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items: Leveraging Real-World Data for Proactive Protocol Design
items: Alternative Funding Programs vs. In-Benefit Optimization: Designing a Sustainable Specialty Drug Strategy
items: Health Catalyst to Divest Vitalware Unit for $147M to Med-Metrix
items: Philips and WellSpan Health Launch 7-Year Strategic AI and Imaging Partnership
items: Vida Health Partners with Instacart to Launch Category-Specific Grocery Stipends for Cardiometabolic Care
items: Don’t Let Legacy Data Derail Your Health System’s Growth
items: Ilant Health Secures $15M to Expand Value-Based Precision Obesity Management
items: 4 Critical Guardrails for Community Hospital Tech Procurement
items: Rural Hospitals Are Collapsing Under Administrative Burden That AI Alone Cannot Solve
items: Bridging the Diagnostics Gap: Deloitte Research Exposes Core Mismatch Between Manufacturers and Providers
items: Shifting the Interoperability Axis: Why Layered Extensions Fail Modern Hospital Core EHRs
items: ŌURA Launches Oura Ring 5: Embedding Live Blood Pressure Signals and GLP-1 Tracking Into Wearable Tech
items: Garner Health Secures $100M at $2.74B Valuation to Scale Clinical Quality Infrastructure
items: Ambience Healthcare Launches Chart-Aware Inpatient AI Suite to Resolve 91% of Documentation Gaps
items: Teal Health and WashU School of Medicine Partner to Launch Cervical Cancer Screening Pilot

Leveraging Real-World Data for Proactive Protocol Design
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creator: Ashley Daigneau, Head of Clinical Trials at Verana Health
date: 2026-06-05T12:30:27Z
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Opinion
description: Clinical trials have grown more complex than ever before. Protocols are becoming more specialized, endpoints more refined, and eligibility criteria narrower and more precise. At the same time, development programs are expected to move faster and operate with greater efficiency. Despite this dual pressure, feasibility projections often rely on high-level estimates or investigator recall rather ... Read More
encoded: <img width="869" height="726" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ashley-daigneau-headshot-2024-1.jpg" alt="Leveraging Real-World Data for Proactive Protocol Design" class="wp-image-96560" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ashley-daigneau-headshot-2024-1.jpg 869w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ashley-daigneau-headshot-2024-1-300x251.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ashley-daigneau-headshot-2024-1-290x242.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ashley-daigneau-headshot-2024-1-768x642.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px" /> Ashley Daigneau, Head of Clinical Trials at Verana Health Clinical trials have grown more complex than ever before. Protocols are becoming more specialized, endpoints more refined, and eligibility criteria narrower and more precise. At the same time, development programs are expected to move faster and operate with greater efficiency. Despite this dual pressure, feasibility projections often rely on high-level estimates or investigator recall rather than validated assessments of patients who truly meet protocol criteria in a real-world clinical setting. When projected patient populations fail to emerge or sites underperform, the consequences extend beyond delayed timelines. Protocol amendments, operational strain, stressed site relationships, and escalating costs follow. As protocol complexity increases, the risk of designing studies without a clear understanding of real-world care patterns becomes harder to ignore. Real-world data (RWD) offers a meaningful opportunity to close this gap, but only when it is integrated thoughtfully and early in the development process. Moving from Retrospective Insight to Proactive Design For years, RWD has played an important role in post-marketing research and evidence generation. Increasingly, its greatest impact is realized earlier in development, where it can inform protocol …

