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Long Island-based integrated health system Catholic Health and GE HealthCare have finalized a landmark 10-year strategic partnership valued at approximately $500M.The deal will inject more than 1,300 pieces of advanced medical technology across Catholic Health’s six acute care hospitals and 36 ambulatory sites, prioritizing cardiology, oncology, neurology, and women’s health lines.Disrupting typical multi-year implementation delays, approximately 50% of all new imaging
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KLAS Global HIT Trends 2026 Report: Artificial Intelligence Becomes the Top Investment Priority
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KLAS Research Global HIT Trends 2026 Report, reveals for the first time in history, artificial intelligence has emerged as the number-one healthcare IT investment priority across every single global region tracked outside the United States.While execution pressure is mounting, the market remains in an introductory phase, with 37% of organizations prioritizing high-level AI strategy, governance frameworks, and readiness assessments.Dictating 57% of emerging
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Brain Health’s Infrastructure Era: Proving Clinical Outcomes with Integrated Neuromotor Tracking
The senior living operator runs brain health programming for hundreds of residents and still can't say, with confidence, which ones are genuinely improving. The rehabilitation provider clears a patient to return to activity based on symptoms, not on whether the underlying deficit is actually resolved. The sports organization has to decide, in real time, whether an athlete is truly ready to perform under pressure, often with little more than instinct and a stopwatch. The pharmaceutical company
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Rock Health H1 2026 Digital Health Funding Recap: Startups Hit $7.4B in Venture Rebound
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Rock Health Capital H1 2026 Digital Health Funding Report, U.S. digital health funding reached $7.4B across 244 deals in H1 2026, outposing H1 2025 by $1B and establishing a clear multi-year recovery from the post-pandemic market resets of 2023 and 2024.Mega deals ($100M+) absorbed a staggering 45% of all deployed capital in H1 2026, consolidating nearly half of the market's total funding into just 8% of finalized transactions.Mental health secured its position as the
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Optum Partners with Anthropic to Deploy Claude Across Healthcare Claims and Revenue Workflows
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Optum, the sprawling health services subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, has announced a landmark strategic partnership with Anthropic to deploy its frontier model, Claude, across everyday healthcare operations.The enterprise collaboration sits inside a massive $3 billion AI capitalization program slated for 2026 and 2027, aimed at completely automating the transactional core of UnitedHealth’s commercial and public businesses.Led by Optum Insight CEO Sandeep Dadlani, the
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M&A: ResMed to Sell MatrixCare Business to Frazier Healthcare Partners for $450M
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Global health technology leader ResMed has announced a definitive agreement to sell its MatrixCare business to healthcare-exclusive private equity firm Frazier Healthcare Partners for $450M.The corporate divestiture explicitly aligns with ResMed’s 2030 strategy, allowing the company to narrow its focus and reallocate capital toward high-growth, scalable opportunities in sleep health, breathing health, and cloud-connected home care.MatrixCare represents a major post-acute
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Clinical Data Fidelity: The Real Blindspot in Healthcare AI Strategy
The healthcare industry has reached something it rarely achieves: near-total agreement. Surveys show 97 percent of healthcare professionals believe AI should support clinical expertise rather than replace it. Human review and validation rank as the top driver of trust in AI outputs. The governance question — who stays at the helm, who holds accountability — has been settled faster than most predicted.
But consensus on governance doesn't mean the harder problem is solved. Nearly 75% of
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Vocal Biomarkers: Helping Clinicians Detect What Patients Hesitate to Share
Five years into caring for a patient, a primary care physician saw her again shortly after she delivered her first child. The visit was scheduled as a routine six-week newborn evaluation. As is common in primary care, the encounter extended beyond the infant to include the mother’s well-being.
During the appointment, the new mother appeared upbeat. “I’m doing great — it’s such a joy to have my baby at home and to be through the process of pregnancy,” she said. On the surface, there were no
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M&A: Qualtrics Completes $6.75B Acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta
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Qualtrics has officially completed its acquisition of healthcare experience leader Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75B, marking the largest technology acquisition in Utah history.Category Expansion: The deal fuses Qualtrics’ experience management (XM) AI and data platform with Press Ganey Forsta's massive clinical, operational, and regulatory benchmarking footprint.The "Experience Gap" Mandate: Driven by consumer expectations permanently altered by AI, modern patients no longer
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Viz.ai Launches Viz Pulmonary™ Suite: AI-Powered Workflows for COPD, Lung Nodules, and PE
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Viz.ai has introduced the Viz Pulmonary™ Suite, an integrated AI solution designed to manage acute and chronic pulmonary conditions in a single platform.The suite targets three major pulmonary challenges: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), lung nodules, and pulmonary embolism (PE).Clinical Impact: In a single-center study, the integrated Viz PE tool reduced time to treatment from 1.75 days to 0.56 days and lowered in-hospital mortality among high-risk
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