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Chromie Health, a provider of AI-powered hospital management tools, has closed a $2M pre-seed round led by AIX Ventures.The company has launched Chromie Dispatch, an SMS-native AI agent that fills internal nursing shift gaps in under five minutes—a process that typically takes five hours manually.There is currently a waitlist of 750 hospitals seeking to implement the platform.Chronic nursing shortages and turnover are estimated to cost the U.S. healthcare system more than
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2026 Locum Tenens Physician Report Reveals 41% of Physicians Now Have Locums Experience
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Physicians across the U.S. are increasingly rethinking how they practice medicine as career pressures mount at every stage, according to the 2026 Locum Tenens Physicians Report released this week by Weatherby Healthcare.Market Growth: The percentage of physicians currently working locum tenens has nearly tripled in a decade, rising from 5% to 14%.Mainstream Adoption: Nearly half of all physicians (41%) now have locums experience, doubling the rate from 2016.Burnout
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Anomaly Insights Secures $17M to Scale AI Payer Intelligence for Health Systems
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Anomaly Insights has announced $17M in new funding led by Sound Ventures, bringing its total raised to $34M. Alumni Ventures also joined the round, alongside existing investors Link Ventures, Redesign Health, and RRE Ventures.The company provides an AI-powered payer intelligence platform designed to combat revenue loss from denials, underpayments, and adjudication deviations.The platform analyzes billions of real-time healthcare transactions to surface patterns in payer
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From Trial-and-Error to Data-Driven Oncology Decision Making: AI-Enabled Functional Precision Medicine Is Rewriting the Future of Cancer Treatment
When cancer treatment fails, physicians face one of the hardest questions in medicine: what should come next?
Having recently cared for a young patient whose cancer had returned despite multiple lines of therapy, it was found that although standard protocols offered several options, none could determine which drug was most likely to work against that child’s specific tumor. That is a reality oncologists face every day: two patients with the same diagnosis can respond very differently to the
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Harmony Healthcare IT Appoints Brian Liddell as CEO Succeeding Founder Tom Liddell
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Harmony Healthcare IT has appointed Brian Liddell as Chief Executive Officer, effective April 30, 2026.Brian Liddell succeeds founder Tom Liddell, who will transition to Chairman of the Board after leading the company for more than two decades.Brian Liddell previously served as President and Chief Financial Officer, playing a central role in the company's growth and operational strategy.Industry Leadership: Under Tom Liddell, the organization served over 550 healthcare
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Labcorp Integrates Full Diagnostic Menu into Epic Aura: Streamlining Lab Workflows for U.S. Health Systems
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Labcorp and Epic have announced an expanded collaboration to make Labcorp’s full diagnostic test menu available through Epic’s Aura platform.The integration allows clinicians to order tests and receive discrete results directly within their existing Epic workflows, eliminating the need for manual workarounds.The initiative targets a major industry pain point by reducing the time, cost, and IT complexity traditionally required for laboratory-EHR interfaces.The expansion
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Included Health Launches Provider Connect AI Assistant for High-Quality Physician Matching
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Included Health has launched Provider Connect, a healthcare experience that combines real-time member context with quality and cost data to guide members toward high-quality, in-network providers.The platform is embedded within Dot, Included Health’s AI assistant, allowing members to use natural language to find doctors, view out-of-pocket estimates, and book appointments.The system is powered by 45 billion clinical and cost data points from 140 million patients and over
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Medbridge Launches Outcomes Offering: Connecting Patient Care to Clinical Efficacy and Payment
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Medbridge has launched Medbridge Outcomes, an offering within its One Care platform designed to collect, measure, and submit patient-reported outcomes (PROs).The system aligns with CMS regulatory guidelines, helping rehabilitation and physical therapy organizations meet MIPS reporting and quality requirements.Data collection is embedded directly into existing clinical workflows to reduce the administrative burden on frontline staff and clinicians.The platform features
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Evolution Devices Announces First Multi-Site Clinical Sale of EvoWalk to Sheltering Arms Institute
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Evolution Devices has secured its first multi-location clinical sale of EvoWalk, a next-generation mobility solution, to the Sheltering Arms Institute.The EvoWalk system is a wearable device worn below the knee that delivers multi-muscle functional electrical stimulation (FES) to restore natural walking patterns in patients with neurological impairments.Integrated AI-driven data capture monitors patient metrics including step count, gait speed, and cadence to inform
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1upHealth Deploys All CMS-0057-F Interoperability and Prior Authorization APIs Ahead of 2027 Deadline
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1upHealth has become the first interoperability solution provider to deploy all four APIs required by the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) to its entire customer base.The deployment comes a full eight months ahead of the federally mandated deadline of January 1, 2027.Integrated APIs now live include Patient Access, Payer-to-Payer Data Exchange, Provider Access, and Electronic Prior Authorization.The 1up Console now provides real-time
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