Alternative Funding Programs vs. In-Benefit Optimization: Designing a Sustainable Specialty Drug Strategy
type: item
creator: Ryan Czado, PharmD, MBA, Chief Pharmacy Officer at RazorMetrics
date: 2026-06-05T10:36:00Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Opinion
subject: Population Health Management
description: Specialty medications are expanding what is clinically possible, but not without a price. The affordability gap on these therapies continues to widen, placing sustained pressure on health plan budgets. U.S. prescription drug spending reached approximately $467 billion in 2024, with projections exceeding $556 billion by the end of 2026. As costs rise, employers and pharmacy ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ryan-Czado-CPO-1500x2249.png" alt="Alternative Funding Programs vs. In-Benefit Optimization: Designing a Sustainable Specialty Drug Strategy" class="wp-image-96563" width="571" height="857" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ryan-Czado-CPO-1500x2249.png 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ryan-Czado-CPO-200x300.png 200w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ryan-Czado-CPO-193x290.png 193w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ryan-Czado-CPO-768x1151.png 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ryan-Czado-CPO-1025x1536.png 1025w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ryan-Czado-CPO-1366x2048.png 1366w" sizes="(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px" /> Ryan Czado, PharmD, MBA, Chief Pharmacy Officer at RazorMetrics Specialty medications are expanding what is clinically possible, but not without a price. The affordability gap on these therapies continues to widen, placing sustained pressure on health plan budgets. U.S. prescription drug spending reached approximately $467 billion in 2024, with projections exceeding $556 billion by the end of 2026. As costs rise, employers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) face increasing pressure to ensure that high-cost therapies remain both clinically appropriate and financially sustainable. To address pharmaceutical affordability, employers are increasingly turning to technology-enabled savings strategies. Two commonly considered approaches are alternative funding programs (AFPs) and in-benefit optimization. AFPs are designed to address high-cost specialty therapies through alternative sourcing pathways, often unlocking meaningful savings in concentrated areas of spend. In-benefit optimization focuses on reducing waste within existing pharmacy benefit structures, enabling more consistent, system-wide cost control. To determine which platforms best…

Health Catalyst to Divest Vitalware Unit for $147M to Med-Metrix
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-06-04T14:20:00Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions
description: What You Should Know Healthcare intelligence leader Health Catalyst has signed a definitive agreement to divest its mid-revenue cycle business unit, Vitalware, LLC, to Med-Metrix for $147M in cash. The transaction allows Health Catalyst to shed a non-core financial software asset and sharpen its corporate focus on driving cost, clinical, and consumer performance improvements. The ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1440" height="522" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Vitalware.jpg" alt="Health Catalyst to Divest Vitalware Unit for $147M to Med-Metrix" class="wp-image-96554" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Vitalware.jpg 1440w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Vitalware-300x109.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Vitalware-290x105.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Vitalware-768x278.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px" /> What You Should Know Healthcare intelligence leader Health Catalyst has signed a definitive agreement to divest its mid-revenue cycle business unit, Vitalware, LLC, to Med-Metrix for $147M in cash. The transaction allows Health Catalyst to shed a non-core financial software asset and sharpen its corporate focus on driving cost, clinical, and consumer performance improvements. The $147M cash injection, combined with existing capital, will be deployed to fully repay and terminate Health Catalyst’s $160 million senior secured term loan facility. Vitalware is a recognized mid-revenue cycle leader that generated approximately $37 million in revenue during fiscal year 2025. The corporate separation frees up long-term financial flexibility, allowing Health Catalyst to accelerate its core technology and healthcare AI roadmap. Focus Over Fragmentation: Why Health Catalyst Is Divesting Vitalware for $147M The healthcare technology and enterprise software landscape is working through an intensive phase of structural realignment. Over the past decade, many digital health vendors sought to build expansive, multi-categorical platforms by acquiring adjacent software business units across clinical, operational, and financial silos. However, running a highly fragmented portfolio often dilutes an organization’s core engineering focus and ties up valuable capital in distinct software categories that require separ…

Philips and WellSpan Health Launch 7-Year Strategic AI and Imaging Partnership
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-06-04T14:13:00Z
subject: Health IT
description: What You Should Know Philips and WellSpan Health have announced a seven-year strategic alliance establishing a comprehensive research, co-development, and advanced imaging platform across Central Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland. Moving past standard vendor transactions, the agreement marks the first joint innovation and research strategy between Philips and a U.S. community health system. The research framework ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="640" height="400" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Wellspan_Health_logo-1.jpg" alt="Philips and WellSpan Health Launch 7-Year Strategic AI and Imaging Partnership" class="wp-image-96551" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Wellspan_Health_logo-1.jpg 640w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Wellspan_Health_logo-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Wellspan_Health_logo-1-290x181.jpg 290w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /> What You Should Know Philips and WellSpan Health have announced a seven-year strategic alliance establishing a comprehensive research, co-development, and advanced imaging platform across Central Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland. Moving past standard vendor transactions, the agreement marks the first joint innovation and research strategy between Philips and a U.S. community health system. The research framework focuses on validating AI and digital tools to optimize hospital throughput, cost, and workflow efficiency, directly supporting WellSpan’s goal to reclaim over 500,000 hours of workforce time annually. The enterprise commercial agreement establishes Philips as the preferred vendor across all major imaging modalities (CT, MR, digital X-ray, ultrasound, and image-guided therapy) spanning all 12 WellSpan hospitals, diagnostic centers, and ambulatory surgery sites. A core feature of the partnership is a unified technology lifecycle management blueprint that coordinates equipment, specialized training, and software upgrades under a single framework to eliminate regional patient access gaps. Shifting the Innovation Axis: Why Philips Partnered with WellSpan Health on a 7-Year EHR-Neutral Alliance The operational environment for regional healthcare delivery systems is working through an intensive structural transformation. Historically, cutting-edge clinical research, advanced artificial intelligence validation,…

