Wearable devices are transforming healthcare through continuous monitoring, early detection, and personalized management of chronic diseases. These innovations are reinventing how health concerns are tracked and treated, with the goal of improving diagnostics, outcomes, and accessibility. However, they also introduce new technical challenges to overcome.
Factors like increasing health consciousness, aging populations, and advances in sensor technology and connectivity are
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Why Centralized Pharmacy is the Only Cure for Rising Drug Costs in 2026
We’ve all been there: one weekend, you’re bitten by the home improvement bug. A few clicks later, your online cart is full of tools, and within minutes of checkout you can track your order from warehouse to doorstep.
As the above scenario illustrates, supply chain visibility has become an expected feature of the consumer experience. Yet for one of the most critical sectors — healthcare pharmacy — inventory transparency lags. Across the country, many health systems still struggle to know
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The Flight to Quality: Why 2026 Healthcare VC is Betting on AI Integration Over Innovation
Venture capital is making a comeback in healthcare, and this time, artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of the movement.
According to Crunchbase, funding for AI-powered health-tech startups surged to an estimated $10.7 billion in 2025, a 24% increase over the previous year. That represents roughly one-third of all digital-health investments this year, signaling not just a rebound from prior market corrections but a renewed focus on technologies that deliver measurable clinical
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Smarter Media Planning: How Pharma Marketers are Solving the 2026 FDA Compliance Gap
Pharma advertising is entering a period of accelerated change. As the Food and Drug Administration increases oversight of direct‑to‑consumer promotions, marketers are rethinking how they reach patients and consumers. New guidance aimed at improving risk communication and ensuring message accuracy is prompting brands to diversify their media strategies and invest in channels that balance reach, trust, and regulatory responsibility.
Marketers Are Reassessing the Full Advertising Mix
Spending
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The 40% Difference: Why AI Must Anchor Your RCM Modernization Strategy in 2026
The Crisis Facing Healthcare Financial Leaders
Healthcare financial leaders are navigating an environment of unprecedented complexity. Your organization is caught between escalating operational costs and a relentless denial rate fueled by increasingly sophisticated payer tactics. The truth is, if your Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is reliant on manual, legacy systems, you are accepting a permanent, self-inflicted fiscal vulnerability.
Industry data confirms this exposure: upwards of 10%
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Scaling Medical Cannabinoids: How Digital Care Platforms Solve the Clinical Guidance Gap in 2026
Cannabinoids – and medical cannabis – are becoming part of the care mainstream. Evidence suggests that responsibly managed cannabinoid care and guidance can have success in symptom management, inclusive of pain, stress, anxiety, and more.
According to reports, there is no letup in sight for the growth of medical expenses and pharmaceutical utilization. Furthermore, aging populations will increase demand for chronic care, with the cost of pain management already estimated to be more than
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Beyond the Band-Aid: Reimagining Healthcare Workflows for the AI Era
Industry leaders have been rapidly deploying AI programs, many of them hoping for a cure-all for operational and technological maladies of all kinds. Their optimism is not surprising, as tech vendors promising productivity gains, cost savings, and reimagined workflows have frequently sold it as such.
But what many organizations have been deploying can be likened to a Band-Aid, not a genuine or sustainable remedy for structural problems in their operations and technology stacks.
In my
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Rewriting the Front Door: How AI-Assisted Intake Solves the 2026 Mental Health Crisis
For all the hype about AI “replacing therapists,” the more immediate and profound shift is happening somewhere far less glamorous: the intake process.
Across health systems, primary care physicians, insurers, and community providers are still funnelling patients into behavioural health through faxed referrals, phone tag, and unstructured web forms. Patients finally find the courage to ask for help, then hit voicemail, long waits, and confusing eligibility rules. In many organisations, no one
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The Future of the AI-Enabled Health Consumer in 2026
Imagine a world where your healthcare simply works. Everything you need to manage your health lives on your phone, in one place. It speaks your language, reflects your preferences, and connects you to care instantly—day or night, weekday, weekend, or holiday. You never sit on hold. You don’t wait six weeks for an appointment. You never wonder if a doctor is in your network. You never guess whether to head to the ER, urgent care, or connect virtually. You always know what’s covered, what’s next,
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The Digital Insider: Securing Agentic AI in the 2026 Healthcare Landscape
Hospitals have thrown their doors open to a new kind of technology that can think, act and make changes faster than any human. And with healthcare generating more than 30% of the world’s data, the industry has, for better or worse, become the ultimate proving ground for AI, from all of the good it can support to all of the threats that it amplifies.
AI is being woven into diagnostics, scheduling, documentation and the overarching integration and interoperability plans that make healthcare
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