What Are Rural Healthcare IT Priorities In a Changing Funding Landscape?
Rural healthcare organizations are bracing for reduced Medicaid funding while eyeing the $10 billion‑per‑year Rural Health Transformation Program. Tight cash reserves are driving IT leaders to prioritize short‑term resilience, cost‑cutting measures and rapid‑ROI technologies such as AI‑enabled documentation, cloud migration, and telehealth. Over the next 12‑36 months, they plan platform consolidation, scalable virtual‑care models, and data‑analytics infrastructure. Partnerships that offer strategic guidance and co‑design are seen as essential to navigate funding uncertainty and limited IT staff.
Startup Approved to Let AI System Prescribe Psychiatric Medication
Legion Health, a San Francisco startup, received Utah regulatory approval to let its AI chatbot renew psychiatric prescriptions for a limited set of antidepressants such as Prozac and Zoloft. The system can only prescribe drugs previously authorized by a human...
A Key Antitrust Case Against Providers, Plus the Marriage of Patient Experience and AI
In a recent HFMA podcast, senior editor Erika Grotto and FinThrive’s Jonathan Wiik dissect a high‑profile antitrust lawsuit targeting alleged price‑fixing among hospital providers. The discussion also explores how artificial intelligence can be woven into the patient‑experience journey to boost...
AED Algorithm Could Improve Location of Lifesaving Devices
Cedars‑Sinai researchers have created a geospatial algorithm that identifies clusters of sudden cardiac arrests and recommends optimal public AED locations within 200 meters of those hotspots. The model analyzed incidents from 2012‑2023 in Ventura County, California, and Multnomah County, Oregon,...
HL7 Launches Device Interoperability Implementation Community
Health Level Seven International (HL7) has launched the Caliper FHIR Accelerator implementation community to accelerate real‑world exchange of data from medical and personal health devices. The multi‑stakeholder group builds on the Gemini Device Interoperability Program and will use FHIR standards,...
About 80% of Breast Cancer Biopsies Turn Out Benign. New Imaging Tool Promises Clearer Diagnoses and Fewer Biopsies
About 80% of breast biopsies in the United States turn out benign, prompting calls for less invasive diagnostics. Researchers have developed a hand‑held device that merges traditional ultrasound with diffuse optical tomography (DOT), which maps blood hemoglobin and oxygen levels...
New NUS Research Validates Oura’s Vascular Age Estimation, a Key Indicator of Cardiovascular Health
Researchers at Singapore’s National University have shown that overnight pulse‑wave data captured by the Oura Ring can be used to estimate a user’s vascular age, a key marker of cardiovascular health. Using both traditional feature extraction and a deep‑learning model,...
Catalyst MedTech Establishes Full Access Neurology Solution for Brain PET Implementation in the U.S.
Catalyst MedTech announced the nationwide rollout of its Full Access Neurology solution, a bundled offering that enables health systems to deploy dedicated brain PET imaging without large capital outlays. The platform combines CareMiBrain‑powered scanners, quantification software, service and maintenance, and...
CRISPR Therapeutics' One‑Time Gene Edit Cuts LDL by 49% in Early Trial
CRISPR Therapeutics reported that a one‑time CRISPR‑based therapy turned off the liver gene ANGPTL3, dropping LDL cholesterol by 49% and triglycerides by 55% in the highest‑dose cohort of a 15‑patient trial. The results, published in the New England Journal of...
Corewell Health Sees Big Benefits From Its Remote Patient Monitoring Investments
Corewell Health, a Michigan nonprofit system, partnered with Cadence to embed remote patient monitoring (RPM) into primary‑care workflows for hypertension, diabetes and heart‑failure patients. The program achieved over 80% patient engagement and delivered measurable clinical gains in four months, including...
Scaling Artificial Intelligence in Health
The OECD released a report outlining a policy checklist to scale artificial intelligence responsibly in health systems. It identifies four pillars—enablers, guardrails, meaningful engagement, and trustworthy deployment—covering nine policy categories and 43 guiding questions. The document highlights persistent barriers such...
