The second quarter of 2025 saw a modest rebound in hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with Kaufman Hall reporting eight announced deals. Yet the trend lines tell a more complicated story: half were divestitures, there were no mega-mergers, and the average seller size was just $175 million in annual revenue, well below historical norms.
This smaller-scale, divestiture-heavy deal landscape may seem less dramatic than the headline-grabbing mega-mergers of past years, but it introduces
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Briya Joins Epic Connection Hub, Integrates w/Tanner for RWD Access Expansion
What You Should Know:
- Briya, a health AI technology company focused on research, has expanded its reach by becoming available in the Epic Connection Hub on Showroom.
- The integration provides hospitals and health systems using Epic's EHR software with secure and efficient access to real-world data for medical research. Tanner Health System is the first provider to leverage this integration, using Briya’s platform across its Epic environment to draw insights from patient data,
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Busting the EHR Myths: Why SYaaS Models Are the New Gold Standard for Healthcare Transformation
The world is expected to generate up to 181 zettabytes of data by the end of 2025, with healthcare contributing up to 36% of that total. But up to 97% of that data goes unused, trapped in electronic health record (EHR) systems that don’t effectively use, organize, analyze, secure, share, or make accessible the valuable data contained within them. This results in compounding effects on efficiency, decision-making, burnout, and even reliability. For CIOs managing outdated EHRs that don’t meet the
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EHR Interoperability 2025: KLAS Reports Usability Gaps Hinder Data Sharing Succes
What You Should Know:
- EHR interoperability holds immense potential to improve patient care decisions, enable innovation, and reduce administrative churn. However, a new report from KLAS Healthcare IT Insights reveals that despite advancements in data-sharing technology, interoperability is still far from achieving its desired state.
- The report emphasizes that true interoperability is a team effort requiring healthcare organizations, payer organizations, and vendors to work
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ATA CODE Report: 74% of Medicare Telehealth Visits Are Substitutive, Not Additive
What You Should Know:
- A new, collaborative analysis conducted by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Center of Digital Excellence (CODE) and nine major U.S. health systems provides critical operational evidence on Medicare telehealth utilization patterns.
- The findings, based on real-world data across 1.67 million Medicare beneficiaries challenge traditional assumptions by demonstrating that virtual care is overwhelmingly substitutive—replacing, rather than adding to,
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Garbage In, Fatal Out: The Direct Risk of Unclean Data in AI-Driven Healthcare
The healthcare industry has suffered from notorious data-quality issues for decades.
Poor, incomplete data can result in missed opportunities to improve patients’ health and improper treatments, while robust data governance practices build trust and empower the delivery of more precise, life-enhancing care.
In healthcare, there is significant room for improvement in data quality. For example, an Experian survey of healthcare professionals, including chief data officers, clinical data
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RapidAI and AWS Deepen Partnership to Scale Clinical AI in Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- RapidAI, the pioneer of deep clinical AI and a global leader in enterprise imaging, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced a strengthened working relationship designed to accelerate the global adoption and scalability of deep clinical AI in healthcare.
- The expanded partnership focuses on co-development and strategic go-to-market alignment. It brings together the robust AI infrastructure and machine learning pipelines of AWS with RapidAI’s extensive
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RapidAI Secures FDA Clearance for Five New Deep Clinical AI Modules, Expanding Enterprise Imaging Platform
What You Should Know:
- RapidAI, a pioneer in deep clinical AI, announced U.S. FDA clearance for five new imaging modules—Rapid DeltaFuse™, Rapid LMVO, Rapid MLS, Rapid OH, and Rapid Aortic for measurement.
- The expansion reinforces the Rapid Enterprise™ Platform’s focus on bringing deep clinical intelligence and seamless workflow integration across the entire patient journey.
Deep Clinical AI: Shifting Beyond Triage to Full Patient Management
RapidAI’s latest FDA clearances
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Fay and Withings Partner to Connect Health Data with Personalized Nutrition Counseling
What You Should Know:
- Fay, a personalized nutrition counseling platform, announced a partnership with Withings, integrating its network of registered dietitians directly into the Withings app to offer Withings+ premium members a complimentary first appointment.
- The partnership between Fay and Withings is designed to bridge the critical gap between raw health data and expert human guidance.
Bridging the Gap: From Data Tracking to Human Guidance
Withings users currently track
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How Optimized Print Infrastructure Closes Compliance Gaps in Healthcare
It starts with something simple: a printout that is never picked up. It could be a patient record, a discharge summary, or a treatment plan. In a healthcare setting, where patient data privacy is paramount, an unattended piece of paper on a paper tray could become a significant security risk.
And yet, as hospitals and clinics undergo digital transformation, print is still an unfortunate blind spot in many organizations’ security and compliance strategies. In the face of tightening
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