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The Trend: Wolters Kluwer Health report reveals "Shadow AI"—the use of unauthorized AI tools by employees—has permeated healthcare, with nearly 20% of staff admitting to using unvetted algorithms and 40% encountering them.The Motivation: The driver isn't malice, but burnout.
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The News: Ventra Health has launched vCision, a new revenue intelligence platform powered by "Agentic AI" (autonomous digital agents) to optimize the revenue cycle for
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The News: Greenway Health, in collaboration with AWS, has launched the "Agentic AI Factory," a platform designed to mass-produce secure, compliant AI agents for healthcare.The
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- Voice AI research company Hume AI announced a significant leadership transition and strategic expansion of its research infrastructure business.
- Andrew
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The News: The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) has released a comprehensive "Playbook on Performance-Based Contracting," signaling a market-wide shift away from
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Value-based care (VBC) is a fundamental shift from volume-based, fee-for-service models to outcome-driven healthcare delivery. It characteristically requires providers to be far more dynamic about
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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ decision to move away from recommending the universal hepatitis B at birth is being framed as a scheduling change, but it exposes a deeper problem:
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The Core News: ECRI has named the misuse of AI chatbots (LLMs) as the #1 health technology hazard for 2026, citing their tendency to provide confident but factually incorrect
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- Amazon One Medical has launched Health AI, an agentic assistant integrated into the One Medical app that provides 24/7 personalized health guidance grounded in a member's
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My grim (and not-so-bold) prediction for the year ahead: Cost challenges will dominate leadership meetings throughout the year. My recommendation: Don’t let cost reduction be the
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- 4DMedical, the leader in software-based respiratory imaging technology, today announced US$100+ million (AU$150 million) in new institutional placement.
- The investment
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- AnswersNow, the leader in virtual Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy, today announced that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by HealthQuest Capital,
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- Zarminali Pediatrics, the first outpatient pediatric destination purpose-built to provide integrated primary and specialty care nationwide, today announced a $110M Series A
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The News: A new report by KLAS Research validates the performance of Suki, an AI clinical intelligence platform, across three major health systems: FMOL Health, McLeod Health,
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The Deal: Rapid Care has acquired DeepDoc, a generative AI platform specializing in summarizing complex medical records with over 99% accuracy. Financial details of the
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The News: Crossroads Health Ventures (CHV) has launched a new early-stage venture fund with over $21M in capital to support Indiana-based life sciences startups.The
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The News: Harmony Healthcare IT has acquired Blue Elm, a specialist provider of data solutions for the MEDITECH EHR platform.The Impact: The deal creates a single, end-to-end
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Health systems are drowning in metrics. We can tell you how many portal messages were answered within 24 hours, how many patients closed a care gap, and how many clinicians are using ambient AI in
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- The 2026 State of Healthcare Supply Chain Survey from symplr reveals a "dual crisis" as supply chain leaders struggle to balance persistent global disruptions with escalating
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- A new national report from Conduit Health Partners reveals that 74% of patient triage cases are resolved without an ER visit when clinical expertise is placed at the first
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- A new report from Imprivata reveals that 85% of healthcare IT leaders now view passwordless authentication as "very important" or "mission-critical".
- Despite this,
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As healthcare organizations deepen their investments in value-based care, one obstacle continues to stymie progress: incomplete visibility into the patient’s health status. The problem isn’t limited
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Doctors are taught a simple rule early in their training: When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. In other words, the most common explanation is usually the right one. But for the roughly
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- Vida Health has partnered with RxSaveCard to launch Vida Self-Pay, a first-of-its-kind platform that bypasses traditional PBM markups for anti-obesity medications
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In recent months, headlines on both sides of the Atlantic have told the same story. U.S. hospitals are cutting back surgical schedules because they simply don’t have enough staff, while NHS figures
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- New research from Firstup reveals that 81% of hospital nurses attribute patient care issues directly to organizational miscommunication.
- With traditional channels
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The RADV expansion isn’t the real story. Neither is V28.
The real story is what happened when both arrived simultaneously—and exposed a truth the industry had been quietly ignoring: the AI that
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Care coordination in the dental industry barely exists.
