SMART Toolkit Helps Map Healthcare Cyber Risk
Intermountain Health’s chief information security officer Erik Decker unveiled the SMART toolkit, a framework that maps an organization’s critical clinical and administrative functions to assess cyber‑risk exposure. The tool helps leaders identify which services must remain operational during a breach and prioritize protective measures accordingly. By visualizing dependencies, SMART enables scenario‑based continuity planning that aligns IT safeguards with patient‑care priorities. The rollout is part of a broader HIMSS26 preview aimed at standardizing cyber‑resilience practices across health systems.
AI Can’t Improve Healthcare if Clinicians and Staff Aren’t Trained to Use, Orchestrate It
Healthcare systems are rapidly deploying AI for diagnosis, documentation, scheduling and patient communication, but many clinicians and support staff lack the training to use these tools effectively. The article argues that one‑time, checkbox‑style training creates risks such as automation bias...
Startup Organotics Fast Tracks Personalized Brain Drug Trials
Organotics, a new biotech startup, is leveraging patient‑derived brain organoids to accelerate early‑stage testing of neuropsychiatric drugs. By reprogramming a patient’s blood or skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, the company creates vascularized, multi‑region mini‑brains that reflect individual genetics....
India’s Computer Vision Health Startup Krigat Wins Supernova AI MEA in Cairo
India‑based health‑AI startup Krigat captured the Supernova AI MEA Champion title in Cairo, outpacing 74 finalists from over 30 countries. The win includes a $10,000 equity‑free cash prize and heightened visibility at the AI Everything MEA summit. Krigat’s platform leverages...
OpenClaw in the Clinic: A Business Plan for HIPAA-Compliant Deployment of Agentic AI at Scale in Payer and Provider Organizations
The episode dissects OpenClaw, an open‑source, agentic AI platform that can autonomously interact with files, commands, and dozens of applications, and evaluates its viability for payer and provider health organizations. It explains why the default, unsecured version violates HIPAA, outlines...
Novo Nordisk Sues Hims & Hers; TrumpRx Is Here; Physicians Are Not ‘Providers,’ Says ACP – Morning Medical Update Weekly...
Novo Nordisk has filed a patent lawsuit against telehealth firm Hims & Hers, alleging illegal compounding of semaglutide after the FDA declared the drug no longer in shortage. The case targets the surge in compounded Wegovy and Ozempic that emerged...
Philips Unveils New InkSpace Snuggle Coil for Paediatric Imaging
Philips has launched the InkSpace Imaging Snuggle, a flexible paediatric body array coil for its 3.0 T MRI platforms. The blanket‑like, lightweight design wraps around children, aiming to reduce anxiety and improve comfort. Its high‑density array delivers sharp, high‑resolution images, cutting...
Novocure Wins FDA Approval to Treat Pancreatic Cancer with Electric Fields
Novocure received FDA clearance for its Optune Pax tumor‑treating‑field device in locally advanced pancreatic cancer, marking the company’s first indication beyond brain tumors. The pivotal trial of 571 patients showed a statistically significant two‑month overall‑survival gain (16.2 vs 14.2 months) when the device was...
Should Healthcare Organizations Transition to Biometric Security?
Biometric authentication is now mainstream in U.S. healthcare, with roughly 78% of organizations deploying fingerprint or facial‑recognition systems. The technology promises stronger identity assurance, faster workflow access, and reduced patient misidentification, directly addressing HIPAA compliance and safety concerns. However, high...
Medicomp Launches AI Validation Tools to Stop Clinical Hallucinations
Medicomp Systems unveiled a Model Context Protocol (MCP) that links generative AI models to its 45‑year clinical knowledge graph, filtering hallucinations before data enters electronic health records. The suite enables safe AI APIs for diagnostic prompting, chart summarization, quality‑measure evaluation,...
