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items: UNC Health Rebrands Rex Health Ventures to Launch UNC Health Ventures Strategic Investment Platform
items: Rise of Cloud Conversational Voice AI in Healthcare
items: The Premium Programmatic Imperative: Why Pharma’s HCP Engagement Strategy Needs a Serious Upgrade
items: Cityblock Acquires Homeward and Secures $116M to Unify Urban-Rural Care
items: Bristol Myers Squibb Partners with Chai Discovery for AI Antibody Design
items: DCAI and Corti Launch Sovereign AI Control Layer on Gefion Supercomputer
items: Radial Acquires Mindful Health Solutions MSO to Scale 27-Clinic Brain Medicine Network
items: Why Healthcare AI Demands an Owned Intelligence Layer
items: XiFin Names Chris Martin Chief Product Officer Amid Rapid AI-Enabled Empower Platform Growth
items: WellSky Unveils AI Summarization and Post-Acute Tracking Across 120,000 Providers
items: ￼Impact Primary Care Network Deploys Innovaccer for Autonomous Population Health
items: The Real Reason Investors Are Backing Maternal Health
items: VA Expands Oracle Health EHR Modernization Contract Ceiling to Nearly $27B
items: M&A: Francisco Partners to Acquire Weave in $650M Take-Private Deal
items: Mass General Brigham Launches First Home Hospital Trials for Dementia and Behavioral Health

UNC Health Rebrands Rex Health Ventures to Launch UNC Health Ventures Strategic Investment Platform
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-08-21T15:11:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
subject: Startups
description: What You Should Know UNC Health officially announced the rebranding and expansion of Rex Health Ventures into UNC Health Ventures, establishing a unified, systemwide corporate venture capital (CVC) and strategic investment platform. The venture platform builds on more than a decade of strategic healthcare investing, having supported nearly 30 early-stage healthcare companies since its founding ... Read More
encoded: <img width="1179" height="940" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/unch_ventures_v_pos_clr_rgb_260622.jpg" alt="UNC Health Rebrands Rex Health Ventures to Launch UNC Health Ventures Strategic Investment Platform" class="wp-image-97546" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/unch_ventures_v_pos_clr_rgb_260622.jpg 1179w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/unch_ventures_v_pos_clr_rgb_260622-300x239.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/unch_ventures_v_pos_clr_rgb_260622-290x231.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/unch_ventures_v_pos_clr_rgb_260622-768x612.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1179px) 100vw, 1179px" /> What You Should Know UNC Health officially announced the rebranding and expansion of Rex Health Ventures into UNC Health Ventures, establishing a unified, systemwide corporate venture capital (CVC) and strategic investment platform. The venture platform builds on more than a decade of strategic healthcare investing, having supported nearly 30 early-stage healthcare companies since its founding in 2012. UNC Health Ventures is directly funded through UNC Health’s broader investment portfolio, with 100% of financial returns reinvested into the health system to support patient care, operational resilience, clinical research, and local innovation across North Carolina. Each prospective portfolio company undergoes clinical and operational due diligence, requiring formal evaluation by frontline physicians and operational leaders alongside approval by a systemwide investment committee. Key portfolio investments include Reprieve Cardiovascular, which is advancing intelligent, personalized fluid management technology for acute decompensated heart failure to reduce hospital length of stay (LOS) and free up acute bed capacity. Bridging Corporate Venture Capital with Frontline Clinical Workflows Historically, health system corporate venture capital programs operate…

