Institutional Familiarity & Product-Specific Knowledge Keys for Health Systems Selecting Managed IT Services Partners, KLAS Finds
A February 2026 KLAS Research analysis of 19 health‑system IT outsourcing decisions found pre‑existing vendor relationships to be the top driver of managed‑IT services selection, eclipsing cost, expertise and credibility. The study identified five firms—CereCore, HCTec, Nordic, Impact Advisors and CTG—as the most frequently considered and chosen. Replacements were most often triggered by repeated SLA breaches and execution gaps. EHR‑specific expertise, particularly with Epic and Meditech, emerged as a decisive differentiator in both new wins and losses.
Will AI Eventually De-Skill Doctors? The Evidence Is Trickling In
New research indicates that routine AI assistance can erode physicians' clinical instincts, a phenomenon termed de‑skilling. A 2025 Lancet study found endoscopists' adenoma detection rates dropped from 29% to 22% after regular AI use, suggesting skill decay in non‑AI procedures....
Exclusive: Practo In Talks To Raise $100 Mn In Pre-IPO Round
Practo is in advanced talks to raise between $100 million and $125 million in a pre‑IPO round that will combine equity and debt, led by a global private‑equity firm and joined by existing backers. The financing values the health‑tech platform at roughly...
Transforming Epilepsy Care: How Innovative Implantable Neurotechnology Offers New Hope
PRECISIS GmbH’s EASEE® epicranial neurostimulation system offers a minimally invasive alternative for drug‑resistant focal epilepsy. The implant, positioned under the scalp atop the skull, delivers targeted electrical pulses without opening the skull, achieving a median 68% seizure reduction over two...
3D Printed Dissolving Microneedles
Researchers have demonstrated dissolving microneedle (DMN) arrays fabricated using resin‑based 3D‑printed master molds, enabling drug delivery through the inner cheek. The workflow pairs rapid SLA/DLP printing with polymer micromolding, allowing design changes from CAD to mold within hours. Mechanical, dissolution...
How Handheld Ultrasound Systems Improve Point-of-Care Imaging
Handheld ultrasound systems are reshaping point‑of‑care imaging by delivering portable, real‑time diagnostic capability directly at the bedside. Their lightweight design allows clinicians to move quickly between patients, cutting imaging wait times and supporting rapid decision‑making in emergencies. The technology also...
Using Cancer Data to Improve Performance and Reduce Delays
Scotland’s cancer diagnosis pathway is lagging, with only 69.9% of urgent referrals meeting the 62‑day treatment target, well short of the 95% benchmark. The National Framework for Effective Cancer Management (2025) outlines ten steps to streamline care, but implementation remains...
Pulselight Platform Now Available to NHS via £10bn Fortrus Framework
Pulselight has become an authorised partner on the £10 bn Fortrus Digital Enablement Framework, giving NHS trusts a fast, compliant route to acquire its advanced data‑analytics platform. The framework, created by the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, streamlines procurement...
AI Bolsters Breast Radiologists’ Cancer Detection Rate, Real World Study Finds
A multi‑center real‑world study of over 100,000 breast imaging exams found that adding iCAD’s AI tool to digital breast tomosynthesis increased cancer detection rates without raising recall rates. Detection of invasive cancers rose 26%, while overall cancer detection per 1,000...
5 Barriers to AI Adoption in Pediatric Cancer Imaging
A recent editorial outlines five major barriers that keep artificial intelligence from scaling in pediatric cancer imaging. The rarity of childhood cancers and the resulting scarcity of imaging data limit deep‑learning model training. Data are fragmented across hundreds of specialized...
Noted North Carolina Private Radiology Practice Experiences Data Breach
Triad Radiology Associates, a 50‑year‑old North Carolina imaging practice, disclosed a data breach affecting roughly 11,000 patients. The intrusion, detected in February, likely occurred between late July and September and exposed names, addresses, Social Security numbers and bank account details....
