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The Launch: Hartford HealthCare (HHC) and clinical AI company K Health have launched PatientGPT, a new AI tool embedded directly within the HHC patient portal and app. It is currently rolling out in a limited beta phase.Fixing the "Dead End": The platform is designed to seamlessly connect patients to actual care. If the AI interaction indicates a need for a provider, patients can instantly connect to HHC 24/7 virtual care or schedule an in-person visit, bridging the gap
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Clinical AI Platform Avo Secures $10M, Announces EBSCO DynaMed Partnership
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The Funding: Clinical AI platform Avo has raised a $10M Series A financing round. The round was led by Noro-Moseley Partners, with participation from AlleyCorp and other strategic investors.The Solution: Avo acts as an intelligent overlay within major EHRs like Epic, athenahealth, and MEDITECH. Using AI copilots (like Chart Assist and Ask Avo), it synthesizes patient data, drafts documentation, and pulls external guidelines directly into the physician's immediate
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IKS Health Acquihires AI Startup ThinkDTM to Transform Patient Access Solutions
What You Should Know
The Deal: Global care enablement leader IKS Health has executed a strategic "acquihire" of ThinkDTM, an AI-native product and digital services company.The Leadership Shuffle: ThinkDTM Founder Tij Bedi is joining the IKS Health C-suite as the new Executive Vice President and General Manager of Patient Access and Innovation. His entire team of AI engineers is coming with him.
Leadership Appointment
Tij Bedi, the Founder of ThinkDTM, is joining IKS Health as the
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Atlantic Health to Deploy Artera’s AI Agents for Colonoscopy Patient Outreach
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The Partnership: Atlantic Health, a not-for-profit health system spanning NJ, PA, and NY, has partnered with Artera to deploy outbound AI Agents for patient communication.Impact: This initiative marks Atlantic Health's first use of an AI Agent for outbound communication to patients, designed to deliver an enhanced consumer experience and help patients better prepare for timely preventative care.
The Agentic Phone Call
Colorectal cancer has a 90%+ survival rate if
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Abbott Integrates Precision Oncology Portfolio into Flatiron Health’s OncoEMR to Streamline Cancer Care
What You Should Know:
Integration: Abbott has partnered with Flatiron Health to natively integrate its Precision Oncology testing portfolio directly into OncoEMR®, Flatiron’s cloud-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform.
Impact: This integration allows oncology providers to order Abbott's specialized cancer tests and view the results without ever leaving their primary clinical workflow.
The Technology Integration
Instead of logging into separate portals or dealing
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How Small Medical Practices Can Build HIPAA-Aligned DevSecOps Without Enterprise Budgets
When people discuss healthcare security, they often think about large hospital systems with dedicated security teams and expensive compliance programs. But a big part of U.S. healthcare looks very different. It is made of small practices, local clinics, and independent providers with limited staff, limited IT support, and very little room for operational mistakes.
At the same time, these organizations still handle sensitive patient data every day. They use patient portals, scheduling systems,
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DAS Health Appoints Lee Horner as Chief Executive Officer
What You Should Know:
- DAS Health, a provider of healthcare IT, managed services, and business solutions, has officially appointed Lee Horner as its new Chief Executive Officer.
- The leadership change is aimed at driving the company's next phase of growth, innovation, and expansion across the North American healthcare landscape.
Lee Horner Bio/Background
Horner brings over 20 years of executive leadership experience specifically within the healthcare software and
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Building an ‘AI-Ready’ Healthcare Enterprise Using NIST and ISO Frameworks
Technology leaders across diagnostic organizations, radiology practices, pharmacies, and specialty pharmacies are hearing a consistent message from technology providers: “Adopt AI or fall behind.”
The problem is that “adopt AI” is not a strategy. It’s an activity, and too often, it turns into a series of pilots that never become fully integrated enterprise capabilities.
That failure is well-documented. According to a 2025 “State of AI in Business” report on enterprise AI implementation by
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Health Management Associates (HMA) Acquires HealthTech Solutions to Expand Government IT Capabilities
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The Acquisition: Health Management Associates (HMA), a massive national health and human services consulting firm, has acquired HealthTech Solutions, a premier provider of Medicaid-focused technology and analytics.The Target: HealthTech Solutions brings serious technical firepower to the table. The company features a modular cloud-based platform and a specialized workforce of over 300 professionals dedicated to state agency systems modernization, reporting, and regulatory
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How Workflow-Embedded Learning Solves the Healthcare Compliance and Staffing Crisis
On a busy hospital floor, a reminder pops up on a nurse’s screen. She needs to complete a mandatory compliance training by the end of the week, but a glance at the census board tells her that’s not feasible. Fourteen patients need support, they’re down three nurses this week and there’s a long list of people waiting in the ER for a bed on her floor. She closes the tab. Compliance is important to her, but she doesn’t have the capacity to step away from patient care to watch a 90-minute training
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