What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a new final rule, the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Electronic Prescribing, Real-Time Prescription Benefit and Electronic Prior Authorization (HTI-4).
- The rule implements policies to support the goal of processing prior authorizations in real time during patient care encounters and is a critical step in advancing interoperability for patients, providers, and payers to ease
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CMS Finalizes TEAM Model: A New Era of Value-Based Surgical Care
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- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued the 2026 Final Rule that officially codifies the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), an innovative new blueprint for tech-enabled, outcome-based care payment models.
- Starting in 2026, TEAM will hold hospitals and health systems accountable for the entire episode of care for major surgeries, from admission through 30 days post-discharge, with the goal of reducing
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White House Event Unveils CMS Health Tech Ecosystem Initiative
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced significant progress towards building a smarter, more secure, and more personalized healthcare experience, driven by a new partnership with innovative private sector companies.
- During a White House “Make Health Tech Great Again” event hosted with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Administration secured commitments from major healthcare and information technology
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Healthcare Investment Shifts in 1H 2025: AI Remains a Bright Spot Amidst Fundraising Decline
What You Should Know:
- After a strong start to the year, the digital health sector experienced a significant pullback in Q2 2025, with deal volume declining to its lowest quarterly activity level in the last five years, according to the latest report from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).
- The report, Mid-Year Healthcare Investment and Exits Report reveals growing investor selectivity and capital concentration in fewer, high-conviction bets amidst ongoing global economic
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Digital Health Faces Q2’25 Pullback: Funding Falls to 5-Year Low
What You Should Know:
- After a strong start to the year, the digital health sector experienced a significant pullback in Q2 2025, with deal volume declining to its lowest quarterly activity level in the last five years, according to new report from CB Insights.
- The new CB Insights report, “State of Digital Health Q2’25” reveals the drop reflects growing investor selectivity and capital concentration in fewer, high-conviction bets amidst ongoing global economic uncertainty.
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Beyond the Hype: Building AI Systems in Healthcare Where Hallucinations Are Not an Option
As a technologist and entrepreneur who has spent decades architecting enterprise-grade AI systems across highly regulated industries, I’ve seen firsthand the chasm between AI’s promise and its practical risks, especially in domains like healthcare, where trust is not optional and the margin for error is razor-thin. Nowhere is the cost of a hallucinated answer higher than at a patient’s bedside.
When an AI system confidently presents false information—whether in clinical decision
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Health IT’s New Chapter: IPOs Return, Resilient M&A, Valuations Rise in 1H 2025
What You Should Know:
- The first half of 2025 presented a volatile backdrop of policy shocks and economic uncertainty, yet the Health IT sector demonstrated remarkable resilience, seeing a rebound in M&A valuations and a surge in AI adoption, according to a new report from Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP).
- The HGP July 2025 Health IT Market Review highlight these dynamic trends, alongside evolving EHR markets in Asia/Oceania and the transformative impact of ambient
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PwC Report: US Medical Cost Trend to Remain Elevated at 8.5% in 2026
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. healthcare system is entering 2026 with medical cost trends reminiscent of 15 years ago, facing persistent inflationary forces and significant federal policy changes, according to a new report from PwC.
- The report, "Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2026," projects the Group medical cost trend to remain at 8.5% in 2026 (the same level as 2025) and the Individual market trend at 7.5%. Pharmacy costs are a particular concern, projected 2.5
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Philips Launches ECG AI Marketplace, Partnering with Anumana to Enhance Cardiac Care with AI-Powered Diagnostics
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- Philips announced the launch of the Philips ECG AI Marketplace, a new platform that provides cardiac care teams with a central location to access multiple vendor offerings, simplifying the management and implementation of AI-powered diagnostic tools.
- Anumana, an AI-driven health technology company focused on transforming cardiac care, is the first organization to leverage this platform, with its FDA-cleared ECG-AI™ LEF (Low Ejection Fraction) algorithm
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Beyond SaaS: How Agent as a Service is Transforming Healthcare Automation
Agent as a service (AaaS) goes beyond SaaS to offer greater automation, fewer errors, and to perform more tasks in real time while requiring less effort from humans. For specific healthcare use cases, it can be very effective. This article explores the basics of Agentic AI and the ways in which it is more capable than a typical SaaS-based architecture.
Agentic AI basics
Agents are essentially autonomous or semi-autonomous codebases that perform three key sub-tasks:
Accessing
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