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items: The Financial Pressure on Hospitals is Real — Here’s One Place to Find Relief
items: Thoreau Enters Definitive Agreement for Strategic Growth Investment in Ensemble Health Partners
items: ￼Kinomatic Secures $4M to Expand AI-Enabled Surgical Planning Platform
items: ￼Marathon Health and Lantern Partner to Launch Integrated Primary and Specialty Care Model
items: Opmed and Mayo Clinic Unveil Multimodal AI Platform at ACC.26 to Optimize Surgical Capacity
items: What Senior Leaders Actually Need to Know About Scaling Digital inPharma
items: Vali Health Emerges from Stealth with $6M to Scale Responsible AI Across Home Care EHRs
items: Model N Acquires Kalderos to Expand 340B Capabilities and Gross-to-Net Analytics
items: Prior Authorization Technology Is the Weakest Link in the GLP-1 Revolution
items: What Unstructured Data is Really Costing Healthcare
items: Abridge Unveils AI-Native Clinician Intelligence Platform with Enterprise-Wide Northwestern Medicine Rollout
items: Where IME Documentation Breaks Traditional Healthcare Workflows
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The Financial Pressure on Hospitals is Real — Here’s One Place to Find Relief
type: item
creator: Brian Liddell, CEO, Harmony Healthcare IT
date: 2026-06-19T04:01:00Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Opinion
subject: Revenue Cycle Management
description: Hospital finance leaders don’t need a report to tell them things are difficult, but the American Hospital Association’s latest “Costs of Caring” report does something extremely useful: it puts concrete numbers behind pressures that have been building for years and shows just how much they’ve compounded. The picture the report paints is one of mounting ... Read More
encoded: <img width="800" height="799" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brian-Liddell_1-Cropped-E.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-96638" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brian-Liddell_1-Cropped-E.jpg 800w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brian-Liddell_1-Cropped-E-300x300.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brian-Liddell_1-Cropped-E-290x290.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brian-Liddell_1-Cropped-E-768x767.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Brian-Liddell_1-Cropped-E-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /> Brian Liddell, CEO, Harmony Healthcare IT Hospital finance leaders don’t need a report to tell them things are difficult, but the American Hospital Association’s latest “Costs of Caring” report does something extremely useful: it puts concrete numbers behind pressures that have been building for years and shows just how much they’ve compounded. The picture the report paints is one of mounting strain across the industry. Total hospital expenses grew 7.5% in 2025, more than twice the rate of growth in hospital prices. Inpatient volumes rose 5.3% and outpatient visits climbed 9.8%, meaning hospitals are caring for more patients, and sicker ones. Medicare continues to reimburse hospitals at just 83 cents on the dollar, resulting in more than $100 billion in underpayments. The administrative burden is just as costly. Hospitals spent $43 billion in 2025 trying to collect payments insurers already owed, including $18 billion spent overturning claim denials alone. The average hospital now employs roughly 64 administrative and billing staff dedicated solely to these functions — a reflection of how much it costs just to navigate the payment system. The policy environment adds another layer of uncertainty beyond what the AHA report captures. Medicaid cuts totaling $940 billion are projected to leave 14 million mo…

Thoreau Enters Definitive Agreement for Strategic Growth Investment in Ensemble Health Partners
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-06-18T15:11:00Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions
subject: Revenue Cycle Management
description: What You Should Know Revenue cycle managed services leader Ensemble Health Partners has announced a definitive agreement for a strategic growth investment from Thoreau, the healthcare investment platform founded by veteran private equity executive Matt Holt. The transaction values Ensemble at an estimated $12 billion, positioning the newly launched, Apollo Global Management-backed Thoreau platform at ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="446" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FINAL_2022-Ensemble-Logo_Standard-1500x446.webp" alt="Ensemble Health Partners, Microsoft Strengthens AI-Powered Revenue Cycle Management with Expanded Partnership" class="wp-image-78988" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FINAL_2022-Ensemble-Logo_Standard-1500x446.webp 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FINAL_2022-Ensemble-Logo_Standard-300x89.webp 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FINAL_2022-Ensemble-Logo_Standard-290x86.webp 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FINAL_2022-Ensemble-Logo_Standard-768x228.webp 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FINAL_2022-Ensemble-Logo_Standard-1536x457.webp 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FINAL_2022-Ensemble-Logo_Standard.webp 1950w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know Revenue cycle managed services leader Ensemble Health Partners has announced a definitive agreement for a strategic growth investment from Thoreau, the healthcare investment platform founded by veteran private equity executive Matt Holt. The transaction values Ensemble at an estimated $12 billion, positioning the newly launched, Apollo Global Management-backed Thoreau platform at the epicenter of scaled healthcare administrative outsourcing. Legacy institutional heavyweights Berkshire Partners, Warburg Pincus, and Bon Secours Mercy Health will continue as active co-investors alongside Thoreau. Ensemble commands massive scale within the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) sector, managing more than $55 billion in net patient revenue across a footprint of over 200 hospitals nationwide. The capital injection will be deployed to accelerate Ensemble’s digital transformation and advanced technology roadmap, focusing on embedding agentic AI and specialized automation workflows across patient access a…

