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 a 12.8‑percentage‑point rise in patients meeting a <130/80 mm Hg blood‑pressure goal and up to a 12.5% improvement in diabetes glucose targets. Cadence’s nurse‑practitioner team handled alerts and medication titration while integrating data directly into Corewell’s EHR, reducing provider burden. The closed‑loop model enabled earlier interventions, fewer acute escalations and more stable chronic disease management.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Are BP Rings the Future of Ward Monitoring?
South Korean firm Sky Labs has introduced CART ON, the world’s first cuffless blood‑pressure ring designed for hospital wards. The device uses a photoplethysmography sensor and AI‑driven algorithms trained on arterial line data to deliver readings within a 5 mmHg mean error...
Hong Kong: AI Enhances Oesophageal Cancer Diagnosis and Care
The Chinese University of Hong Kong has created an AI‑driven platform that unifies fragmented oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) classifications into four stable molecular subtypes. By fusing whole‑genome, RNA‑seq and DNA‑methylation data, the team built a consensus taxonomy and a...
Meet MaxToki: The AI That Predicts How Your Cells Age — and What to Do About It
MaxToki is a transformer‑decoder foundation model trained on nearly one trillion single‑cell RNA‑seq tokens to predict how individual cells age over time. By encoding transcriptomes as ranked gene lists and extending context length to 16,384 tokens, it can infer the...
GE HealthCare (GEHC) Receives FDA Clearance for Photonova Spectra CT System
GE HealthCare announced FDA 510(k) clearance for its Photonova Spectra photon‑counting CT system. The scanner uses the company’s Deep Silicon detector with 8‑bin energy resolution, delivering higher spatial and spectral detail than conventional CT. Nvidia‑accelerated computing handles data volumes up...
IQVIA (IQV) Launches IQVIA.ai Unified Agentic AI Platform with Nvidia
IQVIA announced the launch of IQVIA.ai, a unified agentic AI platform built with Nvidia, targeting the life‑sciences sector. The solution merges IQVIA’s healthcare‑grade data and analytics with Nvidia’s Nemotron models and NeMo Agent Toolkit, creating a digital command center for...
Imaging Study Sheds Light on How Deep Brain Stimulation Acts on Parkinson's Disease
A year‑long imaging study of 14 Parkinson's patients receiving deep brain stimulation (DBS) revealed that the therapy normalizes communication between key motor and globus pallidus circuits. Researchers used simultaneous 3‑T MRI, functional, structural and diffusion scans across five timepoints, comparing...
Microaxial Flow Pump Does Not Improve Outcomes for High-Risk Heart Attack Patients without Cardiogenic Shock: Trial
The STEMI‑Door to Unload (DTU) trial evaluated the Impella CP microaxial pump in 527 anterior STEMI patients without cardiogenic shock, comparing delayed PCI with left‑ventricular unloading to immediate PCI. Infarct size measured by cardiac MRI was marginally lower (30.8% vs 31.9%...
What Will Separate Healthcare AI Winners From Losers?
Healthcare AI startups are flooding the market, but long‑term winners must embed their tools directly into clinical workflows, generate actionable outcomes, and build defensible data assets. Veerappan of Flare Capital emphasizes that frictionless integration—exemplified by ambient AI scribes—drives rapid physician...
New AI Tool Predicts Whether Aggressive Small Cell Lung Cancer Will Respond to Treatment
A new AI‑driven pathology tool called PhenopyCell can forecast whether patients with extensive‑stage small cell lung cancer will benefit from platinum‑based chemotherapy using only the diagnostic biopsy slide. The retrospective study examined 281 patients across Roswell Park, Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute,...
AI Could Transform Patient Education in Eye Care, New Research Shows
Researchers at the University of East London have created a multilingual, voice‑enabled AI chatbot to educate patients about retinal detachment, a sight‑threatening condition that often requires urgent surgery. The system leverages retrieval‑augmented generation to pull answers from a clinician‑curated knowledge...
The Algorithm Won’t Hold Your Mother’s Hand
The article warns that AI‑driven elder‑care solutions are expanding amid a looming geriatric workforce shortage, with only about 7,000 board‑certified geriatricians for 70 million baby boomers. The AI‑in‑aging‑care market is projected to hit $322 billion by 2034, but many family caregivers lack...
