What You Should Know:
- Microsoft unveiled significant AI innovations for its leading clinical assistant, Dragon Copilot, leveraging ambient and generative technologies to enhance the patient journey, reduce workflow burden, and strengthen the financial integrity of healthcare provider organizations.
- The advancements include the industry’s first generally available commercial ambient experience tailored for nursing workflows and new extensibility capabilities that allow
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Multi-Vector Attacks: Why Healthcare’s Siloed Security Approach Is Failing Now
In football, it’s called an all-out blitz. In cybersecurity, it’s called a multi-vector attack.
Five years ago, most cyber attacks were of the single-vector variety: a phishing expedition or a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Now cyber criminals are more sophisticated, launching multi-vector onslaughts that might simultaneously involve those tactics plus attempts at data exfiltration, account takeover and credential stuffing.
By probing for multiple vulnerabilities at the same
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The $150B Problem: How Missed Appointments Crush Healthcare and Risk Lives
Nicole is a 35-year-old single mother living in Boston. She recently completed treatment for breast cancer and was scheduled for a follow-up screening. The clinic sent a single text message reminder and a letter. She intended to call and reschedule once things settled, but between juggling two part-time jobs and managing childcare, the appointment slipped by.
That screening was meant to catch any early signs of recurrence. When the first reminder failed, no system flagged her as at risk or
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M&A: Imprivata Acquires Verosint to Enable AI-Powered Risk Signaling
What You Should Know:
- Imprivata, a leading provider of access management solutions for healthcare and other mission-critical industries, today announced the acquisition of Verosint, a leader in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) solutions.
- The acquisition represents Imprivata’s latest strategic investment in modernizing enterprise access management with solutions that deliver advanced, frictionless, and passwordless access for every user type, including frontline staff,
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3 Ways to Stabilize Hospital Operations Amidst Uncertainty: Costs, Labor, & Waste
Across the country, healthcare leaders are navigating unprecedented levels of uncertainty and complexity. Policy shifts, economic turbulence, supply chain instability, and widespread workforce strain have created a volatile environment. Given today's uncertainties, relying heavily on disconnected, outdated systems could make navigating the challenges ahead even more difficult. Many hospitals still rely on systems that are disconnected, outdated, and no longer sufficient for navigating today’s
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Teladoc Health Launches AI Solution to Combat Growing Crisis of Hospital Workplace Violence
What You Should Know:
- Teladoc Health announced a new offering within its Clarity™ monitoring solution designed to help hospitals and health systems actively address workplace violence.
- The capability uses AI-enabled software, hardware, and services to empower care teams with early intervention resources, expanding beyond Clarity’s existing virtual sitting use cases.
The Growing Threat to Healthcare Workers
Workplace violence is a persistent and escalating challenge
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R1 to Acquire Phare Health: Unifying AI-Native Coding and Clinical Documentation Improvement
What You Should Know:
- R1, a provider of healthcare revenue management automation, today announced an agreement to acquire Phare Health, a technology company specializing in AI-native solutions for inpatient coding and clinical documentation improvement (CDI).
- The acquisition is a significant step in R1’s strategy to comprehensively automate the revenue cycle and move closer to real-time adjudication of medical claims.
Unifying Clinical Documentation and Financial
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Northwell Health to Deploy Abridge’s Ambient AI Across 28 Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- Northwell Health, the largest not-for-profit health system in the Northeast, today announced a plan to deploy Abridge’s ambient artificial intelligence (AI) platform across its 28 hospitals as part of a system-wide digital transformation.
- The implementation aims to significantly improve clinical documentation of patient conversations and ease the substantial administrative burden on providers.
Ambient AI to Support Epic EHR Rollout
Northwell Health
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Cleveland Clinic and Khosla Ventures Form Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Healthcare Innovation
What You Should Know:
- Cleveland Clinic and Khosla Ventures today announced a major strategic collaboration, uniting a globally respected international health system with one of Silicon Valley’s premier investors in technology.
- The partnership aims to reimagine healthcare delivery by providing a direct pipeline for testing, validating, and scaling bold new technologies in a real-world clinical environment.
A Direct Pathway for Emerging Technology
The collaboration combines
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Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate Unveils New Cohort of AI Health Tech Startups
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate has announced its latest cohort of health tech startups, featuring national and international businesses poised to transform healthcare.
- These 11 companies will participate in an immersive, 30-week program, gaining unparalleled access to expert mentors, industry-leading technologies, and millions of de-identified, longitudinal clinical records to develop and validate their artificial intelligence (AI)-driven healthcare
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