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- Ambience Healthcare, an AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflow, announced a significant expansion of its Inpatient Care Setting offering with the introduction of an AI-powered Conditions Advisor.
- The new capability is designed to help clinicians capture the full complexity of their patients' conditions at the point of care, leading to better clinical decision-making and improved care coordination.
Solving the Hidden Diagnosis
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Hannover Medical School Integrates Remote ECG Data into Clinical Workflows via AliveCor
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- GE HealthCare and AliveCor announced the world’s first clinical go-live of the integration between GE HealthCare’s MUSE™ Cardiology Information System and AliveCor’s KardiaMobile® 6L electrocardiogram (ECG) device at Hannover Medical School (MHH), Germany.
- The strategic collaboration marks a major milestone in connected cardiac care, aiming to optimize patient care and reduce hospitalizations linked to cardiac events by expanding care outside the hospital
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VectorCare Launches SMART on FHIR App to Transform Patient Logistics and Discharge Coordination
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- VectorCare, a provider of modern patient logistics and care coordination technology, today announced the launch of its new SMART on FHIR app, now featured in the Epic App Market.
- The app allows healthcare systems using major EHRs, including Epic, Cerner, and Allscripts, to embed VectorCare's full patient logistics management capabilities directly within their existing workflows. The goal is to transform how hospitals coordinate discharges and
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ŌURA and Cigna Healthcare Partner to Redefine Preventive Health and Chronic Disease Management
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- ŌURA and Cigna Healthcare have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at integrating continuous biometric insights with expertise in preventive care and chronic disease management.
- The partnership builds upon ŌURA’s earlier work with Essence, a Medicare Advantage plan, demonstrating the wearable’s evolving role from a consumer device to a clinical-grade, payer-aligned prevention tool.
Maximizing ROI Through High Utilization
Historically,
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The ICHRA Revolution. How Flexible Infrastructure Unlocks Sustainable Growth
Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs) are rapidly gaining traction as an alternative to traditional group plans. What began as a niche option for small employers is now reshaping the broader health insurance marketplace — and accelerating a fundamental shift toward Individual market enrollment.
As adoption grows, so do the operational demands. ICHRA doesn’t fit neatly into legacy group-based systems. It requires a decentralized, multi-stakeholder infrastructure:
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Vivian Health and Hallmark Partner to Integrate AI Hiring Tech for Healthcare Staffing
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- Vivian Health, the largest online marketplace for healthcare talent, and Hallmark Health Care Solutions, Inc., a leader in workforce intelligence and enablement, today announced a strategic partnership designed to transform how agencies and healthcare facilities connect with top-tier clinicians.
- The collaboration embeds Vivian’s AI-enabled hiring technology directly into Hallmark’s workforce solutions, simplifying and accelerating the clinician placement
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Is Professor AI The Next to Lead The Nursing Classroom?
For decades, educators have sought better ways to prepare students for a rapidly evolving clinical environment. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as an important part of the roadmap. AI is playing into adaptive learning systems, virtual simulations and predictive analytics to personalize education in ways previously unimaginable.
However, this transformation won't happen in isolation. Of course, AI presents exciting opportunities to evolve the education landscape, but it also
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WellSky Launches AI Ambient Listening in Specialty Care EHR to Cut Documentation Time by 41%
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- WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, announced the launch of an AI-powered ambient listening feature within its Specialty Care electronic health record (EHR) solution.
- Enabled by Suki, a pioneer in healthcare AI, the WellSky Ambient Listening solution is designed to deliver secure, efficient, and intelligent documentation directly into the clinical workflow of providers in behavioral health, rehabilitation, and long-term
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Hoag and Philips Announce 10-Year Collaboration to Modernize Patient Monitoring
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- Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Hoag, Orange County, California’s highest-ranked hospital announced a landmark 10-year strategic collaboration.
- The initiative is set to standardize and modernize patient monitoring across Hoag’s two acute care hospitals, including the expanded Sun Family Campus in Irvine, which will add 155 inpatient beds in mid-2026.
Unified, Patient-Centered Monitoring Environment
Hoag will adopt Philips’
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Why Value-Based Care Fails to Reward LTPAC Providers Today
The chorus of voices singing the praises of value-based care is growing ever louder. But in LTPAC, it still feels like the system’s asking providers to do more—with less—and faster than ever.
For the past 25 years, financial strategy in long-term and post-acute care has been tied to two things: occupancy and payer mix. Around 70% of residents are covered by Medicaid. The rest—split between Medicare fee-for-service, Medicare Advantage, and private pay—bring in higher rates, especially
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