Vida Health Partners with Instacart to Launch Category-Specific Grocery Stipends for Cardiometabolic Care
type: item
creator: Jasmine Pennic
date: 2026-06-04T14:00:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Population Health Management
description: What You Should Know Virtual cardiometabolic provider Vida Health has finalized a nationwide partnership with grocery technology leader Instacart to integrate category-specific grocery stipends into virtual chronic care delivery. The collaboration utilizes Instacart Health Fresh Funds to provide members with direct financial stipends dedicated exclusively to purchasing dietitian-approved, nutritious groceries. The initiative directly targets the ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="731" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Instacare-Fresh-funds-1500x731.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-96557" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Instacare-Fresh-funds-1500x731.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Instacare-Fresh-funds-300x146.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Instacare-Fresh-funds-290x141.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Instacare-Fresh-funds-768x374.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Instacare-Fresh-funds-1536x748.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Instacare-Fresh-funds-2048x998.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know Virtual cardiometabolic provider Vida Health has finalized a nationwide partnership with grocery technology leader Instacart to integrate category-specific grocery stipends into virtual chronic care delivery. The collaboration utilizes Instacart Health Fresh Funds to provide members with direct financial stipends dedicated exclusively to purchasing dietitian-approved, nutritious groceries. The initiative directly targets the social determinants of health (SDOH), leveraging Instacart’s logistics network which reaches 98% of U.S. households—including 95% of low-income, low-access food deserts. Guided by a multidisciplinary team of obesity medicine-certified physicians and registered dietitians, the program delivers culturally sensitive meal plans accounting for budget constraints across more than 25 distinct backgrounds. Future infrastructure phases plan to make Vida’s clinical meal plans directly shoppable via the Instacart Marketplace while establishing direct employer subsidization channels within enterprise benefit packages. Prescribing the Pantry: Why Vida Health and Instacart Are Unifying Food Stipends and EHR Nutrition Loops The clinical management of chronic cardiomet…

Don’t Let Legacy Data Derail Your Health System’s Growth
type: item
creator: Dave Lamar, Chief Growth Officer of MediQuant
date: 2026-06-04T13:59:00Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Opinion
description: As health systems continue expanding through acquisitions and partnerships, many find themselves racing to bring new practices onto shared EHR platforms. The motivation is clear: unify care, streamline operations, and unlock value across the enterprise. But beneath that strategic vision lies a messy operational reality – one that too often gets overlooked until it’s too ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dave-Lamar_MediQuant-1500x2255.webp" alt=" Don’t Let Legacy Data Derail Your Health System’s Growth" class="wp-image-96548" width="655" height="985" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dave-Lamar_MediQuant-1500x2255.webp 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dave-Lamar_MediQuant-200x300.webp 200w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dave-Lamar_MediQuant-193x290.webp 193w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dave-Lamar_MediQuant-768x1154.webp 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dave-Lamar_MediQuant-1022x1536.webp 1022w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dave-Lamar_MediQuant-1362x2048.webp 1362w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dave-Lamar_MediQuant.webp 1703w" sizes="(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px" /> Dave Lamar, Chief Growth Officer of MediQuant As health systems continue expanding through acquisitions and partnerships, many find themselves racing to bring new practices onto shared EHR platforms. The motivation is clear: unify care, streamline operations, and unlock value across the enterprise. But beneath that strategic vision lies a messy operational reality – one that too often gets overlooked until it’s too late. At the center of this challenge is legacy data. For every practice or partner brought into the fold, there’s a trail of applications, contracts, and patient data that needs to be rationalized and retained. Done right, this process supports compliance, reduces risk, and keeps the onboarding timeline on track. Done haphazardly, it leads to costly delays, redundant systems, and compliance vulnerabilities that can unravel even the best-laid integration plans. Many health systems underestimate the complexity of legacy data management during onboarding. And that misstep can cost more than just money. It can erode trust, stall growth, and exp…