￼Kinomatic Secures $4M to Expand AI-Enabled Surgical Planning Platform
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-06-18T15:00:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
subject: Startups
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Surgery Platform
description: What You Should Know Orthopedic technology innovator Kinomatic has successfully finalized a $4M seed funding round led by healthcare-focused venture firm Waterline Ventures. The company has demonstrated significant commercial scale, documenting 7x revenue growth over four years, a 5x expansion in regional provider networks, and a world-class Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 85. Renowned orthopedic ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="1000" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-8-1500x1000.png" alt="Kinomatic Secures $4M to Expand AI-Enabled Surgical Planning Platform" class="wp-image-96649" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-8-1500x1000.png 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-8-300x200.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-8-290x193.png 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-8-768x512.png 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-8-1536x1024.png 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-8-2048x1365.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know Orthopedic technology innovator Kinomatic has successfully finalized a $4M seed funding round led by healthcare-focused venture firm Waterline Ventures. The company has demonstrated significant commercial scale, documenting 7x revenue growth over four years, a 5x expansion in regional provider networks, and a world-class Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 85. Renowned orthopedic specialist and opioid-reduction advocate Dr. Andrew B. Wickline, MD, FAAOS, joins the executive leadership team as Chief Medical Officer. To eliminate “one-size-fits-all” surgical alignment parameters, Kinomatic’s platform analyzes over two million data points and 1,000 unique anatomical measurements per patient. The platform matches individual patient biomechanics against a digital inventory of more than 30,000 possible implant configurations to optimize pre-op sizing and long-term functional recovery. The global orthopedic surgery and medical device landscape is navigating a demanding clinical paradox. Total hip and knee replacements represent some of the fastest-growing surgical categories in the United States, driven by a younger, highly active aging demographic that rejects physical limitations. Yet, despite monumental leaps…

￼Marathon Health and Lantern Partner to Launch Integrated Primary and Specialty Care Model
type: item
creator: Jasmine Pennic
date: 2026-06-18T14:00:00Z
subject: Health IT
description: What You Should Know Advanced primary care leader Marathon Health and premier specialty care platform Lantern have formalized a strategic commercial partnership targeting skyrocketing employer specialty healthcare spend. The collaborative model integrates Marathon’s value-based, on-site and virtual primary care networks directly with Lantern’s specialist “Network of Excellence” and bundled payment workflows. An early adopter pilot ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1417" height="471" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-7.png" alt="" class="wp-image-96646" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-7.png 1417w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-7-300x100.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-7-290x96.png 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-7-768x255.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1417px) 100vw, 1417px" /> What You Should Know Advanced primary care leader Marathon Health and premier specialty care platform Lantern have formalized a strategic commercial partnership targeting skyrocketing employer specialty healthcare spend. The collaborative model integrates Marathon’s value-based, on-site and virtual primary care networks directly with Lantern’s specialist “Network of Excellence” and bundled payment workflows. An early adopter pilot program focused on musculoskeletal and orthopedic care yielded an immediate 37% to 100% surge in successful member referrals to high-value care pathways. Integrated coordination between the platforms drove a 47% increase in completed or safely avoided surgical procedures, protecting patients from unneeded interventions. For plan sponsors and self-insured employers, the integration secured an average savings of 53% relative to standard PPO network rates for necessary surgical treatments. Disrupting the Specialty Silo The corporate employee benefits and self-insured employer marketplace is facing an acute structural cost crisis. For the past decade, enterprise benefits directors and labor union plan sponsors deployed a variety of point solutions, virtual care applications, and dedicated digital health widgets designed to manage commercial healthcare utilization. However, because these platforms were implemented as isolated vendor silos without a unified coordination layer, they unintentionally deepened systemic fragmentation. Vulnerable patien…

