This is shaping up to be another challenging year for healthcare system finances. It is not exactly beach reading. But neither is missing payroll.
The 2026 Costs of Caring Report from the American Hospital Association (AHA) spells it out:
Hospital expenses rose by 7.5% in 2025.About 56% of
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Suvi Health has officially launched its Ambient AI Care Coordination Platform to streamline hospital stays, improve care continuity, and reduce delayed discharges.Created
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Virtual clinics are very good at getting GLP-1s into patients' hands fast. That chapter is behind us, and the margins are compressing to prove it.
Leaders like Ro, hims & hers, Calibrate and
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Epic has officially released Care Everywhere Diagnostic Image Exchange, enabling clinicians at Epic-connected health systems to retrieve diagnostic-quality CTs, X-rays, and
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Healthcare marketplace Aligned Marketplace secured $20M in Series A funding led by healthcare venture firm Venrock.The platform directly connects self-insured employers and
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$25 billion. That’s how much Forrester predicts U.S. healthcare providers will spend on software this year. That equates to approximately 36% of their overall IT budget.
But the way providers are
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Cedar officially announced the Kora Platform, evolving its single AI billing agent into an integrated suite of purpose-built, autonomous AI agents designed for healthcare
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Global digital, cloud, and AI services company Mastek has joined Innovaccer’s Platinum Global Systems Integrator (GSI) program, committing to Innovaccer's Gravity platform for
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Assort Health announced the general availability of Referrals, an AI agent purpose-built to automate inbound specialty referral processing, provider matching, and appointment
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athenahealth announced the broad deployment of AI-native capabilities across its athenaOne network, extending native ambient features to over 170,000 physicians and
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Cityblock Health announced a major expansion in North Carolina to deliver its 24/7 wrap-around care model to nearly 20,000 Humana Medicare Advantage and dual-eligible
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The defining challenge in senior care is not simply extending life. What gives those extra years significance is maintaining the sense of identity, independence, and connectedness. Technology is
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Zocdoc has officially partnered with Google as the Gemini app's first health appointments connected apps partner, enabling agentic, real-time appointment scheduling.Google
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The AI-powered Oracle Health Patient Portal is now generally available across the United States.The solution integrates directly into the Oracle Health Electronic Health Record
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Function announced a research collaboration with NYU Grossman School of Medicine (part of NYU Langone Health) focused on developing next-generation AI models for early,
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Healthcare AI leader Ubie announced that its patient access tool, Smart Support, has earned official qualification on Mayo Clinic Platform.Smart Support applies protocol-based
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Complex RCM leader EnableComp announced its acquisition of Cincinnati-based revenue recovery firm Helix Advisory.The acquisition expands EnableComp's Zero Balance Review
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Blue Shield of California and Cedars-Sinai Health System reached a new four-year long-term agreement, ensuring uninterrupted in-network access for Commercial HMO and PPO
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Recycling makes people feel like they are protecting the planet; yet, up to 70 percent of what gets placed in recycling bins still ends up in a landfill. All the well-intentioned
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Flagler Health announced a $50M Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing its total capital raised to $63M.Additional round participants include
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Atlantic Health partnered with AI care delivery provider K Health to launch Atlantic Health PatientGPT and Atlantic Health Virtual Primary Care, establishing New Jersey's first
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81% of surveyed CHIME member IT executives consider clinician involvement in the design and deployment of AI "mostly or vitally important," with zero respondents rating it
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XiFin, Inc. and Notable Systems announced a multi-year strategic alliance to develop and embed purpose-built agentic AI capabilities across the XiFin Empower AI RCM
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Everybody wants to be “AI-first” because the market is telling them they need to be. But what is AI-first? Is it AI-native? Is it software that has successfully threaded AI across its business? I’m
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Hundreds of new RNA viruses are discovered every year, but every discovery brings an unexpected challenge: what should the new virus be called? While some names describe where a virus was found or
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Kyndryl announced its intent to acquire Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC, an enterprise IT services and consulting provider for hospitals, health systems, and payors.The acquisition
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71% of surveyed health system leaders describe their organization as "Epic-First," and 80% expect this preference to intensify over the next 3 to 5 years, according to research
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Most conversations about closing the lung cancer screening gap focus on uptake, and for good reason. Just 18.7 percent of eligible Americans were up to date with low-dose CT screening in 2024, roughly
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Healthcare organizations often already possess the information they need. The gap lies not in visibility, but in execution, in how quickly, consistently, and at scale they can turn that information
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Virtual care management leader HealthSnap secured a $25M senior secured growth financing facility led by Eastward Capital Partners, LLC.Specialty investment bank Ziegler served
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Digital healthcare leader iRhythm Holdings, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vital Connect, Inc. for approximately $287.5M.The transaction consideration
