The price shock from soaring 2026 ACA (Affordable Care Act) premiums is reshaping how Americans think about and shop for their health coverage. This environment creates an opportunity for provider-sponsored health plans (PSHPs) to step in and deliver more patient-focused care and coverage to their communities.
The average unsubsidized premiums for the 2026 exchange-based Open Enrollment Period increased nearly 20% from last year, and the expiration of enhanced tax credits increased
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Health Payers Have Invested in Modern Data Infrastructure. Access Control Hasn’t Kept Up.
Ask any data security leader at a health plan what keeps them up at night and the answer usually isn't a single threat. It's the environment: member data that's among the most sensitive anywhere, regulatory obligations that expand every legislative session, and a data ecosystem that grows more complex every time a new contributing plan comes online or a new analytics use case gets approved.
Many health plans have made the right infrastructure investments. Snowflake and Databricks are
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Grounding Clinical AI in Evidence: The Critical Role of Human Oversight and Continuous Validation
"Above all else, do no harm." The Hippocratic Oath remains the ultimate guiding principle in medicine. As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly spreads through clinical care teams, the medical community faces a pivotal test. Using AI to guide patient care decisions requires a clear, discerning eye. Understanding foundational source content and governance is now essential for every clinician and healthcare organization.
When reviewing clinical information to make patient care decisions,
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Withings Medical Launches AI-Backed Clinical Service for Continuous Chronic Disease Management
What You Should Know
Connected health pioneer Withings has announced the launch of Withings Medical, a new clinical care delivery branch marking the company's evolution from passive biometric tracking to direct care provision.The service launches first for the U.S. Medicare-eligible population as a participant in CMS’s new ACCESS Model (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions), an outcomes-aligned chronic care initiative launched nationally on July 5, 2026.Operating through
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Scaling Enterprise Imaging: IT Lessons from Digital Pathology
Health IT leaders looking to scale enterprise imaging programs should take note of digital pathology.Whole slide images, often two to ten times the size of a radiology study, have forced pathology to confront the challenges that most imaging modalities eventually face, but at an order of magnitude that’s particularly instructive. Here are the lessons learned about what works at scale and where implementations fall short.
At Scale, Infrastructure and Workflow Are the Same ProblemIt’s
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Linux Foundation and Google Announce Intent to Launch Open Health Stack Software Foundation
What You Should Know
Open source infrastructure giant The Linux Foundation has announced its intent to launch the Open Health Stack Software Foundation (OHS-SF) as a vendor-neutral, community-led home for interoperable digital health tools.First launched as a joint project with Google in 2023, Google will fully contribute the project's code and core underlying assets to the new Foundation, backed by a $3 million sustainability grant from Google.org.Built to eliminate fragmented international
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Why Health Tech Leaders Need to Stop Setting Goals and Start Drawing Ladders
Every health tech marketing leader I've talked to in the last two years has said some version of the same thing: "We know where we want to be. We just can't seem to get there."
They have a goal. They have a budget. They have a team. What they don't have is a map.
"Grow ARR 30% this year." "Increase brand awareness in the mid-market." "Become the go-to platform for patient engagement." These are not strategies. They are wishes with a deadline attached. And in health tech, where sales cycles
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Pearl Health Secures $110M to Scale AI-Driven Value-Based Care Platform for Medicare
What You Should Know
Value-Based Care (VBC) platform innovator Pearl Health has announced a $110M capital raise, combining a $50M Series B equity round led by Andreessen Horowitz with a $60M credit facility from Trinity Capital.Confronting a massive macroeconomic bottleneck where national Medicare expenditures exceed $1 trillion annually, the company helps providers successfully pivot from legacy fee-for-service models to outcomes-driven risk management.The company achieved a rare milestone
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KLAS Releases Global Hospital EHR Market Share 2026 Report: Purchasing Decisions Hit 5-Year Low
What You Should Know
The KLAS Healthcare IT Insights division has published its flagship Global Hospital EHR Market Share 2026 report, revealing that total global EHR purchasing decisions plummeted to an almost five-year marketplace low.A strict capital tightening is reshaping international margins; the volume of impacted healthcare facilities (447 hospitals) and active clinical beds (81,261) represented the lowest deployment volume tracked by KLAS in at least a decade.Monolithic
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Follistatin-344: Myostatin Signaling, Tissue Plasticity, and Molecular Modulation Research
Within the expanding landscape of regulatory peptides and growth factor biology, Follistatin-344 occupies a distinctive conceptual position. Rather than functioning as a classical signaling hormone, Follistatin-344 represents a precursor isoform of a broader follistatin protein family studied for binding and neutralizing members of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) superfamily. Research indicates that follistatin isoforms participate in finely tuned molecular coordination across
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