healthcare innovation

Eye telemedicine hits limits without home retinal imaging

A video platform gets an eye clinic to its first tier of telehealth patients. Patients who need regular OCT scans stay out of reach until a camera is in their

Julia Rehman on who owns healthcare AI decisions

Learn how healthcare leaders can integrate AI effectively with governance, human judgment, and frontline staff engagement.

Dr. Dana Rosencranz - Cancer Survivor and Chief Medical Physicist

Chief Medical Physicist at Texas Oncology combines breast cancer survivor insights with expertise in AI integration and personalized cancer treatment.

CMS Sets $90-$420 Per-Patient Payments for Chronic Care Tech

CMS's ACCESS model pays $90 to $420 per Medicare beneficiary yearly for tech-supported chronic care, tied to outcomes, HFMA reported.

MRI segmentation models can now label 80 structures, but deployment is the hard part

Open-source MRI segmentation models can segment up to 80 structures. For imaging and oncology ops, deployment is the hard part.

ADHA shifts My Health Record to multi-supplier ops as Accenture signs new 3-year contract

Australia’s ADHA is moving My Health Record to a multi-supplier operating model as Accenture continues support under a new three-year contract. In the same week

MD&M West 2026 exhibitors pitch audit-ready, AI-ready device platforms

MD&M West exhibitors are pitching AI-ready computing, test capacity, and cleanroom throughput as the new schedule risk in medtech programs.

Cleveland Clinic's 900-person AI summit signals a new buying cycle for patient routing systems

Cleveland Clinic's AI Summit, plus its $50M "Digital Front Door" initiative, is pushing AI from pilots into patient routing and access systems.

Epic is turning its EHR into an AI command center, and CIO plans just got tighter

UGM 2026 put Epic’s agent tools, Cosmos data scale, and new APIs on a faster release track. For health system IT, the decision is shifting from pilots to platfo

Epic’s MyChart phishing wave is pushing patient-access teams to treat portal identity as a security perimeter

Hospitals are warning patients about MyChart impersonation scams as CMS keeps pressing industry-led interoperability pledges. Portal identity is becoming an ope

Hinge Health's $105M acquisition of Cylinder signals a new era of digital-first, whole-person care platforms

Hinge Health is buying GI-focused Cylinder Health for $105M, while health systems and AI vendors push deeper into clinical decision support and cybersecurity re

Hackensack Meridian Health becomes first U.S. system to earn Joint Commission AI certification as hospitals race to prove responsible deployment

Hackensack Meridian Health's landmark AI certification signals that governance and safety frameworks are now the real bottleneck for enterprise health systems s

A Physician Entrepreneur's Journey in Specialty Care Expansion - Dr. Joe Pazona, CEO of VirtuCare

"Biotech in the Balance" - Dr. Jeremy Levin, Chairperson of Ovid Therapeutics

Dr. Jeremy Levin on restoring biotech industry trust through transparency, navigating drug pricing complexity, and competing with China's biotech priorities.

AI Shouldn't Replace Physicists - It Should Give Them Time Back

TheraPanacea was founded in 2017 as a spin-off from the mathematics and computer science department at Paris Leclerc University. Led by CEO and founder Nico Asperagus, a mathematician by training, the company has built an AI platform designed to address efficiency, quality, and standardization acros

CMS centralizes health tech authority in new office covering AI, interoperability, and claims modernization

CMS's new Office of Health Technology and Products takes on 90+ responsibilities, signaling a major shift in who leads federal health IT strategy.

Digital health AI investment hits $7.4B in H1 2026 as CMS, hospitals, and startups all accelerate adoption

From a new CMS technology office to a $1.7B cancer-tech acquisition, the first half of 2026 shows enterprise-scale commitment to healthcare AI.

AI agents for patient care draw $335 million in a single month as health tech investment accelerates

Four health tech companies closed major funding rounds in June 2026, with AI agent platforms for scheduling, chronic care, and home health leading the pack.

The Future of Healthcare Is Already Here: Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge on Virtual Care, AI, and Access

Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge explains how virtual primary care solves access barriers beyond rural areas, and the right role for AI as a clinical reference tool, not…

How Lived Experience Drives One's Clinical Practice Leadership - Patrick Makarewich, UTSouthwestern

IQVIA's new white paper maps how digital health technologies can reshape CNS clinical trial endpoints

IQVIA's July 2026 white paper offers a practical framework for validating digital endpoints in CNS trials, covering sensors, software, and connected devices.

Healthcare's first big AI use is a pressure valve, not a moonshot

AI tools are accelerating diagnosis, cutting admin costs, and acting as longitudinal companions for patients navigating complex care journeys.

Healthcare's first big AI use is a pressure valve, not a moonshot

From AI scribes to LLM companions, healthcare's AI adoption is moving from pilot to standard practice across clinical and administrative workflows.

Growing Without Compromise: How Vision Radiology Balances Scale, AI, and Clinical Quality

Radiology sits at the center of a modern healthcare squeeze: imaging volumes are climbing, hospitals need faster reads, and there simply are not enough radiologists to meet demand the old way. At the same time, remote work and AI are reshaping what a clinical practice can look like. The challenge is no longer whether…

Introducing The Scopewell Podcast

James Leuthe launches The Scopewell Podcast to surface real healthcare conversations and bring the best thinking out of the room.

A Physician Entrepreneur’s Playbook for Fixing America’s Specialty Care Gap

The U.S. healthcare system is facing a quiet but accelerating crisis: a widening gap between where specialists are needed and where they actually practice. In urology alone, there are roughly 1,100 open positions but only about 400 new specialists trained each year—a mismatch that’s only getting worse. As physician burnout rises and more clinicians…

Policy, AI, and New Funding Models Are Reshaping Mental Health Care Delivery

Mental health care isn’t a new problem—but it’s finally being treated like an urgent one. After years of being sidelined, the cracks in the system are becoming impossible to ignore: overstretched clinicians, long wait times, and entire communities without consistent access to care. In the U.S., the scale is striking—more than one in five…

The Legacy of Dr. G. Duncan Finlay – Episode 6

The Rothman Index, developed by Dr. Michael Rothman and his brother Steven, is a pioneering patient acuity score designed to help clinicians recognize patient deterioration earlier and more clearly. Presented as an easily understood, color-coded graph that updates in real time, the Index displays upward and downward trends in patient condition at a glance—transforming…

Why Does Benchmark’s Work Matter, and What’s it Like Being Part of it

Working behind the scenes of pharmaceutical manufacturing may not always be visible to patients, but it is foundational to every breakthrough therapy that reaches them. At Benchmark Products, the work matters because it supports the precision, efficiency, and reliability life sciences companies need to turn complex science into scalable, life-saving treatments. Being part of…

Company Overview and Mission

In this inaugural episode of Vantiva Voices, host Jim Conti sits down with industry leaders to explore how connected technology is reshaping home healthcare, aging-in-place solutions, and the patient experience. From intelligent devices and data-driven insights to the power of connectivity itself, Vantiva is leading the charge in making care more personal, proactive, and…