Don’t Overlook Low-Tech Crime in Healthcare
Healthcare organizations focus on high‑tech defenses, yet physical and procedural gaps remain a major source of breaches. Low‑tech incidents such as tailgating, unattended devices, and badge sharing contributed to over 51 million compromised records in 2022. The article outlines practical controls—including...
Beyond Generative AI: Why Healthcare’s Next Leap Depends on Agentic Systems That Can Actually Do the Work
Healthcare’s administrative crisis stems from fragmented, manual workflows rather than mere documentation. While generative AI has streamlined drafting tasks, it fails to automate end‑to‑end processes like prior authorizations, eligibility checks, and denial management. Agentic AI systems, capable of pulling data...
Women Need Transparent Testosterone Data in Menopause Care
Had a great conversation with Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su from ovary_active and @mygennev about telemedicine and menopause and many other things. Hope you head to TheVajenda.com for the full interview. Here is a clip of us discussing why women deserve data...
AI's Role in Medicine Explored on NPR's Pulse
Really enjoyed this conversation with @MaikenScott on her @NPR show, @WHYYThePulse, about my book, "A Giant Leap" and how AI will shape the future of medicine. https://t.co/Nw17vwApkg
Hims & Hers Health Inc (HIMS) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Hims & Hers Health reported Q4 2025 revenue of $171 million, a 46% year‑over‑year increase, and full‑year revenue of $588 million, up 51% and ahead of guidance. Gross margin rose to 85% in the quarter and 83% for the year, while operating...
HealthStream Inc (HSTM) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
HealthStream reported record Q3 2025 results, posting $76.5 million revenue, a 4.6% year‑over‑year increase, and new highs in operating income, net income and adjusted EBITDA. Subscription revenue rose 5.7% driven by strong CredentialStream, ShiftWizard and Competency Suite growth, while legacy product...
Large Language Model Reads Radiologists' Notes to Flag Patients for Follow-Up Imaging
Researchers at Parkland Health created an AI‑powered tool that leverages a pre‑trained large language model to read radiologists' free‑text notes and automatically flag patients needing follow‑up imaging. In testing on 130,000 studies, the model identified 97% of imaging recommendations and...
AI Health Alerts Force Companies to Choose Duty over Silence
In 2026, software doesn’t just store health data - AI allows it to see medical risk before anyone else. When consumers use AI for their health, we are increasingly faced with the dilemma of whether AI companies have a duty...
China’s Brain-Computer Interface Industry Is Racing Ahead
China’s brain‑computer interface (BCI) sector is moving from research labs to commercial scale, propelled by a national roadmap, an 11.6 billion‑yuan brain‑science fund and expanding insurance reimbursement. Start‑ups such as NeuroXess, Gestala and BrainCo have secured tens of millions in funding...
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NVIDIA has introduced the SimReady Medical Assets library, a collection of high‑fidelity virtual models designed to train surgical robots across a range of procedures. The assets simulate realistic tissue behavior, instrument interaction, and operating‑room environments, allowing AI algorithms to practice...
AI Is Changing Nursing Education and Raising New Graduate Expectations
AI is reshaping nursing education, prompting curricula to incorporate AI documentation, simulation, and analytics tools. Hospitals face acute staffing gaps, with 25% of new nurses leaving within a year and a projected shortage of 63,700 RNs by 2030. Universities are...
Clinician Startups Fail Because Product, Not Sales, Misses Market
When Clinician Entrepreneurs can’t get adoption, the Number 1 mistake is to think: “It’s not a product problem, it’s a sales problem.” Sorry but 99% of the time it IS a product problem. I’ve seen it over qnd over again from...
Combating Antibacterial Resistant Diseases with Lasers
Researchers led by Texas A&M’s Dr. Vanderlei Bagnato are developing laser‑based, light‑activated therapies to combat antibiotic‑resistant infections. The method uses a safe photoreactive compound that, when activated by infrared light, disrupts bacterial defenses, allowing conventional antibiotics to work at normal...
Doctor‑Led Online Weight Management – Limited Slots Open
For Malaysians, wherever you are in Malaysia. 💚⚖️ Doctor-led, structured, medical weight management, fully online. We’re opening a limited number of first patient slots for our starting launch phase. 🔑 Welcome offer access closes soon. www.getmyreset.com Important: Prescription treatments are provided only after doctor...