Rise of Cloud Conversational Voice AI in Healthcare
type: item
creator: Julian Jacquez, Jr. President COO of BCN
date: 2026-08-21T14:11:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
subject: Opinion
description: Healthcare providers are turning to cloud-based conversational AI to fix an access crisis that traditional staffing models can no longer solve, with intelligent voice networks now handling everything from appointment scheduling to insurance verification without a human on the line. What began as a customer-service experiment is fast becoming core clinical infrastructure. Hospitals and clinics ... Read More
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The Premium Programmatic Imperative: Why Pharma’s HCP Engagement Strategy Needs a Serious Upgrade
type: item
creator: Kamya Elawadhi, Co-founder and President, Doceree
date: 2026-08-21T10:15:00Z
subject: biopharma
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Opinion
description: When did “we believe we reached physicians” become an acceptable standard for a billion-dollar industry? Somewhere along the way, pharma marketing made peace with probabilistic targeting, inferred identities, and impression counts that looked impressive but proved little. The industry didn’t lower its clinical standards. It just never applied them to its media buying. That disconnect ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="800" height="800" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Kamya-Elawadhi-Co-founder-and-President-Doceree.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-97539" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Kamya-Elawadhi-Co-founder-and-President-Doceree.jpeg 800w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Kamya-Elawadhi-Co-founder-and-President-Doceree-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Kamya-Elawadhi-Co-founder-and-President-Doceree-290x290.jpeg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Kamya-Elawadhi-Co-founder-and-President-Doceree-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Kamya-Elawadhi-Co-founder-and-President-Doceree-100x100.jpeg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /> Kamya Elawadhi, Co-founder and President, Doceree When did “we believe we reached physicians” become an acceptable standard for a billion-dollar industry? Somewhere along the way, pharma marketing made peace with probabilistic targeting, inferred identities, and impression counts that looked impressive but proved little. The industry didn’t lower its clinical standards. It just never applied them to its media buying. That disconnect is no longer sustainable. And it’s not a media buying problem. It’s a structural one. The Illusion of Efficiency Programmatic advertising promised healthcare marketers the world: automation, scale, precision. For general consumer marketing, it largely delivered. But healthcare is not general consumer marketing. Healthcare professionals are not casual browsers waiting to be retargeted with a reminder about something they once Googled. They are credentialed, time-pressed clinicians operating within highly specific professional workflows, and they have extraordinarily little patience for irrelevant noise. Yet for years, the dominant approach to reaching HCPs programmatically borrowed the same logic used to sell sneakers: buy i…

Cityblock Acquires Homeward and Secures $116M to Unify Urban-Rural Care
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-08-20T19:36:26Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Population Health Management
subject: Startups
subject: Care Coordination
subject: Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions
description: What You Should Know 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 ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="431" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cityblock-Health-acquires-Homeward-1500x431.jpg" alt="Cityblock Acquires Homeward and Secures $116M to Unify Urban-Rural Care" class="wp-image-97507" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cityblock-Health-acquires-Homeward-1500x431.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cityblock-Health-acquires-Homeward-300x86.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cityblock-Health-acquires-Homeward-290x83.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cityblock-Health-acquires-Homeward-768x221.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cityblock-Health-acquires-Homeward-1536x442.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Cityblock-Health-acquires-Homeward-2048x589.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know 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 Advantage delivery model, deep regional health plan partnerships (including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan), and nearly 50,000 attributed members across underserved rural geographies. The transaction positions Cityblock as the leading outcomes-based provider platform serving the nation’s 120 million individuals enrolled in government-sponsored healthcare. Scaling Care Delivery Across Fragmented Government Programs As Medicare Advantage rate adjustments tighten and federal Medicaid funding faces long-term pressures, several early-generation value-based…

