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The Trump Administration announced a $93.3M federal investment under the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) to expand telehealth, surgical robotics, and modern care models across rural Georgia.Completes Georgia’s $218+ million Year-1 funding commitment under the broader $50 billion federal RHTP framework established by the Working Families Tax Cuts Act.Prepares 87 rural Georgia hospitals to transition toward value-based and total cost of care payment models by
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Array Behavioral Care 2026 Report Reveals 95% Clinician Strain Amid False Capacity Confidence
Transcarent Launches Bundled Payment Model for CAR T and BiTE Cancer Therapies Across Community Providers
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Transcarent launched a first-of-its-kind bundled payment model for bispecific T-cell engager (BiTE) and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies delivered through community oncology providers.Addresses the primary cost driver for self-insured employers: the Business Group on Health’s survey found that cancer is the No. 1 condition driving employer healthcare costs for the fifth consecutive year, with 70% of employers citing it as their top cost driver.Breakthrough
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WebMD Ignite, CCS Health, and Medicine for the Greater Good Partner to Launch Collaborative Care Network
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WebMD Ignite, CCS Health, and Medicine for the Greater Good (a Johns Hopkins Medicine initiative) launched the Collaborative Care Network™ (CCN), a clinical-community operating platform for rural health systems.Aligns with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Rural Health Transformation Program, which is distributing $50 billion between 2026 and 2030 to expand rural access, workforce, technology, and regional healthcare partnerships.Addresses major
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Therapeutic VR Is Reaching Clinical Care. It Needs a Safety Ledger
As of 2026, Medical Extended Reality (MXR) has transitioned from experimental pilot phases to an integrated component of the regulated medical device landscape. It is already part of the regulated medical device landscape in the United States, and the FDA now maintains a public list of AR and VR devices authorized for marketing. Some of those products are procedural or surgical, but others are clearly therapeutic, which means immersive care has moved beyond theory and into real clinical
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PatientPoint Releases 2026 Patient Confidence Index on Healthcare Anxiety, Provider Trust, and AI
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PatientPoint® released the findings of its fifth annual Patient Confidence Index, conducted in partnership with Talker Research among 2,000 U.S. adults who attended a medical appointment within the past year.Rising Systemic Anxiety vs. High Provider Trust: 43% of respondents reported increased healthcare anxiety over the past year—driven by care affordability (54%), inflation (41%), and policy changes (39%)—causing 47% of patients to delay preventive care.Despite broad
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Radiology Partners to Acquire Everlight Radiology, Creating a Global Leader in Teleradiology
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Radiology Partners, Inc. (RP) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Everlight Radiology, a major international teleradiology provider serving hospitals and imaging centers across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.The transaction unifies Everlight’s global network with RP Clinical Services’ vRad (Virtual Radiologic) division—the largest teleradiology practice in the United States—forming an international clinical teleradiology
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Why Primary Care First Visits Must Function Like Follow-Ups
Of the roughly 30 million GP appointments recorded each month across England, most begin the same way: a patient describes what is wrong, the doctor listens, and the clinical picture gradually assembles itself over the first several minutes of a consultation that, on average, runs to under 11. Research published in the British Journal of General Practice has shown that the clinical tasks a GP is expected to complete in a standard appointment routinely take longer than the appointment allows. The
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Cityblock Acquires Homeward and Secures $116M to Unify Urban-Rural Care
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Cityblock Health entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Homeward Health in an all-stock transaction, paired with a $116M Series E financing round led by General Catalyst.The combined entity now serves nearly 200,000 members nationwide across Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, and dual-eligible programs, generating $2.2B in annualized revenue (up 77% year-over-year and more than 4x its 2021 fundraise level).Homeward Health brings a dedicated rural-first Medicare
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Impact Primary Care Network Deploys Innovaccer for Autonomous Population Health
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Impact Primary Care Network (IPCN), a physician-led, clinically integrated network in Western North Carolina, has partnered with Innovaccer to establish an operational foundation for its care management and population health initiatives.Over nearly two years of deployment, IPCN utilized Innovaccer’s care management solution and population health dashboards to automate patient prioritization, care gap identification, and protocol tracking.The deployment has strengthened
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