What You Should Know:
- Humata Health, a provider of AI-powered touchless prior authorizations, today announced the availability of its platform in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure.
- The integration allows healthcare payers and providers seeking to automate prior authorization to leverage the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.
Transforming End-to-End
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Blue Shield of California and Zocdoc to Streamline In-Network Appointment Booking
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- Blue Shield of California today announced a new collaboration with Zocdoc’s healthcare booking platform to allow its members to seamlessly schedule in-network, in-person, and virtual care appointments directly on the nonprofit health plan's online member portal.
- The strategic partnership for Zocdoc marks the first time the company is working with a health plan to power scheduling for its online portal. The feature enables appointment booking from a single
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Latest Advances in Stage 4 Lung Cancer Treatment: What Patients Need to Know
Stage 4 lung cancer is often viewed as a final and untreatable diagnosis. However, thanks to medical progress and new technologies, patients today have far more treatment options than they did even a decade ago. While 4 stage lung cancer treatment is complex, modern approaches can significantly improve quality of life, help manage symptoms, and extend survival through advanced therapies and personalized care.
Understanding Staging and Types of Lung Cancer
The staging of lung cancer is
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Fighting the Chronic Disease Crisis with AI and Value-Based Care
Poorly managed and uncontrolled chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States, and represent a growing national crisis. Five of the top 10 causes of death – heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension – are chronic conditions, or closely linked to preventable and treatable chronic conditions. The prevalence of these diseases has steadily increased over the past two decades. Today, 42% of Americans have two or more chronic conditions, and the
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Emory Healthcare Invests $10M in Guidehealth to Advance AI-Driven Care
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- Guidehealth, an AI-driven healthcare technology and services company, today announced a $10M strategic investment from Emory Healthcare.
- The funding is aimed at accelerating Guidehealth’s next phase of growth and strengthens both organizations' commitment to transforming patient care, advancing disease prevention, and expanding access to high-quality, value-based healthcare. The collaboration builds on an existing relationship between the two organizations,
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The Future of RCM: Ensemble Deploys Cohere’s Agentic AI for Hospitals
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- Ensemble, a leading provider of end-to-end revenue cycle management (RCM), has partnered with Cohere, a security-first enterprise AI company, to introduce the first fully integrated agentic AI platform for revenue cycle orchestration in healthcare.
- This collaboration merges Ensemble’s decade-long RCM expertise with Cohere’s enterprise-grade AI infrastructure to deliver faster, smarter, and more secure financial operations for hospitals and health
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Wysa Launches AI-Powered Chatbot to Streamline Mental Health Patient Intake
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- Wysa, the global leader in AI-guided mental health support, today announced the U.S. launch of Wysa Gateway, an AI-powered chatbot designed to streamline how therapy providers and health plans facilitate patient access to care.
- The platform uses a conversational AI to automate clinical screenings, providing a faster, more accurate, and personalized pathway into therapy.
- Developed to meet the rising demand for mental health services, Wysa Gateway
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85% of Cancer Patients Face Unnecessary Insurance “Red Tape” Due to Prior Authorization, Says New CancerCare Report
What You Should Know:
- A new national survey from CancerCare reveals how insurance utilization management practices, particularly prior authorization, create serious and stressful barriers to care for cancer patients. The report, titled "The Health Insurance Maze: How Cancer Patients Get Lost in the Red Tape of Utilization Management," found that these requirements frequently delay diagnosis and treatment, adding significant "time toxicity" to patients' lives.
- The
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Komodo Health Launches MapLab Enterprise to Accelerate Healthcare Insights
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- Komodo Health launches MapLab Enterprise, a powerful, full-stack analytics platform designed to transform how Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations generate and operationalize healthcare insights.
- The new platform empowers diverse teams—from data scientists to business executives—to collaborate seamlessly, accelerate time to insight, and make faster, more confident decisions based on unified healthcare data.
From Months to Hours: Accelerating
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2025 State of Nursing: AI, Burnout, Compensation, Staffing, Politics
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- Incredible Health today announced the release of its sixth annual State of U.S. Nursing & Technicians Report, the largest of its kind with insights from over 1 million nurses and, for the first time, technicians, reveals a healthcare workforce under immense pressure.
- The 2025 findings show that while the nursing shortage persists, an even more severe crisis is unfolding among technicians. Both groups are feeling the weight of staffing gaps,
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