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Impact Primary Care Network (IPCN), a physician-led, clinically integrated network in Western North Carolina, has partnered with Innovaccer to establish an operational foundation for its care management and population health initiatives.Over nearly two years of deployment, IPCN utilized Innovaccer’s care management solution and population health dashboards to automate patient prioritization, care gap identification, and protocol tracking.The deployment has strengthened
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The Real Reason Investors Are Backing Maternal Health
There’s a reason investors are pouring money into maternal health right now, and it’s not just because it’s the “right thing to do.” It’s because maternal health sits at the intersection of some of the biggest challenges in healthcare today: cost, access, workforce shortages, chronic disease, behavioral health, health equity, and long-term outcomes.
And the numbers are becoming impossible to ignore.
Despite spending more on healthcare than any other developed nation, the United States
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VA Expands Oracle Health EHR Modernization Contract Ceiling to Nearly $27B
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposed a major contract modification to its Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) agreement with Oracle Health, raising the contract ceiling by nearly $17B from almost $10B to approximately $27B, according to FedScoop.The contract modification documents cite "unanticipated complexities" and extensive site-specific customizations that depleted the initial contract ceiling ahead of schedule, with remaining funds projected to
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M&A: Francisco Partners to Acquire Weave in $650M Take-Private Deal
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Weave Communications, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by global technology investment firm Francisco Partners in an all-cash take-private transaction valued at an aggregate equity valuation of approximately $650M.Weave stockholders will receive $7.40 per share in cash, representing an approximate 34% premium over the company’s unaffected closing stock price on August 17, 2026.Upon completion of the transaction, expected in the fourth quarter of
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Mass General Brigham Launches First Home Hospital Trials for Dementia and Behavioral Health
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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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