Ilant Health Secures $15M to Expand Value-Based Precision Obesity Management
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-06-03T02:43:42Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Startups
subject: GLP-1
description: What You Should Know Value-based obesity management leader Ilant Health has closed a $15M Series A funding round led by Cornucopian Capital, elevating its total funding footprint past $22 million. The financing round features strategic participation from naturalX, Peakbridge, Semcap AI, Evidenced, Operator Partners, and existing investors Celtic, LifeX, and AlphaLab. Founded by former McKinsey ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="663" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ilant-Health-1500x663.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-96545" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ilant-Health-1500x663.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ilant-Health-300x133.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ilant-Health-290x128.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ilant-Health-768x340.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ilant-Health-1536x679.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Ilant-Health-2048x906.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know Value-based obesity management leader Ilant Health has closed a $15M Series A funding round led by Cornucopian Capital, elevating its total funding footprint past $22 million. The financing round features strategic participation from naturalX, Peakbridge, Semcap AI, Evidenced, Operator Partners, and existing investors Celtic, LifeX, and AlphaLab. Founded by former McKinsey and Molina Healthcare executive Elina Onitskansky, the company bypasses fragmented weight-loss apps to deliver an integrated, value-based cardiometabolic care platform. Early clinical deployments document that Ilant members achieve a 15% average weight loss—outperforming the 5.8% benchmark typically recorded in uncalibrated, real-world settings. To bring structural transparency to corporate pharmacy spend, Ilant leverages direct contracting and transparent pricing frameworks through integrations with pharmaceutical leaders Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk. Defeating the GLP-1 Cost Spiral: Why Ilant Health Raised $15M to Scale Outcomes-as-a-Service The commercial healthcare benefit ecosystem is currently confronting an unsustainable economic dilemma. The rapid rise and explosive consumer demand for GLP-1 receptor agonist weight-loss therapies have left self-insured employer…

4 Critical Guardrails for Community Hospital Tech Procurement
type: item
creator: Jian Zhang, founder CEO of Noah Medical
date: 2026-06-02T14:34:00Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Opinion
description: Healthcare is moving toward models that reward outcomes, continuity, and population health management, yet disparities in access to specialized care continue to persist. And while community hospitals are central to closing this gap, they are being inundated with technologies that promise to transform care yet are structurally difficult to translate from large academic medical centers ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/headshot-image-Jian-1500x1500.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-96542" width="838" height="838" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/headshot-image-Jian-1500x1500.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/headshot-image-Jian-300x300.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/headshot-image-Jian-290x290.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/headshot-image-Jian-768x768.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/headshot-image-Jian-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/headshot-image-Jian-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/headshot-image-Jian-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px" /> Jian Zhang, founder & CEO of Noah Medical Healthcare is moving toward models that reward outcomes, continuity, and population health management, yet disparities in access to specialized care continue to persist. And while community hospitals are central to closing this gap, they are being inundated with technologies that promise to transform care yet are structurally difficult to translate from large academic medical centers to smaller ones. Rural hospitals operate with lower patient volumes and thinner margins, practical realities that force patients to travel long distances for specialty diagnostics and procedures, particularly in oncology, pulmonary medicine, and cardiovascular care. It is not a failure of commitment. It is a question of feasibility. A platform that works well in a high-volume referral center can falter locally if it requires specialized staffing, unpredictable scheduling, or capital risk that smaller systems cannot absorb. Hospital leaders, therefore, need a practical way to determine which advanced technologies truly belong in their environment. Four questions can help distinguish innovations tha…

