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Global digital, cloud, and AI services company Mastek has joined Innovaccer’s Platinum Global Systems Integrator (GSI) program, committing to Innovaccer's Gravity platform for large-scale enterprise deployments.The partnership bridges Innovaccer’s healthcare AI and data infrastructure with Mastek’s operational footprint across 40+ countries, accelerating expansion into the US, UK, Europe, and Middle East.Mastek will implement and localize Innovaccer’s full suite of
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Assort Health Launches AI Agent to Automate End-to-End Referral Conversion
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Assort Health announced the general availability of Referrals, an AI agent purpose-built to automate inbound specialty referral processing, provider matching, and appointment booking.The agent identifies a better-fit provider than the one originally designated in 50% of inbound referrals, optimizing clinical alignment and reducing patient wait times.Powered by Assort's proprietary Synapse model, the agent extracts and structures data from e-faxes, scanned PDFs, EHR feeds,
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Cityblock Health Expands Humana Partnership to Serve 20,000 North Carolina Medicare Advantage Members
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Cityblock Health announced a major expansion in North Carolina to deliver its 24/7 wrap-around care model to nearly 20,000 Humana Medicare Advantage and dual-eligible beneficiaries across 50 counties.Effective July 1, 2026, the partnership supports complex, hard-to-reach populations, including Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) members, partial dual-eligibles, and Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) recipients.Cityblock's model provides 24/7 in-person and virtual care
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How athenaOne’s Native Ambient AI Saves Two Workdays Monthly Per Clinician
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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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