Whole-Body MRI Predicts Ovarian Cancer Treatment Outcomes
Researchers published a study in the British Journal of Cancer showing that whole‑body diffusion‑weighted MRI performed after neoadjuvant chemotherapy can accurately forecast whether advanced ovarian cancer patients will achieve complete tumor resection during interval debulking surgery. Quantitative diffusion metrics, especially...
Distributed Fusion Framework Predicts Breast Cancer Recurrence
Researchers introduced a distributed fusion framework that leverages MapReduce to predict breast cancer recurrence with higher accuracy than traditional centralized models. The system splits massive genomic, imaging, and clinical datasets across multiple compute nodes, processes them in parallel, and fuses...
Protein Monitoring Enhances EASO Obesity Care Timing
The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) has released new guidance emphasizing regular protein monitoring to optimize obesity treatment timing. Clinical data show that tracking protein intake enables clinicians to adjust interventions earlier, boosting weight‑loss efficacy. The recommendation...
Evaluation of Large Language Models for Medical Applications: Theoretical Foundations, Empirical Performance and Clinical Implementation Frameworks
The MedHELM framework, built by Stanford’s CRFM, Stanford Healthcare, and Microsoft, introduces a clinician‑validated, 121‑task benchmark that evaluates large language models across the full spectrum of medical work. It replaces USMLE‑style exams with multi‑turn, longitudinal case vignettes covering decision support,...
Laser-Induced Graphene Patch Delivers Noninvasive, Low-Temperature Melanoma Therapy
Researchers at Wuhan University and City University of Hong Kong have created a soft, transparent, stretchable laser‑induced graphene (LIG)‑Cu/PDMS patch for non‑invasive melanoma treatment. The patch converts low‑power light into mild heat (~42 °C) that triggers localized copper ion release, killing...
AR Tech Prepares Patients for Endometriosis Surgery
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London has become the first UK facility to employ an augmented reality system during pre‑surgical consultations for endometriosis. The AR platform, created by Medical iSight, projects anatomically accurate 3‑D models onto a headset, allowing patients...
Australia: ANU Fosters AI in Science and Healthcare
The Australian National University has joined three other institutions in a national agreement to embed artificial intelligence across scientific research, healthcare, and education. The partnership emphasizes generative AI for genomic analysis, aiming to accelerate rare‑disease diagnosis and precision‑medicine breakthroughs. Simultaneously,...
Sanford Health CIO Steps Into New Role
Brad Reimer has been elevated from CIO to chief technology and digital officer at Sanford Health, the 58‑hospital system based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After nearly four years overseeing the network’s IT operations, he will now steer digital transformation,...
Changemaker and HIMSS Michigan Founder Continues Lifetime of Leadership
Veteran healthcare IT executive Helen Hill, SEMHIE Vice President and CIO, continues to shape Michigan’s health information landscape. She founded the state’s HIMSS chapter and now serves on the board and chairs the interoperability task force for the Michigan health...
CORRECTING and REPLACING ATL Medical Integrates OMNIVISION’s OVMed® OH0131 Image Signal Processor Into Its PREVOYANCE® Medical Imaging System
ATL Medical announced the integration of Omnivision’s OVMed® OH0131 image signal processor into its Prevoyance® medical imaging platform. The OVMed ISP brings advanced algorithms that fine‑tune brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and sharpness while aggressively reducing noise. The press release was...
Q&A: AWS on New AI Agents, Quantum Computing in Healthcare
At HIMSS 2026, AWS chief medical officer Dr. Rowland Illing outlined the company’s new AI‑driven agent platform, Amazon Connect Health, which bundles five agents to streamline patient‑provider interactions while keeping a human in the loop. He emphasized AWS’s push for...
MedeAnalytics Showcases How Health Plans Turn AI-Driven Insights Into Measurable Performance Improvement
MedeAnalytics announced its participation in several payer‑focused events, including Becker’s webinars, the Spring Payer Issues Roundtable, and OpsIgnite 2026. The company will showcase how its AI‑powered Health Fabric™ platform unifies fragmented data, enabling health plans to improve medical loss ratio,...
Complementary Value of CEUS-Guided Hookwire Localization Combined with Methylene Blue Staining for Sentinel Lymph Node Detection, and the Predictive Role...
A single‑arm study of 76 patients evaluated contrast‑enhanced ultrasound (CEUS)‑guided hookwire localization combined with intra‑operative methylene blue staining for sentinel lymph node (SLN) detection. The dual‑modality approach identified SLNs in 73 patients, achieving a 96.05% overall detection rate, with each...