The Million-Dollar Cool-Down: Why 'Thermal Drift' Is the Silent Killer of Hospital Revenue
Insights from Mark Molinaro, founder and CEO of SkySpigot
USF and Tampa General Expand Partnership with GE HealthCare to Advance Surgical Training
The University of South Florida installs Allia Moveo image-guided therapy system
Philips Adds Flexible Pediatric MR Coil to 3T Portfolio
Snuggle body array coil from InkSpace Imaging was recently FDA cleared
Bluetooth Pacemakers Could Be Tracked via War‑Driving
For the Nancy Guthrie case, an idea and maybe a crazy one but she had a pacemaker which often implantable devices use bluetooth such as Medtronic's. Couldn't you war-drive (drones even better) with a high gain antenna with amplifiers -...
Payers Pledge To Launch Digital Health Payment Models Like CMS’ ACCESS
On Feb 12, HHS announced that health insurers covering roughly 165 million Americans have pledged to implement digital‑health reimbursement models modeled on CMS’s ACCESS program by Jan 1 2028. The ACCESS model adjusts payments based on measurable patient‑outcome impact, shifting from volume‑based to value‑based...
Partnerships Push Innovation in the Aging Tech Space
The 2025 LeadingAge Annual Meeting highlighted the need to involve older adults directly in testing and adopting new care technologies. Louisville’s Thrive Center, partnered with CDW Healthcare and Asbury Communities, provides a functional smart‑home lab where seniors can trial solutions...
Cognibotics Helps Advance Motion Layer for AI-Guided Surgical Robotics in CAISA
Cognibotics is providing the motion‑control layer for the Vinnova‑funded CAISA project, linking AI perception and path‑planning modules in a paediatric heart‑surgery testbed. The collaboration, involving Region Skåne, Lund University and Cobotic, moves into a demonstrator phase using a 350 m² simulated...
Alrajhi Medicine Replaces Legacy Systems with Oracle Cloud ERP and EHR
Alrajhi Medicine, a Saudi private healthcare network, has chosen Oracle to replace its legacy clinical and enterprise systems with Oracle Health Foundation electronic health record (EHR) and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. The unified cloud platform will integrate patient records, finance,...
AI Doctor in Pocket Offers 24/7 Monitoring
.@tryprana is an AI primary doctor in your pocket that monitors you 24/7. Connect your wearables to your medical records to monitor for clinical drift. At any moment, you can instantly bring a Board-Certified MD into the chat to review your...
Bioresorbable Implant Uses Heat to Block Pain
Our latest paper appeared today as a cover (inside front) feature article in Advanced Functional Materials, titled “A Bioresorbable Neural Interface for On-Demand Thermal Pain Block.” The focus is on a bioresorbable, implantable form of neural electronics that supports precisely...
New AI Approach Weighs Data ‘Temperature’ to Improve Prediction Accuracy
Penn State researchers unveiled ZENN, a zentropy‑embedded neural network that fuses thermodynamic entropy and a data "temperature" parameter to weigh heterogeneous inputs. By separating signal energy from intrinsic noise, ZENN achieves markedly higher prediction fidelity, demonstrated by a 90% accuracy...
'She Makes Me Laugh': Seniors Are Building Deep Bonds With This Friendly AI Robot
Intuition Robotics’ ElliQ, a voice‑activated AI companion, is forging genuine relationships with seniors living alone, delivering up to 30 daily conversations. In New York, users who kept the robot for a month reported a 95% drop in loneliness, with many describing...
Anterior Secures $40M to Expand AI Deployments in Health Plans
Anterior, a clinician‑led AI platform for health insurers, closed a $40 million financing round, raising its total capital to $64 million with investors including NEA and Sequoia. The company differentiates itself through a “Forward Deployed Clinician” model that embeds medical professionals alongside...
Maven Clinic and Color Health Partner to Expand Virtual Oncofertility Services
Maven Clinic and Color Health have launched a joint oncofertility program that integrates virtual cancer care with a family‑building platform. The partnership targets the roughly 80,000 U.S. young‑adult cancer diagnoses each year, where fewer than half of patients receive fertility‑preservation...
Keragon AI Transforms Healthcare Operations with HIPAA-Compliant Conversational Interface
Keragon has launched an AI‑powered automation platform that links more than 300 healthcare applications through conversational, no‑code prompts while maintaining HIPAA compliance. The solution lets clinical and operations staff design and deploy workflows in minutes, eliminating the traditional reliance on...
