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Mass General Brigham announced the launch of two clinical trials to evaluate acute, hospital-level care delivered in the home for patients living with dementia and those experiencing primary psychiatric conditions.The dementia trial, funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), is a randomized controlled study enrolling 200 patients followed for one year; it evaluates whether proactive care planning, virtual urgent care, and mobile integrated health paramedics can
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Ambience Healthcare Launches The Ambience Standard, Linking AI Platform Fees Directly to Measurable Clinical and Financial Outcomes
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Ambience Healthcare introduced The Ambience Standard, a partnership and commercial contracting model that ties software fees to verified clinical, operational, and financial outcomes rather than conventional software seats, tokens, or feature consumption.The model embeds forward-deployed teams—comprising practicing clinicians, software engineers, and care transformation and value attainment specialists—directly inside health systems to lead custom workflow integration,
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Oracle Health Launches Automated Coding, Dictation, and AI Chart Review for Clinical AI Agent
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Oracle Health announced major new U.S. capabilities for the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, expanding its multi-agent architecture across ambulatory professional fee coding, clinician-controlled dictation, and EHR chart review.The professional fee coding capability analyzes visit conversations to suggest accurate charge codes directly within the orders workflow, speeding up charge capture and reducing downstream billing rework while keeping final submission approval with
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JD Power Finds Medicare Advantage Satisfaction Drops as Members Demand Patient Advocacy
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Overall customer satisfaction with Medicare Advantage plans dropped 12 points in 2026 to 611 (on a 1,000-point scale), marking a 41-point cumulative decline since 2024 across all measured dimensions of the member experience, according to the JD Power 2026 U.S. Medicare Advantage Study.Fewer than half (43%) of plan members strongly agree that their Medicare Advantage insurer is a trusted partner in their health and wellness.The largest two-year satisfaction declines
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Why Patient Communication Is Healthcare AI’s Next Growth Category
When most people think about artificial intelligence in healthcare, they think about clinical applications, diagnostics, documentation, or administrative automation. Those are important areas of innovation, but after spending the last several years working alongside healthcare practices implementing AI in real-world environments, I've become convinced that one of the biggest opportunities lies elsewhere: patient communication.
Over the past two years, I've had conversations with hundreds of
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Hospitals Are Buying AI Faster Than They Can Govern It. That’s the Real Risk.
Walk any health IT trade show floor and you would think the hard part of healthcare AI is the AI. Smarter models, faster inference, slicker demos. But that is not where this is going to be won or lost. The technology is racing ahead. The governance behind it is not. And that gap, not the algorithms, is the real risk facing health systems right now.
Here is the uncomfortable thesis. Most hospitals are buying AI faster than they can govern it. They can sign the contract in a
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R1 to Acquire Humata Health, Advancing Phare OS with AI-Powered Prior Authorization Automation
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R1 entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Humata Health, an AI-powered prior authorization technology company, to embed agentic, touchless authorization capabilities into R1’s Phare Operating System (Phare OS).The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2026, with the Humata team joining R1’s R37 innovation lab to accelerate agentic AI engineering across the revenue cycle.Prior authorizations remain a top-three driver of hospital claim
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M&A: Trusted Health Acquires ShiftOS to Embed Holly AI Scheduling Agent into Trusted Works Platform
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Trusted Health announced the acquisition of the technology, intellectual property, and assets of ShiftOS, developer of Holly, an AI-native scheduling agent designed for hospitals and complex healthcare workforces.Holly will be integrated directly into Trusted Works, Trusted Health’s staffing and scheduling optimization platform for hospitals and health systems.Unlike traditional scheduling tools that add bolt-on AI features, Holly operates on an agent-first architecture
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The Technical and Operational Realities of TEFCA Adoption
Health systems and Payers have spent two decades and considerable capital wiring themselves to exchange data including bilateral interfaces, regional HIEs, national networks, etc. Yet, they still spend millions annually chasing records by fax, portal, and phone. TEFCA, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, is the first serious attempt to replace that patchwork with a single nationwide operating model: connect once, exchange with everyone, under one set of technical, legal, and
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Labcorp and NACHC Form Alliance to Train CMOs and Leverage CHC Lab Data
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Labcorp and the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) have formed a strategic alliance to advance leadership development, practice improvement, and clinical outcomes across U.S. Community Health Centers (CHCs).The collaboration introduces the NACHC Leadership Exchange for Chief Medical Officers (CMOs), an executive development and peer-mentorship program designed to strengthen clinical and operational capabilities for health center leaders.CHCs
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