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Commure Raises $200M to Accelerate AI-Powered RCM Platform

by Fred Pennic 06/19/2025 Leave a Comment

Commure and HealthTap to Launch Unified Virtual and In-Person Care Solution

What You Should Know:  - Commure, the fast-growing enterprise AI healthcare technology company, today announced it has secured $200M in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). The funding will be used to meet the surging demand for Commure’s full-stack AI platform, which spans revenue cycle management (RCM), ambient AI clinical documentation and workflows, and practice management solutions. - The CVF transaction enables Commure to scale its investment in
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Abridge’s AI Assistant Expands to Inpatient Notes and Orders in Epic

by Fred Pennic 06/19/2025 Leave a Comment

Abridge's AI Assistant Expands to Inpatient Notes and Orders in Epic

What You Should Know:  - Abridge, a generative AI platform for clinical conversations, is expanding its capabilities to support inpatient care settings and to queue up outpatient orders.  - The extension of its platform is part of the Workshop program, through which Epic and Abridge have collaborated to develop new, innovative healthcare technologies that are piloted and refined before wider release. Abridge Inside for Inpatient: Bringing AI Documentation to the
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Collectly Launches “Billie,” an AI Agent for 24/7 Patient Billing Support

by Fred Pennic 06/19/2025 Leave a Comment

Collectly Launches "Billie," an AI Agent for 24/7 Patient Billing Support

What You Should Know:  - Collectly, the AI-powered platform reshaping patient billing and revenue cycle management (RCM), today announced the launch of Billie—a breakthrough AI agent for patient billing and RCM. Billie is available to patients 24/7 across chat, email, text, and voice, providing real-time answers to complex medical billing questions and simple, one-click payment options. - The launch comes at a critical time when patients are often overwhelmed by confusing medical
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Healthcare’s Big Blind Spot: The Measurement Crisis in Inpatient Psychiatry

by Jim Szyperski, CEO, Acuity Behavioral Health 06/19/2025 Leave a Comment

Healthcare's Big Blind Spot: The Measurement Crisis in Inpatient Psychiatry

Healthcare is moving deeper into the value-based era. Metrics drive decisions, outcomes define quality, and performance data shapes reimbursement. Yet amid this transformation, inpatient psychiatry and behavioral healthcare remain the most notable outlier—excluded for a variety of reasons including stigmatization, subjectivity, and a high degree of variation in clinical operations from site to site.  Behavioral healthcare lacks the foundational standards and management models that have
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Smokeless Tobacco and Oral Cancer: A Health System Unprepared

by Denise Marks, CFO and EVP of CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, and John T. McDevitt, PhD, Founder and Chief Scientist of OraLiva, INC. 06/19/2025 Leave a Comment

Smokeless Tobacco and Oral Cancer: A Health System Unprepared

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S., with cigarette use responsible for one out of every three cancer deaths in the country. The rising use of smokeless tobacco is adding to these numbers by introducing a new set of health risks, as these products contain over 28 cancer-causing compounds. Although many people are turning to smokeless tobacco in an attempt to quit smoking cigarettes, the International Agency for Research on Cancer warns that smokeless tobacco may pose risks
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Why Claims Data Alone Leave Gaps in Understanding the Patient Journey

by Noah Nasser, CEO at datma 06/18/2025 Leave a Comment

Why Claims Data Alone Leave Gaps in Understanding the Patient Journey

In today’s precision medicine landscape, pharmaceutical companies and access teams face a critical challenge: understanding not just whether therapies work, but how they are accessed, adopted, and experienced by real-world patients. This requires going beyond traditional data sources, particularly claims data, which—while useful—often fails to capture the nuanced clinical and diagnostic steps that define the patient journey. To truly understand and improve therapy adoption, stakeholders need a
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Drug Shortages Cost Hospitals Nearly $900M Annually in Labor

by Fred Pennic 06/18/2025 Leave a Comment

Drug Shortages Cost Hospitals Nearly $900M Annually in Labor

What You Should Know:  - A new analysis from Vizient® reveals the staggering financial impact of drug shortages on U.S. hospitals, with labor costs for managing these disruptions more than doubling since 2019.  - The survey, "Beyond the Shortage: The Hidden Cost of Drug Supply Chain Disruptions," found that in 2023, hospitals spent roughly 20 million hours managing drug shortages, translating to nearly $900 million annually in labor costs. The Hidden Costs Go Far Beyond
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PwC: Health Services M&A Remains Durable Despite Headwinds

by Fred Pennic 06/18/2025 Leave a Comment

PwC: Health Services M&A Remains Durable Despite Headwinds

What You Should Know:  - Health services M&A activity has demonstrated remarkable durability, weathering a complicated macroeconomic and political environment to remain well ahead of pre-COVID levels, according to PwC’s US Deals 2025 Mid-Year Outlook for both Health Services and Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences.  - Through May 15, 2025, the market saw 445 announced transactions, bringing the last-twelve-month (LTM) total to 1,265 deals with a disclosed value of approximately
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Cohere Health Launches AI Tool to Cut Medical Review Time by 50%

by Syed Hamza Sohail 06/18/2025 Leave a Comment

Cohere Health Launches AI Tool to Cut Medical Review Time by 50%

What You Should Know: - Cohere Health®, the leader in clinical intelligence solutions for health plans and risk-bearing providers, today announced the launch of Review Assist, a breakthrough agentic AI solution that improves medical necessity review efficiency by up to 50% with over 99% precision. - Designed to work seamlessly with health plans' existing utilization management (UM) workflows and technology stacks, Review Assist reduces review time, eases administrative burden, and improves
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Walmart and Soda Health Launch “Everyday Health Signals™” Program for Medicare and Medicaid Members

by Jasmine Pennic 06/17/2025 Leave a Comment

Walmart and Soda Health Launch "Everyday Health Signals™" Program for Medicare and Medicaid Members

What You Should Know:  - Walmart and Soda Health, a health technology company focused on smarter health benefits administration announced a collaboration to launch the Walmart Everyday Health Signals™ program.  - The strategic initiative will be available to select Medicare Advantage and Medicaid members, providing personalized nutrition and wellness guidance based on retail shopping insights. - The program is designed to support day-to-day decisions for better health and
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