What You Should Know:
- The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has published the results of its baseline survey, assessing the healthcare industry's preparedness to meet the requirements of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F).
- This rule introduces new provisions aimed at increasing data sharing, including Patient Access, Provider Access, Payer-to-Payer,
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Defending Healthcare from the Growing Email Threat Landscape in 2025
Healthcare organizations remain prime targets for cybercriminals, with email-based attacks evolving in complexity and scale. As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced deception tactics, health systems, insurers, and their vendors must beat back these threats to safeguard patient data, ensure data security compliance, and maintain operational integrity.
Perhaps the most alarming trend we face now, in healthcare and other vital sectors, is the
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Thoughtful.ai Secures Strategic Investment to Advance AI-Powered Revenue Cycle Automation
What You Should Know:
- Thoughtful.ai, a company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered revenue cycle automation has received a strategic investment from New Mountain Capital, a growth-oriented investment firm with over $55B in assets under management.
The investment aims to support Thoughtful.ai’s continued growth and accelerate the adoption of automation and AI solutions to address the complex challenges faced by healthcare
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Health Catalyst Launches Ignite Spark™: Empowering Community Health Systems with Accessible Data and Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Health Catalyst, a provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations unveiled Health Catalyst Ignite Spark™, a specifically designed data and analytics solution tailored to the unique needs of community health systems, regional hospitals, and multi-site practices.
- Recognizing the increasing challenges faced by smaller community health systems across the U.S., including shrinking margins, policy uncertainty, and the growing
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Healthcare IT Leaders Prioritize ROI and Workforce Support Amidst AI Growth, Stoltenberg Consulting Survey Finds
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare leaders are grappling with resource strain while focusing on maximizing returns on their IT investments, according to Stoltenberg Consulting’s 12 annual Health IT Industry Outlook Report.
- Stoltenberg Consulting's survey included healthcare CIOs, all members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), representing a diverse range of U.S. hospital facilities. These included multi-hospital health systems, community hospitals,
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Sharp HealthCare to Deploy Abridge GenAI Platform to Enhance Clinical Documentation
What You Should Know:
- Sharp HealthCare, the largest integrated health system in San Diego, is set to implement the Abridge generative AI platform across its enterprise.
- The implementation will streamline the creation of medical documentation, ensuring it is comprehensive, compliant, and billable, thereby enabling clinicians to dedicate their full attention to patient care. Abridge's technology will be deployed throughout Sharp HealthCare locations, which collectively serve over one
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Innovaccer Report: AI Trends in Healthcare in 2025 and Beyond
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare AI company, has released its latest research report, "AI Trends in Healthcare: 2025 and Beyond," which explores the growing role of AI in transforming the healthcare industry.
- The report is based on a survey of 105 professionals from 73 U.S. healthcare organizations and includes insights from industry leaders on how AI is impacting clinical workflows, patient care, and operational efficiency. The analysis offers a detailed
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OMNY Health First EHR on Datavant Connect for Faster RWD Insights
What You Should Know:
-OMNY Health, the leading healthcare ecosystem for compliant real-world data insights at scale, today announced it has become the first electronic health record (EHR) company to offer its real world data (RWD) dataset on Datavant Connect powered by AWS Clean Rooms through its Lighthouse Partner Program.
- This collaboration builds upon the success of OMNY Health and Datavant’s longstanding relationship to enhance clinical research and drug development.
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Beyond Demographics: Using Big Data to Personalize Healthcare
Healthcare is entering a new era,one where patient engagement isn’t just a buzzword but a fundamental driver of improved outcomes. Yet, for many organizations, effectively connecting with patients remains a challenge. Traditional outreach methods, often built on broad demographic assumptions, struggle to foster meaningful engagement. Messages may be sent, but are they received, understood and acted upon?
The key to breaking through this engagement barrier lies in reliable people-based data
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The Imperative of Health Equity: Why Data and Intention Matter
As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants who are both social workers, I observed how dedicated they were to their careers of service. Following in their footsteps, I am privileged to serve patients and families as a physician, and I have also become all too familiar with the undeniable truth about the impact of health inequities on specific populations.
The health care industry has made strides in addressing health inequities – but there is plenty of work to be done.
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