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Healthcare IT leader MEDITECH has completed the enterprise deployment of its Expanse electronic health record (EHR) platform across 34 acute care hospitals in HCA Healthcare’s Capital and North Florida divisions.Represents the first two U.S. operating divisions to achieve full Expanse deployment across HCA Healthcare’s 15 nationwide operating divisions:Capital Division: 18 hospitals operating across Virginia and New Hampshire.North Florida Division: 16 hospitals operating
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Imprivata Report Reveals 72% of Healthcare Organizations Run Unapproved AI as Autonomous Agents Enter Clinical Care
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Healthcare access management and identity security leader Imprivata released national research conducted by independent research firm Vanson Bourne, surveying 250 U.S. healthcare leaders responsible for identity security and AI strategy across health systems, IDNs, and academic medical centers.The Shadow AI Crisis: 72% of healthcare organizations report that AI tools or agents are deployed without formal IT approval at least occasionally, while 37% cite an ad hoc or
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M&A: Hello Patient Acquires Converse Health to Unify Outpatient Front-Office Voice with Back-Office EHR Automation
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Hello Patient (Austin, TX) announced that it has acquired Converse Health, an AI workflow automation company built for independent outpatient medical practices.Founded in 2023 by CEO Louis Sallerson, CTO Val Zinchenko, and CRO Adam Teitelman (with Trenton Williams joining as VP of Sales in early 2024), Converse Health previously raised $1.3 million to deploy custom chart and document automation across dermatology, orthopedics, women's health, and pain medicine.Directly
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The ROI of Simplicity: Why Less Digital Friction Delivers More in Healthcare
More is not always better when it comes to digital engagement. While healthcare executives have prioritized investments in digital front doors in recent years, patient experience remains fragmented.
Usher in the era of digital fatigue in healthcare, and many organizations are finding that investments are not producing the intended ROI. The reason is that a disconnect exists between how digital tools are designed and how patients actually want to engage, as evidenced by a recent Journal
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M&A: Medallion Acquires Andros to Unify One Million Providers onto an AI-Native Credentialing Platform
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Medallion, the AI-assisted healthcare credentialing and payer enrollment platform, announced on September 15, 2026, that it has acquired Andros, an NCQA-certified credentials verification organization (CVO) serving health plans and provider networks since 2013.The transaction combines systems to manage over one million healthcare providers across nearly 400 healthcare organizations and commercial health plans onto a single credentialing and data management
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Quantum Health Appoints Dr. Susan Mani as Chief Medical Officer
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Healthcare navigation platform Quantum Health (Dublin, OH) announced on September 15, 2026, the appointment of Dr. Susan Mani as its new Chief Medical Officer (CMO).Dr. Mani brings extensive executive leadership in value-based care and population health, having previously directed clinical and cost-containment initiatives at Humana and regional health system LifeBridge Health.Clinical pedigree includes completing medical school and internal medicine residency at the Johns
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GE HealthCare Launches CareIntellect for Operations to Deliver 72-Hour Predictive Inpatient Capacity Forecasting
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GE HealthCare announced on September 15, 2026, the launch of CareIntellect™ for Operations, a cloud-native, AI-enabled Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application engineered to forecast hospital capacity constraints up to 72 hours in advance.Duke Health and The Queen’s Health Systems (The Queen’s Medical Center) will be the first health systems to implement the platform, providing frontline operational and clinical feedback to guide engineering iterations.Built on Amazon Web
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Why Asset Visibility Is Healthcare’s Next Operational Advantage
Some of healthcare’s most expensive equipment shortages aren’t shortages at all. They’re visibility failures.
A hospital can own enough infusion pumps, monitors, or mobile diagnostic equipment and still have clinicians struggling to find what they need. The problem is not always insufficient capacity. Sometimes the capacity is already there—distributed across departments, waiting for cleaning or maintenance, sitting idle, or represented inaccurately in systems that no longer reflect what is
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Abridge Enters the Mid-Revenue Cycle with Pre-Bill AI for CDI and Coding Teams
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Ambient clinical AI leader Abridge has expanded its enterprise clinician intelligence platform into the mid-revenue cycle, launching an AI-powered pre-bill review capability tailored for Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI), coding, and health system revenue cycle management (RCM) teams.Marks Abridge’s formal product expansion from point-of-care ambient documentation into institutional revenue integrity, auditing inpatient claims before submission for
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Khosla Ventures Backs Nara Health with $14M to Rebuild Self-Insured Health Plans via Agentic AI
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Nara Health, an AI-native Third-Party Administrator (TPA) rebuilding employer health insurance infrastructure, announced $14 million in total funding across combined pre-seed and seed rounds led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Long Journey Ventures, Superior Studios, and strategic angel investors.Nara Health tackles a macroeconomic employer crisis: 170 million Americans receive employer-sponsored insurance, where average family premiums reached $27,000
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