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In this monthly report you will find news and highlights in the Applied Life Sciences from OSR Health, Clearmind Medicine, Kupando, Touchlight, ProBioGen, Celonic AG, Thrombolytic Science, Devonian Health Group, SpotitEarly, Neurizon® Therapeutics Limited, AlphaRose Therapeutics and more. The post NOW in Life Sciences – Month of August 2026 appeared first on Health IT Answers .
By Lionel Litty -The incidents that slip past an organization's defenses show up as a routine email, an ordinary link, or a file that looks exactly like the hundreds of legitimate ones an employee opens every week. Across healthcare organizations, security teams are discovering that attacks bypassing every layer of their stack trace back to the same entry point: the browser session. The post Trust…
By Jim Kirk - Healthcare organizations are gaining more visibility into their cybersecurity risks, but identifying vulnerabilities is only the first step. Fortified Health Security’s 2026 Mid-Year Horizon Report examines the growing gap between risk detection and remediation, and the foundational areas healthcare leaders must prioritize to strengthen cyber resilience. The post Healthcare’s…
Business and financial news from Hinge Health, Amae Health, OpenEvidence, PwC, Zyter, Medbridge, Ascend Learning, OSF HealthCare, Curative Health Insurance, Included Health, WellSky, CHG Healthcare, Novo Nordisk, Amazon Web Services, HealthSnap, iRhythm Holdings, EnableComp, Intermountain Health, BioCare, CheckedUp, and more. The post Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – August 20, 2026…
By Brian Robertson -To improve revenue cycle management (RCM) through AI, organizations first have to change how they see the revenue cycle itself. RCM is no longer operational support. It is a core driver of enterprise strategy, corner office and all. The post Winning the Revenue Cycle Arms Race Starts With the Foundation appeared first on Health IT Answers .
By Melissa Kotrys - Healthcare interoperability has made meaningful progress, but gaps remain between the national vision and the realities of local health information exchange. Achieving truly seamless, accessible data sharing requires national and local initiatives to work together, ensuring progress translates into meaningful impact for the communities and organizations that rely on it. The…
This month's AI report includes news and updates from Apella, Causaly, Definitive Healthcare, Luma Health, MDaudit, ModMed, MUSC Health, Nabla, PerfectServe, Relatient, Sage, Sheba Medical Center, and ThinkSono. The post AI in Healthcare News and Updates appeared first on Health IT Answers .
By April Miller - Managing medical facilities requires coordinating finance, procurement and patient-facing operations across complex systems. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms can centralize these functions and provide healthcare leaders with stronger operational visibility to control costs and allocate resources effectively. The post Understanding ERP Implementation Partner…
The Sequoia Project, the leading non-profit focused on advancing healthcare interoperability, announced it will continue its role as the Recognized Coordinating Entity® (RCE®) to support the implementation of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement™ (TEFCA®). The post ONC Increases Funding for TEFCA RCE in New Contract Year appeared first on Health IT Answers .
Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include Health Gorilla, AArete, Vida Health, Iterative Health, NYU Langone Health, NAHQ, Healthcare Management Administrators, Blue Shield of California, Royal Health, HCAA, Corundum Corp., Eagle Telemedicine, eHealth Exchange, The Sequoia Project, Reach for Resources, St. Joseph's Health, Healthworks, & AmeriHealth Caritas. The…
By David Harvey - Managing chronic diseases remains a significant challenge in U.S. healthcare, both in terms of the total cost of care and poor patient outcomes. The CDC estimates that 90% of the nation’s $5.3 trillion annual healthcare expenditures go toward preventing, treating, and managing chronic disease (including both physical and mental health chronic conditions). The post Strategic Data…
Starts October 6th in New York City - This year, they are addressing the urgent issue of care moving outside hospital walls faster than the workforce can adapt. With nursing shortages, primary care deserts, and an aging population outpacing available clinicians, hiring alone will not solve these challenges. The post Attend the HealthIMPACT Fall Forum 2026 in NYC appeared first on Health IT Answers…
Can the RHT initiative turn the deepening decline of rural healthcare around? Who will take on the challenges to not just spend the $50B but change the rural healthcare landscape? Here is what’s in the news this month. The post The Road to Rural Healthcare: August 2026 appeared first on Health IT Answers .
By Fawad Aslam - A patient who cannot explain her symptoms is a patient at risk. A discharge plan that is not understood is a readmission waiting to happen. Communication failures driven by language barriers affect diagnosis, treatment adherence, informed consent, and patient safety, and for more than 26 million Americans with limited English proficiency, they are a routine feature of seeking…
NOW on-demand, Value-Based Care Insights host Daniel J. Marino speaks with Katie Gilfillan, Director of Healthcare Finance Policy at HFMA. They discuss how the conversations at this year's HFMA Annual Conference made one thing clear: value-based care is no longer just about reimbursement; it's becoming the foundation for how healthcare organizations operate. The post The Future of Healthcare…
By Gerardo Herrero - Interoperability conversations in the United States tend to assume a shared floor: one national framework, one certification program, one set of standards everyone is nominally moving toward. Latin America offers a useful counterfactual. The post What Latin America’s Regulatory Fragmentation Teaches About Interoperability appeared first on Health IT Answers .
The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of July that we think deserve sharing again. The post Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – July 2026 appeared first on Health IT Answers .
By Anne Neal - For years, the industry has measured payment integrity success largely through recoveries, savings, and avoided overpayments. However, achieving those metrics often comes at the cost of significant abrasion that manifests as claims rework, provider tension, cash flow unpredictability, and poor member experience. The post Payment Integrity Needs a New Operating Model appeared first…
Find a new podcast or catch up on some of your favorites, here are all the newest episodes released this week on Healthcare NOW Radio. Have a great weekend! The post Weekend Playlist on Healthcare NOW Radio appeared first on Health IT Answers .