Opmed and Mayo Clinic Unveil Multimodal AI Platform at ACC.26 to Optimize Surgical Capacity
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-06-18T13:00:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
description: What You Should Know Healthcare operations AI pioneer Opmed has announced the results of a multi-year collaborative study with the Mayo Clinic aimed at optimizing operating room (OR) efficiency. Presented at the ACC.26 (American College of Cardiology Expo), the study proves that Opmed’s multimodal deep learning platform reduces cardiovascular (CV) procedure scheduling errors by approximately ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="912" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-18-1500x912.png" alt="Mayo Clinic Study: Genetic Test Can Predict GLP-1 Nausea Side Effects" class="wp-image-87981" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-18-1500x912.png 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-18-300x182.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-18-290x176.png 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-18-768x467.png 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-18-1536x934.png 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-18-2048x1245.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know Healthcare operations AI pioneer Opmed has announced the results of a multi-year collaborative study with the Mayo Clinic aimed at optimizing operating room (OR) efficiency. Presented at the ACC.26 (American College of Cardiology Expo), the study proves that Opmed’s multimodal deep learning platform reduces cardiovascular (CV) procedure scheduling errors by approximately 50%. Traditional scheduling methods rely on historic human averages, generating an inaccurate status quo Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 1.13 hours per surgical case. By ingesting structured datasets alongside unstructured physician notes (Clinical + Notes), Opmed’s platform slashed that error window to a precise MAE of 0.564 hours, outperforming human clinician baselines by a factor of two. The platform addresses severe health system margin pressures; with idle OR time costing up to $1,000 per hour, the solution reclaims over 200 operational hours annually per room. Why Mayo Clinic Partnered with Opmed to Standardize OR Block Metrics The administrative and logistical infrastructure backing the nation’s high-stakes surgical suites is operating under severe post-pandemic strain. Within complex, specialized clinical environments lik…

What Senior Leaders Actually Need to Know About Scaling Digital inPharma
type: item
creator: MD Akram Hossain, Product Management Digital Transformation Leader
date: 2026-06-18T11:12:00Z
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Opinion
description: Digital transformation in pharma usually starts off strong, big vision, budget gets approved, everyone’s aligned, but scaling it is where things get messy. At the leadership level, this really becomes an orchestration problem. It’s like trying to expand a manufacturing plant while everything is still running. You can’t pause production, you can’t mess up compliance, ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MD-Akram-Hossain-1500x1913.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-96641" width="684" height="872" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MD-Akram-Hossain-1500x1913.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MD-Akram-Hossain-235x300.jpg 235w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MD-Akram-Hossain-227x290.jpg 227w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MD-Akram-Hossain-768x979.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MD-Akram-Hossain-1205x1536.jpg 1205w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MD-Akram-Hossain-1606x2048.jpg 1606w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/MD-Akram-Hossain-scaled.jpg 2008w" sizes="(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px" /> MD Akram Hossain, Product Management & Digital Transformation Leader Digital transformation in pharma usually starts off strong, big vision, budget gets approved, everyone’s aligned, but scaling it is where things get messy. At the leadership level, this really becomes an orchestration problem. It’s like trying to expand a manufacturing plant while everything is still running. You can’t pause production, you can’t mess up compliance, and you definitely can’t create chaos on the floor. Scaling digital works the same way. You’re layering in new systems, new processes, new skills, all while everything else keeps moving. The leaders who get this right don’t just throw tech at the problem. They focus on governance, change, and the actual building of capability over time. Governance is the Control Tower, Not the Traffic Jam A lot of people hear “governance” and immediately think red tape. But,, when it works, it feels more like air traffic control. It’s there to keep things moving smoothly, not slow everything down. Especially in pharma, where you’ve got EPM, ERP, clinical systems, plus regulatory pressure all colliding, you need clarity. Who owns…

