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Cloud communications provider Vonage, a subsidiary of Ericsson, announced the deployment of its Branded Calling technology natively within Epic Systems’ Hello World communication platform.Built using the programmable Vonage Voice API, the integration enables hospitals and ambulatory clinics to display their verified organization name, corporate logo, and specific reason for calling directly on a patient’s mobile handset before the call is answered.The feature addresses
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Abridge Wins Seat on $775.7M VA Enterprise Contract to Power Ambient Clinical AI
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Abridge, the AI-native clinician intelligence platform deployed across more than 300 U.S. health systems, announced it was selected through a distribution partner to provide ambient clinical AI under a landmark U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise contract.The multiple-award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract carries a total ceiling of $775.72 million over five years across all eligible competing vendors, allowing individual VA medical
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MEDITECH Completes Expanse Implementation Across 34 Hospitals in HCA Healthcare’s First Two U.S. Divisions
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Healthcare IT leader MEDITECH has completed the enterprise deployment of its Expanse electronic health record (EHR) platform across 34 acute care hospitals in HCA Healthcare’s Capital and North Florida divisions.Represents the first two U.S. operating divisions to achieve full Expanse deployment across HCA Healthcare’s 15 nationwide operating divisions:Capital Division: 18 hospitals operating across Virginia and New Hampshire.North Florida Division: 16 hospitals operating
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M&A: Hello Patient Acquires Converse Health to Unify Outpatient Front-Office Voice with Back-Office EHR Automation
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Hello Patient (Austin, TX) announced that it has acquired Converse Health, an AI workflow automation company built for independent outpatient medical practices.Founded in 2023 by CEO Louis Sallerson, CTO Val Zinchenko, and CRO Adam Teitelman (with Trenton Williams joining as VP of Sales in early 2024), Converse Health previously raised $1.3 million to deploy custom chart and document automation across dermatology, orthopedics, women's health, and pain medicine.Directly
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Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent for Nurses Expands Inpatient EHR Automation Across U.S. Hospitals
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Oracle Health has launched the U.S. commercial availability of Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent for nurses, embedding voice-driven and generative AI capabilities directly into the inpatient Oracle Health Foundation EHR (formerly Cerner Millennium).Directly targets the largest clinical workforce: while generative AI has predominantly focused on ambulatory physician note drafting, nurses represent the primary operational users of inpatient EHRs and face severe documentation
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HealthEx Launches Health Record Connector for Meta’s Personal AI Agent Muse
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Consumer health data platform HealthEx has launched an integration connector for Muse, Meta’s new personal AI agent, letting U.S. users connect their verified longitudinal health records directly to the AI tool.Resolves the primary limitation of consumer healthcare AI: operating without personal medical context, which leads to generic recommendations and ungrounded chat responses.Built on HealthEx’s role as an Individual Access Services (IAS) provider under the federal
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PatientIQ Closes $30M to Scale EHR-Integrated Outcomes Intelligence and RWE
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Healthcare outcomes intelligence leader PatientIQ has raised $30M in Series C financing led by Chicago-based healthcare private equity firm Hughes & Company, with continued backing from Health Enterprise Partners and August Capital.Since completing its Series B round in 2022, PatientIQ has scaled its EHR-integrated footprint from 200 to more than 870 healthcare provider organizations, covering over 17 million patients and capturing more than 70 million patient
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Bypassing Decisional Friction: How Kaiser Permanente Cut 12 EHR Instances to 2 in Under Three Hours
CIOs today are being asked to accelerate technology transformation while still managing the cost and complexity of legacy technology. Organizations are racing to keep up with the pace of change and investing billions in modernizing platforms, data, AI -- often all at once. Yet, when transformation stalls, the root cause is rarely technical. More often, the challenge is execution.
Technology can enable transformation, but execution determines whether transformation succeeds.
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VA Expands Oracle Health EHR Modernization Contract Ceiling to Nearly $27B
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposed a major contract modification to its Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) agreement with Oracle Health, raising the contract ceiling by nearly $17B from almost $10B to approximately $27B, according to FedScoop.The contract modification documents cite "unanticipated complexities" and extensive site-specific customizations that depleted the initial contract ceiling ahead of schedule, with remaining funds projected to
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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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