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The News: Nextech has launched Cora Scribe, an AI clinical assistant designed specifically for specialty practices, starting with ophthalmology.The Differentiator: Unlike generic "bolt-on" scribes that generate a summary PDF, Cora Scribe is embedded in the EHR. It streams discrete clinical data directly into specific chart fields in real-time.The Impact: By maintaining a "two-way conversation" with the patient chart, the tool reduces documentation time for both physicians
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Bicycle Health Appoints Rick Dean CEO to Tackle the $214B Opioid Crisis
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The News: Bicycle Health, a leader in virtual opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, has appointed Rick Dean (formerly of OncoHealth) as its new CEO.The Transition: Founder Ankit Gupta, who built the company to serve 50,000 patients across 49 states, will step down to a Board/Advisor role, signaling a shift from "building the product" to "scaling the business."The Stakes: With 9 million Americans suffering from OUD and an annual economic cost of $214 billion, the company is
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Why Healthcare AI Will Fail Without a Strong Provider Data Foundation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading through healthcare at an unprecedented pace, faster than any other wave of health technology adoption. According to a report from Menlo Ventures, the industry has invested over $1.4 billion in AI in 2025, nearly tripling the total investment in 2024. From prior authorization to directory accuracy, AI now sits at the center of each strategic planning and board level conversations across the healthcare ecosystem.
Yet as organizations accelerate AI
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The $20B Opportunity: Transforming Unused Health Data into a Strategic Asset
Healthcare's digital transformation has generated an unprecedented volume of information: 65 zettabytes and counting. Yet despite this abundance of data, most health systems are struggling to translate it into real value. In fact, 97% of existing health data goes unused. The issue is not a lack of data, but the absence of a foundation that makes data trustworthy, connected and ready to act upon.
Solving these long-standing challenges is what will allow data to shift from a liability into one
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Innovaccer and Coforge Partner on G-Forge: A New Center of Excellence for Healthcare AI
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The News: Healthcare AI company Innovaccer has partnered with digital services giant Coforge to launch G-Forge, a joint initiative designed to operationalize AI in healthcare.The Strategy: The partnership combines Innovaccer’s "Gravity" AI infrastructure with Coforge’s implementation muscle, creating a "Healthcare AI Center of Excellence" to bridge the gap between having data and using it.The Focus: The initiative targets the heavy-lifting areas of healthcare operations:
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Suki Selected for athenahealth Preferred Partner Program in Ambient Intelligence
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The News: Suki has been selected as a "Preferred Solution Partner" by athenahealth, effectively giving the ambient AI platform a formal stamp of approval for the network’s 150,000+ providers.The Scale: Suki is already generating 500,000 clinical notes monthly for athenahealth users, with adoption growing 50% in the last six months alone.The Access: Uniquely, the technology is available in two ways: as a standalone app (Suki for Clinicians) or deeply embedded directly into
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Stewardship, Not Surveillance: Bridging the Gap Between Clinical Autonomy and Oversight
The balance between independent medical judgment and organizational governance defines much of modern healthcare’s internal tension, an ongoing challenge born of both inevitable macro factors and, crucially, avoidable workplace conflict. Physicians pursue diagnostic and therapeutic precision through individualized decision-making, while administrative bodies enforce consistency, fiscal accountability, and compliance with regulatory standards.
As healthcare systems grow more complex and
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The Shadow AI Crisis: Why 1 in 5 Healthcare Workers Are Going Rogue with Algorithms
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The Trend: Wolters Kluwer Health report reveals "Shadow AI"—the use of unauthorized AI tools by employees—has permeated healthcare, with nearly 20% of staff admitting to using unvetted algorithms and 40% encountering them.The Motivation: The driver isn't malice, but burnout. Clinicians are turning to these tools to speed up workflows and reduce administrative burden, often because approved enterprise alternatives are missing or inadequate.The Risk: The gap in governance
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The Great Unbundling is Over: Why Healthcare’s “Point Solution” Era is Dead
We have reached point solution fatigue. The future of health care transformation depends on integrated platforms.
Have you ever wondered what happens once a patient’s insurance card is scanned at their doctor’s office? The answer: a lot.
Each time a patient visits a doctor, it sets off a cascade of behind-the-scenes work. These critical “back-of-house” tasks include patient
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The Self-Driving Revenue Cycle: Claim Health Raises $4.4M to Fix Post-Acute Care’s Biggest Bottleneck
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The News: Claim Health has raised a $4.4 million Seed round led by Maverick Ventures to scale its "AI-native" revenue operations platform for post-acute care.The Traction: Since exiting Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, the company has grown revenue 30x in under a year, driven by providers seeking to replace legacy manual workflows.The Tech: The platform offers a "self-driving" revenue cycle—automating everything from patient intake to payment reconciliation—delivering a
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