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Medical AI developer ThinkSono has secured FDA 510(k) clearance for ThinkSono Guidance, the first AI-powered ultrasound guidance software cleared in the U.S. for evaluating suspected lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT).Operating via a mobile app connected to compatible Clarius handheld point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) scanners, the system enables non-ultrasound-trained healthcare staff to capture clinical-grade vascular compression cine-loops after 60 to 90 minutes
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OBBBA Requirements | Behavioral Health Clinics Must Modernize Their Technology Now
The implementation of the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) left community clinics that rely on Medicaid patients at a critical juncture. The bill introduced new policy variables that will affect clinics unevenly across the country, with facilities in Medicaid expansion states likely to experience a more pronounced impact.
CEOs and leadership teams face significant decisions. What are the bill’s most pressing provisions? How are Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states affected
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Counsel Health Launches Counsel Studio to Bring Physician-Supervised Medical AI to Enterprise Apps
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Counsel Health launched Counsel Studio, a white-label deployment platform allowing health plans, health systems, and consumer health apps to embed AI-enabled, physician-supervised primary care directly into existing digital interfaces.The platform powers virtual care capabilities for partners like ŌURA, enabling Oura Members to transition from biometric health insights to direct physician consultations within the Oura App.Enterprise deployment supports flexible
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How is Technology Reshaping Patient Care Across the Industry?
Healthcare isn't what it used to be. When you enter a clinic today, it’s common to see a doctor with a tablet in hand, or a nurse with a computer updating records, as a patient pulls up important lab results via their cellphone. All of it is the result of technology slowly weaving itself into nearly every part of patient care.
What's interesting is that the goal hasn't really changed. It has been to provide better care for patients and will stay the same. But the way we get there
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Sheba Medical Center Partners with OpenAI in First International ChatGPT for Healthcare Deployment
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Israel’s Sheba Medical Center (ranked among Newsweek's World's Best Hospitals for 8 consecutive years) has entered an official partnership with OpenAI to execute the first global, hospital-wide rollout of ChatGPT for Healthcare.Gives physicians, nurses, researchers, and operational staff access to generative AI models pre-calibrated to synthesize peer-reviewed medical literature, clinical guidelines, and internal hospital protocols with full, verifiable citations.Led by
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Procode Secures $10M to Scale AI-Powered Surgical Revenue Cycle Management
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AI-powered medical billing firm Procode Inc. announced a $10M Series A funding round led by Health Velocity Capital, bringing total venture funding to $14M.Funds two upcoming acquisitions of private practice billing agencies, mirroring its rollout following the acquisition of The Auctus Group (serving over 350 plastic surgery and dermatology providers).Combines Procode (automated CPT/ICD coding copilot), Procollect (billing team OS for AR acceleration), and the Auctus
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The Silent Signals of Burnout: What Workplaces Miss About Employee Mental Health
The Federal Aviation Administration restricts how long commercial pilots can be in the air, mandates minimum rest between flights, and caps hours flown per month and per year. The science of fatigue played a large role in the development of these rules to protect pilots.
Fatigue isn’t the only factor in a pilot’s mental well-being. Imagine if, just before a long flight, they learned their best friend died. That kind of news could raise a person’s stress response in a measurable way.
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Nabla Launches On-Device Clinical Dictation App Native to macOS and Integrated with Epic
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Nabla has launched Nabla Dictation for Mac, an AI-native clinical speech-to-text application engineered specifically to run locally on Apple Silicon hardware.Rebuilt using Swift and Apple’s Core ML Tools, the platform executes speech activation, speech-to-text, and medical vocabulary post-processing on the Apple Neural Engine—eliminating cloud token costs, network latency, and server-side audio processing.Integrates natively into Epic workflows (including Epic Hyperdrive
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We Spent a Decade Filling EHRs. It’s Time to Make Them Pay Us Back.
A few years ago, a physician I worked with told me that her young daughter had started greeting her at the door with a question: “Mommy, how many charts do you have to finish today?” Her daughter had learned that the higher the number, the less of her mother she was going to get that night.
That story has stayed with me through more than two decades in clinical informatics, because it captures something the data has been telling us for years. Recent research from the American Medical
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Oxford Spinout Mirae Secures $5.4M to Scale AI Chronic Care Platform
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AI-driven continuous care platform Mirae has officially launched with $5.4M in funding led by Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE).Built directly on computational health research from the University of Oxford’s Computational Health Informatics Lab, co-founded by Dr. David Clifton and CEO Anuj Patel.Targets inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—a complex autoimmune condition characterized by unpredictable flare-ups, variable treatment responses, and high annual medical
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