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- Eko Health, a leader in AI-powered cardiac and pulmonary care, today announced a major stride in expanding access to early heart disease detection. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has included Eko's SENSORA platform in its July 2025 provisional update to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), assigning SENSORA's Category III CPT code to APC 5734, with a reimbursement rate of $128.90 per use.
- The Category III
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Senior Living Tech: Interoperability & Funding Remain Top Barriers, Report Says
What You Should Know:
- Argentum, a national association supporting senior living communities, and A Place for Mom, a senior advisory service, have released their annual report, "The State of Technology Adoption in Senior Living." The 2025 report reveals significant strides in the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and a growing commitment to collaborative innovation, even as the industry grapples with persistent challenges related to funding and interoperability.
- The
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Premier, Inc. Acquires EMR-Agnostic Platform IllumiCare
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- Premier, a technology-driven healthcare performance improvement company announced its acquisition of IllumiCare, a healthcare technology firm renowned for its EMR-agnostic platform. This strategic move significantly expands Premier's capabilities in the clinical decision support (CDS) space by integrating IllumiCare's real-time clinical and financial data at the point of care.
- The acquisition aims to empower providers to make optimal clinical decisions while
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AI Agents vs. Chatbots: Understanding Agentic AI’s Role in Healthcare
As buzz around conversational AI reached a fever pitch last year, a new term began gaining traction: "AI agents."
Over the past twelve months, Google searches for AI agents have increased nearly tenfold. While the category of "agentic AI" may seem to have appeared from nowhere, it has quickly become one of the most talked-about trends in tech.
Yet, descriptions of agentic AI are still largely abstract, making it difficult to grasp what sets it apart or how it might apply in
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AMGA 2025 Survey: Physician Compensation Rises Significantly Amidst Stable Productivity
What You Should Know:
- The newly published AMGA 2025 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey reveals substantial increases in compensation for various clinical specialties in 2024. The comprehensive analysis, encompassing data from over 184,000 providers across nearly 500 medical groups, shows a significant 4.9% compensation increase across the entire dataset, signaling a robust market for healthcare talent.
- After years of fluctuations influenced by CMS Physician Fee
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KLAS Report: Combating Provider Burnout & Elevating the EHR Experience with Ambient Speech
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- A new impact report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative, titled "Ambient Speech Outcomes 2025," reveals that ambient speech solutions are significantly improving the Electronic Health Record (EHR) experience and actively combating provider burnout. The study, which analyzed data from over 900 physicians and advanced practice providers, highlights the technology's potential to bring focus back to patient care and enhance overall clinician well-being.
- Ambient
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Affidea to Deploy b-rayZ as Preferred AI Partner in Breast Imaging
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- Affidea, a pan-European provider of community-based polyclinics, specialist services, and advanced diagnostics, has announced a strategic collaboration with b-rayZ, a leader in AI-powered breast imaging solutions.
- The strategic partnership aims to revolutionize breast cancer diagnostics by streamlining the patient pathway, enhancing precision, and improving therapeutic options for women across Europe.
Enhancing Clinical Precision and Patient
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Healthcare CFOs Cautious: New Deloitte Survey Reveals Top Concerns for 2025
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- A new survey from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions reveals a significant shift in priorities among healthcare finance leaders. While previous outlooks predicted a year of growth, 84% of respondents are now concerned about business conditions driven by regulatory changes, macroeconomic uncertainty, and supply chain disruptions. Notably, 73% are expressing concerns about revenue growth and operating profitability, signaling a more cautious yet strategic
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Navigating the New HIPAA Security Rule: A Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Major cybersecurity breaches continue to plague the US healthcare industry, and on December 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), via its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the HIPAA Security Rule, titled "The HIPAA Security Rule to Strengthen the Cybersecurity of Electronic Protected Health Information". Comments were requested and over 4000 were received before the comment period ended on March 7 2025. Let's dissect
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Emerging Cyber Threats to AI-Based Diagnostics and Clinical Decision Support Tools
As hyperbolic words go, transformation ranks near the top of the list. Yet, when something is truly transformative, it’s undeniable. And that is exactly what we have been witnessing with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the healthcare industry; a true digital transformation revolution.
With the AI healthcare market valued at $26.69 billion in 2024, and projected to reach $613.81 billion by 2034, this transformation is not only reducing operational friction in
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