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- Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare AI company, has announced a new partnership with Olympia Orthopaedic Associates (OlyOrtho), a full-service musculoskeletal care provider in Southwest Washington.
- The collaboration focuses on using AI-powered tools to automate OlyOrtho’s referral and scheduling operations, enabling the independent practice to scale access, improve throughput, and reduce manual administrative work.
AI Agents Tackle Front-Office
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AVIA Launches Nexus Agentic AI Collaborative to Combat High AI Project Cancellation Rates
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- AVIA has launched Nexus Agentic AI, a new platform designed to help health systems responsibly adopt Agentic AI. The launch addresses a significant industry risk: more than 40% of Agentic AI projects are expected to be canceled by 2027 due to escalating costs, unclear business value, or inadequate risk controls.
- The new Nexus Collaborative aims to empower health systems to reshape operations, strengthen the workforce, and improve patient access and
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Notable Launches Conversational Assistant Flow AI to Accelerate Workflow Automation
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- Notable, a healthcare AI Platform focused on transforming workforce productivity, has announced the launch of Flow AI, a conversational assistant embedded directly in its low-code Flow Builder interface.
- Flow AI is designed to make it easier and faster for healthcare organizations to design, debug, and optimize AI Agent workflows, unlocking the full power of the Notable’s AI Platform across a wide range of clinical and operational use
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Suki Unveils Nursing Consortium to Curb Nursing Shortage With AI
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- Suki, the leader in artificial intelligence (AI) for healthcare, today announced a new initiative focused on the administrative burden on nurses nationwide, which includes the launch of an inaugural nursing consortium with leading health systems.
- Consortium members will collaborate on developing a solution called Suki for Nurses that will integrate with leading electronic health records (EHRs), including Epic, MEDITECH, and Oracle Health, tailored to the unique
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CARIN Alliance Launches Nation’s First Unified Digital Identity Credential Policy
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- The CARIN Alliance, in partnership with DirectTrust® and Kantara Initiative™, has announced the publication of the nation’s first unified digital identity credential trust framework policy.
- The landmark policy establishes a foundation for digital identity credentials to be consistently recognized and exchanged across systems and organizations.
Harmonizing Major Trust Frameworks
The CARIN Digital Identity Credential Policy integrates and harmonizes
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Beyond HIPAA Compliance: Why Healthcare Must Mandate Encryption of ePHI Now
Data breaches and ransomware attacks have become a persistent and costly challenge in the healthcare sector. As the Change Healthcare ransomware attack shows us, these threats continue to escalate in frequency and sophistication. Organizations bound by HIPAA must reevaluate their approach to cybersecurity, especially when it comes to encryption.
In December 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a significant update to the HIPAA Security Rule, part of which
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Attuned Intelligence Emerges from Stealth with $13M to Automate Hospital Call Centers with Supervised AI
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- Attuned Intelligence ("Attuned"), a healthcare AI company, has emerged from stealth today, announcing a $13 million seed funding led by Radical Ventures and Threshold Ventures.
- The capital will be used to accelerate product development, grow the team, and expand deployments across hospitals and safety-net providers nationwide.
Supervised AI for Hospital-Grade Scale and Safety
The investment addresses a critical challenge: patient access in the
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Erosion of Trust: ConcertAI VP Shares View on AI Hallucinations and the Fabricated Data Crisis in Scientific Publishing
The integrity of medical research is under siege. Last month, Med-Gemini's "hallucination" of a part of the brain made headlines, but according to Dr. Mike Rossi, Vice President of Translational Science and Multi-modal Real World Evidence Solutions at ConcertAI, that incident is merely a symptom of a larger, systemic problem: up to 10% of scientific literature is now being fabricated by AI.
Drawing on his decades of experience integrating genomic science into oncology at institutions
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Savista Acquires ONCO’s Cancer Registry Services to Establish New Industry Benchmark
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- Savista, a healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) services company, has announced the acquisition of the cancer registry services division of ONCO, a trusted provider of oncology data services and technology.
- The strategic acquisition allows Savista to offer healthcare organizations greater end-to-end support, combining its full suite of RCM solutions with enhanced cancer registry services.
Setting a New Standard for Registry Excellence
The
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Moving Outside the Hospital: New Report Details Ambulatory Care Strategies at Leading Health Systems
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- A new report from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) at UPMC and KLAS Research outlines how health systems are reevaluating and expanding their ambulatory care strategies in response to shifting patient expectations, workforce constraints, and increased financial pressures.
- The research, "Moving Outside the Hospital: Ambulatory Care Strategies at Leading Health Systems," explains how large systems are adapting by providing more care in
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