Beyond the Clinical Note: Why the Next Decade of EHR Success Is Financial
Electronic health record (EHR) vendors are shifting from digitizing clinical notes to becoming the financial operating system for medical practices. ModMed, discussed on Adyen’s Embedded Finance podcast, has integrated payments, reduced accounts receivable, and plans to add accounts‑payable automation, business lending, and card issuing. Leveraging Adyen’s licensed infrastructure lets ModMed bypass money‑transmitter registration while maintaining full compliance. The next‑generation EHR will blend clinical data with embedded finance to boost practice profitability and operational efficiency.
SKIA Secures FDA 510(k) Clearance for AR Surgical Platform
South Korean med‑tech firm SKIA has secured FDA 510(k) clearance for its AR surgical guidance platform, SKIA HEAD. The tablet‑based system, paired with Structure’s medical‑grade sensors, projects three‑dimensional reconstructions onto patients in real time. Clearance clears the path for a...
Royal Cornwall Hospitals to Delay EPR Go-Live as “Necessary and Appropriate Assurance Action”
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has postponed its eCare electronic patient record (EPR) go-live originally slated for June, citing insufficient assurance that the system could safely support patient care. A 60‑day readiness review and a NHSE 90‑day assessment rated the...
RADAR CARE Study: A Multicenter Deep Learning Model for Real-Time Prediction of Recurrence in Early-Stage Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Using...
A multicenter study updated a transformer‑based deep learning model that integrates clinical, pathological, laboratory, and radiologic data to predict early‑stage non‑small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) recurrence within one year. Using data from 15,439 patients across three Korean hospitals, the model...
Scientists Unveil 3D Color Imaging Technique for Real-Time Human Scans
Researchers at Caltech and USC unveiled RUS-PAT, a hybrid imaging system that fuses rotational ultrasound tomography with photoacoustic tomography to generate high‑resolution 3D images of tissue structure and blood‑vessel function in real time. The technique overcomes the two‑dimensional limitation of...
Care Services Platform Goes Live in Hampshire and Isle of Wight
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board has gone live with the IEG4 Digital Continuing Healthcare platform, migrating roughly 6,200 adult, child, and nursing‑care cases. The five‑year contract, signed in December 2025, streamlines referrals, assessments, approvals, contracting, payments...
University of Cincinnati Opens New Research Facility Aimed at Advancing MRI Innovation
The University of Cincinnati, together with GE HealthCare, UC Health, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and JobsOhio, opened the Imaging Research & Development Center on its medical campus. The facility houses a state‑of‑the‑art 3‑tesla wide‑bore MRI scanner that will support AI‑enhanced imaging...
Biodegradable Brain Probes Eliminate the Need for Risky Surgical Removal
A new AI‑driven wearable headband that combines motion sensing with mindfulness techniques has shown up to a 40% reduction in car‑sickness symptoms during pilot trials. Researchers have issued a call for a standardized testing framework for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) to...
Chairside Dental AM: From All Sides
Chairside 3D printing is now employed in roughly 15% of U.S. dental practices, outpacing chairside milling but still far behind intra‑oral scanners and lab‑based additive manufacturing, which exceed 60% adoption. The technology is used for models, splints, night guards, surgical...
A Robot Is Helping an Ailing Couple Stay in Their Home. Are More to Come for an Aging Population?
A University of New Hampshire lab deployed a $30,000 Stretch 4 robot, nicknamed Robbie, to assist Brenda and Brian Marquis, a couple coping with traumatic brain injury and dementia. The robot delivers exercise videos, medication reminders, meal prompts, and even hands...
India Achieves AI Breakthrough in Cancer Care with Mask-Free, Simulationless Radiotherapy
Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital in India successfully treated a head‑and‑neck cancer patient using a mask‑free, simulation‑less radiotherapy protocol that combines Surface Guided Radiotherapy (SGRT) and adaptive radiotherapy. The approach eliminated the need for immobilisation masks and simulation CT scans,...
Virtual Care in America: The Populus Report
The Populus Report defines virtual care as any digital environment where patients and providers exchange clinical attention, positioning telehealth as a subset. Survey data from over 1,250 patients, providers, and pharma marketers shows virtual care accelerates access, with 76% of...
Healthcare CIOs Should Take Note Of Copilot Health
Microsoft has lifted Copilot Health from private testing to a public preview, positioning it as a consumer‑facing tool that integrates wearable data, Apple Health, and health records from more than 50,000 U.S. provider organizations. The AI‑driven platform answers over 50 million...