Rural Hospitals Are Collapsing Under Administrative Burden That AI Alone Cannot Solve
type: item
creator: Matt Seefeld, CEO of MedEvolve,
date: 2026-06-01T16:01:05Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Opinion
subject: Artificial Intelligence
description: More than 180 rural hospitals in the United States have closed since 2005, according to the Chartis Center for Rural Health, while providers spend over $25 billion annually on claims adjudication, with nearly $18 billion of that tied to claims that are ultimately paid, according to Premier Inc. That’s not a demand problem. It’s an ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Matt-Seefeld-1500x1072.jpg" alt="Rural Hospitals are Collapsing Under Administrative Burden that AI Alone Cannot Solve" class="wp-image-96537" width="842" height="601" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Matt-Seefeld-1500x1072.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Matt-Seefeld-300x214.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Matt-Seefeld-290x207.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Matt-Seefeld-768x549.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Matt-Seefeld-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Matt-Seefeld-113x81.jpg 113w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Matt-Seefeld.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px" /> Matt Seefeld, CEO of MedEvolve, More than 180 rural hospitals in the United States have closed since 2005, according to the Chartis Center for Rural Health, while providers spend over $25 billion annually on claims adjudication, with nearly $18 billion of that tied to claims that are ultimately paid, according to Premier Inc. That’s not a demand problem. It’s an administrative one. And increasingly, it’s a technology infrastructure problem tied to how work is managed, measured, and automated. And for rural hospitals operating with limited staff and thin margins, that level of inefficiency isn’t just costly; it’s unsustainable. The Work Behind Getting Paid In most healthcare organizations, a claim isn’t processed once and paid; it’s worked over and over again. It gets handed off, corrected, resubmitted, and appealed. Each of those touch points requires human time, and each one introduces delay and cost. According to the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH), administrative transactions in healthcare still cost the system tens of billions annually, with a sizable portion being driven by manu…

Bridging the Diagnostics Gap: Deloitte Research Exposes Core Mismatch Between Manufacturers and Providers
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-05-29T15:10:03Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
description: What You Should Know A new survey by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions reveals that 62% of diagnostics manufacturer executives believe future growth depends entirely on adopting a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) operational model. The research highlights an immediate strategic disconnect: while providers rank test ordering as their single greatest clinical friction point, manufacturers mistakenly over-index ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="1280" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/US189118_Figure-1-1500x1280.png" alt="Bridging the Diagnostics Gap: Deloitte Research Exposes Core Mismatch Between Manufacturers and Providers" class="wp-image-96526" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/US189118_Figure-1-1500x1280.png 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/US189118_Figure-1-300x256.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/US189118_Figure-1-290x247.png 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/US189118_Figure-1-768x655.png 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/US189118_Figure-1-1536x1310.png 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/US189118_Figure-1-2048x1747.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know A new survey by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions reveals that 62% of diagnostics manufacturer executives believe future growth depends entirely on adopting a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) operational model. The research highlights an immediate strategic disconnect: while providers rank test ordering as their single greatest clinical friction point, manufacturers mistakenly over-index on results interpretation as the primary challenge. Rising consumerization is reshaping the market landscape, with 76% of provider respondents stating that consumer- and patient-initiated testing demands will fundamentally alter diagnostics over the next three years. Interoperability remains an acute infrastructure hurdle; 74% of healthcare providers admit that their current database systems are completely disconnected and un-integrated across the end-to-end diagnostic journey. To survive the expansion of home diagnostics and wearables, manufacturers must embed AI natively within EHR workflows, automate prior authorizations, and deliver highly personalized, visual data context directly to consum…

Shifting the Interoperability Axis: Why Layered Extensions Fail Modern Hospital Core EHRs
type: item
creator: Sandra Johnson, SVP Client Services, CliniComp
date: 2026-05-29T14:30:17Z
subject: EMR/EHR
subject: Health IT
subject: Opinion
description: Every year, there are roughly 33.5 million hospital admissions, 155 million emergency department visits, and hundreds of millions of outpatient encounters across the United States. At the same time, healthcare spending has reached $4.9 trillion annually. When patient data, especially for such a large number of healthcare consumers, is fragmented across multiple applications, vendors, and ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Sandra_Updated-Head-Shot-1.jpg" alt="Shifting the Interoperability Axis: Why Layered Extensions Fail Modern Hospital Core EHRs" class="wp-image-96509" width="812" height="541" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Sandra_Updated-Head-Shot-1.jpg 1200w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Sandra_Updated-Head-Shot-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Sandra_Updated-Head-Shot-1-290x193.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Sandra_Updated-Head-Shot-1-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px" /> Sandra Johnson, SVP Client Services, CliniComp Every year, there are roughly 33.5 million hospital admissions, 155 million emergency department visits, and hundreds of millions of outpatient encounters across the United States. At the same time, healthcare spending has reached $4.9 trillion annually. When patient data, especially for such a large number of healthcare consumers, is fragmented across multiple applications, vendors, and systems, the effect is exponential. It is multiplied across every encounter, every workflow, and every decision, impacting not only quality of care and the patient experience, but also hospital performance and the bottom line. As a result, EHR interoperability is becoming central to how healthcare organizations think about sustainability, efficiency, and care delivery at scale. While industry conversations have traditionally focused on interoperability as only a regulatory requirement or technical milestone, the shift is becoming more apparent. This shift is also reflected in how healthcare leaders are approaching their technology environments. In a 2026 CHIME survey, nearly 90% of healthcare CIOs reported that vendor consolidation is a priority within their interoperability strategy. There is broad alignment around the need to simplify environments and reduce…