AI-Powered Full-Body Scan Gives Me a Pocket Doctor
I did a prenuvo full body scan and function blood test and now I have a doctor in my pocket I have seen friends and peers pass early so wanted to be proactive vs reactive like most of the US...
Affordable Autonomous Wheelchairs Aim for Everyday Reliability
Smart wheelchairs are being developed that can navigate their users through an environment. The focus remains on keeping them affordable and reliable for everyday users. https://spectrum.ieee.org/autonomous-smart-wheelchair
Glaukos to Present Multiple Scientific Abstracts at the 2026 American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Annual Meeting
Glaukos Corporation will present a slate of scientific abstracts at the 2026 American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) meeting in Washington, D.C., and will exhibit at booth #407. The company is also sponsoring an educational symposium on Epioxa™,...
From Prenatal DNA Test to $4B Cancer Detection Promise
1 in 11 babies born in America this year will be screened by a genetic test that didn't exist a decade ago. Biotech startup @BillionToOneInc turned a simple but radical idea—detecting rare fragments of fetal DNA in a mother's blood—into one...
Rethinking eCOA: Why Earlier Input by Data Managers Is Needed
Electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) is a mature technology, yet its adoption lags behind other digital trial tools. The traditional siloed approach forces data managers to engage only after data collection, inflating costs and extending timelines. Involving data managers early...
Democratizing Innovation with Agentic AI
Microsoft’s new low‑code AI platform lets healthcare staff build custom agents without programming expertise, enabling rapid solutions for clinical and back‑office challenges. By offering drag‑and‑drop interfaces and pre‑built connectors to electronic health records and billing systems, the tool democratizes agentic...
Ghent, Porto, Wroclaw: Future European HealthTech and MedTech Hubs
The European MedTech sector is entering a phase of industrial maturity, with the global market projected to grow from $549.5 billion in 2025 to $853.4 billion by 2035 at a 4.5% CAGR. Investment is concentrating in three emerging hubs—Ghent, Porto, and Wroclaw—each...
WELL Health Partners with AliveCor for Cardiac Monitoring in Canada
WELL Health announced a partnership with AliveCor to bring the Kardia mobile ECG platform to Canadian patients. The collaboration enables remote cardiac monitoring and real‑time cardiologist review through WELL Health’s telehealth network. By integrating AliveCor’s FDA‑cleared devices, the service aims...
How Multidisciplinary Care and Smarter Tools Can Transform MS Management: Steven Kheloussi, PharmD
Steven Kheloussi, PharmD, argues that smarter clinical decision‑support tools and multidisciplinary teams are essential for effective multiple sclerosis (MS) management. He highlights how integrated EHR‑embedded tools can consolidate relapse history, MRI data, and patient preferences to guide personalized therapy, while...
From Data Ownership to Learning Velocity in Direct-to-Consumer Healthcare
Healthcare brands are shifting toward direct‑to‑consumer (DTC) engagement, expanding patient portals and digital front doors. Traditional commercialization stacks—data providers, manual intelligence, and media execution—remain siloed, limiting how quickly insights can be applied. While enterprises build internal data lakes and proprietary...
SurgΣ: Large-Scale Multimodal Data and Foundation Models for Surgery
SurgΣ is a joint effort by NUS, CUHK, SJTU and NVIDIA to build a massive, high‑quality surgical video repository and a suite of foundation models for surgical intelligence. The first release, SurgΣ‑DB, holds roughly 5.98 million multimodal conversations spanning 18 distinct...
AI Is Coming for Superbugs
Antibiotic resistance could cause over 39 million deaths by 2050, with more than 8 million annual fatalities by mid‑century. Traditional drug discovery is slow, expensive, and the pipeline for new antibiotics has been shrinking for decades. Artificial‑intelligence models can screen tens to...
Wireless Oxygen Implant Powers Engineered Cells Inside Body
What happens when you give engineered cells their own wireless oxygen supply inside a thumb-drive-sized implant? https://spectrum.ieee.org/biologic-drugs-implant-bioelectronics-medicine?share_id=9322774
Join Us Tomorrow: How Capitol Imaging Is Using AI-Enabled RIS, Scheduling Bots and Smart Staffing Strategies to Take Care of...
