When most people think about artificial intelligence in healthcare, they think about clinical applications, diagnostics, documentation, or administrative automation. Those are important areas of innovation, but after spending the last several years working alongside healthcare practices implementing
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Trusted Health announced the acquisition of the technology, intellectual property, and assets of ShiftOS, developer of Holly, an AI-native scheduling agent designed for
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Health systems and Payers have spent two decades and considerable capital wiring themselves to exchange data including bilateral interfaces, regional HIEs, national networks, etc. Yet, they still
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Labcorp and the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) have formed a strategic alliance to advance leadership development, practice improvement, and clinical
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Papa announced the expansion of its multi-year partnership with eternalHealth, a women-owned Medicare Advantage plan operating in Massachusetts and Arizona.The expanded
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Function launched a secure health data connector enabling members to bring their longitudinal lab results and clinician-reviewed notes directly into third-party AI platforms,
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Lyric, a healthcare decision intelligence company serving health plans, has officially established its new corporate headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, at 333 Commerce St.,
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New data from Accompany Health rejects industry norms that count passive phone calls or consent checkboxes as engagement (which typically yields only 20–30% reach), setting a
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Every senior care organization is talking about caregiver burnout. Far fewer are asking a more uncomfortable question: what happens when the people leading the organization become exhausted too?
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Four major health systems—Ochsner Health, Froedtert ThedaCare Health, Denver Health, and Summit Health—have deployed real-time prior authorization checks directly inside their
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Abridge announced that partner health systems can now deploy its clinical intelligence agent enterprise-wide to every clinician, regardless of whether they currently use
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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
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Black Book Market Research released the State of U.S. Military and Defense Health Information Technology 2026, drawing on 1,037 survey responses and an 813-respondent
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Healthcare has spent years trying to optimize a revenue cycle operating model that no longer works. Every new wave of technology has promised to make work queues more efficient. Better analytics.
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InsideTracker announced a near-universal blood data connector for its consumer app and recently launched enterprise B2B platform, Terra™.The connector enables source-agnostic,
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Wellness Project launched a direct, verified integration with the new Google Health API, providing Fitbit and Pixel Watch users with an open pathway to sync wearable metrics
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Ambient listening technologies now facilitate real-time summarization of patient-provider conversations layered within structured documentation.
With the 2026 World Cup having just wrapped up
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An Inovalon national survey of over 400 revenue cycle management (RCM) leaders by Inovalon reveals that healthcare's most costly billing problems begin before a claim is ever
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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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Viome Life Sciences announced the acquisition of Circulate Health, a developer of outpatient therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) protocols targeting healthspan extension and
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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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