Bristol Myers Squibb Partners with Chai Discovery for AI Antibody Design
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-08-20T14:30:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence
description: What You Should Know Chai Discovery announced a strategic biopharmaceutical collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) to advance the discovery and engineering of therapeutic antibodies using artificial intelligence. Bristol Myers Squibb will integrate Chai’s proprietary molecular folding and de novo design models across its drug discovery portfolio to power an AI-driven, continuously learning discovery system. ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1057" height="290" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ChaiDiscovery.jpeg" alt="Chai Discovery Raises $400M to Accelerate AI-Driven Molecular Design Platform" class="wp-image-96806" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ChaiDiscovery.jpeg 1057w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ChaiDiscovery-300x82.jpeg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ChaiDiscovery-290x80.jpeg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ChaiDiscovery-768x211.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1057px) 100vw, 1057px" /> What You Should Know Chai Discovery announced a strategic biopharmaceutical collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) to advance the discovery and engineering of therapeutic antibodies using artificial intelligence. Bristol Myers Squibb will integrate Chai’s proprietary molecular folding and de novo design models across its drug discovery portfolio to power an AI-driven, continuously learning discovery system. Chai Discovery’s platform acts as a computer-aided design (CAD) suite for biology, predicting and reprogramming molecular interactions to generate targeted biomolecules from scratch rather than relying on iterative experimental screening. The collaboration expands Chai Discovery’s biopharma footprint, joining commercial and research partnerships with global pharmaceutical leaders including Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis. Transitioning from Trial-and-Error Screening to Computer-Aided Molecular Design Traditional antibody discovery often requires iterative wet-lab screening cycles spanning 12 to 24 months to identify viable candidates against complex antigens. Biopharma teams frequently face bottlenecks when targeting conformationally flexible, multi-pass membrane proteins, or historically “undruggable” epitopes. Chai Discovery’s platform approaches molecular discovery through a computer-aided engineering framework: Biomolecular Folding & Multimodal …

DCAI and Corti Launch Sovereign AI Control Layer on Gefion Supercomputer
type: item
creator: Jasmine Pennic
date: 2026-08-20T14:20:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence
description: What You Should Know The Danish Center for AI Innovation (DCAI) and clinical AI lab Corti have launched Corti Models, a governed, model-agnostic infrastructure layer providing European enterprises with sovereign control over AI deployments, data security, and compliance. The platform provides an OpenAI-compatible API supporting sovereign cloud and on-premises environments, allowing organizations to route workloads ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="486" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Corti-Logo-1500x486.jpg" alt="DCAI and Corti Launch Sovereign AI Control Layer on Gefion Supercomputer" class="wp-image-97508" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Corti-Logo-1500x486.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Corti-Logo-300x97.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Corti-Logo-290x94.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Corti-Logo-768x249.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Corti-Logo-1536x498.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Corti-Logo.jpg 1669w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know The Danish Center for AI Innovation (DCAI) and clinical AI lab Corti have launched Corti Models, a governed, model-agnostic infrastructure layer providing European enterprises with sovereign control over AI deployments, data security, and compliance. The platform provides an OpenAI-compatible API supporting sovereign cloud and on-premises environments, allowing organizations to route workloads to leading foundation models without rewriting existing SDK integrations or prompts. Corti Models is powered by DCAI’s ISO-certified Gefion AI supercomputer (an NVIDIA-powered cluster), with DCAI investing in a scalable NVIDIA Blackwell B300-based cluster to serve as a national inference platform across Denmark and the Nordic region. Mitigating Provider Dependency and Data Residency Risks As enterprise workflows increasingly rely on frontier generative models, dependence on single-vendor foreign AI providers exposes organizations to unexpected service outages, unforecasted API price shifts, and data transfer risks under European regulations like GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and the EU AI Act. Corti Models mitigates these vulnerabilities by pairing Corti’s clinical-grade governance frameworks with localized Euro…