ŌURA Launches Oura Ring 5: Embedding Live Blood Pressure Signals and GLP-1 Tracking Into Wearable Tech
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-05-29T13:20:52Z
subject: Health IT
description: What You Should Know Wearable technology leader ŌURA has officially launched Oura Ring 5, re-engineering its mechanical and electrical architecture to create a device that is 40% smaller than its predecessor. Moving past passive metrics, the latest software update introduces Health Radar, a clinical expansion featuring background tracking of blood pressure signals, nighttime blood pressure ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1144" height="656" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Oura-Ring-5.jpg" alt="ŌURA Launches Oura Ring 5: Embedding Live Blood Pressure Signals and GLP-1 Tracking Into Wearable Tech" class="wp-image-96513" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Oura-Ring-5.jpg 1144w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Oura-Ring-5-300x172.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Oura-Ring-5-290x166.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Oura-Ring-5-768x440.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px" /> What You Should Know Wearable technology leader ŌURA has officially launched Oura Ring 5, re-engineering its mechanical and electrical architecture to create a device that is 40% smaller than its predecessor. Moving past passive metrics, the latest software update introduces Health Radar, a clinical expansion featuring background tracking of blood pressure signals, nighttime blood pressure drops, and 30-day rolling respiratory data. For individuals managing anti-obesity medications, the application debuts GLP-1 Insights, unifying dosing schedules, subjective side-effect metrics, and weight profiles with continuous sleep and biometric tracking. The company is building out a connected care infrastructure by integrating an on-demand, AI-enabled clinical triage layer via Counsel Health, allowing users in 43 U.S. states to text licensed physicians directly inside the app. Oura Ring 5 is constructed from non-allergenic titanium with an extra-strong physical vapor deposition scratch coating, retails starting at $399, and begins shipping globally on June 4, 2026. Beyond Awareness to Action: Oura Ring 5 Unveils Proactive Health Radar and Connected Care Pathways The global consumer wearable sector has reached a critical structural turning point. For the past decade, the market has been dominated by wrist-worn smartwatches that primarily functioned as descri…

Garner Health Secures $100M at $2.74B Valuation to Scale Clinical Quality Infrastructure
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-05-29T13:18:13Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
subject: Startups
description: What You Should Know Healthcare data navigation and quality platform Garner Health has finalized a $100M Series E funding round, valuing the company at $2.74B. Led by Index Ventures, the round features significant continuation backing from blue-chip institutional investors including Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, Thrive, Sequoia, Founders Fund, and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. Garner’s underlying financial infrastructure ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="431" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Garner-Health-Logo-1500x431.jpg" alt="Garner Health Secures $100M at $2.74B Valuation to Scale Clinical Quality Infrastructure" class="wp-image-96514" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Garner-Health-Logo-1500x431.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Garner-Health-Logo-300x86.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Garner-Health-Logo-290x83.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Garner-Health-Logo-768x221.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Garner-Health-Logo-1536x441.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Garner-Health-Logo-2048x589.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know Healthcare data navigation and quality platform Garner Health has finalized a $100M Series E funding round, valuing the company at $2.74B. Led by Index Ventures, the round features significant continuation backing from blue-chip institutional investors including Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, Thrive, Sequoia, Founders Fund, and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. Garner’s underlying financial infrastructure generates approximately $200M in gross annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling year-over-year for five consecutive periods. The platform addresses systemic waste by parsing an absolute data moat of 60 billion medical records across 320 million patients, evaluating providers using 550 proprietary clinical metrics. By routing nearly 2.5 million members to high-performing providers, the platform eliminates out-of-pocket friction for employees while delivering an average 12% reduction in total healthcare spend for enterprise employers in the first year alone. Reversing Out-of-Pocket Insurance Inflation: How Garner Health’s AI Agent Drives a 12% Cost Reduction The commercial health insurance landscape is operating under a …

