Healthcare faces a paradox: while clinical care embraces digital transformation, critical back-office financial processes, particularly disbursements, often lag behind. It's common knowledge that modernization is key; yet even as many providers receive payments electronically, outbound funds like patient refunds frequently rely on inefficient paper checks. This reliance on outdated methods signifies deeper operational issues hindering financial health.
Over the past decade, companies have
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Epic Outlines Roadmap for Next-Generation Data Sharing at Open@Epic
What You Should Know:
- Nearly 1,000 experts gathered at the developer-focused Open@Epic conference to discuss the future of healthcare data sharing.
- During the event, Epic outlined its plans for expanding interoperability, simplifying patient-driven data connections, and enhancing support for app developers. In the past year alone, over 745 billion data exchanges took place using Epic’s publicly available APIs.
Easier Patient-Driven Data Connections
Epic's new
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CommonSpirt Launches EMS-Hospital Data Exchange in Utah
What You Should Know:
- CommonSpirit Health and ESO, a data services and software provider for EMS, fire departments, hospitals, and government agencies, have partnered to improve patient outcomes and empower continuous learning for providers throughout Utah. The partnership, launched on July 1, 2025, spans three Wasatch Front counties—Salt Lake, Davis, and Utah—connecting CommonSpirit’s five Utah hospitals with EMS and fire agencies across the region.
Real-Time Data for Better
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Lys Therapeutics Secures $5M MJFF Grant for Parkinson’s Treatment
What You Should Know:
- Lys Therapeutics, a French biotechnology company, has announced a $5M grant award from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF).
- The significant funding, part of MJFF’s Therapeutic Pipeline Program, will accelerate the clinical development of LYS241, a first-in-class monoclonal antibody for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. The grant will support the completion of preclinical development
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Beyond the Firewall: How AI is Revolutionizing Insider Threat Detection in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a top tool in healthcare. Many know about its ability to improve diagnostics and manage workflows. However, it also defends against security risks. One area where it is making a major impact is detecting insider threats.
Healthcare organizations are vulnerable to these threats, which can create widespread complications across a large workforce. Fortunately, AI-powered detection systems provide secure defenses and maintain internal risk
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Capacity as a Growth Strategy: How Hospitals are Unlocking Revenue from Within
Hospitals across the country are confronting an uncomfortable paradox: while demand for care is growing, their ability to expand is shrinking. Health systems are under immense pressure to increase access, improve outcomes, and drive revenue growth—without adding beds, buildings, or workforce.
As a nurse and healthcare executive, I’ve seen this dynamic play out from the bedside to the boardroom. At its core, it’s a capacity problem. But it’s also a strategic opportunity. We are entering a new
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Bonsai Health Raises $7M to Transform Healthcare’s Front Office with Agentic AI
What You Should Know:
- Bonsai Health, the agentic AI platform transforming healthcare’s front office, today announced it has raised $7 million in seed funding led by Bonfire Ventures and Wonder Ventures. Since launching, Bonsai has engaged more than 182,000 patients across 100+ healthcare groups and specialty practices and scheduled over 29,000 appointments—helping patients receive timely care while automatically filling practice calendars.
- Patients too often slip through the
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The Automation-First Mindset in Healthcare: Key Considerations for the AI Era
As AI use cases in healthcare continue to expand, the priority list for most IT organizations is dominated by areas where they want to leverage automation to improve existing workflows. But AI and automation initiatives shouldn’t just be at the top of the priority list – they need to be a fundamental part of everything on the list, from top to bottom. In other words, healthcare organizations need to adopt an automation-first mindset where they question how and where to use automation as part of
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Pluto Health Partners With Leading Insurers to Expand Nationwide Access
What You Should Know:
- Pluto Health, an AI-powered care delivery platform, announced nationwide partnerships with leading insurers including Medicare, Medicaid, UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Ambetter, and Cigna in select states.
- These agreements expand access to Pluto’s personalized, preventive care model—removing financial barriers for patients and streamlining operations for insurers.
New Payor Agreements Drive Affordable, Preventive Care
Pluto Health, a Duke
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Fireflies.ai Launches AI Scribe to Combat Physician Burnout
What You Should Know:
- Fireflies.ai, an AI teammate for meetings, has announced the launch of Fireflies for Healthcare, a new HIPAA-compliant documentation solution.
- The platform is designed to give healthcare providers back over an hour daily by automating clinical notes, directly addressing the crisis of excessive documentation that drives physician burnout. The solution is built for small to mid-sized healthcare organizations and offers specialized medical documentation
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