Capitol Imaging Services, a 60‑location outpatient imaging network in the Gulf South and Southeast, is piloting an AI‑enabled radiology information system (RIS) to automate front‑office tasks. Partnering with AbbaDox, the group uses an AI voice agent named Abby to parse...
Swiss-U.K. Team Shows Nanoparticles Reverse Alzheimer’s in Mice
Scientists from the Paul Scherrer Institute and University College London unveiled a bioactive nanoparticle that crossed the blood‑brain barrier, removed up to 60% of toxic amyloid proteins in an hour, and fully restored cognitive function in aged mice. The breakthrough...
Catalyst Precision Health Debuts At-Home Men’s Longevity Care
Catalyst Precision Health, a New York startup founded by Mount Sinai physician Dr. Westley Spiro and entrepreneur Matt Renart, has launched what it calls the first men’s longevity service that unites in‑home lab testing, physician house calls, and continuous personalized...
Nine Pilot Programs Lead the Charge in Behavioral Health Data Interoperability
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and SAMHSA launched the $20 million Behavioral Health Information Technology (BHIT) Initiative to tackle persistent interoperability gaps in behavioral health. In February 2026, nine pilot programs across nine states received awards ranging...
Agentis, Ultrahuman Tie Wearables to Longevity Care
Agentis Longevity and Ultrahuman have announced a strategic partnership that links Ultrahuman’s wearable biosensor platform with Agentis’ proprietary Longevity Quotient (LQ) score. Continuous glucose monitoring and recovery analytics will feed real‑time data into the LQ, turning a static health snapshot...
AI Companions Bridge Elderly Care Gaps in South Korea
AI is stepping into a growing gap in elderly care. In South Korea, AI-powered companion devices are being used to reduce loneliness and support aging populations as social care systems come under strain. It is a human use case. Technology is not...
AI Will Serve as First-Line Support, Not Replace Therapists
Simply put, #AI won't replace therapists, but it will absolutely become the first line of support for many people who otherwise would have no access to care—so governance and guardrails matter more than ever. #health #healthcare https://t.co/aCaFxLV5kI
Healthcare’s AI Inflection Point: The Organizations that Win Will Be the Ones with the Strongest Data Foundations
Healthcare AI is moving from pilot projects to enterprise‑scale execution, with 92% of early adopters already seeing positive ROI. Nearly two‑thirds of providers plan to deploy agentic AI within the next year, but fragmented data and strict compliance rules are...
AI Turns Specialists Into Scalable Generalist‑Specialists in Healthcare
In @Health_Affairs Scholar, @bobkocher, Siobhan Nolan Mangini (both of @Venrock) and I argue that – by scaling specialist-level knowledge – AI will create, in essence, the "generalist-specialist." We explore the far-reaching implications for healthcare. https://t.co/FozKzBoINd
UnitedHealth's $3 B AI Bet Promises Patient Benefits
UnitedHealth Group + AI +Polk winner @caseymross = A must read. $UNH is making a $3 billion bet on AI. What does it mean for patients? https://t.co/irkyZi8Wj6
Noom Buys Pharmacy to Push Into Healthy Aging
Noom, the behavior‑change app best known for weight‑loss coaching, has completed its acquisition of Tailor Made Compounding, a licensed 503A pharmacy operating in 46 U.S. states. The purchase gives Noom direct control over compounding services, enabling it to offer prescription‑grade...
New Baby Bed Soothes Colic, Boosts Infant Comfort
A New Baby Bed Aims to Calm Colic and Improve Infant Comfort by @Realnitesh945 #TechForGood #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation #Tech https://t.co/wewbYJUTDA
AI Can't Replace Human Empathy in Healthcare
The big issue here surely is the lack of true empathy and therapeutic relationship. Care is not just diagnosis and treatment-it involves emotional support, motivation, and reassurance that AI cannot fully replicate. #AI #health #healthcare #aichatbot https://t.co/ImuiD51Vna
Good Health and Good Data: Recognizing the Link
Healthcare’s digital transformation hinges on data quality, especially accurate patient addresses. Misspelled names, incomplete or duplicate records routinely trigger claim denials, eroding hospital revenue and inviting compliance audits. Federal initiatives like Project US@ and tools such as USPS‑CASS‑certified verification aim...