Radial Acquires Mindful Health Solutions MSO to Scale 27-Clinic Brain Medicine Network
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-08-20T14:00:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
subject: Behavioral Health
subject: Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions
subject: neurological conditions
description: What You Should Know Radial has acquired the Management Services Organization (MSO) supporting Mindful Health Solutions, creating the nation’s largest clinical management network dedicated to advanced brain medicine and interventional psychiatry. The combined management platform supports 27 outpatient clinics across California, Texas, Washington, and New York, encompassing over 100 clinicians and serving hundreds of thousands ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="441" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radial-Health-Logo-1500x441.jpg" alt="Radial Acquires Mindful Health Solutions MSO to Scale 27-Clinic Brain Medicine Network" class="wp-image-97509" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radial-Health-Logo-1500x441.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radial-Health-Logo-300x88.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radial-Health-Logo-290x85.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radial-Health-Logo-768x226.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radial-Health-Logo-1536x452.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Radial-Health-Logo-2048x602.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know Radial has acquired the Management Services Organization (MSO) supporting Mindful Health Solutions, creating the nation’s largest clinical management network dedicated to advanced brain medicine and interventional psychiatry. The combined management platform supports 27 outpatient clinics across California, Texas, Washington, and New York, encompassing over 100 clinicians and serving hundreds of thousands of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), PTSD, OCD, tardive dyskinesia, and suicidality. The clinical care model centers on next-generation, evidence-backed brain medicine modalities—including accelerated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (aTMS, SWIFT, SAINT), Spravato (esketamine), IV ketamine, fMRI-EEG-guided PRISM, transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS), and upcoming psychedelic therapeutics (e.g., Comp360 psilocybin)—delivering remission rates up to 79% (compared to 5–30% for traditional SSRI/talk therapy regimens). Moving Beyond Pill-Based Psychiatry While conventional outpatient psychiatry has relied heavily on trial-and-error oral SSRIs and psychotherapy since the 1980s, treatment-resistant depr…

Why Healthcare AI Demands an Owned Intelligence Layer
type: item
creator: Shanea Leven, Founder and CEO, Empromptu AI
date: 2026-08-20T14:00:00Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Opinion
subject: Artificial Intelligence
description: Healthcare is one of the few industries where AI errors do not just cost money. They can compromise patient trust, expose sensitive data, create compliance risk, and undermine the clinicians and operators responsible for care. Yet much of the AI tooling entering healthcare was built for speed, not accountability. The tools that can generate a ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="550" height="550" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Shanea-Leven.jpg" alt="Why Healthcare AI Demands an Owned Intelligence Layer" class="wp-image-97500" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Shanea-Leven.jpg 550w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Shanea-Leven-300x300.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Shanea-Leven-290x290.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Shanea-Leven-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /> Shanea Leven, Founder and CEO, Empromptu AI Healthcare is one of the few industries where AI errors do not just cost money. They can compromise patient trust, expose sensitive data, create compliance risk, and undermine the clinicians and operators responsible for care. Yet much of the AI tooling entering healthcare was built for speed, not accountability. The tools that can generate a demo in a day were not designed for clinical workflows, fragmented patient data, audit trails, compliance policies, or the accuracy requirements healthcare environments demand. That gap is becoming one of the biggest barriers to healthcare AI adoption. Organizations want to use AI, but they cannot safely deploy systems they cannot verify, govern, audit, or improve. In healthcare, “almost right” is not good enough. A model that performs well in a demo can still fail when it meets messy records, payer rules, clinical nuance, edge cases, handoffs, and real patient context. Healthcare AI needs a different foundation. It needs data pipelines that normalize and validate clinical and operational inputs before inference. It needs governance policies built into the application layer, not added after deployment. It needs audit logs that show what the AI saw, what it recommended, who approved it, and how the decision was made. It needs human feedback loops so expert corrections become part of the system. And it needs a path…