Ambience Healthcare Launches “Chart Awareness” To Automate Coding and Clinical Summaries
Ambience Healthcare introduced “Chart Awareness,” an AI capability that reads a patient’s full longitudinal record—including labs, imaging and prior notes—to generate richer clinical summaries. The update adds chart‑aware patient summaries, auto‑extracted diagnostic trends, and coding assistance that can substantiate complex...
Oracle Health AI Empowers NHS Doctors to Tackle Challenges
Bringing the innovative capabilities of @OracleHealth Clinical AI Agent to the NHS and throughout the UK underscores our commitment to empowering doctors to deliver exceptional care. By embedding advanced AI-powered capabilities into clinician workflows, we can tackle some of the region's biggest healthcare...
Stockholm-Based Loovi Secures €1 Million to Scale Preventive Health and Longevity Platform
Swedish HealthTech startup Loovi has secured €1 million to scale its digital platform for data‑driven longevity and preventive health. The funding round, led by investors such as Susanne Najafi and Emad Zand, will be used to enhance medical and technical capabilities...
Ubie and Mayo Clinic to Launch “Smart Support” AI Triage Platform
Ubie, a Google‑backed AI health platform, has teamed up with Mayo Clinic to co‑develop “Ubie Smart Support,” an AI‑driven triage system that merges chat and voice interfaces into a single digital front door. The solution will assess symptoms, route patients...
GE HealthCare Installs Allia Moveo at USF Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation
GE HealthCare’s Allia Moveo, a compact cable‑free C‑arm with a lateral wide‑bore for Cone Beam CT, has been installed at the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS). This makes CAMLS the first Florida and...
A Guide to the Best Disaster Recovery Solutions for Health Care Organizations
Healthcare providers face heightened risk from cyber attacks and natural disasters, making robust disaster recovery essential. Vendors such as Dataprise, Veeam, Acronis, Zerto, and Carbonite offer cloud, hybrid, and on‑premises solutions that promise rapid recovery, HIPAA compliance, and proactive monitoring....
Andor Health Scores Three Premier Contracts to Automate Virtual Care
Andor Health, a leader in agentic AI, has secured three national contracts with Premier Inc. The agreements span Virtual Care (effective Dec 1, 2025), Clinical Communications & Collaboration (Feb 1, 2026), and Remote Patient Monitoring (Mar 1, 2026). They grant Premier members access to ThinkAndor®, an...
RxERP Integrates Embedded Microtransponder Technology for Improved Pharmaceutical Traceability
RxERP has signed a licensing agreement with p‑Chip Corporation to embed light‑activated microtransponder tags into its pharmaceutical ERP serialization workflows. The embedded tags provide a permanent, tamper‑resistant digital ID that links directly to RxERP’s receiving, inventory, verification and reporting records,...
Blinded by Science: The Importance of RWD and Post-Market Surveillance
The explosive uptake of GLP‑1 drugs—now used by roughly 12% of U.S. adults—has spotlighted both their therapeutic benefits and emerging safety concerns. Post‑market surveillance, leveraging real‑world data (RWD), is uncovering rare vision‑related adverse events that clinical trials missed. AI‑driven analytics...
Chronic Rhinitis Solution NEUROMARK Secures €62.5 Million as Irish Startup Neurent Medical Closes Series C
Neurent Medical announced an oversubscribed €62.5 million Series C round, led by MVM Partners and Sofinnova Partners, to accelerate the commercial rollout of its NEUROMARK system for chronic rhinitis. The funding will expand European market presence, deepen clinical evidence, and support a...
New Method Can Find Hidden Eggs to Aid in Fertility Treatment
Researchers at AutoIVF introduced OvaReady, a microfluidic device that scans discarded follicular fluid and retrieves eggs missed by traditional microscopy. In a study of 582 patients across four U.S. clinics, the system found additional viable eggs in 316 cases, yielding...
Hippocratic AI Announces New Key Executive Appointments to Further Accelerate Growth
Hippocratic AI announced three senior executive hires—Dr. Anoop Sangha as Associate Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Eduardo Reis as Vice President of Strategy, and Niloy Sanyal as Chief Marketing Officer—to deepen clinical expertise, strategic AI leadership, and market reach. The appointments...
