What You Should Know:
- GE HealthCare and UC San Diego Health today announced a strategic enterprise collaboration, dubbed a "Care Alliance," focused on integrating advanced digital innovation and medical technologies across the San Diego health system.
- The partnership is designed to deliver high-quality, timely, and consistent care, aiming for improved patient outcomes and greater cross-functional connectivity.
Care Alliance Value-Based Delivery Framework
The Care Alliance
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Amazon One Medical Launches Pay-Per-Visit Telehealth for Kids at $29
What You Should Know:
- Parents and guardians will now have quick access to certified family care providers for their children’s health care needs though Amazon One Medical Pay-per-visit.
- The telehealth service can help treat pink eye, lice, and over ten common skin-related issues like eczema, bug bites, contact dermatitis, fungal rashes, and more for children ages 2 to 11. This service will also cover EpiPen and
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Redox and Kno2 Form Strategic Alliance to Solve Healthcare’s Interoperability and Data Usability Challenge
What You Should Know:
- Redox, a healthcare interoperability company, and Kno2, a company specializing in healthcare communication announced a strategic alliance aimed at solving the dual challenge of moving clinical data at scale and making that data instantly usable across the healthcare ecosystem.
- The combined network forms the largest and most comprehensive healthcare network of provider systems, EHRs, and HIT vendors in the United States. Together, Redox and Kno2 transact over 40
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IKS Health Launches Agentic AI Platform on Google Cloud to Transform Prior Authorization
What You Should Know:
- IKS Health, a global leader in care enablement solutions, today announced the launch of its new agentic AI platform built on Google Cloud technologies, including the Gemini family of models.
- The platform is a generative AI-based, multi-agent system designed to drive clinical, administrative, and financial efficiencies across the patient journey, with a primary focus on automating complex workflows like prior authorization.
Leading the Agentic
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Microsoft Unveils Expanded Dragon Copilot: AI Transformation for Nursing and Revenue Cycle
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft unveiled significant AI innovations for its leading clinical assistant, Dragon Copilot, leveraging ambient and generative technologies to enhance the patient journey, reduce workflow burden, and strengthen the financial integrity of healthcare provider organizations.
- The advancements include the industry’s first generally available commercial ambient experience tailored for nursing workflows and new extensibility capabilities that allow
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Multi-Vector Attacks: Why Healthcare’s Siloed Security Approach Is Failing Now
In football, it’s called an all-out blitz. In cybersecurity, it’s called a multi-vector attack.
Five years ago, most cyber attacks were of the single-vector variety: a phishing expedition or a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Now cyber criminals are more sophisticated, launching multi-vector onslaughts that might simultaneously involve those tactics plus attempts at data exfiltration, account takeover and credential stuffing.
By probing for multiple vulnerabilities at the same
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The $150B Problem: How Missed Appointments Crush Healthcare and Risk Lives
Nicole is a 35-year-old single mother living in Boston. She recently completed treatment for breast cancer and was scheduled for a follow-up screening. The clinic sent a single text message reminder and a letter. She intended to call and reschedule once things settled, but between juggling two part-time jobs and managing childcare, the appointment slipped by.
That screening was meant to catch any early signs of recurrence. When the first reminder failed, no system flagged her as at risk or
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M&A: Imprivata Acquires Verosint to Enable AI-Powered Risk Signaling
What You Should Know:
- Imprivata, a leading provider of access management solutions for healthcare and other mission-critical industries, today announced the acquisition of Verosint, a leader in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) solutions.
- The acquisition represents Imprivata’s latest strategic investment in modernizing enterprise access management with solutions that deliver advanced, frictionless, and passwordless access for every user type, including frontline staff,
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3 Ways to Stabilize Hospital Operations Amidst Uncertainty: Costs, Labor, & Waste
Across the country, healthcare leaders are navigating unprecedented levels of uncertainty and complexity. Policy shifts, economic turbulence, supply chain instability, and widespread workforce strain have created a volatile environment. Given today's uncertainties, relying heavily on disconnected, outdated systems could make navigating the challenges ahead even more difficult. Many hospitals still rely on systems that are disconnected, outdated, and no longer sufficient for navigating today’s
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Teladoc Health Launches AI Solution to Combat Growing Crisis of Hospital Workplace Violence
What You Should Know:
- Teladoc Health announced a new offering within its Clarity™ monitoring solution designed to help hospitals and health systems actively address workplace violence.
- The capability uses AI-enabled software, hardware, and services to empower care teams with early intervention resources, expanding beyond Clarity’s existing virtual sitting use cases.
The Growing Threat to Healthcare Workers
Workplace violence is a persistent and escalating challenge
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