XiFin Names Chris Martin Chief Product Officer Amid Rapid AI-Enabled Empower Platform Growth
type: item
creator: Healthcare Executive Hires
date: 2026-08-20T13:15:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
subject: Digital Health Hires
description: What You Should Know XiFin, Inc. appointed Chris Martin as Chief Product Officer (CPO) to lead product strategy, drive solution modularity, and expand adoption of the company’s AI-enabled XiFin Empower revenue cycle management (RCM) platform. Martin’s appointment follows the February 2026 hiring of Chief Technology Officer Sanjay Kumar, forming a technical leadership pairing focused on ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Christopher-C.-Martin-.jpeg" alt="XiFin Names Chris Martin Chief Product Officer Amid Rapid AI-Enabled Empower Platform Growth" class="wp-image-97520" width="603" height="603" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Christopher-C.-Martin-.jpeg 800w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Christopher-C.-Martin--300x300.jpeg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Christopher-C.-Martin--290x290.jpeg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Christopher-C.-Martin--768x768.jpeg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Christopher-C.-Martin--100x100.jpeg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px" /> Chris Martin, Chief Product Officer at XiFin What You Should Know XiFin, Inc. appointed Chris Martin as Chief Product Officer (CPO) to lead product strategy, drive solution modularity, and expand adoption of the company’s AI-enabled XiFin Empower revenue cycle management (RCM) platform. Martin’s appointment follows the February 2026 hiring of Chief Technology Officer Sanjay Kumar, forming a technical leadership pairing focused on translating AI innovation into measurable customer value across new healthcare segments. XiFin reported a 21.1% increase in Empower RCM processing volume alongside double-digit growth across its molecular diagnostics, hospital outreach, and ancillary services divisions. Martin previously served as Senior Vice President and Head of Consumer Products at Axos Financial, leading AI-driven product strategy, with earlier enterprise transformation and consulting roles at Deloitte Consulting and IBM. The leadership addition coincides with major 2026 industry honors across XiFin’s executive bench, recognizing CFO Erik Sallee, CTO Sanjay Kumar, VP Heather Agostinelli, Marketing Director Debi Lerkins, and Senior Director Clarisa Blattner.

WellSky Unveils AI Summarization and Post-Acute Tracking Across 120,000 Providers
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-08-20T13:05:00Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Care Coordination
description: What You Should Know WellSky announced two new capabilities within its WellSky CarePort® care transition suite: CareBrief (AI-driven clinical summarization) and Patient Visibility Pro (longitudinal post-discharge tracking). Integrated into WellSky CarePort Transition and Care Management workflows, the tools address clinical data fragmentation and lack of visibility after hospital discharge. CareBrief synthesizes external clinical, social, and ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1440" height="900" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WellSky.jpg" alt="WellSky Launches AI Ambient Listening in Specialty Care EHR to Cut Documentation Time by 41%" class="wp-image-92371" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WellSky.jpg 1440w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WellSky-300x188.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WellSky-290x181.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WellSky-768x480.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px" /> What You Should Know WellSky announced two new capabilities within its WellSky CarePort® care transition suite: CareBrief (AI-driven clinical summarization) and Patient Visibility Pro (longitudinal post-discharge tracking). Integrated into WellSky CarePort Transition and Care Management workflows, the tools address clinical data fragmentation and lack of visibility after hospital discharge. CareBrief synthesizes external clinical, social, and post-acute data from outside the hospital EHR into structured summaries to inform discharge planning and post-acute level-of-care placement. Patient Visibility Pro delivers a longitudinal patient timeline, curated worklists, and automated task prioritization to track high-risk patients across their post-acute recovery journey. Overcoming Post-Discharge Visibility Gaps Health systems historically experience a visibility drop-off once a patient departs an acute facility. Because discharge planners often lack access to encounter histories, social determinants, and community records outside their primary EHR, care placement decisions can stall—contributing to extended length of stay (LOS), misaligned post-acute placements, and unmonitored recovery complications that drive 30-day readmissions. WellSky addresses these transition bottlenecks by connecting acute workflows with cross-continuum operational data: AI-Assisted Cross-EHR Summarization …

￼Impact Primary Care Network Deploys Innovaccer for Autonomous Population Health
type: item
creator: Jasmine Pennic
date: 2026-08-20T13:00:00Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Population Health Management
subject: Care Coordination
description: What You Should Know 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, ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="512" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image-136.png" alt="Innovaccer Acquires Humbi AI to Enhance Healthcare Intelligence Cloud" class="wp-image-85423" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image-136.png 1024w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image-136-300x150.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image-136-290x145.png 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image-136-768x384.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> What You Should Know 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 care management engagement, improved clinical protocol adherence, and increased attributed population penetration rates across 19 counties in Western North Carolina and the Qualla Boundary. IPCN was founded in 2024 by parent nonprofit Impact Health, which serves as the network lead for North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilot (HOP) and the NC ROOTS Hub Lead for the state’s Rural Health Transformation Program. Automating Whole-Person Care Across Rural Communities Primary care practices across rural and underserved regions often coordinate medical treatments alongside non-medical social drivers of health. However, care managers frequently spend hours cross-referencing patient rosters, chasing missing lab results, and manually tracking preventive screening deadlines, leaving limited capacity for direct patient engagement. “What makes that work sustainable at scale is not more people managing more spre…

