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Ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) and practice management leader athenahealth launches athenaPatient MCP, an enterprise server integration built on the open Model Context Protocol (MCP).The infrastructure allows patients to connect their official electronic health record directly to Anthropic’s Claude, enabling conversational interpretation grounded in verified clinical history.The launch responds to changing patient behaviors highlighted by an August 2026 Pew
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TailorMed Secures Majority Private Equity Investment: Expanding AI-Driven Pharmacy Access
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Medication access and financial assistance technology leader TailorMed announced that it has secured a majority private equity investment from New York-based GrowthCurve Capital.GrowthCurve Capital focuses on accelerating middle-market technology enterprises by operationalizing artificial intelligence, product engineering, and unlocking proprietary datasets.The transaction positions TailorMed to scale its AI-enabled software portfolio and expand distribution across
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Hippocratic AI Unveils Polaris 6 Ultra to Deliver Real-Time Bedside Intuition in Autonomous Voice Care
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Healthcare conversational intelligence provider Hippocratic AI announced the official release of Polaris 6 Ultra, its next-generation frontier language model engineered specifically for clinical voice interactions.The model introduces real-time "bedside intuition," generating unspoken planning spans mid-speech to assess a patient's emotional resistance and adapt conversational pacing without audible conversational pauses.The system is trained on an empirical dataset
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Glooko Launches EndoTool IV Cloud: Patient-Specific Glycemic Management for Hospitals
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Digital health and chronic condition management company Glooko announced the commercial availability of Glooko EndoTool IV Cloud in the United States.The solution represents the cloud-native, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) evolution of EndoTool, Glooko’s FDA 510(k)-cleared inpatient intravenous (IV) insulin clinical decision support platform.The platform moves acute care away from static, one-size-fits-all sliding-scale insulin protocols by utilizing a dynamic mathematical
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GE HealthCare Unveils Allia Celeo Ceiling-Mounted Image-Guided System
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GE HealthCare officially introduced Allia Celeo, an advanced ceiling-mounted image-guided therapy system, at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2026 conference in San Diego.The system is engineered specifically for high-throughput interventional cardiology, structural heart, and interventional radiology suites requiring rapid procedural flow and flexible room configuration.Allia Celeo features a slim, symmetrical ceiling gantry with integrated internal
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Mental Health Tech M&A Needs a Consent Continuity Standard
Mental health technology deals are increasingly sold on continuity. A larger platform can offer more providers, more forms of care, and fewer disruptions when a patient changes jobs, insurance, or treatment needs. That promise is compelling. It also creates a data governance problem that is easy to miss during integration.
When two platforms combine, the transaction may bring together therapy records, assessment responses, care navigation history, claims, wearable streams, voice data,
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Medicare Fraud Has an AI Problem. So Does Healthcare Compliance
For years, healthcare organizations have approached Medicare fraud and billing compliance as primarily a retrospective exercise. Claims are submitted, payments are made, audits follow, and organizations investigate problems after they surface.
That model is becoming increasingly unsustainable.
The federal government is moving toward a more aggressive approach to Medicare program integrity, using data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning to spot suspicious billing
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Nearly 1 in 8 U.S. Private Hospitals Are Now Owned by Private Equity
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The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) released an updated edition of its Private Equity Hospital Tracker in late October 2026, revealing that private equity firms now own nearly one in eight private hospitals in the United States.The update was triggered by the $3.9 billion acquisition of Select Medical by an investment consortium that includes private equity sponsor Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS).The total count of private equity-owned hospitals
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Why the RPG Skills Gap Is Healthcare’s True Cybersecurity Blind Spot
Here’s a plausible scenario from the not-so-distant future. It’s 2 a.m. on a holiday weekend, and a hospital’s claims or records system throws an error. This is mission-critical infrastructure we’re talking about, and these systems process mountains of personally identifiable information every hour of every day. Night staff at the security operations center need to know: Is this just a routine glitch or is there an active breach? However, there’s only one person who knows the answer — and she
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Wrapped Health Raises $2.1M to Embed Agentic Commerce and FSA/HSA Purchasing in the EHR
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Washington, D.C.-based digital infrastructure startup Wrapped Health announced the closing of a $2.1M pre-seed financing round co-led by Lightbank and Arteria Capital, the specialized healthcare AI venture fund established by former Headspace CEO Russell Glass.The company will deploy the new capital to expand its core product and engineering teams, scale integrations across major electronic health record (EHR) platforms, and deepen commercial distribution with hospital
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