What You Should Know
- Inova Health, a non-profit provider in Northern Virginia, has announced a strategic partnership with Notable to deploy an integrated AI platform across its revenue cycle and patient access operations.
- By utilizing "Agentic AI"—autonomous agents that execute multi-step workflows—Inova aims to reclaim 80% of staff time lost to manual documentation requests and reduce orthopedic referral leakage by 20%.
How Notable's AI Platform Automates High-Friction
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Utah Becomes First State to Approve AI System for Prescription Renewals
What You Should Know
- The Utah Department of Commerce has officially authorized Doctronic to become the first AI system in the U.S. to legally participate in medical decision-making for prescription renewals.
- Operating under Utah’s "Regulatory Sandbox" framework, the pilot aims to address the $100 billion in avoidable medical expenses caused annually by medication non-compliance, specifically targeting the 80% of medication activity that involves routine refills.
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The Future of the AI-Enabled Health Consumer in 2026
Imagine a world where your healthcare simply works. Everything you need to manage your health lives on your phone, in one place. It speaks your language, reflects your preferences, and connects you to care instantly—day or night, weekday, weekend, or holiday. You never sit on hold. You don’t wait six weeks for an appointment. You never wonder if a doctor is in your network. You never guess whether to head to the ER, urgent care, or connect virtually. You always know what’s covered, what’s next,
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The Agentic Era: Why Glen Tullman is Killing the Healthcare Chatbot in 2026
What You Should Know
- Transcarent has officially launched WayFinding 2.0, marking a strategic shift from the "chat assistant era" to the "agentic action era" in healthcare.
- By integrating autonomous AI agents that can schedule appointments, triage symptoms, and manage follow-ups via a proprietary Total Recall Memory Engine, the platform aims to eliminate the chronic administrative friction that currently defines the American healthcare experience.
The Death of the Chatbot: Entering
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The Standard of Care Shift: Heartflow Secures Nationwide Aetna Coverage for AI Plaque Analysis
What You Should Know
- Heartflow has achieved a major milestone as Aetna updates its policies to cover AI-driven Heartflow Plaque Analysis across all lines of business, effective December 23, 2025.
- This move, combined with the new Category I CPT code 75577, provides a clear reimbursement pathway for the first time, establishing 4.00 total RVUs for the service and ensuring that AI-enabled plaque quantification is no longer a "pilot" technology but a standard of care.
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How Medable’s Agentic AI TMF Solves the Clinical Trial ‘Clerical Debt’ Problem
What You Should Know
- Medable has announced its TMF Agent, a first-of-its-kind agentic AI tool designed to automate the labor-intensive Trial Master File (TMF) process at JPM 2026. It automates 95% of manual document workflows, ingesting and classifying files for Veeva Vault and OpenText.
- By reducing the administrative burden that consumes 33% of a CRA's time, Medable enables "one-day study starts" while maintaining human-in-the-loop (HITL) compliance and audit traceability.
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Beyond the Sensor: How January AI’s Food Scanner Replaces CGM Friction for GLP-1 Care
What You Should Know
- January AI has transitioned its science-validated "virtual glucose monitor" technology into a suite of Enterprise APIs, enabling B2B partners to embed AI-powered food recognition and glucose prediction into their own platforms.
- This move allows health systems and longevity companies to turn underutilized lifestyle signals—like photos and wearable data—into structured, metabolic insights at scale.
The "Context Gap": Why Lifestyle Data Often
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The Digital Insider: Securing Agentic AI in the 2026 Healthcare Landscape
Hospitals have thrown their doors open to a new kind of technology that can think, act and make changes faster than any human. And with healthcare generating more than 30% of the world’s data, the industry has, for better or worse, become the ultimate proving ground for AI, from all of the good it can support to all of the threats that it amplifies.
AI is being woven into diagnostics, scheduling, documentation and the overarching integration and interoperability plans that make healthcare
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The Unbreakable Web: Building the 2026 Hybrid Network Stack for AI-Driven Care
Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are transforming healthcare at a pace that few could have predicted. What once were experimental use cases, predictive diagnostics, real-time patient monitoring, and AI-assisted surgeries are now entering everyday clinical practice. Yet there is one foundational element without which none of this progress can endure: the network infrastructure that connects it all.
In this new era, where every heartbeat, every pixel of a
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The EEG as a ‘Vital Sign’: Ceribell’s AI Pivot to In-Hospital Stroke Detection
What You Should Know:
- Ceribell’s LVO Stroke Breakthrough In January 2026, the FDA granted Breakthrough Device Designation to Ceribell for its LVO (Large Vessel Occlusion) stroke monitor.
- This first-in-class tool applies an AI algorithm to portable EEG hardware to detect in-hospital strokes—which account for 17% of all strokes and have a mortality rate 3x higher than community-onset strokes. By providing continuous bedside monitoring, it aims to eliminate the "detection gap"
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