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Ambience Healthcare introduced The Ambience Standard, a partnership and commercial contracting model that ties software fees to verified clinical, operational, and financial outcomes rather than conventional software seats, tokens, or feature consumption.The model embeds forward-deployed teams—comprising practicing clinicians, software engineers, and care transformation and value attainment specialists—directly inside health systems to lead custom workflow integration,
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Oracle Health Launches Automated Coding, Dictation, and AI Chart Review for Clinical AI Agent
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Oracle Health announced major new U.S. capabilities for the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, expanding its multi-agent architecture across ambulatory professional fee coding, clinician-controlled dictation, and EHR chart review.The professional fee coding capability analyzes visit conversations to suggest accurate charge codes directly within the orders workflow, speeding up charge capture and reducing downstream billing rework while keeping final submission approval with
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Hospitals Are Buying AI Faster Than They Can Govern It. That’s the Real Risk.
Walk any health IT trade show floor and you would think the hard part of healthcare AI is the AI. Smarter models, faster inference, slicker demos. But that is not where this is going to be won or lost. The technology is racing ahead. The governance behind it is not. And that gap, not the algorithms, is the real risk facing health systems right now.
Here is the uncomfortable thesis. Most hospitals are buying AI faster than they can govern it. They can sign the contract in a
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Craif Secures $33M to Bring AI-Powered Urine Oncology Diagnostics to the U.S.
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Craif Inc., a bio-AI company developing a non-invasive urine analysis platform for early cancer detection, closed an approximately $33M Series D round (¥5.28 billion), bringing its total capital raised to roughly $88M (¥14.2 billion).The financing was co-led by Granite-Integral (a joint venture between Granite Asia and Integral Corporation) and TAUNS Laboratories, Inc. (one of Japan’s largest rapid diagnostic test manufacturers), with participation from U.S.-based
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R1 to Acquire Humata Health, Advancing Phare OS with AI-Powered Prior Authorization Automation
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R1 entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Humata Health, an AI-powered prior authorization technology company, to embed agentic, touchless authorization capabilities into R1’s Phare Operating System (Phare OS).The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2026, with the Humata team joining R1’s R37 innovation lab to accelerate agentic AI engineering across the revenue cycle.Prior authorizations remain a top-three driver of hospital claim
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Function Launches Health Data Connector for ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity
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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, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.The connector addresses a primary limitation of consumer health AI by replacing generalized population averages with personal biological context, covering 160+ diagnostic lab tests across heart health, hormones, thyroid, metabolism, heavy metals, nutrients,
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Abridge Scales Clinical Intelligence Agent Enterprise-Wide Across 300+ Health Systems
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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 ambient documentation.The agent delivers context-aware clinical decision support (CDS) embedded directly inside native EHR interfaces or accessible via a companion mobile and web experience connected to the patient chart.Across more than 300 enterprise health systems, monthly active users of Abridge's CDS
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The Cheapest Money a Hospital Will Ever Make Is the Money It’s Already Owed
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 hospital costs are tied to service lines where reimbursement falls short of (or is less than) the cost of delivering care, including behavioral health, obstetrics, infectious disease, and burns and
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Black Book Research Releases 2026 State of U.S. Military and Defense Health IT Report
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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 analytical cohort of federal and defense health leaders.Released alongside the 2026 Defense Health Information Technology Symposium (DHITS) in New Orleans, the report marks the entry into a "post-EHR deployment era" following the completed worldwide rollout of MHS GENESIS.The FY2027 defense health IM/IT
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Suvi Health Launches Ambient AI Platform for Inpatient Care Coordination
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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 through 1842 Studio (the venture studio of the 1842 Fund, managed by Alloy Partners), the company was co-developed alongside researchers from the University of Notre Dame and clinicians from Mayo Clinic.Suvi Health will initiate a four-month pilot site deployment with Mayo Clinic starting in September
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