What You Should Know:
- Axuall, the industry leader in clinical workforce intelligence, and the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic today announced a long-term agreement to co-develop and deploy Axuall Sync.
- The strategic collaboration is designed to dramatically improve the accuracy, recency, and completeness of provider data for health systems, directly tackling one of the healthcare industry's most persistent and costly operational challenges.
The High Cost of Stale
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Kat Marie Alvarez Launches KATALYST & Co. with $10M in Funding
What You Should Know:
- Kat Marie Alvarez, RN, MBA, a nationally recognized healthcare leader, today announced the public launch of KATALYST & Co., an integrated platform designed to unite strategic advisory services, capital deployment, and global operational execution.
- The new company begins operations with $10M in initial funding to drive its mission of advancing healthcare transformation through innovation and accountability.
A Performance Multiplier for the Next
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The Future of Payment Integrity: Navigating Challenges, Embracing Opportunities
Payment integrity (PI) is an essential component of the healthcare ecosystem, ensuring that payers correctly process claims and prevent financial losses due to errors, fraud, or misinterpretations of contracts. In today’s environment, major healthcare payers face substantial financial challenges, which can lead to layoffs and increased scrutiny of how money flows through the system. The demand for highly advanced, balanced PI solutions has never been greater.
Getting PI right has never
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Datavant and athenahealth Partner to Automate Medical Record Release at Scale
What You Should Know:
- Datavant, a data collaboration platform, and athenahealth, Inc., a provider of network-enabled software and services announced an anticipated partnership aimed at transforming the historically manual and fragmented process of medical record requests and releases.
- By bringing together athenahealth’s market-leading EHR platform with Datavant’s expertise in health data exchange, the companies plan to build a modern, comprehensive infrastructure for data
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Ushur Launches Agentic AI to Eliminate Provider Servicing Delays for Health Plans
What You Should Know:
- Ushur, a leader in AI-powered Customer Experience Automation for regulated industries, today announced the launch of its Agentic AI solution for provider servicing.
- Purpose-built for health plans' provider relations, network management, and contact center teams, the solution enables human-like, conversational self-service via voice and chat to answer the most frequent and costly provider inquiries.
Addressing the Provider-Payer Bottleneck
Delays
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Why Incremental Change is Killing Healthcare Transformation
Fifteen years ago, I made a conscious decision to enter the healthcare sector. At 34, I had options, but I wanted a career that would challenge me intellectually—so much so that I once told people I wanted my “brain to hurt.” I wasn’t naïve about the industry’s complexities, but I didn’t anticipate how much it would also hurt my heart.
A decade and a half later, after working across multiple roles in healthcare, I can confidently say the industry met my wish for intellectual challenge. What I
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Thirdwayv and Medcrypt Partner to Standardize Cybersecurity for Connected Medical Devices
What You Should Know:
- At the Diabetes Technology Society Conference (DTM 2025), Thirdwayv Inc. and Medcrypt Inc. announced a strategic agreement to jointly advance cybersecurity and interoperability standards and solutions across the connected medical device ecosystem.
- The partnership seeks to address the increasing regulatory and operational demands for robust, life-cycle-spanning medical device security.
End-to-End Compliant Security Solution
The alliance brings together
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The Age of AI Execution: 16 Key Takeaways from Healthcare Executives on HLTH 2025
Last week's HLTH 2025 conference in Las Vegas signaled a definitive shift in the healthcare industry: AI has moved past the hype cycle and is now a core utility focused on execution, accountability, and measurable ROI. To understand the gravity of this turning point, we reached out to a diverse group of executives, physician leaders, and technologists to synthesize the major themes, innovations, and challenges witnessed on the show floor.
Their collective feedback highlights that health
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Honey Health Raises $7.8M Seed to Automate Healthcare Back Office Workflows with AI Agents
What You Should Know:
- Honey Health, an all-in-one back office AI platform for healthcare organizations, today announced it has raised $7.8M in seed funding led by Pelion Ventures, with participation from Streamlined, Burst Capital, and 8-Bit Capital.
- The funding will accelerate the deployment of specialized AI agent teams that autonomously complete complex administrative workflows directly inside healthcare systems.
Solving the Back Office Crisis with Autonomy
Health
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How E-Prescribing Improves Opioid Safety and PDMP Compliance in Healthcare
According to recent CDC data, opioids remain the driving force behind the vast majority of U.S. drug overdose deaths. While prescription rates have declined over the past several years, opioid-related overdoses have actually risen again since 2024, underscoring that the crisis has not eased, but shifted. Today’s challenge isn’t just preventing overprescribing; it’s navigating a more complex risk environment where illicit drugs, prescription misuse, and patient access needs intersect.
How
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