Vali Health Emerges from Stealth with $6M to Scale Responsible AI Across Home Care EHRs
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-06-17T19:59:44Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
subject: Startups
description: What You Should Know San Francisco-based health technology innovator Vali Health has emerged from stealth with a $6M funding round led by Bonfire Ventures, Supernode, and Comma Capital. The financing features prominent backing from Jacquelyn Kung, co-founder of ClearCare (now WellSky), aligning the startup with deep clinical and operations software lineage. The platform tackles the ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="802" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-6-1500x802.png" alt="" class="wp-image-96635" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-6-1500x802.png 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-6-300x160.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-6-290x155.png 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-6-768x411.png 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-6-1536x822.png 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-6-2048x1096.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know San Francisco-based health technology innovator Vali Health has emerged from stealth with a $6M funding round led by Bonfire Ventures, Supernode, and Comma Capital. The financing features prominent backing from Jacquelyn Kung, co-founder of ClearCare (now WellSky), aligning the startup with deep clinical and operations software lineage. The platform tackles the acute, multi-layered “no-show crisis” impacting home care, where sudden caregiver call-outs leave vulnerable aging populations stranded without care continuity. Vali’s AI agents autonomously execute select workforce management, routing, and caregiver-matching tasks with an initial 98% autonomous completion velocity. To prevent uncalibrated machine learning deviations, the framework enforces a strict 2% human-in-the-loop exception and override routing layer to protect patient safety. The domestic long-term care and home-based clinical coordination sectors are colliding with an unforgiving macroeconomic reality. As the “Silver Tsunami” accelerates and millions of aging individuals express an overwhelming preference for aging in place, the home care industry has transformed into a critical pillar of healthcare delivery. Yet, the backend administrative infrastructure utilized to manage this distributed workforce rem…

Model N Acquires Kalderos to Expand 340B Capabilities and Gross-to-Net Analytics
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-06-17T15:00:00Z
subject: Health IT
description: What You Should Know End-to-end life sciences revenue management pioneer Model N has announced its strategic acquisition of drug discount analytics platform Kalderos. The transaction consolidates Kalderos’ proprietary Truzo platform into Model N’s commercial infrastructure to provide real-time, claims-level visibility into complex 340B discount networks. Life sciences manufacturers face intensifying gross-to-net (GTN) pressures, driven by ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1172" height="916" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-5.png" alt="Model N Acquires Kalderos to Expand 340B Capabilities and Gross-to-Net Analytics" class="wp-image-96632" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-5.png 1172w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-5-300x234.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-5-290x227.png 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-5-768x600.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1172px) 100vw, 1172px" /> What You Should Know End-to-end life sciences revenue management pioneer Model N has announced its strategic acquisition of drug discount analytics platform Kalderos. The transaction consolidates Kalderos’ proprietary Truzo platform into Model N’s commercial infrastructure to provide real-time, claims-level visibility into complex 340B discount networks. Life sciences manufacturers face intensifying gross-to-net (GTN) pressures, driven by ongoing Medicare drug price negotiations, most-favored-nation (MFN) pricing models, and strict federal compliance requirements. Model N’s 2026 State of Revenue Report uncovers a massive industry data blindspot: only 1% of life sciences revenue executives maintain real-time visibility into 340B discounts, Medicaid/Medicare rebates, and utilization data. The combination expands Model N’s recent deployment of Data nSights and agentic AI software workflows, fortifying a platform that already manages $1.3 trillion in gross revenue for global pharmaceutical and medtech innovators. The global pharmaceutical and medical technology commercialization pipeline is navigating an exceptionally volatile fiscal environment. Life sciences manufacturers are operating under a compounding web of regulatory shifts, characterized by the rollouts of federal Medicare drug price negotiations, evolving most-favored-nation (MFN) pricing models, and escalating federal compliance sc…