The Real Reason Investors Are Backing Maternal Health
type: item
creator: Mark Taylor, Vice President of Market Strategy at Ready Computing
date: 2026-08-20T07:02:00Z
subject: Digital Health
subject: Health IT
subject: Opinion
subject: Startups
description: There’s a reason investors are pouring money into maternal health right now, and it’s not just because it’s the “right thing to do.” It’s because maternal health sits at the intersection of some of the biggest challenges in healthcare today: cost, access, workforce shortages, chronic disease, behavioral health, health equity, and long-term outcomes. And the ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Image_20260603_155842_984.jpeg" alt="The Real Reason Investors Are Backing Maternal Health" class="wp-image-97504" width="660" height="660" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Image_20260603_155842_984.jpeg 900w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Image_20260603_155842_984-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Image_20260603_155842_984-290x290.jpeg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Image_20260603_155842_984-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Image_20260603_155842_984-100x100.jpeg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /> Mark Taylor, Vice President of Market Strategy at Ready Computing There’s a reason investors are pouring money into maternal health right now, and it’s not just because it’s the “right thing to do.” It’s because maternal health sits at the intersection of some of the biggest challenges in healthcare today: cost, access, workforce shortages, chronic disease, behavioral health, health equity, and long-term outcomes. And the numbers are becoming impossible to ignore. Despite spending more on healthcare than any other developed nation, the United States continues to report some of the worst maternal and infant health outcomes among high-income countries. Infant mortality rates remain stubbornly high in many parts of the country, particularly in underserved and rural communities. Maternal mortality rates are equally troubling, especially for Black mothers, where disparities continue to persist regardless of income or education level. At some point, the industry had to stop pretending this was purely a clinical problem. For years, maternal health was often treated as a narrow specialty focused primarily on prenatal visits, delivery, and postpartum follow-up. But that model misses the bigger picture entirely. Maternal health is one of t…

VA Expands Oracle Health EHR Modernization Contract Ceiling to Nearly $27B
type: item
creator: Jasmine Pennic
date: 2026-08-20T05:00:00Z
subject: EMR/EHR
subject: Health IT
subject: Oracle
description: What You Should Know The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposed a major contract modification to its Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) agreement with Oracle Health, raising the contract ceiling by nearly $17B from almost $10B to approximately $27B, according to FedScoop. The contract modification documents cite “unanticipated complexities” and extensive site-specific customizations that depleted ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="900" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VA-Department_of_Veterans_Affairs-1500x900.png" alt="Verizon Inks $448.3M Veterans Affairs Contract for Mobile Devices" class="wp-image-71752" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VA-Department_of_Veterans_Affairs-1500x900.png 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VA-Department_of_Veterans_Affairs-300x180.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VA-Department_of_Veterans_Affairs-290x174.png 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VA-Department_of_Veterans_Affairs-768x461.png 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VA-Department_of_Veterans_Affairs-1536x922.png 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VA-Department_of_Veterans_Affairs.png 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposed a major contract modification to its Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) agreement with Oracle Health, raising the contract ceiling by nearly $17B from almost $10B to approximately $27B, according to FedScoop. The contract modification documents cite “unanticipated complexities” and extensive site-specific customizations that depleted the initial contract ceiling ahead of schedule, with remaining funds projected to be exhausted by Q1 FY2027. The modification adds three one-year firm-fixed-price optional ordering periods, extending the potential period of performance from May 2028 through May 16, 2031, aligning with the VA’s target for enterprise-wide completion across all 164 VA Medical Centers. The contract scope remains focused on enterprise EHR software, deployment waves, data conversion, interface testing, clinical and role-based training, and ongoing post-go-live sustainment. On the legislative front, the House-passed FY2027 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs approp…