We have rounded up some virtual events around our industry. They are all free to attended so register today. And check back each week for new events. Have an event we can include? Contact us. The post Upcoming Virtual Events Roundup appeared first on Health IT Answers .
By Matt Fisher - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its proposed 2027 Physician Fee Schedule for Medicare (the 27 PFS) on July 14, 2026. The 27 PFS contained a pretty big surprise: a complete shift in approach to the two primary modes of remote monitoring: remote physiologic monitoring and remote therapeutic monitoring. The post Puzzling Proposed Pivot appeared first on Health…
Health IT business news from CereCore, Solventum, ModMed, Nabla, Wolters Kluwer Health, ModMed, DSS, AGS Health, Definitive Healthcare, Collette Health, OMNY Health, Inovalon, PerfectServe, WellSky, ThinkSono, SafeRide Health, VirtuAlly, Impact Advisors, and more. The post Health IT Business News – August 13, 2026 appeared first on Health IT Answers .
By Khalid Sattar - Healthcare has spent decades optimizing care delivery. It has invested billions in clinical excellence, advanced diagnostics, modern facilities, digital records, and operational efficiency. Yet one of healthcare's greatest challenges still occurs before care even begins. Patients struggle to access the system. The post Healthcare’s Next Competitive Advantage Is Not AI. It Is…
By Syed Sibt-e-Hassan - Most practices judge a good month by the balance in the bank. It is the slowest and least useful way to understand revenue. By the time a shortfall shows up in the account, its causes are weeks old and often past the point of recovery. The post Revenue Cycle Visibility: Why Medical Practices Need Better Billing KPIs appeared first on Health IT Answers .
Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. Our monthly HIE rundown includes updates on industry interoperability news, TEFCA, HIE networks, job openings and vendor contracts. The post Sharing Health Data Update August 2026 appeared first on Health IT Answers .
By Theo Sakalidis - When I worked on the buy side of healthcare private equity, we underwrote a lot of physician practices. And I can tell you that the clinical work, the thing the doctors trained a decade to do, was almost never the thesis. The thesis was the back office. The post I Used to Buy Practices. AI Is Draining the Moat I Was Paying For. appeared first on Health IT Answers .
The math was simple and unforgiving: the company couldn’t scale to serve new clients without physically scaling its call center, and physically scaling a call center is slow, expensive, and hard to reverse. The question isn’t whether AI can handle provider calls, it’s how much capacity is sitting on the table until it does. The post How One Growing TPA Cut Provider Call Volume by 81%, Without…
Advanced practice providers (APPs) have moved from a reactive staffing solution to a foundational pillar of U.S. healthcare workforce strategy, according to a new survey of 327 healthcare facility leaders from CHG Healthcare, the nation’s leading physician and advanced practice workforce company. The post CHG Healthcare Survey: Advanced Practice Providers Have Become Essential to Health System…
By Pat Williams - When healthcare leaders talk about ambient AI scribing, they almost always picture the same setting: a primary care physician, managing a panel of 15 to 20 patients, dictating notes between appointments. That's the benchmark the industry has built its expectations around. The post The Specialty Problem Generalist AI Scribes Don’t Solve appeared first on Health IT Answers .
Starts October 26th in San Diego - We're in an era of rapid transformation across managed care pharmacy. Artificial intelligence, political volatility, and scientific breakthroughs have all made their mark on managed care, and AMCP Nexus 2026 is where leaders come together to make sense of what's changing and shape what comes next. The post Attend the AMCP NEXUS 2026 in San Diego appeared first on…
CMS issued multiple Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 final payment rules in late July 2026. These rules update payment rates, quality programs, and reporting timelines across acute care, long-term care, inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and hospice settings, generally taking effect on October 1, 2026. The post CMS Releases 3 Final Payment Rules appeared first on Health IT Answers .
By Sanjay Subramanian - Some of the most expensive work in healthcare is the work no one counts as care. Physicians and their teams chase authorization status, resubmit records, clarify denial reasons, and explain coverage confusion to patients. The post Stopping Avoidable Work: The First Job for Payer AI appeared first on Health IT Answers .
The CereCore Podcast release: On this episode of The CereCore Podcast, they welcome back Lynn Falcone, CEO of Cuero Regional Hospital, and Ismelda Garza, CIO of Cuero Regional Hospital and CereCore manager, for a candid conversation about their multi-year effort to implement MEDITECH Expanse and evolve into a high reliability organization (HRO). The post Building Trust: From Expanse Rollout to…
By Amy Oliver - I have always cared about healthcare access and equity. But recently it stopped being just a professional conviction and became something messier and more specific, the kind of care that comes from watching the system fail someone you love and not being able to do anything about the system, only about showing up. The post Rural Health Is Having a Moment. But It Still Doesn’t Feel…
Health IT product news from 1upHealth, Cantata Health, CareHive Health, Caris Life Sciences, Carta Healthcare, MedeAnalytics, Trice Workspace, Teladoc Health, AGS Health, HOPPR, Luma Health, MDaudit, Pacific AI, Relatient, Revecore, SimplePractice, & Talkdesk. The post Health IT Product News Report August 2026 appeared first on Health IT Answers .
By Kamya Elawadhi - When did "we believe we reached physicians" become an acceptable standard for a billion-dollar industry? Somewhere along the way, pharma marketing made peace with probabilistic targeting, inferred identities, and impression counts that looked impressive but proved little. The post Pharma’s Programmatic Problem: Precision Without Proof appeared first on Health IT Answers .
