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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SonderMind Launches AI Notes to Cut Clinician Documentation Time by 80%
What You Should Know:
- SonderMind, a leader in mental healthcare, has commercially launched AI Notes, a new tool designed to significantly reduce the administrative burden on clinicians.
- The tool, which has already been used to generate over 100,000 notes for insurance claim submission, is saving providers up to 90 minutes per day. This allows therapists and psychiatry providers to dedicate more time to their patients and less to administrative tasks.
Reducing Burnout and
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Qventus Launches AI Solution Factory to Co-Develop AI Assistants for Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- Qventus, a provider of AI-powered solutions for hospitals, has announced the AI Solution Factory at its inaugural client conference, QLive.
- The new initiative allows health system partners to co-develop custom AI Operational Assistants designed to solve pressing hospital challenges and deliver a sustained return on investment (ROI).
Optimizing Operational Efficiency
Hospitals today are facing immense financial pressure due to thinning margins,
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Evidently Launches EHR-Embedded AI Chat Interface for Clinicians
What You Should Know:
- Evidently, a clinical data intelligence platform, has launched Ask Evidently, an AI chat interface that embeds directly into any electronic health record (EHR).
- The new tool is designed to provide clinicians with a comprehensive understanding of the patient record through a verifiable and intuitive user experience. It's the first product of its kind to be deployed at scale in collaboration with clinicians and AI Governance Committees at major health
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Elevating Patient Trust: Why Automated Reputation Management Is Essential for Healthcare Organizations
In today’s digital-first healthcare landscape, trust is often built long before a patient walks through a clinic’s doors. For many, the decision to choose a provider hinges on a simple Google search. In fact, more than 70% of recruiters check candidates’ online reputations before hiring. Rely on online reviews as a primary decision-making tool when selecting healthcare providers. In this environment, an organization’s digital reputation has become a critical part of the patient experience and a
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