first half of 2025 alone.
- The analysis identifies a critical flaw in popular platforms like Microsoft 365, which prioritize message delivery over security, often stripping encryption without alerting the sender. With the OCR proposing to upgrade encryption from an "addressable" to a "required" safeguard, healthcare organizations
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The Organ Shortage Solution: Why Living Kidney Donation is Better Than Waiting for Xenotransplantation
Over 100,000 Americans are currently waiting for an organ transplant, and over 85% of those are in need of a kidney. As the demand for organ transplants continues to far outpace supply, increasing the number of organ donations remains an urgent priority. Most people are familiar with checking the box on their driver’s license, opting in to become an organ donor after death; but few realize that only three in 1,000 people pass away in circumstances that make organ
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Momentum Launches ‘Open Wearables’: The First Open-Source API Unifying 200+ Health Devices
What You Should Know:
- Momentum has launched Open Wearables, the industry’s first open-source platform designed to unify data from over 200 wearable devices—including Apple Health and Garmin—into a single, developer-friendly API.
- The new infrastructure eliminates the need for expensive proprietary SaaS aggregators, offering a self-hosted, HIPAA-compliant solution that drastically reduces integration time for healthcare startups. By standardizing data models for AI, Momentum
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