Passive Heart-Rate Monitoring During Smartphone Use in Everyday Life
Researchers unveiled a smartphone‑based deep‑learning system, PHRM, that passively measures heart rate and daily resting heart rate during routine phone use. The platform was validated on over 162,000 videos from diverse participants, meeting industry accuracy standards with mean absolute percentage...
Dual PET Imaging Detects Tumor Progression and Heart Inflammation During Cancer Treatment
Researchers unveiled a dual PET imaging method that simultaneously visualizes tumor growth and cardiac inflammation using a CCR2‑targeted radiotracer, 64Cu‑DOTA‑ECL1i. In mouse models, checkpoint inhibitor therapy slowed tumors but heightened cardiac CCR2 signals, while adding the JAK1 inhibitor itacitinib improved...
AI Shows How Your Brain Cleans Out Harmful Waste
Researchers at the University of Rochester have paired magnetic resonance imaging with physics‑informed artificial intelligence to quantify the velocity of glymphatic fluid flow in the brain. The AI model, trained on dye‑diffusion videos, extracts flow speeds from MRI data, revealing...
Pocket-Sized Device Rivals Bulky Lab Machinery in Disease and Environmental Testing
Micronix Co., Ltd. has launched POTA, a pocket‑sized spectrophotometer that matches the performance of traditional lab‑grade instruments. The device, developed at Kumamoto University, uses a novel tapered spatial filter to suppress stray light, allowing a simple LED and color sensor...
Real-World Predictors of Survival and Response in Advanced Melanoma
Immunotherapy has transformed advanced melanoma care, yet many patients fail first‑line treatment. Researchers applied machine‑learning to a large, real‑world electronic health record database to build interpretable models for overall survival, progression‑free survival, and response. ECOG performance status, PD‑L1‑based first‑line therapy,...
Enhanced Diagnostic Value of Deep-Inspiration Breath-Hold Total-Body PET/CT Imaging for Upper Abdominal Lesions Compared to Free-Breathing
Researchers evaluated a 30‑second deep‑inspiration breath‑hold (DIBH) protocol on a total‑body PET (TB‑PET) scanner against standard free‑breathing (FB) PET/CT for upper‑abdominal lesions. In 116 participants, DIBH‑30s scans reduced PET/CT misregistration and achieved a 98.2% detection sensitivity, surpassing the 91.8% of...
Transforming Pathology at Scale: NYU Langone’s Achievement of a Fully Digital Workflow in One Year to Accelerate Diagnosis, Collaboration, and...
NYU Langone Health completed a hospital‑wide transition to a fully digital pathology workflow in just one year, scanning every glass slide into a centralized image repository. The initiative slashed average diagnostic turnaround from roughly 48 hours to 30 hours and...
New AI Approach Aims to Predict Radiation Dose Before Therapy in Advanced Prostate Cancer
Researchers presented a machine‑learning model that predicts absorbed radiation dose for ⁷⁷Lu‑PSMA therapy using pre‑therapy ¹⁸F‑PSMA PET/CT scans in metastatic castration‑resistant prostate cancer. The proof‑of‑concept study involved nine patients, analyzing 57 tumors, 36 salivary glands and 18 kidneys, and demonstrated...
AI Repurposes Routine Chest X-Rays to Catch Silent Bone Loss Before Fracture
Researchers at St. Paul’s Hospital and National Taiwan University have shown that artificial intelligence can analyze routine chest X‑rays to identify silent osteoporosis, a condition often missed by standard screening. The study, published in npj Digital Medicine, found that more than...
Therapy App Boosts College Student Mental Health
A study of 6,200 university students found that a smartphone app delivering cognitive‑behavioral therapy, combined with text‑message coaching, significantly reduced symptoms of depression, anxiety and eating disorders compared with standard referral to campus counseling. The benefits persisted at six weeks,...
AI-Powered Blood Test Could Transform Dementia Diagnosis
Researchers at Washington University have created an AI‑driven blood test that distinguishes Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy‑body dementia and normal aging with over 90% accuracy. The classifier analyzes 15 protein biomarkers from a simple blood draw and can detect mixed‑pathology...
How Same Day Dental Crowns Restore Damaged Teeth Quickly
Same‑day dental crowns, enabled by CAD/CAM technology, let dentists scan, design, mill, and place a permanent ceramic crown in a single 2‑3‑hour appointment. Traditional workflows required temporary crowns, multiple visits, and a 2‑3‑week wait, with temporary‑crown failures affecting about 15%...
