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LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced that its Identity Proofing for MyChart solution is now officially available within the Epic Toolbox Program under the Identity Verification for MyChart Category.The designated toolbox status validates that the software aligns directly with Epic technical blueprints, architectural standards, and implementation best practices, offering health system IT teams a standardized, repeatable deployment framework.Pre-built integration is
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Ferry Health Emerges from Stealth with $9M to Automate Patient Appointment Scheduling
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Ferry Health emerged from stealth, securing $9M in seed funding to deploy an autonomous, agentic AI personal assistant that handles complex healthcare logistics for patients.The seed financing round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Index Ventures, with participation from Avid Ventures, Layout Ventures, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Asymmetric Capital Partners, and prominent angel investors including Jay Desai (co-founder of Bamboo Health) and the founders of Grow
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Datavant Secures Minority Investment from Neuberger and KKR to Accelerate Health Data Collaboration
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Healthcare data collaboration platform Datavant announced that investment funds managed by Neuberger Capital Solutions, Neuberger Private Markets, and KKR have agreed to acquire a significant minority stake in the company.Long-term healthcare private equity sponsor New Mountain Capital, which has been an investor in Datavant since 2014, will retain its majority control position.The transaction expands the capital structure supporting the nation’s largest health data
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Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center Installs U.S. First Philips Rembra CT
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Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center (SMRMC) in McComb, Mississippi—the flagship hub of Southwest Health—announced on September 17, 2026, that it has completed the first U.S. clinical installation of the Philips Rembra CT system.The FDA 510(k)-cleared CT scanner is engineered specifically for acute, trauma, and high-demand emergency departments to accelerate patient throughput and reduce table time.The system features a largest-in-class 85 cm bore, facilitating
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Why Calibrated Uncertainty and Deliberate Abstention Drive True Clinical AI Adoption
Most teams building AI systems treat confidence as a solved problem. The model produces a probability, the interface displays it, and the reliability requirement gets checked off. Within weeks, the number becomes furniture. Anyone who has watched a clinician work through a queue of suggested codes, each stamped with a confidence percentage, knows the pattern: when the scores cluster near the top of the range, a 92 gives the reviewer little more reason to act than an 89, and they fall back on
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R1 Unveils Phare Utilization Management on Phare OS to Eliminate Medical Necessity Denials
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Healthcare revenue cycle management leader R1 announced the launch of Phare Utilization Management (Phare UM), an AI-enabled solution moving hospital utilization management from retrospective chart auditing to proactive, real-time decisioning.The Guthrie Clinic—a non-profit, integrated health system serving northern Pennsylvania and upstate New York—is among the first health systems to deploy Phare UM across its acute care operations.Built directly on Phare OS, R1’s core
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Healthcare’s Cyber Playbook Was Built for Another Era. Here’s How Leaders Can Adapt
Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in cybersecurity over the past decade. Yet many of the assumptions those programs were built upon—how quickly threats emerge, where risks originate, and how disruption unfolds—are increasingly being challenged by artificial intelligence (AI), digital care delivery, and growing ecosystem interdependence.
The challenge is no longer simply protecting data or preventing breaches. It is ensuring organizations can continue delivering care when
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M&A: MRO Acquires Vyne Medical to Expand Intelligent Healthcare Intake Automation
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Healthcare clinical data management leader MRO announced it acquired Vyne Medical, a specialist in healthcare data intake and intelligent document processing (IDP) serving more than 800 hospitals nationwide.The transaction scales MRO’s enterprise market footprint to serve more than 2,500 hospitals and 35,000 ambulatory clinics, creating a unified clinical data pipeline across the patient encounter lifecycle.Vyne Medical specializes in converting unstructured
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Cedar Gate Survey Reveals 83% of Health Plans Miss VBC Outcomes Due to Fragmented Data
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A national research study conducted by Wakefield Research for Cedar Gate Technologies (an IQVIA business) surveyed 100 senior U.S. health plan executives (VP level and above) across actuarial science, clinical operations, VBC strategy, and IT.The Adoption-Performance Paradox: 83% of payer executives report they are not achieving the cost and quality outcomes they expected from value-based care (VBC), yet 72% intend to continue or expand their alternative payment
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Rutgers, RWJBarnabas Health, and AWS Launch Innovation Hub at HELIX
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Rutgers University and RWJBarnabas Health—New Jersey’s largest academic health system spanning 14 hospitals and over 5 million annual patients—have partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch the Rutgers/RWJBarnabas Health Innovation Hub.Housed inside the Health and Life Science Exchange (HELIX) in New Brunswick, N.J., which serves as the physical home for the unified Rutgers School of Medicine (merging Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical
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