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 not sure anyone can confidently answer the question, and it’s creating a lot of confusion in the
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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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The U.S. health care system loses more than $100 billion a year to fraud, waste, and abuse, and by some estimates several times that. We have known this for decades. What is new is that the
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Consumer health platform Function Health secured $450M in non-dilutive growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF).The mega-round comes just eight months
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A developer on your team is debugging a scheduling algorithm. They paste a function into an AI coding tool that references a patient's Medicaid eligibility window. Did that data just get retained?
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NYU Langone Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have co-developed the Solavia Decision Suite, an oncology decision support platform designed to deliver precise,
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its FY 2027 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS final rule,
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Paying people to take part in research is standard practice, a meaningful budget line and a documented factor in whether participants enroll and stay through completion. Yet the way participants are
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According to the J.D. Power 2026 U.S. Pharmacy Study, overall mail-order pharmacy satisfaction rose 2 points year-over-year to 699 (on a 1,000-point scale), while
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With drug prices soaring, shortages intensifying, and government-mandated cost-sharing in question, hospital-system pharmacy procurement is becoming an increasingly fraught enterprise. Pharmacy
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Healthcare performance improvement company Vizient released its Summer 2026 Spend Management Outlook, projecting an overall supply chain, capital, and purchased services price
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Wolters Kluwer Health has collaborated with Epic to offer an integrated suite combining UpToDate Lexidrug, Medi-Span, and UpToDate Patient Education directly within Epic EHR
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Physician-founded revenue cycle vendor AMS Solutions published its State of Medical Billing 2026 benchmark report, detailing a rise in industry-wide claim denial rates to 9%
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VSee Health, Inc. signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) to acquire healthcare technology and operating assets valued at approximately $42 million.The target assets
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AI-native primary care company Doctronic has acquired virtual, text-based pediatric care platform Summer Health to extend its clinical platform from birth through adulthood.The
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Every time a patient visits a healthcare facility, there is a treasure trove of information about their experience that could improve patient safety measures and lead to better
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Physician use of artificial intelligence in the United States has more than doubled in three years. The American Medical Association's 2026 Physician Survey on Augmented Intelligence, fielded among
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The latest CB Insights report, Q2 2026 State of Digital Health reveals global digital health deal activity reached a decade-low of 228 deals in Q2 2026, marking a 36% decline
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Mayo Clinic and Brazil’s Einstein Hospital Israelita completed a technological integration milestone to make de-identified clinical data from South America accessible via Mayo
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A joint report by the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation analyzes five major federal policy shifts threatening hospital financial stability and operational
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A year ago, integrating AI-powered clinical workflow tools could take months of review and planning across disparate teams within a pharmaceutical company's IT, security, and risk teams. Today, with
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WellSpan Health expanded its multi-year partnership with Hippocratic AI, transitioning from single use cases to a platform-wide deployment across inbound, outbound, ambulatory,
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Akido announced the expansion of its proprietary ScopeAI technology across 100 clinics, virtual care operations, and field medicine services, serving 1 million patients across
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Combined GI endoscopy is already standard practice across many US health systems. When both procedures are clinically indicated, around 65% of patients undergo them in the same session or close
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In our fast-paced, highly competitive world, there’s a lot for us to manage. First, there’s our work commitments: the time and effort we need to invest to stay
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All-in-one healthcare delivery firm Included Health has signed a definitive agreement to acquire clinically integrated health plan and advanced primary care provider Firefly
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Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach has launched "Chart with Art," Epic's ambient AI documentation tool, for its inpatient nursing staff.The deployment makes Mount Sinai
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Of the medical diagnoses that cause anxiety, sorrow, and despair for patients and their loved ones, Alzheimer’s is near the top of the list. An incurable condition that slowly robs people of memory,
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