What You Should Know:
- Premier, Inc., a healthcare improvement company, has announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Patient Square Capital.
- Under the terms of the agreement, Premier stockholders will receive $28.25 in cash per share valued at $2.6B, which represents a 23.8% premium to the company's 60-day volume-weighted average price as of September 5, 2025. The transaction has been unanimously approved by Premier’s Board of Directors.
Premier,
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CVS Health Subsidiary Omnicare Files for Bankruptcy to Tackle Financial Challenges
What You Should Know:
- Omnicare, LLC, a subsidiary of CVS Health, has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 process supervised by a court to resolve issues related to a recent lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
- The company also intends to use this process to address other financial challenges facing the long-term care pharmacy industry. This will allow the company to evaluate its restructuring options, which may include a standalone restructuring or a
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The State of Claims 2025: Why AI Adoption is Lagging in Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management
What You Should Know:
- According to the Experian Health 2025 State of Claims survey, healthcare providers are grappling with a persistent cycle of rising claim denials, data errors, and staffing shortages. The survey was conducted among 250 healthcare professionals responsible for financial, billing, or claims management decisions.
- The survey found that 41% of providers now experience denial rates of 10% or higher, a problem that has grown annually since 2022. Despite widespread
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Why Broken Analog Infrastructure Blocks Behavioral Health Innovation
Behavioral health has become a leading frontier for digital health innovation. From virtual therapy platforms to AI-powered diagnostics, the sector has drawn massive investment and attention. However, most behavioral health providers still operate in a system powered by faxes, phone calls, and fractured workflows. The tools may be new, but the terrain beneath them hasn’t changed. And that makes all the difference.
This is a blind spot for the healthtech
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Sutter Health and Epic Launch “Sutter Sync” to Optimize Remote Chronic Care
What You Should Know:
- Sutter Health has partnered with Epic to launch a new initiative called Sutter Sync, which deploys first-of-their-kind medical devices that connect directly to Epic's EHR.
- The initiative is designed to help patients proactively manage chronic health conditions from the comfort of their own homes. The program aims to make access easier by treating patients' homes as care settings, helping people stay healthier and avoid unnecessary hospital
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Why Certificate Lifecycle Management is a Strategic Imperative for Healthcare
You won’t find a more impactful initiative for your healthcare IT strategy today than implementing a Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution. While some organizations have adopted basic tools or competitive offerings, many still rely on fragmented, manual processes for managing digital certificates. In an industry as high-stakes and overburdened as healthcare, that’s a risk we can no longer afford.
Digital certificates play a critical role in securing data, enabling encrypted
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Edifecs Launches Agentic AI Platform to Solve Value-Based Payment Challenges
What You Should Know:
- Edifecs, a Cotiviti business, has launched the next generation of its Population Payment Management platform, which is now powered by agentic artificial intelligence (AI).
- The enhanced solution is a practical and scalable application of AI designed to address persistent challenges in the shift to value-based payment (VBP).
How Agentic AI is Revolutionizing VBP
At the core of the platform are intelligent, task-oriented AI agents that understand VBP
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Beyond the Breach: 10 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Strengthen Patient Privacy
Despite decades of investment in privacy programs, unauthorized access to patient records remains a persistent and costly challenge for healthcare organizations.
Patient privacy breaches cost an average of $9.8 million per incident and include snooping on friends, coworkers and family members and looking into the charts of celebrities.
Clearly, the stakes are high, yet current efforts to discourage, detect, and address violations still leave room for improvement.
Here are 10 ways
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The Hidden Threat: Why Client-Side Security is the Next Frontier for Healthcare
For healthcare organizations, addressing cybersecurity risks is paramount. In 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported a record-breaking 677 major healthcare data breaches, affecting over 182 million individuals. Hacking incidents dominated these breaches, with many emphasizing the critical need to secure client-side environments where attackers exploit end-user devices and web interfaces. Despite the growing sophistication of healthcare cybersecurity measures, client-side
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Survey: 50% Open to AI-Enabled Triage for Faster Mental Health Treatment
What You Should Know:
- The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in mental health is a rapidly growing field, but a new national survey from Iris Telehealth reveals that consumer trust hinges on one critical factor: human oversight.
- The 2025 AI & Mental Health Emergencies Survey suggest that while respondents recognize AI's potential to expedite the detection of behavioral health crises, they overwhelmingly oppose any model in which AI makes final care decisions without
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