Approaching Gold‐Standard Sensitivity in a Portable and Versatile Gold Nanoprisms Thermoplasmonic Platform for Lateral Flow Detection of Biomolecules
The study introduces a thermoplasmonic lateral flow assay that leverages gold nanoprisms activated by near‑infrared laser to deliver ultrasensitive detection of biomarkers and viral RNA. ThermoLFIA achieved clinically relevant detection of gastrointestinal cancer markers, surpassing traditional ELISA performance. ThermoOLFA detected...
HeartFocus Link Adds AI Cardiac Imaging to Any Hospital Ultrasound Machine with a Tablet and an HDMI Cable
DESKi has launched HeartFocus Link, an FDA‑cleared AI‑guided cardiac imaging solution that turns any cart‑based ultrasound system into an intelligent scanner using a tablet and HDMI connection. The software overlays real‑time probe‑positioning cues for ten standard transthoracic views and adds Auto...
Cryoprobe Improves Diagnostic Accuracy in Transbronchial Lung Biopsies
The FROSTBITE‑2 randomized trial published in JAMA found that a 1.1‑mm cryoprobe achieved an 88.6% diagnostic yield in transbronchial lung biopsies, compared with 78.8% using standard 2.0‑mm forceps. The advantage was most pronounced for pulmonary nodules or masses, where yield...
HIMSSCast: Leaders Beyond CFOs Are Making Investment Decisions in AI
Qventus released its second annual CIO report, revealing that 45% of chief information officers are now the primary decision‑makers for AI purchases in health systems. The report emphasizes treating AI as core infrastructure rather than a standalone innovation to unlock...
How the Military Health System Is Reimagining Health IT From the Battlefield to the Exam Room
The Military Health System (MHS) is overhauling its health‑IT architecture, centering on the MHS Genesis electronic health record that also powers the VA’s system. By linking the Health Information Exchange, AI‑driven tools like ambient listening, and battlefield platforms such as...
Grady Health System Goes Live with Sectra Amplifier Services to Enable Smooth Implementation of AI—Enhancing Diagnostic Workflows Across Sites
Grady Health System, one of the largest U.S. safety‑net providers, has gone live with Sectra Amplifier Services, a cloud‑based AI‑as‑a‑Service platform that streamlines deployment of diagnostic algorithms. The rollout includes Avicenna.ai’s CINA Chest and Therapixel’s Mammoscreen, enabling faster, more accurate...
Illumina Announces MRD Kit Ahead of ASCO Meeting
Illumina announced a molecular residual disease (MRD) kit ahead of the ASCO meeting, offering solid‑tumor and blood‑cancer genomic profiling on NovaSeq systems. The kit delivers whole‑genome sequencing sensitivity down to 10 ppm and 99.5% analytical specificity, with an end‑to‑end workflow completed...
Which Virtual Assistant Delivers for Medical Offices? Key Features and Leaders
Medical offices are turning to virtual assistant services to offset staffing shortages and streamline administrative tasks such as scheduling, billing, and patient communication. Providers like My Mountain Mover, Hello Rache, CareXM, Phoenix Virtual Solutions, and MedVA each emphasize HIPAA‑trained staff...
ŌURA Launches Oura Ring 5: Embedding Live Blood Pressure Signals and GLP-1 Tracking Into Wearable Tech
Oura has launched the Oura Ring 5, a smart ring that is 40% smaller than its predecessor and priced from $399. The device adds a Health Radar suite that continuously tracks blood‑pressure signals, nighttime dipping, and a 30‑day rolling respiratory...
How AI Can Be Employed in Emergency Response
Jeremy Renner highlighted the role of AI‑driven real‑time data in modern emergency response. RapidSOS CEO Michael Martin explained how wearables, connected vehicles and IoT sensors feed AI models that can predict incident severity and route responders faster. The company claims...
Ambience Healthcare Launches Chart-Aware Inpatient AI Suite to Resolve 91% of Documentation Gaps
Ambience Healthcare has expanded its chart‑aware AI across the inpatient workflow, embedding deep EHR reasoning into progress notes, H&P notes, and discharge summaries. Internal data show that 70% of clinically important inpatient diagnoses are invisible to audio‑only transcription, prompting the...
UK and France Begin AI Collaboration for Medical Research
At the G7 Digital and Technology Ministerial Summit in Paris, the UK and France launched the UK‑France Strategic Biomedical Alliance in Health and AI, a joint effort to accelerate AI‑driven imaging research for women’s health. The partnership pools the University...