Looking Beyond Fragmentation: How Centralization Can Fix Dental Provider Data
Dental provider credentialing and directory management remain highly fragmented, leading to prolonged approval cycles—often exceeding 120 days—and widespread data inconsistencies. Studies show 81% of physician listings contain errors, and inefficient credentialing costs the healthcare sector over $1 billion annually. A centralized...
AWS and UnitedHealthcare Take Back-Office to Front-End Approach to Healthcare AI
Amazon Web Services introduced Amazon Connect Health, embedding agentic AI directly into electronic health record workflows to deliver pre‑visit insights, real‑time documentation, and automated medical coding. UnitedHealthcare launched Avery, an AI‑driven companion that answers benefits questions, helps locate providers, and...
AI Won’t Replace Radiologists; Demand Is Rising
Do you remember how many high-profile investors predicted that radiology would become obsolete in a few years due to the rise of AI? Yet, today, more radiologists are needed than ever. Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, explains why: https://t.co/d4lpdMGJhO
OpenAI Reveals 600,000 Weekly Health Queries From Hospital Deserts as Seven in Ten Come After Hours
OpenAI disclosed that roughly 600,000 weekly health‑related queries come from U.S. residents living in “hospital deserts,” where the nearest hospital is at least a 30‑minute drive away. Overall, Americans send about two million messages per week to ChatGPT about health insurance,...
Allevion Secures FDA Clearance for Vantage Spinal Decompression System
Allevion Medical announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted 510(k) clearance to Vantage, a fully disposable, sterile kit for minimally invasive lumbar decompression. The system follows a structured “locate, dilate, decompress” workflow and incorporates built‑in illumination for direct...
South West NHS Trust Embraces Digital Tools to Transform Hospital Staffing
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has deployed three digital workforce tools from Patchwork Health—a fully integrated rostering platform, a digital staff bank, and an agency‑management system—to give clinicians greater schedule control, cut reliance on costly agency staff, and boost retention. The...
Toward the Simultaneous Detection of Multiple Diseases with a Highly Cost-Effective Cell-Free DNA Methylome Test
Researchers introduced MethylScan, a low‑cost cell‑free DNA methylome sequencing assay that profiles the entire cfDNA methylome from a single blood draw. In a cohort of 1,061 individuals, the test achieved an AUROC of 0.938 for multicancer detection (63.3% sensitivity at...
Grey Market: India Is Ageing Faster than Its Care Systems Can Keep Up
India's population aged 60+ will jump from 100 million today to over 300 million by 2050, creating a massive silver economy. A new wave of age‑tech startups—offering cognitive‑health platforms, assisted‑living ecosystems, AI‑driven fall‑risk monitoring, and community‑based work opportunities—are emerging to fill the...
Your Meal as an Energy Source: Harvesting Heat to Power Smart Ingestible Devices
Researchers highlighted three green‑technology breakthroughs. Mediterranean lizards rapidly lighten their skin after wildfires to reflect excess heat, then darken as vegetation returns. Scientists have turned kombucha fermentation by‑products into mechanically stable, biodegradable electronic components, opening a path to eco‑friendly circuitry....
Automated Single-Piece Workflow Revolutionizes Implant Manufacturing
Orthopedic implant maker Mach Medical has introduced an automated single‑piece workflow that slashes lead times from 20 weeks to three. By standardizing castings and using a Flexxbotics cell with a Universal Robots cobot, vision system, five‑axis machining and in‑process inspection,...
What's Inside National University Hospital's Latest Health Tech Hub?
National University Hospital in Singapore unveiled an Innovation Hub that functions as both an incubator and a real‑world sandbox for AI and digital health tools. The hub, managed by the Kent Ridge Office of Innovation, enables clinicians, startups, academia and...
Mercy Health Outsources 24/7 Critical Systems Monitoring
Mercy Health has engaged Melbourne‑based Data Agility to deliver 24/7 integration support for its clinical integration environment. The managed‑service contract covers continuous monitoring, proactive incident resolution, escalation handling, routine maintenance, and performance reporting. This shift follows a move from an...