What You Should Know:
- Bluesight, a leader in hospital intelligence solutions released its 2025 Diversion Trends Report, a comprehensive analysis highlighting the significant impact of software on the monitoring, prevention, and identification of controlled substance diversion in healthcare settings.
- The report, which analyzed over 266 million controlled substance transactions from more than 1,100 hospitals and health systems nationwide, offers crucial insights for
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M&A: Nordic Capital Acquires Majority Stake in Arcadia
What You Should Know:
- Arcadia, a prominent healthcare data platform, and Nordic Capital, a private equity investor in healthcare and technology, today announced a strategic partnership under which Nordic Capital will become the majority owner of Arcadia.
- The strategic investment aims to accelerate Arcadia’s mission to expand its reach and deepen its impact on healthcare customers by providing a flexible, scalable platform and delivering more comprehensive data to inform
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Suki Integrates Ambient AI Solution with MEDITECH’s Expanse EHR
What You Should Know:
- Suki, a leader in healthcare artificial intelligence (AI), has expanded its integration with MEDITECH, a widely trusted electronic health record (EHR) platform.
- This development positions Suki as the first to enable ambiently generated clinical notes to be directly sent into MEDITECH’s Expanse EHR, eliminating the need for copy-pasting and significantly improving documentation efficiency for clinicians.
Suki and MEDITECH Deepen Partnership to Scale Ambient AI
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John Snow Labs Launches Spinoff Martlet.ai to Enable AI-Powered HCC Coding for Payers and Providers
What You Should Know:
- John Snow Labs, a prominent AI company in the healthcare sector, today announced the launch of Martlet.ai, a new healthcare AI company dedicated to redefining how payers and providers approach Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) Coding.
- Founded by engineers and payment experts from John Snow Labs, Martlet.ai is the first of several planned spin-off companies aimed at tackling specific, high-impact challenges within the healthcare industry using
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Eko Health’s SENSORA Platform Gains CMS Reimbursement and CPT Code for AI-Powered Cardiac Detection
What You Should Know:
- Eko Health, a leader in AI-powered cardiac and pulmonary care, today announced a major stride in expanding access to early heart disease detection. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has included Eko's SENSORA platform in its July 2025 provisional update to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), assigning SENSORA's Category III CPT code to APC 5734, with a reimbursement rate of $128.90 per use.
- The Category III
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Senior Living Tech: Interoperability & Funding Remain Top Barriers, Report Says
What You Should Know:
- Argentum, a national association supporting senior living communities, and A Place for Mom, a senior advisory service, have released their annual report, "The State of Technology Adoption in Senior Living." The 2025 report reveals significant strides in the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and a growing commitment to collaborative innovation, even as the industry grapples with persistent challenges related to funding and interoperability.
- The
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Premier, Inc. Acquires EMR-Agnostic Platform IllumiCare
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- Premier, a technology-driven healthcare performance improvement company announced its acquisition of IllumiCare, a healthcare technology firm renowned for its EMR-agnostic platform. This strategic move significantly expands Premier's capabilities in the clinical decision support (CDS) space by integrating IllumiCare's real-time clinical and financial data at the point of care.
- The acquisition aims to empower providers to make optimal clinical decisions while
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AI Agents vs. Chatbots: Understanding Agentic AI’s Role in Healthcare
As buzz around conversational AI reached a fever pitch last year, a new term began gaining traction: "AI agents."
Over the past twelve months, Google searches for AI agents have increased nearly tenfold. While the category of "agentic AI" may seem to have appeared from nowhere, it has quickly become one of the most talked-about trends in tech.
Yet, descriptions of agentic AI are still largely abstract, making it difficult to grasp what sets it apart or how it might apply in
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AMGA 2025 Survey: Physician Compensation Rises Significantly Amidst Stable Productivity
What You Should Know:
- The newly published AMGA 2025 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey reveals substantial increases in compensation for various clinical specialties in 2024. The comprehensive analysis, encompassing data from over 184,000 providers across nearly 500 medical groups, shows a significant 4.9% compensation increase across the entire dataset, signaling a robust market for healthcare talent.
- After years of fluctuations influenced by CMS Physician Fee
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KLAS Report: Combating Provider Burnout & Elevating the EHR Experience with Ambient Speech
What You Should Know:
- A new impact report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative, titled "Ambient Speech Outcomes 2025," reveals that ambient speech solutions are significantly improving the Electronic Health Record (EHR) experience and actively combating provider burnout. The study, which analyzed data from over 900 physicians and advanced practice providers, highlights the technology's potential to bring focus back to patient care and enhance overall clinician well-being.
- Ambient
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