Healthcare executives often evaluate artificial intelligence with a familiar checklist: model accuracy, integration effort, implementation time, and license cost. That list omits the expense that determines whether an administrative AI project creates capacity or creates another system to supervise. The missing line item is exception handling.
The demand is real. In its 2026 Physician Survey on Augmented Intelligence, the American Medical Association reported that 81 percent of respondents
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Vera Health Raises $28.5M for Clinical AI Search Engine: Surpasses 800,000 Global Physician Users
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Clinical artificial intelligence search platform Vera Health announced the closing of a $28.5 million Series A funding round led by Threshold Ventures.The financing included participation from Mantis VC and SV Angel, with existing institutional backers Y Combinator and Gradient tripling down on their initial investments, bringing total capitalization to $32M.Operates at high capital and workforce efficiency: with an engineering and clinical team of only 12 employees, the
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AI Won’t Break Healthcare Payments. Poor Infrastructure Will
Every executive discussion about AI eventually arrives at risk. Will AI make the wrong decision? Will it create new security vulnerabilities? Will it introduce compliance challenges that organizations aren't prepared to manage?
Those are important questions. But when it comes to payments, they're often not the first questions organizations should be asking. The bigger issue is that many organizations are layering AI on top of payment infrastructures that were never designed for the speed,
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MDX Hawai’i Partners with Innovaccer to Deploy Atlas Across 6,000 Independent Clinicians
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Leading healthcare intelligence and AI infrastructure company Innovaccer announced that MDX Hawai’i has selected Innovaccer as its enterprise technology partner for population health management.MDX Hawai’i operates as the state's premier independent practice association (IPA) and management services organization (MSO), serving for 40 years as the primary operational link between commercial/Medicare health plans and community providers across the Hawaiian Islands.The
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Hospitals Need Authority Maps for AI Agents
Hospitals are beginning to give AI systems something more consequential than the ability to generate text: permission to act. That shift is already underway. A September 2026 survey of 250 U.S. healthcare leaders found that 28% of organizations had agentic AI in production and another 44% were piloting it, while 72% reported AI tools or agents deployed without formal IT approval. The problem is no longer simply whether a hospital has an AI governance committee. Health systems need to know, agent
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Clinisys Unveils AI Innovation Roadmap: Introducing CLS MCP, No-Code Workflows, and Specialized Laboratory Agents
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Global laboratory informatics provider Clinisys officially unveiled its AI Innovation Roadmap, establishing an open, governed platform strategy designed to embed artificial intelligence, analytics, and workflow automation into routine laboratory operations.The roadmap articulates a compounding evolutionary progression that advances laboratory informatics across four distinct architectural phases: from a System of Record to a System of Workflow, a System of Intelligence,
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ONC Finalizes HTI-5 Deregulatory Rule to Cut $1.55B in Health IT Compliance and Accelerate FHIR APIs
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially released the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: ONC Deregulatory Actions to Unleash Prosperity (HTI-5) Final Rule.Directly implements the administration’s regulatory reform directives under Executive Order 14192 (Unleashing Prosperity through Deregulation) and Executive Order 14267 (Reducing Anti-Competitive
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Evolving the EHR from a System of Record to a System of Action
The EHR is poised to evolve from its original role as a place to store patient information. The next step is for it to take a more active role in the patient care journey.
As more of the journey becomes digitized, the EHR can help move work forward by connecting workflows, surfacing what needs attention, and using AI to reduce administrative burden. This shifts the EHR from a system of record to a system of action.
In ambulatory care, that shift has practical implications. Scheduling,
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Rezilient Health Appoints Workplace Health Veteran Lisa Ness as Chief Revenue Officer
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Rezilient Health announced that Lisa Ness, MBA, RD, CDE, has joined the executive leadership team as Chief Revenue Officer.Lisa Ness brings more than three decades of enterprise healthcare experience, having previously held senior commercial growth roles at QuadMed, CareATC, Proactive MD, Premise Health, and Pfizer.In her new capacity, Ness will direct Rezilient’s commercial growth strategy, expanding national distribution across self-funded employers, benefits broker
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symplr Launches AI-Powered Time and Scheduling to Unify Workforce Operations
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Healthcare operations and enterprise software provider symplr officially launched symplr Time and Scheduling, introducing an integrated workforce management platform that merges AI-driven scheduling with complex healthcare timekeeping.The new platform integrates predictive scheduling algorithms with complex healthcare timekeeping into a single architecture, enabling nurse managers to forecast and resolve staffing deficits hundreds of days in advance while cutting the time
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