CRISPR Unlocks Causal Insights Into Immune Complexity
The complexity of our immune system is daunting. But there's a path to deconvolute it and understand causal relationships. It's CRISPR. open-access @JExpMed https://t.co/QF6Cvkbfz2 https://t.co/OTL2z1fow0
Engineered Nanoparticles Could Deliver Better Targeted Cancer Treatment to Lymph Nodes
Scientists at McGill University and the Goodman Cancer Institute have engineered nanoparticles that deliver an existing immunotherapy directly to metastatic lymph nodes. The nanocomplex senses a molecule abundant in cancer‑laden nodes, activating the drug only at the disease site while...
Most Health System Innovations Die Before Scaling
Many accuse health systems of not being willing to innovate. The truth? Lots of innovation is being explored all the time - you just don’t hear about them because most never make it to system-wide scale. For every 100 ideas that...
Safe Ultrasound Opens Brain Barrier via Tight Junctions
Researchers have detailed how focused ultrasound safely and reversibly opens the blood‑brain barrier by transiently reorganizing tight‑junction proteins. The study shows that pulsed ultrasound creates a brief paracellular window that permits therapeutic agents to reach brain tissue without causing inflammation...
Stories, Not Data, Drive Health Tech Adoption
We want Health Tech to be evidence-based, but the truth is that adoption is ultimately driven by stories - NOT data. Here’s what I’ve seen play out over the past 13+ years over and over again: → Health system execs will choose...
Markets Switch to AI When It Outperforms Tradition
The market doesn’t care how long you’ve done it “the old way.” If AI can do it faster, cheaper, better — the switch will happen. https://t.co/zQCFnB0Dpd
Sometimes Less Is More: Messier Nanoparticles May Actually Deliver Drugs More Effectively than Tightly Packed Ones
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen unveiled a high‑throughput, single‑nanoparticle analysis that examined millions of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) used for RNA delivery. The study identified two distinct LNP subpopulations—organized, onion‑layered particles and disordered, amorphous particles—and found the latter release their...
Combined DNA and Methylation Analysis Reveals Colon Cancer Risks
By systematically assessing both DNA sequence variants and methylation, we're learning a lot more about risk of (and protection from) colon cancer @ScienceAdvances https://t.co/eA0Y0lrntr https://t.co/5iL4sg0rRC
Patients Prefer AI Over Frustrating Healthcare Appointment Process
the overall experience for patients from booking health related appointments to waiting ++ is so bad that they will gladly use AI first to avoid frustration
Science Corp. And Neurosoft Bioelectronics Announce Novel BCI Ecosystem Partnership
Science Corporation and Neurosoft Bioelectronics have signed a multiyear, multimillion‑dollar partnership granting Neurosoft access to Science’s full‑stack clinical‑grade BCI tools, known as the Science BCI Ecosystem. The deal lets Neurosoft develop minimally invasive, fully implantable brain‑computer interfaces for tinnitus, epilepsy...
How Arintra’s Coding AI Helped Mercyhealth Boost Revenue by 5%
Mercyhealth, a 6‑hospital system serving northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, deployed Arintra’s AI‑driven coding platform across 37 sites in 2023. The technology automates chart coding, writes medical codes directly into the EHR, and flags missed reimbursement opportunities. Since implementation, the...
From Mental Health Issues to Cancer Care: AI Startups Reimagine Healthcare Access with Smart Diagnostics, Digital Tools, Tele-Doctors
At the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, several startups unveiled AI‑driven solutions aimed at widening healthcare access. Clinics on Cloud introduced “Health ATMs” that combine on‑site screenings for 60+ conditions with tele‑doctor consults, claiming 90‑95% laboratory‑grade accuracy. Other launches...
6 Lessons Shaping Health System Strategic Leaders’ Operational Approach for 2026
Health system leaders are reshaping 2026 operations amid technology, regulation, and labor pressures. Executives from Cedars‑Sinai to Novant Health stress frontline immersion, cost‑control focus, system‑design that simplifies right actions, and building trust through candid dialogue. Prioritizing a narrow set of...
