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athenahealth announced the broad deployment of AI-native capabilities across its athenaOne network, extending native ambient features to over 170,000 physicians and clinicians.The core innovation, athenaAmbient, is built directly into athenaOne at no extra charge, capturing patient encounters to generate draft notes, suggested diagnoses, orders, and care-gap alerts.Network results since late 2025 show a reduction of nearly six minutes per patient encounter in chart
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Oracle Health Launches EHR-Integrated AI Assistant for Plain-Language Records
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The AI-powered Oracle Health Patient Portal is now generally available across the United States.The solution integrates directly into the Oracle Health Electronic Health Record (EHR), allowing patients to view summaries, medical histories, lab trends, and pending tasks in one secure environment.Embedded, context-aware AI translates complex medical documentation, diagnoses, lab results, and treatment options into plain, accessible language.Patients can manage scheduling
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Function Partners with NYU Grossman School of Medicine for Longitudinal AI Disease Detection
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Function announced a research collaboration with NYU Grossman School of Medicine (part of NYU Langone Health) focused on developing next-generation AI models for early, preventive disease detection.The initiative pairs NYU Grossman's deep, longitudinal clinical and treatment dataset with Function's broad, multimodal health monitoring pipeline—ingesting routine biomarker labs and advanced imaging scans before and after disease onset.Initial clinical focus areas target
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Ubie Announces Smart Support as a Qualified Solution on Mayo Clinic Platform
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Healthcare AI leader Ubie announced that its patient access tool, Smart Support, has earned official qualification on Mayo Clinic Platform.Smart Support applies protocol-based clinical reasoning at the front door to evaluate urgency, clinical specialty, and visit type across phone calls, web chat, and patient portal messages before a patient is routed or scheduled.Mayo Clinic Platform's qualification process evaluated Smart Support's intended use, proposed clinical value,
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M&A: EnableComp Acquires Helix Advisory to Advance Complex Revenue Recovery Platform
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Complex RCM leader EnableComp announced its acquisition of Cincinnati-based revenue recovery firm Helix Advisory.The acquisition expands EnableComp's Zero Balance Review capabilities, integrating underpayment recovery directly into the same platform used for complex claims and denials.Helix Advisory's technology adds three specific capabilities: detecting underpayments outside traditional rules-based audit logic, clinical signal detection to flag reimbursement
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Blue Shield of California and Cedars-Sinai Secure 4-Year Network Deal
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Blue Shield of California and Cedars-Sinai Health System reached a new four-year long-term agreement, ensuring uninterrupted in-network access for Commercial HMO and PPO members across Southern California.The renewed contract covers major hospital facilities—including Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Marina Del Rey Hospital, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and Huntington Hospital—alongside ambulatory surgery centers, ancillary providers, and associated
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Solving Healthcare’s 97% Data Waste Management Problem
Recycling makes people feel like they are protecting the planet; yet, up to 70 percent of what gets placed in recycling bins still ends up in a landfill. All the well-intentioned sorting results in waste.
Healthcare has built the same system and made the same mistake. The industry has poured billions of dollars into bins like the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), interoperability mandates, and regional exchange networks that
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Atlantic Health and K Health Embed PatientGPT into MyChart
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Atlantic Health partnered with AI care delivery provider K Health to launch Atlantic Health PatientGPT and Atlantic Health Virtual Primary Care, establishing New Jersey's first EHR-integrated AI digital front door.Integrated directly into Atlantic Health's Epic MyChart portal, PatientGPT leverages individual patient medical records to deliver personalized, context-aware health guidance rather than generic search engine results.The platform features direct clinical care
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Carta Healthcare Survey: 81% of Healthcare IT Leaders Say Clinicians Must Control AI
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81% of surveyed CHIME member IT executives consider clinician involvement in the design and deployment of AI "mostly or vitally important," with zero respondents rating it unimportant, according to a Carta Healthcare survey.77% of technology leaders report seeing better clinical and operational outcomes when AI tools operate collaboratively alongside clinicians, and none reported that collaboration failed to help.Executives identify AI hallucination as the primary risk of
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XiFin and Notable Systems Form Strategic Alliance and Announce Series B Investment
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XiFin, Inc. and Notable Systems announced a multi-year strategic alliance to develop and embed purpose-built agentic AI capabilities across the XiFin Empower AI RCM ecosystem.As part of the multi-year alliance, XiFin made a strategic investment in Notable Systems during Notable's Series B financing round.The partnership targets complex billing domains—including diagnostics, outpatient laboratories, specialty pharmacies, and durable medical equipment (DME)—by automating
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