While the medical industry has made progress toward interoperability with several recent initiatives, dentistry continues to lag behind
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- A new McKinsey & Company report reveals that Health Services Technology (HST) has become the fastest-growing segment in U.S. healthcare, with EBITDA projected to exceed
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- Cedars-Sinai has secured a $5.05M ARPA-H contract to build KronosRx, an AI platform that predicts drug toxicity by pairing millions of electronic health records with "patient
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- Kaiser Permanente affiliates have agreed to a $556M settlement to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act by submitting invalid diagnosis codes to inflate
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News headlines tend to focus on big events. Notable examples are the attacks on Change Health and Ascension in 2024. Effects from these events continue to pop up in new cycles. However,
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As healthcare systems confront rising demand for mental health services, digital therapy has emerged as one of the most scalable — and contentious — solutions. Virtual platforms promise to reduce
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- Proprio has secured FDA clearance for Picasso, its fourth cleared capability within the Paradigm AI surgical platform.
- The feature enables "trace-based"
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- The 2026 WHAM Investment Report, released at the 44th Annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, establishes women’s health as a high-growth precision medicine
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- Marvin Health has launched role-specific AI coaches built on OpenAI to support physicians, nurses, and residents.
- Unlike generic chatbots, these tools use
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- Today, President Donald J. Trump has launched "The Great Healthcare Plan," a sweeping initiative designed to lower prescription drug costs to the lowest international levels
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- ConcertAI and Foundation Medicine have announced a major strategic collaboration to integrate their massive data assets, creating a dataset of nearly half a million
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- Aultman Health System, a nonprofit integrated network in Northeast Ohio, has officially deployed Nabla’s ambient AI assistant natively within its Oracle Cerner
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- Kaufman Hall has released its year-end analysis for 2025, reporting a total of 46 hospital and health system transactions. While total transacted revenue hit a historical low
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- Avalon Healthcare Solutions, the leader in diagnostic intelligence, has announced a strategic investment from Francisco Partners and WindRose Health Investors.
- The
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Over the last two decades, the rapid surge in mobile and IoT-enabled devices has revolutionized patient care, but also created significant hurdles in managing, securing, and optimizing these devices
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- Innovaccer Inc. and Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) have entered into a landmark five-year partnership to modernize the state's largest medical home
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Pharmaceutical companies are tasked with managing vast volumes of patient data, product information and safety reports. Yet, much of this valuable intelligence remains buried in transcripts, call
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- Nesa has been officially listed in the Epic Toolbox for Inpatient Virtual Care for 2026, confirming its deep, native integration with the Epic EHR. Utilizing
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Chicago’s cannabis market grows each year, and new buyers want stores that feel clear, safe, and dependable. The number of shops across the city makes the decision harder, especially for anyone new to
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Recovery from substance use disorders is being transformed. The change comes not from new drugs, but from digital connections. Telehealth, the provision of healthcare from a distance through
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- Ultrahuman, the global leader in wearable health technology, has partnered with Click Therapeutics to develop the Migraine PowerPlug. This first-of-its-kind tool integrates
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- MEDITECH and HCA Healthcare have reached a major milestone in their 30-year partnership with the go-live of the MEDITECH Expanse EHR at 43 hospitals.
- The
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Vista AI, a provider of automated MRI scanning software for hospitals and imaging centers secures $29.5M in Series B financing, backed by a powerhouse group of new investors
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- Axena Health has announced a major expansion of its collaboration with Mayo Clinic to develop a new, AI-integrated solution for women with pelvic floor disorders.
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- AliveCor, the global leader in AI-powered cardiology, has received U.S. FDA clearance for the next generation of its KAI 12L AI. This update expands the diagnostic breadth of
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- MARS Bioimaging, a New Zealand–headquartered pioneer in medical imaging, secures $15M in Series A funding round. Led by Pacific Channel.
- The capital will be used
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For decades, drug safety has depended on one simple but demanding task: turning fragments of information from patients, physicians, and trials into clear signals that protect lives. Today, that
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A well-orchestrated healthcare cybersecurity tabletop exercise (TTX) can greatly benefit any healthcare organization. Unfortunately, some TTXs are chaotic and unproductive. When 25 hospital leaders
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- Healthcare payment provider Waystar has announced the introduction of agentic intelligence to its cloud-native platform, marking a pivotal step toward the industry's first
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Digital phenotyping has held promise in mental healthcare for over a decade, but until recently, few approaches offered both a stable evidence base and a clear path to clinical deployment. That’s
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Healthcare organizations run on connected systems that support clinical care, operations, and the patient experience. When people search for types of software used in healthcare industry, they usually
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- Epic Systems—alongside OCHIN, Reid Health, Trinity Health, and UMass Memorial Health—has filed a major lawsuit against the health information network Health Gorilla and
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- HPS/PayMedix secures $33M in combined equity and debt financing to accelerate the growth of its healthcare financing and payments platform.
- Led by HLM Investment
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- Converge Bio has announced a $25M Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing its total raised to $30M.
- Moving beyond the "AI promise" gap, the
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