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The Deployment: Your Health, a rapidly growing senior-focused primary and specialty care organization, has deployed Fathom’s autonomous medical coding platform across its entire operation (spanning 14 physician offices, 278 assisted living facilities, 11 nursing homes, and telehealth).The Automation Scale: Since going live in October 2025, Fathom has achieved a staggering 95.5% encounter-level automation rate—meaning AI is completely handling the coding for the vast
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Mount Sinai Health System to Deploy Midstream Health’s AI-Powered Financial Platform
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The Collaboration: The Mount Sinai Health System has announced a strategic collaboration with Midstream Health, an AI-powered financial action platform backed by a16z and CommonSpirit Ventures.The Initial Deployment: Mount Sinai is first deploying the AI platform specifically within its supply chain system. The health system spends "well in excess of $1 billion a year" on supplies, equipment, and services.The Core Problem: Large healthcare organizations suffer from
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M&A: Knowtion Health Acquires revly to Expand Intelligent Reimbursement and Claims Routing Solutions
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The Acquisition: Knowtion Health, a major player in healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM), has officially acquired revly, a startup specializing in intelligent reimbursement solutions and claims routing.The Buyer's Scale: Founded in 2008 and backed by Arsenal Capital Partners and Sunstone Partners, Knowtion Health already serves over 550 hospitals nationwide and manages more than $4.5B annually in outstanding balance accounts.The Technology Acquired: Founded in 2021,
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Transcarent Partners with Bluespine to Launch Payment Integrity Category for Self-Insured Employers
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The Launch: Transcarent has officially launched a new "Payment Integrity" category within its Experience Store, driven by a strategic partnership with Bluespine, an AI-driven health tech company.The Macro Problem: Between 3% and 10% of total U.S. healthcare spending—more than $300 billion annually—is lost to fraud, waste, and abuse.The Fiduciary Risk: For self-insured employers, this financial leakage isn't just a budget issue; it is a massive governance risk under the
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The Prior Auth Panic: WEDI Survey Reveals Providers Are Stalling as the CMS API Deadline Looms
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The Mandate: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) mandates the use of specific APIs to streamline data exchange by January 1, 2027.The Payer Rebound: According to WEDI's February 2026 survey, payers have made massive strides. Only 10% report having not yet started their prior authorization API work—a sharp drop from 43% in late 2025.The Provider Paralysis: Providers,
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HIMSS26 Wednesday Wrap-Up: Scaling Agentic AI, Securing the Enterprise, and Fixing Hospital Finance
Wednesday at HIMSS26 brought a necessary, pragmatic reality check to the AI fervor. As the initial hype of massive product launches settles, Day 3 conversations pivoted heavily toward the hard logistics of making these advanced systems actually work at enterprise scale.
From tech giants redefining consumer triage to startups raising massive funding rounds to fix hospital finance, today was entirely about deployment-ready autonomy and the strict security required to govern it.
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Translucent Secures $27M for Healthcare Finance AI Platform
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The Funding: Translucent, an AI-native healthcare finance startup, has closed a $27M Series A funding round led by GV (Google Ventures), with continued participation from NEA, Virtue, and FPV Ventures. This oversubscribed round comes just months after a $7 million seed round in August 2025.The Macro Crisis: Despite U.S. healthcare spending soaring past $5.6 trillion, provider margins are collapsing. Last year, delayed financial visibility and manual reconciliation
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Stamford Health Selects Ensemble Health Partners for End-to-End RCM Operations
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The Partnership: Stamford Health, a 305-bed independent health system in Connecticut, has selected Ensemble Health Partners to manage its end-to-end revenue cycle operations.The Clinical Pedigree: Stamford Health is recognized as the #1 Hospital in Fairfield County by U.S. News & World Report, holds Magnet Status for nursing excellence, and is Planetree Gold-Certified for person-centered care.The RCM Tech Stack: Ensemble will deploy its integrated operating model,
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HIMSS26: Epic EHR Unveils ‘Agent Factory’ and Custom Foundation Models
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The Milestone: At HIMSS26, Epic announces that more than 85% of Epic’s customer base is now actively utilizing its suite of artificial intelligence tools.Clinical ROI (Art): Epic's clinician-facing AI, Art, is generating massive clinical and operational leverage. The ambient listening tool, Chart with Art, is now expanding into bedside nursing (live at Houston Methodist) and home care. Beyond charting, Art is actively driving clinical outcomes—such as boosting early lung
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HIMSS26: MEDITECH Expands Expanse AI Portfolio with Native Ambient Intelligence and Claim Denial Agents
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The Launch: At the HIMSS26 conference, MEDITECH announced a major expansion of its Expanse AI portfolio, signaling a shift toward natively embedded artificial intelligence.Native Ambient Listening: Instead of relying on third-party integrations, MEDITECH has embedded ambient listening directly into the Expanse Now app for physicians and the Expanse Point of Care app for nurses. The AI captures conversations in real time, automatically generates clinical notes, and parses
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