healthcare technology

Blair Health raises CAD $4.24M to expand its LLM-guided specialty care workflows

Blair Health raised CAD $4.24 million in pre-seed funding to expand across Canada and the U.S.

Dr. Sotirios Stathakis: A TheraPanacea Customer Interview

Dr. Stathakis explains how Mary Bird Perkins adopted TheraPanacea's AI tools to streamline cancer treatment planning and improve operational efficiency.

OpenAI Links ChatGPT to Epic EHRs, Adds Health Data Plugin

OpenAI has connected ChatGPT for Healthcare to Epic EHRs and launched a plugin linking clinicians to nine public healthcare data sources.

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

OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Healthcare is getting wired into Epic

OpenAI’s Epic integration is read-only, supports in-chart workflows, and ships with audit logs and RBAC. The operational work is permissions, connectors, and va

The EU’s MDR delay buys time, but it won’t clear your commissioning bottleneck

The MDR timeline extension shifts EU medtech planning out to 2027–2028. The next constraint is how fast teams can validate and ramp automated lines without “pow

How Targeted Patient Education Improves Outcomes - Stephen Page, SmarterHealth.AI

Learn how targeted patient and provider education with AI can reduce preventable readmissions, improve health equity, and drive measurable clinical and…

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.

Real-time radiation dose tracking is moving from badges to live dashboards in procedure rooms

Radiation Detection Company’s Radiant updates dose every 0.2 seconds, while GE HealthCare pushes browser-based imaging access, changing how hospitals govern rad

Microsoft’s 60% Dragon Copilot discount forces a new way to measure digital health ROI

As Microsoft and Pivot Point push Dragon Copilot into rural hospitals, Europe’s EDiHTA work shows why buyers now need a repeatable way to price evidence.

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

Ambient AI is moving from clinician productivity to consent and revenue-cycle controls

Two August 2026 reads, one operational signal: ambient documentation is spreading fast, and hospitals now have to govern microphones and models like any other c

Connected Across Texas - Leah Barton

Learn about Harris County Public Health's Harris Collaborative and how it connects health initiatives across Texas from leader Leah Barton.

Medicare's ACCESS pilot is live, but patients can't find which providers offer it

CMS launched its tech-enabled chronic care pilot and the FDA's AI device authorizations hit 115 in 2021, yet a critical gap remains: patients don't know where t

Health systems are spending big on EHRs and AI while governance gaps widen

Epic projects running into nine figures, AI reimbursement still unresolved, and most hospitals without dedicated AI testing platforms shape today's health IT landscape.

Health IT spending, AI gaps, and Epic price tags signal a volatile 2026 for hospital CIOs

Children's Minnesota's $175M Epic transition, AI testing gaps, and CIO career moves highlight the operational pressures facing hospital IT in 2026.

AI scribes and startup pipelines are reshaping how health systems and tech investors evaluate AI in 2026

From patient consent debates over AI scribes to Y Combinator's AI-first startup thesis, the pressure on enterprise health and tech operators is intensifying.

CMS marks one year of its Health Tech Ecosystem with eight new pledge categories and a "RIP Clipboard" moment

CMS celebrated the one-year anniversary of its voluntary Health Tech Ecosystem at HHS headquarters, announcing eight new pledge categories to advance data inter

AI is compressing drug discovery timelines from years to months, and clinical operators need to prepare now

From AI-designed viruses to 18-month drug trials, generative AI is restructuring healthcare's pipeline, and the AI-informed patient is arriving at the clinic f

Siemens Healthineers and Cleveland Clinic sign a 10-year alliance as ambient AI reshapes the EHR debate

A decade-long Siemens Healthineers–Cleveland Clinic deal and competing visions for ambient AI in the EHR signal a new era of enterprise health system transforma

FDA-authorized digital medical devices have grown substantially over two decades, but regulatory databases still can't track them

A Nature study finds digital device authorizations have surged over 20 years, yet FDA databases still can't identify which devices have software inside.

Rebuilding Medicine Around Presence: The Future of Physician House Calls with Dr. Yevhen Pavelko, Founder of Inviah Health

Dr. Pavelko's Inviah Health uses mobile technology to enable in-person physician visits, addressing wait times and burnout while strengthening care.

OpenEvidence expands clinical AI across NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia, and Weill Cornell as Linux Foundation targets open-source health stack

Healthcare IT's week in review: clinical AI deployments scale across NYC, Delaware broadens HIE access, and an open-source health foundation launches.

Healthcare's digital skills gap: why existing competency tools aren't built for the full workforce

Two reviews expose a critical gap in how health systems measure and build digital competence across clinical and public health teams.

St. Kitts and Nevis launches national digital health platform covering 51,000 citizens

The NDHIS platform integrates EHRs, AI decision support, and health information exchange across St. Kitts and Nevis's entire healthcare ecosystem.

Clinical AI at a crossroads: skill decay, robotic surgery, and the wearable data frontier

Three converging developments are forcing health system operators to rethink how AI is deployed, governed, and evaluated across clinical settings.

From Chaos to Control: Dr. Mo Canellas on AI, Emergency Medicine & Why Most “AI Companies” Fake It

Dr. Maureen "Mo" Canellas wears a lot of hats. She is the associate chief medical officer at UMass Memorial Medical Center, a researcher in machine learning and health care operations, a faculty collaborator at MIT, and a longtime contributor to the Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance. But th

Clinical AI safety, intelligent ventilators, and payment accuracy: health tech's big moves on July 15

Five major health technology announcements dropped July 15, signaling that AI safety benchmarks, autonomous front-office tools, and smarter critical-care hardwa