AMA: Healthcare GenMat: Generative Design for Patient-Specific Orthopedic Implants
GenMat’s Ossevo platform introduces a bio‑inspired design workflow that mimics bone’s natural remodeling to create patient‑specific orthopedic implants. By using a hybrid cellular automata algorithm, the system generates graded lattice structures whose geometry varies with local mechanical stimulus, aiming to...
AMA: Healthcare Printed to Fit: Carnegie University and the Rise of Personalized Medicine Through 3D Technology
3D printing is moving from engineering labs into everyday clinical practice, driven by innovators like Rand Kittani, founder of CIM3D at Carle Illinois. The lab has delivered patient‑specific solutions such as orbital‑fracture surgical guides, low‑cost breast prostheses, and custom orthopedic...
Australia Sets Out National Framework for Digital Health Standards
The Australian Digital Health Agency released a National Framework for Digital Health Standards to unify interoperability, governance and AI‑ready terminology across the health sector. The framework builds on the 2023‑2028 Digital Health Strategy, mandates HL7 FHIR adoption, and introduces a...
AI, AVT, and VR Among Digital Supporting Patient Journeys at South West London and St George’s Mental Health
South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is piloting ambient voice technology to automate administrative work and using virtual reality (VR) as a therapeutic tool for children and young people with anxiety, school avoidance, and psychosis. The...
Murang’a County Expands Healthcare Access with Paratus and Starlink
Murang’a County has launched Kenya’s largest public digital health initiative, linking 170 public facilities to a telemedicine hub powered by Paratus Kenya and Starlink satellite connectivity. The system provides specialist consultations, digital health reporting, and rapid lab result sharing for...
Immunai, AstraZeneca Expand Partnership, Rancho Biosciences Releases Multi-Omics Datasets, Dotmatics AI Co-Scientist
Immunai is expanding its partnership with AstraZeneca, securing up to $37.5 million for 2026‑27 to apply its AMICA‑OS AI platform to oncology drug development. Rancho BioSciences launched OmicsHQ, a curated catalog of over 1,000 single‑cell multi‑omics datasets aimed at accelerating AI‑driven...
How APAC Should Deploy AI to Find Hidden Lung Cancers
AI is moving from pilot projects to routine use in several APAC markets, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, as health systems grapple with limited CT capacity and radiology shortages. Qure.ai’s chief medical officer highlights that one‑third of lung‑cancer...
$2M NIH Award Spurs Development of Advanced Ultrasound Technique
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have secured a roughly $1.7 million NIH grant to advance ultrasound imaging that can see deep‑tissue blood vessels. Over the next four years the team will fuse ultrasound with external light and engineered...
A Virtual Reality Navigation Test Predicts Alzheimer’s Risk in Healthy Adults
Researchers at Fujita Health University gave 71 cognitively normal adults a virtual‑reality path‑integration task and tracked brain changes with MRI over a year. Larger distance and angular errors predicted faster cortical thinning in the parahippocampal gyrus and posterior cingulate, regions...
Siemens Healthineers, AiM Team up; Procept Completes Study Enrollment
Siemens Healthineers and AiM Medical Robotics announced a collaboration to integrate AiM’s portable robotic neurosurgery platform with Siemens’ Magnetom MRI scanners, enabling MRI‑guided procedures such as deep‑brain stimulation and tumor ablation. AiM, which raised $8.1 million in a Series A round last...
Nanotube-Coated Catheter Could Detect Bladder Cancer Biomarker 50,000 Times More Sensitively
MIT researchers have created a catheter coated with carbon‑nanotube nanosensors that can detect the bladder‑cancer biomarker NMP‑22 up to 50,000 times more sensitively than standard urinalysis. In animal models the sensor produced fluorescent chemical images that pinpointed tumors as small...
Beyond the EHR: Why One CIO Believes AI Will Dwarf Every Prior Health IT Shift
Children’s Minnesota CIO Dave Lundal says the health‑care sector is entering a third, AI‑driven era that will dwarf the two previous waves of hospital information systems and electronic health records. He argues AI’s speed and breadth will reshape clinical, operational...
Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care
Headway, a leading online therapy platform, announced that all clients seeking medication management and all providers must complete a facial biometric scan using third‑party vendor Persona. The requirement, rolled out in waves, offers no opt‑out other than leaving the service,...