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- Northwell Health, the largest not-for-profit health system in the Northeast, today announced a plan to deploy Abridge’s ambient artificial intelligence (AI) platform across its 28 hospitals as part of a system-wide digital transformation.
- The implementation aims to significantly improve clinical documentation of patient conversations and ease the substantial administrative burden on providers.
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Cleveland Clinic and Khosla Ventures Form Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Healthcare Innovation
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- Cleveland Clinic and Khosla Ventures today announced a major strategic collaboration, uniting a globally respected international health system with one of Silicon Valley’s premier investors in technology.
- The partnership aims to reimagine healthcare delivery by providing a direct pipeline for testing, validating, and scaling bold new technologies in a real-world clinical environment.
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Qualtrics Acquires Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75B to Create the Most Comprehensive AI Experience Platform
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- Qualtrics, a leader in the experience management (XM) category, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75B, payable in a combination of cash and equity.
- Press Ganey Forsta is a trusted global provider of experience measurement and data analytics, serving more than 43,000 clients, including 41,000 healthcare providers. This acquisition is poised to create the most complete AI platform specialized for customer
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Omada Health Launches AI-Powered Meal Map to Transform Nutrition for Cardiometabolic Patients
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- Omada Health, a virtual between-visit healthcare provider, has launched Meal Map, a new nutrient-categorization tool.
- The tool combines AI-powered instant feedback with support from human care teams to help members in cardiometabolic programs understand the nutrient quality of their food choices. Built within Omada’s Nutritional Intelligence capability, Meal Map is designed to foster confidence and long-term healthy habits.
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Pfizer and Trump Administration Announce Landmark Agreement to Lower Drug Costs
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- Pfizer Inc. has announced a historic agreement with the Trump Administration that is designed to ensure U.S. patients pay lower prices for their prescription medicines while strengthening America’s role as the global leader in biopharmaceutical innovation.
- The voluntary agreement, made in response to a presidential letter, aims to implement measures that ensure Americans receive drug prices comparable to those available in other developed
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KLAS Report: Epic’s Native Ambient Speech Tool Reshapes Customer AI Strategies
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- A new KLAS Flash Insights report explores how Epic’s native clinician-facing ambient AI speech tool has the potential to reshape the market.
- Initially, Epic provided ambient speech through integrations with partners like Microsoft and Abridge. However, at its annual UGM in August 2025, Epic announced its own native clinician-facing ambient speech tool, developed with Microsoft.
- To understand the industry reaction, KLAS
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Epic Outlines Roadmap for Next-Generation Data Sharing at Open@Epic
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- 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
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RevSpring to Acquire Kyruus Health, Creating a Unified Patient Experience
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- RevSpring, a Frazier Healthcare portfolio company, has announced an agreement to acquire Kyruus Health, a pioneer in provider data, search, and scheduling.
- The acquisition aims to integrate Kyruus Health's provider data, search, scheduling, cost, and price transparency solutions with RevSpring's patient engagement and payments platform.
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Patient Square Capital Acquires Premier in $2.6B Deal
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- Premier, Inc., a healthcare improvement company, has announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Patient Square Capital.
- Under the terms of the agreement, Premier stockholders will receive $28.25 in cash per share valued at $2.6B, which represents a 23.8% premium to the company's 60-day volume-weighted average price as of September 5, 2025. The transaction has been unanimously approved by Premier’s Board of Directors.
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Pfizer Acquires Metsera for $4.9B, Expanding into Obesity and Cardiometabolic Market
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- Pfizer Inc. and Metsera, Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement under which Pfizer will acquire Metsera, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing medicines for obesity and cardiometabolic diseases for $4.9B.
- The acquisition is a strategic move for Pfizer, allowing it to enter a significant and growing therapeutic area. The Boards of Directors of both companies have unanimously approved the transaction.
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