Ambience Healthcare Launches Chart-Aware Inpatient AI Suite to Resolve 91% of Documentation Gaps
type: item
creator: Jasmine Pennic
date: 2026-05-29T13:00:00Z
subject: Health IT
description: What You Should Know Clinical AI leader Ambience Healthcare has announced a major expansion of its chart-aware intelligence across its enterprise inpatient platform, embedding deep chart reasoning into every phase of a hospital stay. Inpatient documentation relies heavily on non-conversational metrics; Ambience’s internal data shows that 70% of clinically important inpatient diagnoses have no signal ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="900" height="450" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image-2.png" alt="Ambience Healthcare Launches AI Conditions Advisor to Capture Full Patient Complexity" class="wp-image-92241" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image-2.png 900w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image-2-300x150.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image-2-290x145.png 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/image-2-768x384.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" /> What You Should Know Clinical AI leader Ambience Healthcare has announced a major expansion of its chart-aware intelligence across its enterprise inpatient platform, embedding deep chart reasoning into every phase of a hospital stay. Inpatient documentation relies heavily on non-conversational metrics; Ambience’s internal data shows that 70% of clinically important inpatient diagnoses have no signal in a traditional audio transcript. The platform addresses severe provider cognitive load by automatically parsing longitudinal histories, daily labs, imaging updates, medications, and vitals to construct source-backed Progress Notes, H&P Notes, and Handoff Summaries. In multi-center evaluations across four health systems, Ambience’s chart-aware discharge summaries resolved 91% of information gaps that traditional, standard documentation pipelines had missed. Deployed at organizations like Saint Luke’s Health System, the solution has driven an active utilization rate exceeding 70% across core inpatient charting workflows while elevating provider Net Promoter Scores (NPS) by 31 points. Beyond the Transcript: Ambience Healthcare Unveils Inpatient AI That Reasons Outside the Bedside Recording The modern inpatient hospital ward operates under an immense, structural data squeeze. Unlike outpatient clinics—where patient interactions are typically episodic, isolated, and highly conversational—inpatie…

Teal Health and WashU School of Medicine Partner to Launch Cervical Cancer Screening Pilot
type: item
creator: Jasmine Pennic
date: 2026-05-29T04:30:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
description: What You Should Know Virtual women’s health pioneer Teal Health has announced a strategic research collaboration with the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to expand cervical cancer screening access. Orchestrated through the SCORE Initiative at Siteman Cancer Center, the pilot study targets women who have fallen out of touch with the traditional ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="290" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Teal_Health_Logo-1500x290.jpg" alt="Teal Health and WashU School of Medicine Partner to Launch Cervical Cancer Screening Pilot" class="wp-image-96522" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Teal_Health_Logo-1500x290.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Teal_Health_Logo-300x58.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Teal_Health_Logo-290x56.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Teal_Health_Logo-768x148.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Teal_Health_Logo-1536x297.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Teal_Health_Logo.jpg 1801w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know Virtual women’s health pioneer Teal Health has announced a strategic research collaboration with the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to expand cervical cancer screening access. Orchestrated through the SCORE Initiative at Siteman Cancer Center, the pilot study targets women who have fallen out of touch with the traditional healthcare system and routine preventative care. The community-based distribution model deploys Teal Health’s FDA-authorized at-home HPV (human papillomavirus) self-collection kits across trusted spaces like health fairs, food banks, and wellness initiatives in Illinois and Missouri. The study evaluates two distinct participant onboarding workflows: a self-directed digital track where women enroll independently using a QR code, and a guided track featuring on-site navigators for real-time enrollment and education. Researchers will closely monitor metrics crucial to enterprise clinical validation, including kit return rates, telehealth completion, follow-up care engagement for abnormal results, and overall patient experience. Moving Outside the Clinic: Why Teal Health and WashU Medicine Are …