Prior Authorization Technology Is the Weakest Link in the GLP-1 Revolution
type: item
creator: Dr. Quoc N. Dang, DO,
date: 2026-06-17T07:42:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
subject: Opinion
subject: Population Health Management
subject: GLP-1
subject: Revenue Cycle Management
description: The clinical case for GLP-1 receptor agonists in obesity management is no longer a debate. Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated sustained weight reduction of 15 to 22 percent of body weight, meaningful improvements in cardiovascular outcomes, and reductions in obesity related comorbidities including type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinology, ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-3.png" alt="Prior Authorization Technology Is the Weakest Link in the GLP-1 Revolution" class="wp-image-96628" width="673" height="637" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-3.png 984w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-3-300x284.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-3-290x275.png 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-3-768x727.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px" /> Dr. Quoc N. Dang, DO, The clinical case for GLP-1 receptor agonists in obesity management is no longer a debate. Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated sustained weight reduction of 15 to 22 percent of body weight, meaningful improvements in cardiovascular outcomes, and reductions in obesity related comorbidities including type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinology, the American Gastroenterological Association, and major cardiology societies have all updated their guidelines to reflect this evidence. Clinically, the question of whether these medications work has been settled. The question that has not been settled — and that is quietly determining who actually receives this care — is whether the health IT infrastructure supporting access to these therapies is adequate. It is not. The prior authorization systems, formulary management platforms, and electronic health record integrations that sit between a clinician’s prescribing decision and a patient filling a prescription were not designed for a drug class of this complexity, this volume, or this clinical significance. They are failing, and patients are the ones absorbing the cost. Consider what the prior authorization workflow actually demands for a GLP-1 prescription. A clinician must document body mass index thresholds, the presence or absence of specific comorbidities, prior treatment attempts wi…

What Unstructured Data is Really Costing Healthcare
type: item
creator: Stacy Pur, MBA, BSN, RN, Sr. VP of Product for eFax by Consensus Cloud Solutions
date: 2026-06-16T07:32:00Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Opinion
description: At the center of some of healthcare’s most important conversations about patient access, provider burnout, and interoperability is a single pain point: unstructured data. When the HITECH Act pushed healthcare into the digital age, it prompted a shift to structured data formats that our industry has yet to master. As a result, interoperability suffers, patient ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Stacy-Pur_headshot2-1500x1500.jpg" alt="What Unstructured Data is Really Costing Healthcare" class="wp-image-96625" width="570" height="570" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Stacy-Pur_headshot2-1500x1500.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Stacy-Pur_headshot2-300x300.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Stacy-Pur_headshot2-290x290.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Stacy-Pur_headshot2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Stacy-Pur_headshot2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Stacy-Pur_headshot2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Stacy-Pur_headshot2-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px" /> Stacy Pur, MBA, BSN, RN, Sr. VP of Product for eFax® by Consensus Cloud Solutions At the center of some of healthcare’s most important conversations about patient access, provider burnout, and interoperability is a single pain point: unstructured data. When the HITECH Act pushed healthcare into the digital age, it prompted a shift to structured data formats that our industry has yet to master. As a result, interoperability suffers, patient data is incomplete or missed, and providers and staff spend more time than ever wading through data that may not net relevant insights. Recently, my team met with a focus group of several members of the College of Healthcare Information Executives (CHIME) to discuss this critical issue. Though this challenge has plagued healthcare for many years, these executives uncovered new pain points, nuances, and believe it or not, hope, when it comes to handling unstructured data. Key Takeaways: The Core Issue: Unstructured data is the primary bottleneck for healthcare interoperability, provider burnout, and patient access. Hidden Sources: Un…