Clinical AI Offers Hope: More Impact, Less Complexity
"This is the first time where there's hope - there is a pathway to doing more with less. There is a pathway for the job of being a clinician, being a nurse, to be a fulfilling one. There is a...
Croom Medical Breaks Ground on R&D Site in Ireland
Croom Medical has broken ground on ACOT, a 38,000‑square‑foot Advanced Centre of Orthopaedic Technologies in Croom, County Limerick. The project represents the company’s largest capital outlay in its 42‑year history and will serve as a combined R&D and industrialisation hub....
WestFax Launches AI-Powered Intelligent Document Processing Platform for Healthcare
WestFax launched Comprehend, an AI‑powered Intelligent Document Processing platform for healthcare, now available across all its service tiers. The solution uses OCR, AI and FHIR‑aligned models to convert inbound fax, email and file‑based documents into searchable PDFs, classify types, and...
CDC Enterprise Architect to Detail Digital Transformation at HIMSS26
At HIMSS26, CDC Acting Chief Enterprise Architect Ryan M. Harrison will unveil the agency’s Technical Reference Architecture (TRA), a unified framework that codifies IT standards across CDC. The presentation targets both IT leaders and developers, illustrating how the TRA integrates...
ALIS Releases New Clinical Benchmarking Report Analyzing Data From 28,800 Senior Living Residents
ALIS released its Q4 2025 ALIS 500 Clinical Report, the first senior‑living clinical benchmarking study covering 500 communities and 28,800 residents. The report delivers detailed data on resident age, prevalent chronic conditions, comorbidity patterns, and fall incidents, and is paired with an...
Sana Health Clears a Major Milestone in the Fight Against Chronic Pain
In this episode, Richard Hanbury of Sana Health discusses the company’s recent FDA De Novo clearance for a novel audio‑visual neuromodulation device targeting neuropathic pain, marking the creation of a new therapeutic class. He outlines decades of research that led...
Health Leaders Need Operational Agentic AI Strategies
Health leaders: your AI strategy may exist… but is it operational? Here’s how organizations are actually deploying agentic AI: https://t.co/iAzZysMNQp Meet NTT DATA at #ViVE2026 🤝 @NTT_DATA_NA #AgenticAI #HITSM
Rural Health Care Crisis: Can Telemedicine Close the Gap?
Since 2005, 195 rural hospitals have shut down, with 50 closures occurring between 2017 and 2023, deepening access gaps for millions of Americans. Rural residents experience higher rates of diabetes, mental distress, and premature mortality, compounded by looming federal Medicaid...
FDA Approves Expanded Use of Gadolinium-Based Imaging Agent From Guerbet
The U.S. FDA has approved an expanded label for Guerbet’s gadolinium‑based contrast agent Elucirem (gadopiclenol), allowing its use in infants and children under two years, including term neonates. The agent delivers high‑relaxivity imaging with less than half the gadolinium dose...
Smart, Narrow, Trusted AI: Prenosis Sepsis Test Approved
Healthcare AI doesn’t need to be louder. It needs to be smarter, narrower, and trusted. Prenosis’ FDA-authorized sepsis diagnostic shows what that looks like in practice. 🔗https://t.co/JQBRCOKfO3 @PrenosisInc #patientsafety #HITSM
HIMSS26 to Host Native American & Indigenous Health Symposium
The HIMSS26 conference will host the fourth Native American & Indigenous Health Symposium, bringing together tribal and Indigenous health leaders from the U.S., Canada, Australia and Alaska. Since its 2022 launch, the HIMSS Indigenous Community has expanded its network and...
The Most Interesting FHIR You've Never Heard Of
The episode dives into Epic's recent rollout of twelve new FHIR APIs tailored for radiation oncology, highlighting how these modern interfaces support the CodeX Exchange of Radiotherapy Summaries Implementation Guide. It explains the distinct nature of radiation oncology—focused on precise...