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CliniComp received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for its PACS Viewer as a Medical Image Management and Processing System (MIMPS).The clearance enables diagnostic-quality image
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Healthcare organizations are confronting an overwhelming number of AI vendors lately. Most products appear similar in presentations and slide decks, making it difficult for buyers to differentiate
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Trust Is the Real Question
Can AI outputs be trusted? This is one of the most important questions healthcare professionals ask about generative AI. This question is especially important in medical
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Professional services firm PwC and digital health company Zyter announced a strategic collaboration targeting Total Cost of Care (TCOC) management for healthcare payers and
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Healthcare intelligence leader Health Catalyst, Inc. completed the sale of its mid-revenue cycle business, Vitalware, LLC, to Med-Metrix, LLC on July 31, 2026.The divestiture
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A report by the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) at UPMC and KLAS Research reveals that while 93% of surveyed health system leaders have deployed third-party AI, strategy
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Social care coordination leader Unite Us has acquired Vircho Health, a technology platform providing performance, quality, and financial accountability analytics for community
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Most documentation problems I have reviewed over the years were never really about documentation itself. They were workflow problems that showed up later as denials, CDI overruns, and revenue that
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Solventum announced its intent to separate its Health Information Systems (HIS) business to sharpen focus as a pure-play MedTech provider centered on MedSurg and Dental
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Two years ago, ambient AI scribes were a mere curiosity. A handful of health systems ran the pilots. Conference demos drew crowds but not purchase orders. That phase is over.
Nearly two-thirds of
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Definitive Healthcare announced an early adopter program for its new AI-powered healthcare intelligence platform, inviting select customer organizations in August 2026.General
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Agentic AI-powered health and care platform Transcarent has appointed Mike Morgan as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).Reporting directly to CEO Glen Tullman, Morgan will
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Independent accreditor URAC announced that Guidehealth, RediMinds, and SandsRx are the first three organizations nationwide to earn its Health Care Artificial Intelligence
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Digital health provider Hinge Health, Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire virtual-first digestive care company Cylinder Health, Inc. for $105M in cash.The
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Over the past decade, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) have transformed from emerging technologies into integral components of chronic disease management. Fueled
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New Haven-based cardiopulmonary digital health provider Wellinks closed a $10M first tranche of its Series B funding round.The financing was led by strategic partner UMass
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Global healthcare IT consulting firm Nordic® announced the opening of a new delivery facility in Mexico to expand its nearshore technical capabilities.The Mexico facility will
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Seattle-based RevealDx has secured a $3.4M strategic investment and a global distribution agreement with Melbourne-listed 4DMedical.The agreement appoints 4DMedical as the
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There is a familiar arc to healthcare AI initiatives. A promising tool is selected. A pilot launches with real enthusiasm. The early demo impresses everyone in the room. And then the project quietly
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Tel Aviv-based AI clinical simulation platform QuantHealth closed a $45 million Series B financing round led by Qumra Capital.The round saw participation from major strategic
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Amae Health announced a strategic collaboration with Google Health Enterprise to integrate continuous, wearable-derived behavioral metrics into its precision psychiatry
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Healthcare data and AI platform H1 announced a strategic partnership with global pharmaceutical leader Novo Nordisk to modernize clinical trial development.Under the agreement,
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HHAeXchange published its 2026 Homecare Insights: Provider Voices survey, aggregating operational data from 465 home- and community-based services (HCBS) agencies.Compliance
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Every day, payers deploy artificial intelligence (AI) into claims and prior authorization with the hope of eliminating delays, rework, and provider friction. Yet, too many are still seeing clean
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Salt Lake City-based digital health innovator Epitel, Inc. closed a $26M Series B funding round co-led by Catalyst Health Ventures and Genoa Ventures.The Series B financing
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Modernization in healthcare is usually measured by what gets implemented next: an ERP platform replaced, EHR systems consolidated, a database moved to the cloud. But a successful go-live does not
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San Diego-based bioinformatics company Inocras Inc. closed an oversubscribed $31M Series B-3 financing round, bringing its total capital raised to approximately $100M.The
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According to a new report from CHG Healthcare, advanced practice providers (APPs)—including NPs, PAs, and CRNAs—have shifted from temporary coverage to foundational
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DeepHealth, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of RadNet, Inc.) received FDA 510(k) clearance for DeepHealth Breast Ultrasound, an AI platform automating lesion detection, ACR
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GE HealthCare officially launched Invenia™ ABUS (Automated Breast Ultrasound) Prime and ABUS StreamVue™, extending its diagnostic ultrasound portfolio targeting dense breast
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