Abridge Unveils AI-Native Clinician Intelligence Platform with Enterprise-Wide Northwestern Medicine Rollout
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-06-12T15:17:27Z
subject: EMR/EHR
subject: Health IT
subject: Artificial Intelligence
description: What You Should Know At its keynote in New York City, generative AI pioneer Abridge unveiled the first AI-native clinician intelligence platform built to orchestrate clinical, financial, and evidence-based decisions. The expansion shifts Abridge from a passive, post-visit ambient documentation tool to an active, end-to-end intelligence layer spanning pre-visit chart synthesis, intra-visit clinical decision support, ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="1000" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Abridge-WSJ-Image-2-1500x1000.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-96613" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Abridge-WSJ-Image-2-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Abridge-WSJ-Image-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Abridge-WSJ-Image-2-290x193.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Abridge-WSJ-Image-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Abridge-WSJ-Image-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Abridge-WSJ-Image-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know At its keynote in New York City, generative AI pioneer Abridge unveiled the first AI-native clinician intelligence platform built to orchestrate clinical, financial, and evidence-based decisions. The expansion shifts Abridge from a passive, post-visit ambient documentation tool to an active, end-to-end intelligence layer spanning pre-visit chart synthesis, intra-visit clinical decision support, and real-time billing codes. Expanding its inpatient care footprint, Abridge announced a system-wide enterprise implementation at Northwestern Medicine, alongside clinical nursing integrations validated to slash vacancy rates and reduce overtime by 70%. The platform targets administrative waste by collaborating with commercial payers like Aetna and Cigna to anchor documentation, medical coding, and real-time claims directly within natural bedside conversations. Partnering with NVIDIA, Abridge is training a custom, clinically reasoning foundation model built on the NVIDIA Nemotron open frontier family and powered by NVIDIA Blackwell AI infrastructure. The market for generative AI applications inside American health systems is navigating an aggressive structural shakeout. For the past two years…

Where IME Documentation Breaks Traditional Healthcare Workflows
type: item
creator: Sterling Garde, COO of Athreon
date: 2026-06-12T14:44:38Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Opinion
description: Independent Medical Examination (IME) documentation exposes a gap in how healthcare systems handle documentation. While most clinical workflows are designed around structured, encounter-based documentation, IME reporting operates outside those assumptions. The result is a category of documentation that is essential to administrative, insurance, and legal processes, but poorly aligned with the systems used to manage ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sterling-Garde-Headshot-1500x1500.jpg" alt="Where IME Documentation Breaks Traditional Healthcare Workflows" class="wp-image-96610" width="741" height="741" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sterling-Garde-Headshot-1500x1500.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sterling-Garde-Headshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sterling-Garde-Headshot-290x290.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sterling-Garde-Headshot-768x768.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sterling-Garde-Headshot-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sterling-Garde-Headshot-100x100.jpg 100w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sterling-Garde-Headshot.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px" /> Sterling Garde, COO of Athreon Independent Medical Examination (IME) documentation exposes a gap in how healthcare systems handle documentation. While most clinical workflows are designed around structured, encounter-based documentation, IME reporting operates outside those assumptions. The result is a category of documentation that is essential to administrative, insurance, and legal processes, but poorly aligned with the systems used to manage clinical data. The issue is not that IME documentation is complex. It’s that healthcare systems were never designed to accommodate it. A Workflow That Doesn’t Fit the System Traditional healthcare documentation is built around patient care delivery. Electronic health record (EHR) systems are optimized for structured inputs, discrete data fields, and standardized note formats tied to ongoing clinical encounters. IME documentation is fundamentally different. These reports are long-form, narrative documents that often extend well beyond the scope of a standard clinical note. Rather than supportin…

Louisiana Department of Health Partners with Phenomune to Launch Free Statewide At-Home Immune Profiling
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-06-12T13:35:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Population Health Management
description: What You Should Know The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) and biotechnology innovator Phenomune have launched a first-of-its-kind statewide public health initiative providing residents with no-cost, at-home immune insight test kits. Backed by Governor Jeff Landry, the preventative program will distribute up to 250,000 noninvasive kits designed to empower proactive health choices and mitigate structural ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="768" height="719" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-96622" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-2.png 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-2-300x281.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-2-290x271.png 290w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /> What You Should Know The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) and biotechnology innovator Phenomune have launched a first-of-its-kind statewide public health initiative providing residents with no-cost, at-home immune insight test kits. Backed by Governor Jeff Landry, the preventative program will distribute up to 250,000 noninvasive kits designed to empower proactive health choices and mitigate structural strain across rural and Medicaid care networks. Grounded in peer-reviewed research published in JAMA, the test leverages the body’s innate biology by linking bitter taste receptor (T2R) phenotypes directly to upper respiratory defense mechanisms against flu, COVID-19, and bronchitis. The operational workflow requires no laboratory processing or biological sample shipments; users complete a multi-strip tongue test and log reactions in the Phenomune app to extract actionable immune profiles within minutes. On an institutional scale, the program aggregates anonymized, population-level healthcare data to guide state resource allocation while enabling clinics, nursing homes, and FQHCs to scale targeted interventions. Inside Louisiana’s 250,000-Kit Shift to Preventive T2R Immune Intelligence The infrastructure governing state-level public health delivery across the United States is operating under an unsustainable reactive model. For decades, municipal health departments and regional provider networks have faced a compounding operational crisis: every winter, a highly predictable surge in upper respiratory tract infections—spanning seasonal influenza, …