90% Want Free AI Mammograms, Yet None Receive It
Over 90% of responders believe it's time for mammography to incorporate AI for every readout, whereas close to 0% who get screened are getting that interpretation now, and at no out-of-pocket charge https://t.co/hITOBNd7pg https://t.co/x1I6Ffxfio
Lubrizol Launches Tolerathane TPU for Implantable Medical Devices
Lubrizol has launched Tolerathane™ TPU, a medical‑grade thermoplastic polyurethane designed for implantable devices. The material offers superior resistance to oxidative and hydrolytic degradation while maintaining exceptional softness and mechanical resilience. It integrates with standard thermal processing, enabling thinner‑wall, miniaturized designs...
Review: Box Facilitates Secure Collaboration for Healthcare Workers
Box Intelligent Content Management delivers a cloud‑based, zero‑trust platform tailored for healthcare’s strict security and compliance needs. The solution unifies over 1,500 integrations, enabling seamless collaboration between Office 365, Google Workspace and other systems while providing built‑in e‑signatures and workflow automation....
LifeScan Announces Transformational Partnership with I-SENS to Launch OneTouch® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System
LifeScan announced a transformational partnership with i‑SENS to launch the OneTouch® Vita continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system. The first markets—Germany, Ireland, Portugal, and Belgium—are slated for release by early 2027, with broader European expansion planned thereafter. The collaboration merges LifeScan’s...
Mayo Clinic Platform Standardizes Cancer Data to Speed Up Trials
Mayo Clinic Platform’s Orchestrate tool has added new capabilities that deliver standardized, research‑ready cancer data. The upgrade leverages the OMOP Oncology common data model to transform unstructured inputs such as pathology reports and imaging into consistent tumor characteristics, biomarkers, and...
Why Harbor Health Is Acquiring Dementia Support Company Rippl
Harbor Health, an Austin‑based primary care and health‑insurance group, announced the acquisition of Rippl, a Seattle‑based dementia‑care platform. The deal, terms undisclosed, adds Rippl’s CMS GUIDE‑model services for Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare beneficiaries to Harbor’s condition‑focused care pathways. By...
Federal Telehealth Policy in 2026: What the Medicare Extensions Mean
Congress approved the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026, extending key Medicare telehealth flexibilities through Dec. 31 2027. The extension preserves waivers for in‑person visits, home‑based originating sites, audio‑only services, and broader clinician eligibility, while renewing the Acute Hospital at Home program to...
STS Spells Out Training Pathway for Robotic Surgery
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) unveiled a five‑phase training pathway to standardize robotic cardiac surgery adoption, covering prerequisites, baseline team training, initial clinical use, efficiency gains, and mastery. The guideline mandates at least three years of attending experience or...
Steven Posnack Leads Panel on Transparency, Affordability
At the @HHS_TechPolicy Annual Meeting #astp2026 and Steven Posnack @HealthIT_Policy is leading a panel on #transparency and #affordability https://t.co/6yn7f8LbPC
Building Inclusive AI for Healthcare: Lessons From Odin Vision
The blog highlights how Odin Vision is building inclusive AI for healthcare by prioritising co‑design, a gender‑balanced data science team, and continuous post‑market evaluation. It outlines the broader challenges of bias, transparency and regulation in medical AI, referencing the UK’s...
NIH Researchers Identify Four-Marker Blood Test That May Improve Early Pancreatic Cancer Detection
NIH‑backed researchers reported a four‑marker blood test that improves early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. The panel combines CA19‑9, THBS2, ANPEP and PIGR, achieving 91.9% overall accuracy at a 5% false‑positive rate and 87.5% sensitivity for stage I‑II disease. The study...
The ACA’s 2027 Overhaul: What the NBPP Proposed Rule Actually Means for Health Tech Entrepreneurs
The episode breaks down the CMS‑9883‑P proposed rule for the 2027 ACA payment notice, highlighting transformative provisions such as State Exchange Enhanced Direct Enrollment (SBE‑EDE), the certification of non‑network Qualified Health Plans, the repeal of standardized plan options, a lower...