What You Should Know:
- Oracle Health has unveiled a new strategy to strengthen the collaboration between healthcare providers and payers.
- The company plans to introduce a comprehensive suite of AI-powered apps and agents designed to automate prior authorizations, reduce claims denials, and improve care coordination. These solutions aim to significantly cut down on administrative costs, which are estimated at approximately $200B annually, and enhance value-based care
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Oracle Health Launches AI Center of Excellence for Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Oracle Health has announced the launch of the Oracle AI Center of Excellence for Healthcare, a new hub of resources and expertise designed to help health systems and hospitals leverage the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence.
- In partnership with industry leaders, the center of excellence (COE) aims to help healthcare organizations deploy and optimize AI to unlock new clinical and business outcomes.
A Comprehensive Approach to AI
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Oracle Health Adds Conversational AI to Its Patient Portal
What You Should Know:
During the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit, Oracle Health has announced a new AI capability for its Patient Portal that will provide patients with secure, plain-language explanations of their medical records.
- The new feature, which uses OpenAI’s technology, is designed to help patients better understand diagnoses, test results, and treatment options.
Delivering ChatGPT-Like Conversational Experiences in Oracle Health Patient Portal
The new
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athenahealth Launches AI-Native athenaClinicals with Predictive Diagnoses and Ambient Notes
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth, a provider of network-enabled software and services, has announced new advancements in its electronic health record (EHR), athenaClinicals.
- The new features are part of the company's ongoing launch of its AI-native athenaOne platform and are designed to simplify clinical workflows, automate routine tasks, and deliver personalized insights to enable a more patient-centered approach to care.
Intelligent and Adaptive Clinical
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US Court Allows Particle’s Antitrust Claims Against Epic to Proceed
What You Should Know:
- A U.S. District Court judge in the Southern District of New York, Judge Naomi Buchwald, has allowed Core Antitrust Claims against Epic to proceed.
- The ruling found that Particle Health, a healthcare data platform, may move forward with its claims that Epic holds a monopoly in the payer platform market with a 90% market share and has engaged in anti-competitive conduct. The ruling marks as the first time an antitrust case against Epic has progressed
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Oracle Confirms Layoffs in Kansas City
What You Should Know:
- Several Kansas City area-based employees at Oracle have received layoff notices, according to at least two sources with knowledge of the company's actions, KMBC reports. The company, which is now headquartered in Nashville, did not announce a total number of layoffs, but sources confirmed that several long-tenured employees have lost their jobs.
- The latest round of workforce reductions comes three years after Oracle's acquisition of healthcare technology
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Epic Launches Comet: A New AI Platform to Predict Patient Health Journeys
What You Should Know:
- Today, Epic announced the launch of a new form of healthcare intelligence, named Comet, developed to help clinicians, health systems, and patients make more informed decisions.
- Built on Epic Cosmos, a secure data platform, Comet is designed to predict what is likely to happen next in a patient’s journey by estimating disease risk, length of stay, and treatment outcomes. The platform has learned from more than 100 billion patient medical events to
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Onvida Health and Ambience Healthcare Launch Ambient AI Integration with Epic
What You Should Know:
- Onvida Health and Ambience Healthcare have announced the launch of new ambient AI capabilities directly inside Epic's Hyperspace and Haiku applications.
- This enterprise-wide deployment gives Onvida clinicians seamless access to Ambience's chart summarization, ambient scribing, coding, and patient summary technology without ever leaving the Epic platform.
Epic Integration Impact
The Epic integration builds on a successful partnership announced in
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The Siloed Trap: Why Fragmented EHR Workflows Are Failing Primary Care
It’s 4:37 p.m. in a primary care clinic in Mississippi. The waiting room is still half full. Dr. Rubin, a pediatric specialist, just wrapped up with a newborn’s checkup, and now faces an uphill sprint: reconciling three faxes, documenting vitals from two overlapping visits, and reviewing the urgent message from a parent sent through the portal. All before she can log off.
None of this is unfamiliar. For many primary care providers, this daily scramble is the byproduct of fragmented workflows,
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Scribematic Launches Matic Inside, an Embedded AI Scribe Solution for EHR Vendors
What You Should Know:
- The team behind Scribematic has launched Matic Inside, a fully embedded AI clinical documentation solution specifically built for EHR vendors.
- The launch comes at a time of a significant shift in the market, as the largest EHR vendor has announced it will implement its own embedded AI scribe across nearly half of the U.S. hospital market in 2026.
EHRs Face a "Right Now Crisis"
This move is creating a "right now crisis" for other EHR companies.
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