Wearable Tech Startup The90 Launches $299 UV-Tracking Smart Jewelry
type: item
creator: Jasmine Pennic
date: 2026-06-12T11:25:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Wearables
description: What You Should Know Preventative skin health wearable pioneer The90 has formally launched out of stealth with The90™ Gem, a high-end smart jewelry pendant and companion app designed to track personal UV exposure. The device targets a massive market gap in healthy skin aging: up to 90% of visible skin damage, wrinkles, and fine lines ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="1500" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-1-1500x1500.png" alt="" class="wp-image-96619" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-1-1500x1500.png 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-1-300x300.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-1-290x290.png 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-1-768x768.png 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-1-1536x1536.png 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-1-100x100.png 100w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-1.png 1879w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know Preventative skin health wearable pioneer The90 has formally launched out of stealth with The90 Gem, a high-end smart jewelry pendant and companion app designed to track personal UV exposure. The device targets a massive market gap in healthy skin aging: up to 90% of visible skin damage, wrinkles, and fine lines are caused by cumulative, everyday ultraviolet light exposure rather than chronological aging. Unlike generic, location-based smartphone weather apps, the wearable utilizes live built-in sensors to capture the actual UVA (aging/window-penetrating) and UVB (burning) rays hitting the user’s skin. The company was founded by CEO Stacy Salvi, a prominent health-tech innovator who spent over a decade leading Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit and recently engineered award-winning smart rings for women. Available for $299, the launch features high-profile backing from Lauryn Bosstick, founder of The Skinny Confidential, alongside tech and apparel entrepreneurs from Life360, Blenders Eyewear, and Cuts Clothing. The modern skincare and aesthetic medicine markets are operating within a high-stakes consumer paradox. Every year, millions of women invest billions of dollars into high-performan…

Nordic Appoints Alicia Harkness as Chief Executive Officer
type: item
creator: Healthcare Executive Hires
date: 2026-06-12T04:33:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
description: What You Should Know Global health technology and consulting firm Nordic has announced the appointment of Alicia Harkness as Chief Executive Officer, effective June 15, 2026. Harkness succeeds a strong baseline, transitioning into the role after a distinguished tenure as a founding partner at Guidehouse, where she built and scaled their Global Health business into ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Alicia-Harkness-CEO-Announcement.jpg" alt="Nordic Appoints Alicia Harkness as Chief Executive Officer" class="wp-image-96616" width="720" height="720" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Alicia-Harkness-CEO-Announcement.jpg 1254w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Alicia-Harkness-CEO-Announcement-300x300.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Alicia-Harkness-CEO-Announcement-290x290.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Alicia-Harkness-CEO-Announcement-768x768.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Alicia-Harkness-CEO-Announcement-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> Alicia Harkness, CEO at Nordic What You Should Know Global health technology and consulting firm Nordic has announced the appointment of Alicia Harkness as Chief Executive Officer, effective June 15, 2026. Harkness succeeds a strong baseline, transitioning into the role after a distinguished tenure as a founding partner at Guidehouse, where she built and scaled their Global Health business into a dominant market sector within six years. The executive onboarding lands as Application Managed Services (AMS) undergo a major structural evolution, moving from simple, reactive ticket staffing to becoming a core strategic pillar for healthcare IT operating models. Recent industry intelligence from Nordic confirms a strict geographic divide: 70% of urban health systems now leverage strategic outsourcing to establish analytics governance and maintain AI readiness, whereas rural providers use it primarily for localized operational resilience. Harkness brings over two decades of enterprise domain fluency spanning advisory, cloud technology, and managed services across the public, commercial, and nonprofit healthcare sectors. Harkness Bio/Background As a founding partner of Guidehouse, she personally …