What You Should Know:
- Commure, a leading healthcare technology company, today announced a new partnership with DRH Health, a full-service regional health system providing comprehensive care across southwestern Oklahoma.
- The organizations will work together to transform clinical documentation and improve MEDITECH-integrated workflow efficiency across its care network.
DRH Health Selects Commure to Power Ambient AI-Driven Clinical Documentation
DRH Health, a 128-bed not-for-profit
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Mount Sinai Health System to Deploy Microsoft Dragon Copilot with AI Clinical Assistant
What You Should Know:
- The Mount Sinai Health System today announced that it will implement Microsoft Dragon Copilot, a new AI clinical assistant designed to streamline clinical documentation, surface critical information, and automate administrative tasks across care settings.
- The rollout marks a major milestone in Mount Sinai’s ongoing digital transformation and its commitment to using responsible artificial intelligence to support clinicians and deliver better outcomes for
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Omega Systems Acquires PEAKE Technology Partners to Strengthen Healthcare Managed Services
What You Should Know:
- Omega Systems, a leading provider of managed IT, cybersecurity, and compliance services to regulated industries announced the acquisition of PEAKE Technology Partners, a healthcare managed services provider. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The strategic acquisition strengthens Omega’s position as a leading Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) for the healthcare industry.
Expanding Expertise
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Why Hospitals Must Prioritize Modern Network Upgrades Now
The healthcare industry has faced compounding pressures for years. Between staffing shortages putting strain on employee workloads, budget constraints, and ongoing tech modernizations, a solution is needed to ease and improve workloads and improve security, without sacrificing patient experiences. But resource constraints mean many hospitals aren’t prioritizing modern IT upgrades, including the networks that are vital to running day-to-day operations, which could prove to be a costly mistake in
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Hospital Margins Remain Thin at 1.1%: Expense Pressure Outpaces Revenue Growth
What You Should Know:
- U.S. healthcare organizations continued to face mounting expense pressures at the end of the third quarter of 2025, resulting in persistently thin operating margins despite steady growth in gross revenue.
- According to the latest data from Strata Decision Technology, the national median year-to-date (YTD) operating margin inched up slightly to 1.1% in September, remaining consistent with the strained levels seen throughout the year.
Pressure of
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Vatica Health Merges with Cozeva for Value-Based Care Enablement
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- Vatica Health (“Vatica”), a Frazier Healthcare portfolio company and a leader in prospective risk adjustment and clinical quality solutions, today announced the closing of its merger with Cozeva, a premier SaaS platform focused on value-based care (VBC) enablement.
- The strategic combination unites Vatica’s #1-rated Best in KLAS risk adjustment platform with Cozeva’s #1-rated Best in KLAS quality platform, significantly accelerating their collective mission
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Demystifying Prepay Coordination of Benefits: A Crucial Component of Payment Integrity
Coordination of benefits (COB) is a key component of any effective payment integrity program. But determining primacy for members with multiple plans and ensuring claims aren’t overpaid can be a complicated process. Whether it’s verifying employment status or sifting through complicated claims, COB takes significant time for peak accuracy. And while health plans focus on the intricacies of an effective COB strategy, many overlook the possibilities that a comprehensive prepay COB solution can
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How Conversational AI is Reinventing Healthcare Patient Access
In healthcare, delivering patient-centered care isn’t just reserved to the confines of a clinic, it begins with the first phone call to schedule an appointment. But far too often, those calls are met with outdated interactive voice response (IVR) systems, long wait times, and puzzling menus that cause frustration rather than support. Alarmingly, according to Market Growth Reports, around 36% of companies still use old IVR software from before 2017, meaning many health providers are lagging
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Huron Acquires AXIOM Consulting Division to Expand Payer Digital Transformation Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- Global professional services firm Huron announced it has acquired the payor consulting services division of AXIOM Systems (AXIOM), a healthcare information technology firm specializing in digital transformation for payors and payor-provider organizations.
- The strategic acquisition significantly expands Huron’s capabilities in the payor ecosystem. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Strengthening Expertise in Core Payor
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athenahealth Unveils AI-Native Clinical Encounter to Reimagine the Future of EHRs
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth, a leading provider of network-enabled software and services for healthcare practices and systems nationwide, today introduced its AI-native clinical encounter, a reimagined experience that anticipates clinicians’ needs, surfaces relevant insights at the moment of care, and drafts documentation, orders, and diagnoses based on the clinician-patient conversation.
- This new AI-native experience will transform the EHR from a system of record into
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