For years, healthcare organizations have pursued IT cost optimization through familiar tactics: renegotiating contracts, extending hardware refresh cycles, consolidating vendors, and managing cloud spending. Those efforts can produce incremental savings, yet many organizations find themselves confronting the same financial pressures a few years later. The larger challenge is often architectural.
Increasingly, healthcare organizations are discovering that the design of their IT operating
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AKASA Launches Autonomous Mid-Cycle AI for Inpatient Coding and CDI
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Healthcare revenue cycle generative AI company AKASA announced the commercial launch of its autonomous AI platform for the revenue cycle mid-cycle, expanding beyond AI-powered prebill review into fully autonomous execution for inpatient medical coding and clinical documentation integrity (CDI).Addresses the most complex, resource-intensive operational bottleneck in acute care: while human medical coders typically require 30 to 60 minutes per inpatient chart (with
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Most Healthcare Is Local: Connecting Epic with Regional Health Information Exchanges
Imagine a patient who arrives at the hospital for a transplant evaluation. She’s been treated at three different health systems over the past two years, seen specialists across the region, and filled prescriptions at pharmacies in two states. Her oncology navigator needs a complete picture of her care history before tomorrow morning’s appointment. Some of that data lives in our EHR. A lot of it doesn’t.
This is the reality at a tertiary and quaternary referral center. Patients arrive from
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M&A: Grindr Acquires PurposeMed for $250M to Build Full-Stack “Grindr Health” Telehealth Rail
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Social networking platform Grindr Inc. announced an agreement to acquire PurposeMed Inc., the parent company of virtual HIV-prevention platform Freddie, for an upfront base purchase price of $250M ($190M in cash and $60M in Grindr common stock), with up to $70M in additional performance-based cash earnouts tied to fiscal year 2027 targets payable in 2028.The transaction marks Grindr’s first major acquisition since its founding in 2009, scheduled to close in the fourth
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Tiny Health Secures $33M to Scale Microbiome Intelligence Platform Across Lifespan
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Microbiome intelligence and precision diagnostics platform Tiny Health announced the completion of an oversubscribed $33 million Series B financing round led by B Capital, bringing the company’s total cumulative funding to $46M.The financing syndicate included participation from existing investors—Spero Ventures, The Venture City, and Overwater Ventures—alongside new institutional backers including Black Opal Ventures, Denver Ventures, Pave Health Ventures, Alumni
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Avatar Medical Launches Epic EHR Integration for Real-Time 3D Surgical Planning and Patient Consultations
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Medical visualization company Avatar Medical announced that its flagship software, Avatar Medical Vision, can now be launched natively from within Epic’s EHR.The integration enables attending physicians and surgeons to transition from a patient’s active clinical record directly into interactive, patient-specific 3D anatomical models in a few clicks, carrying patient context automatically to eliminate manual imaging searches, credential logins, and duplicate data entry.The
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Sollis Health Decennial Report Decodes the Hidden Cost of Healthcare Waiting Rooms
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Concierge immediate and urgent care network Sollis Health published a comprehensive decade-long trend study, The Real Cost of Healthcare for Americans, that synthesizes national health economics research with ten years of proprietary internal patient utilization data.Quantifies the macroeconomic "Time Tax" across U.S. healthcare delivery: travel and waiting times alone cost American patients and employers an estimated $89 billion in lost economic value annually.Evaluates
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Kontakt.io Releases Guide to Implementing AI in Healthcare Operations: Predictive Models vs. LLM Hallucinations
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Indoor IoT and healthcare ambient intelligence provider Kontakt.io released an enterprise strategy whitepaper titled The Ultimate Guide to Implementing AI in Healthcare Operations, analyzing real-world implementations, 20+ peer-reviewed studies, and operational telemetry from more than 100 hospital deployments.Documents an adoption paradox across health system IT: while 65% of U.S. hospitals currently utilize predictive AI models (predominantly supplied by incumbent EHR
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From Members to Ecosystems: How Medical Societies Can Steward Specialty Data in the Age of AI
Medical societies hold one of the most valuable and underappreciated assets in healthcare today: specialty clinical data.
Through years of quality reporting, education, and clinical collaboration, many have developed longitudinal, clinically grounded registries that reflect real-world practice. As demand for real-world evidence grows and new analytical capabilities emerge, these datasets are becoming more valuable and increasingly sought after.
Medical societies now face a clear and
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EliseAI Secures $350M to Scale Agentic Workflows Across Healthcare Operations
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Workflow automation company EliseAI announced that it has raised $350M in new financing at a $4B valuation to deepen its operational automation platform across the housing and healthcare industries.The financing was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from major institutional and growth investors including Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Sapphire Ventures, and Navitas Capital.EliseAI’s platform currently powers one in six
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