What You Should Know:
- Quadient, a global automation platform powering secure and sustainable business connections has entered into a supplier agreement with Vizient, the largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company in the U.S..
- The agreement enhances opportunities for Quadient to serve healthcare providers across the continuum of care, offering contracted pricing for a wide range of the company’s digital software, mail, and automated locker solutions.
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Innovaccer Launches AI-Powered Readmissions Management Solution
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer Inc., a leading healthcare AI company, today announced the launch of a comprehensive, AI-powered Readmissions Management Solution designed to help health systems and providers reduce avoidable readmissions, maximize transitional care management (TCM) reimbursement, reduce exposure to penalties, and optimize hospital capacity across Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured populations.
- Over 200 hospitals are expected to face Hospital Readmissions Reduction
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KLAS Arch Collaborative Physician Guidebook 2025: EHR Pain Points and Success Strategies
What You Should Know:
- The KLAS Arch Collaborative has released its "Physician Guidebook 2025," offering comprehensive insights into how healthcare organizations can improve the Electronic Health Record (EHR) experience for physicians. Drawing on feedback from over 52,000 physicians, the guidebook provides actionable strategies to prevent burnout, boost efficiency, and ensure EHRs truly support quality patient care.
- The Arch Collaborative is a group of nearly 300 healthcare
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Syndromic Monitoring Gives Public Health Teams a Head Start on Emergencies
From Buzzword to Lifesaver
Once dismissed as another healthcare buzzword, syndromic monitoring has proven its value in real-world scenarios. At its core, it captures early health signals—like symptom trends or provider impressions—and analyzes them in near real time. Rather than waiting days or weeks for lab confirmations or hospital reports, public health teams receive early alerts that support action when it matters most.
Heat Waves and the Power of Early
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Regard Launches AI-Powered Proactive Documentation Platform, Generating Diagnosis to Save Lives
What You Should Know:
- Regard, a leader in empowering clinicians to unlock the full potential of patient data unveiled its new AI-powered platform designed to enable clinical and administrative teams across the hospital to deliver enhanced patient care and improve documentation.
- The first-of-its-kind platform introduces "Proactive Documentation," an approach that combines all data in the patient chart with data from patient conversations to surface diagnostic insights and
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Healthcare Cybersecurity to Safeguard PHI and Avoid Data Breaches
Healthcare data breaches continue to grow in volume and impact. According to the HIPAA Journal, more than 276 million individuals had their Protected Health Information (PHI) exposed or stolen in 2024 alone–a sharp reminder of how vulnerable the sector remains.
For healthcare organizations, maintaining real-time awareness of where PHI lives is one of the most difficult aspects of preventing data breaches. With sensitive data frequently exchanged and transferred between internal teams,
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2025 Homecare Insights: Provider Voices Survey
What You Should Know:
- HHAeXchange, a leading provider of healthcare workforce technology for home and community-based services (HCBS), released insights from a new survey of 145 agency owners and operators.
- The report, a "2025 Homecare Insights: Provider Voices Survey," reveals that compliance has emerged as the top business priority for 2025, alongside persistent concerns about cost and the critical need for better real-time communication among caregivers.
Compliance
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“One Health” Disease Surveillance: Why Integrated Systems Are Critical for Public Health and Economic Stability
Is our siloed approach to health surveillance creating the perfect conditions for the next pandemic?
Recent outbreaks—from avian influenza to E. coli contamination in leafy greens—highlight the urgent need for integrated disease surveillance systems. Yet, many public health surveillance systems still operate in isolation, creating dangerous blind spots in our ability to detect and respond to zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and environmental contamination.
"The “One
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Health IT’s New Chapter: IPOs Return, Resilient M&A, Valuations Rise in 1H 2025
What You Should Know:
- The first half of 2025 presented a volatile backdrop of policy shocks and economic uncertainty, yet the Health IT sector demonstrated remarkable resilience, seeing a rebound in M&A valuations and a surge in AI adoption, according to a new report from Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP).
- The HGP July 2025 Health IT Market Review highlight these dynamic trends, alongside evolving EHR markets in Asia/Oceania and the transformative impact of ambient
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PwC Report: US Medical Cost Trend to Remain Elevated at 8.5% in 2026
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. healthcare system is entering 2026 with medical cost trends reminiscent of 15 years ago, facing persistent inflationary forces and significant federal policy changes, according to a new report from PwC.
- The report, "Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2026," projects the Group medical cost trend to remain at 8.5% in 2026 (the same level as 2025) and the Individual market trend at 7.5%. Pharmacy costs are a particular concern, projected 2.5
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