M&A: Francisco Partners to Acquire Weave in $650M Take-Private Deal
type: item
creator: Fred Pennic
date: 2026-08-20T04:13:00Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Most Popular
subject: Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions
description: What You Should Know Weave Communications, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by global technology investment firm Francisco Partners in an all-cash take-private transaction valued at an aggregate equity valuation of approximately $650M. Weave stockholders will receive $7.40 per share in cash, representing an approximate 34% premium over the company’s unaffected closing ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="512" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-16.png" alt="Francisco Partners to Acquire Weave in $650M Take-Private Deal" class="wp-image-97511" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-16.png 1024w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-16-300x150.png 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-16-290x145.png 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-16-768x384.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> What You Should Know Weave Communications, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by global technology investment firm Francisco Partners in an all-cash take-private transaction valued at an aggregate equity valuation of approximately $650M. Weave stockholders will receive $7.40 per share in cash, representing an approximate 34% premium over the company’s unaffected closing stock price on August 17, 2026. Upon completion of the transaction, expected in the fourth quarter of 2026 subject to stockholder and regulatory approvals, Weave will delist from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and transition to a private entity. Weave will continue operating under the Weave brand name and maintain its corporate headquarters in Lehi, Utah. Serving more than 40,000 customer locations across independent and small-to-medium-sized healthcare practices, Weave combines agentic AI workflows with practice management system integrations to automate scheduling, communication, insurance verification, and payments. Accelerating AI and Practice Workflow Expansion Independent medical, dental, optometry, and veterinary practices frequently struggle with fragmented front-office operations—balancing disconnected phone systems, manual scheduling reminders, and standalone payment terminals. Transitioning from the public market to private ownership provides Weave with the capital flexibility to accelerate long-term…

Mass General Brigham Launches First Home Hospital Trials for Dementia and Behavioral Health
type: item
creator: Jasmine Pennic
date: 2026-08-19T17:27:10Z
subject: Health IT
subject: Population Health Management
subject: Clinical Trials
subject: Home Care
subject: home care elderly
subject: home health
description: What You Should Know Mass General Brigham announced the launch of two clinical trials to evaluate acute, hospital-level care delivered in the home for patients living with dementia and those experiencing primary psychiatric conditions. The dementia trial, funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), is a randomized controlled study enrolling 200 patients followed for ... Read More
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1500" height="657" src="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Mass-General-Brigham-Healthcare-at-Home-1500x657.jpg" alt="Mass General Brigham Launches First Home Hospital Trials for Dementia and Behavioral Health" class="wp-image-97488" srcset="https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Mass-General-Brigham-Healthcare-at-Home-1500x657.jpg 1500w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Mass-General-Brigham-Healthcare-at-Home-300x131.jpg 300w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Mass-General-Brigham-Healthcare-at-Home-290x127.jpg 290w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Mass-General-Brigham-Healthcare-at-Home-768x337.jpg 768w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Mass-General-Brigham-Healthcare-at-Home-1536x673.jpg 1536w, https://hitconsultant.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Mass-General-Brigham-Healthcare-at-Home-2048x897.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /> What You Should Know Mass General Brigham announced the launch of two clinical trials to evaluate acute, hospital-level care delivered in the home for patients living with dementia and those experiencing primary psychiatric conditions. The dementia trial, funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), is a randomized controlled study enrolling 200 patients followed for one year; it evaluates whether proactive care planning, virtual urgent care, and mobile integrated health paramedics can safely prevent traumatic emergency department visits and inpatient admissions. The behavioral health trial, funded by the Thompson Family Foundation, represents the nation’s first clinical study testing an emergency-department-to-home hospital care pathway for primary psychiatric conditions (psychosis, severe depression, anxiety, and behavioral symptoms of dementia) using specialized multidisciplinary teams of psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, and psychologists. Mitigating Delirium, Boarding, an…