What You Should Know:
- Talkdesk, a global leader in AI-powered customer experience (CX) solutions, today announced new enhancements to its Talkdesk Healthcare Experience Cloud™ that further integrate its platform with EHR provider Epic.
- The latest innovation embeds Talkdesk's agent tools and call controls directly into Epic, creating a unified and streamlined experience for healthcare contact center agents.
Epic Integration Streamlines Agent Workflows and Improve Patient
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AI-Powered Monitoring Meets 24/7 Virtual Care: BioIntelliSense and Hicuity Health Collaboration
What You Should Know:
- BioIntelliSense, a leader in continuous health monitoring and clinical intelligence, and Hicuity Health, a leading provider of tech-enabled virtual care services, today announced a strategic partnership to offer fully managed, end-to-end continuous patient monitoring to hospitals and health systems.
- This partnership addresses critical infrastructure and staffing challenges faced by hospitals and health systems, empowering them to deploy proven, scalable monitoring
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Enlitic and GE Healthcare Partner to Streamline AI-Powered Medical Imaging Migrations
What You Should Know:
- Enlitic, Inc., a provider of healthcare imaging data solutions, and GE Healthcare, a global medical technology innovator announced a strategic collaboration to simplify and accelerate AI-driven medical imaging migrations for healthcare providers.
- The partnership will leverage Enlitic's expertise in data migration and GE Healthcare's advanced imaging solutions to enable a smoother transition to next-generation technologies.
The Need for Efficient
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How AI Is Reshaping Healthcare for Patients & Providers
Imagine refilling a prescription, getting real-time health advice, and managing chronic conditions — all with the help of AI. The future of healthcare is here, and it’s powered by artificial intelligence.
As AI technology becomes more integrated into healthcare, hospitals and pharmacies are exploring new ways to improve patient outcomes, optimize operations, and ease administrative burdens. AI is also helping the industry address the generational shift in healthcare preferences, where
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Solving the Physician Shortage: A Sustainable Long-Term Solution
The United States is currently grappling with a significant issue in the healthcare sector: a severe shortage of physicians. According to McKinsey & Company, by the end of 2024, the country faced a deficit of as many as 64,000 physicians. Current projections suggest that this shortfall could grow to 86,000 by 2036.
This shortage is primarily driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has exacerbated pre-existing burnout among physicians and led to an unprecedented exodus from the clinical
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Donate Life America and Epic Bring Organ Donor Registration to MyChart
What You Should Know:
- Epic, an electronic health record (EHR) provider, and Donate Life America (DLA), a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing organ, eye, and tissue donation, today announced a new collaboration to simplify organ donor registration.
- This partnership will allow patients to register their decision to be an organ donor directly through their MyChart accounts.
Addressing the Organ Shortage
The need for organ donors is critical, with
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5 Key Trends Shaping the Future of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitative Care in 2025
Physical therapy (PT) and rehabilitation care are areas of healthcare delivery prime for the adoption of technology solutions that can augment the reach of clinicians, fill key gaps across the care continuum, and improve patient outcomes. Following a few years of significant advancements in technology built to enable and uplevel clinicians in this field, Here are five key trends poised to transform rehabilitative care in 2025 and beyond.
1. Bridging the mind-body divide: Physical injury and
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VoiceCare AI Launches with $3.85M to Automate Healthcare Back Office with AI-Powered Voice Agent “Joy”
What You Should Know:
- VoiceCare AI, a healthcare technology company specializing in generative AI solutions emerges from stealth with a $3.85M seed funding round led by Caduceus Capital Partners, with participation from Bread and Butter Ventures.
- The funding will support the company's mission to automate back-office conversations in healthcare, freeing up administrative staff and improving operational efficiency.
AI-Powered Voice Agent "Joy" to Streamline Back-Office
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Lincata Integrates with Epic’s MyChart Bedside for Enhanced Smart Room Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- Lincata, a provider of in-room connectivity solutions for healthcare launches LincTV, a groundbreaking device that transforms standard hospital televisions into interactive patient care hubs.
- Available now in the Epic Toolbox, LincTV seamlessly integrates with Epic's MyChart Bedside, providing patients with access to a wealth of information and services directly from their hospital beds.
LincTV operates much like popular streaming devices, plugging
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Nearly Half of Healthcare Organizations Suffered a Third-Party Security Incident in Past Year
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- Imprivata, a digital identity company, today released a new global research report conducted in collaboration with the Ponemon Institute. The report, titled "The State of Third-Party Access in Cybersecurity," reveals that third-party data breaches continue to pose a significant threat to organizations worldwide.
- The study, which surveyed nearly 2,000 IT security practitioners across various industries, found that 47% of organizations experienced a data
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