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Healthcare intelligence leader Health Catalyst, Inc. completed the sale of its mid-revenue cycle business, Vitalware, LLC, to Med-Metrix, LLC on July 31, 2026.The divestiture generated $147M in total cash consideration, subject to customary adjustments.Health Catalyst combined the net proceeds with cash on hand to fully repay and retire its credit facility, eliminating approximately $19M in annual GAAP interest expense.Capital and operational focus will pivot toward
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CCM and KLAS Research Report: 63% of Health Systems Lack Advanced AI Strategy Frameworks
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A report by the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) at UPMC and KLAS Research reveals that while 93% of surveyed health system leaders have deployed third-party AI, strategy and testing infrastructure lag far behind.Clinical documentation and ambient scribing lead deployment at 52%, followed by revenue cycle and coding (36%), medical imaging (32%), and EHR-embedded clinical decision support (32%).While 92% of organizations conduct pre-deployment testing, less than half
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M&A: Unite Us Acquires Vircho Health to Advance Performance Analytics for Community Care Networks
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Social care coordination leader Unite Us has acquired Vircho Health, a technology platform providing performance, quality, and financial accountability analytics for community care networks. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.The acquisition includes the full Vircho Health team, led by co-founders Craig Manson and Evan Jones.The deal transitions Unite Us from proving that a social service occurred (closed-loop referrals) to providing intelligent
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The Growing Disconnect Between Clinical Documentation and Reimbursement
Most documentation problems I have reviewed over the years were never really about documentation itself. They were workflow problems that showed up later as denials, CDI overruns, and revenue that quietly disappeared.
That is the honest truth the industry keeps avoiding. We keep buying tools to fix a problem that is not about tools. The gap between clinical documentation and reimbursement is not growing because technology is failing. It is growing because we keep ignoring how misaligned our
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Solventum Announces Intent to Separate Health Information Systems Business
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Solventum announced its intent to separate its Health Information Systems (HIS) business to sharpen focus as a pure-play MedTech provider centered on MedSurg and Dental Solutions.The Health Information Systems division generates $1.4B in annual sales, is deployed across 30+ countries, serves over 75% of U.S. hospitals, and processes roughly 660 million clinical documents monthly.Management operates within a ~$10 billion addressable market growing at 5–6% annually,
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Beyond AI Scribes: Why Ambient Clinical Intelligence Is Health IT’s Greatest Governance Test
Two years ago, ambient AI scribes were a mere curiosity. A handful of health systems ran the pilots. Conference demos drew crowds but not purchase orders. That phase is over.
Nearly two-thirds of U.S hospitals running Epic had deployed an ambient AI documentation tool by mid-2025 – 1,744 of them – according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care. Among the individual physicians, ambient documentation is the fastest-growing AI use case. Doximity’s 2026 survey of more than
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Definitive Healthcare Launches Early Adopter Program for AI-Powered Intelligence Platform
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Definitive Healthcare announced an early adopter program for its new AI-powered healthcare intelligence platform, inviting select customer organizations in August 2026.General availability for the platform is targeted for late 2026, informed by feedback from early adopter cohorts across health systems, life sciences companies, and commercial healthcare vendors.The platform integrates Definitive Healthcare's proprietary datasets—spanning healthcare providers,
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Transcarent Names Optum Veteran Mike Morgan as Chief Commercial Officer
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Agentic AI-powered health and care platform Transcarent has appointed Mike Morgan as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).Reporting directly to CEO Glen Tullman, Morgan will lead the commercial organization, managing sales, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market strategies for Transcarent’s WayFinding® platform.Morgan brings over 20 years of commercial leadership experience, having previously served as SVP of Sales at Sunny Benefits and leading Patient Access &
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URAC Awards First Health Care Artificial Intelligence Accreditations to Guidehealth, RediMinds, and SandsRx
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Independent accreditor URAC announced that Guidehealth, RediMinds, and SandsRx are the first three organizations nationwide to earn its Health Care Artificial Intelligence Accreditation.Launched in 2025, URAC’s AI accreditation framework evaluates organizations across the entire technology lifecycle, focusing on governance, risk management, transparency, and ongoing operational oversight.The inaugural cohort spans diverse health care vectors: SandsRx (specialty pharmacy
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Nordic Opens Mexico Delivery Facility to Support Healthcare AI, Managed Services, and Epic Optimization
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Global healthcare IT consulting firm Nordic® announced the opening of a new delivery facility in Mexico to expand its nearshore technical capabilities.The Mexico facility will support core digital transformation domains, including Epic services, application managed services (AMS), cloud infrastructure, data and analytics, and emerging AI-enabled health system solutions.Operating under newly appointed CEO Alicia Harkness, the expansion addresses widespread health system
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