1+ hour, 3+ min ago   (703+ words) EHRs took off in the 2000s, and there have been calls for a better user experience ever since. Despite significant advances, healthcare personnel still spend hours a day toggling between screens, reentering data the system already has, waiting for clearance from…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (353+ words) GenHealth.ai, a health tech company building AI for administrative tasks, announced Tuesday that it raised $16.5 million in Series A funding. The startup launched in 2023 and supports medical practices. It offers AI agents for the medical back office, handling tasks…...

3+ day, 42+ min ago   (590+ words) The same mechanics can now help people meet new Medicaid work requirements or exemptions, increase referrals to evidence-based health interventions, and dramatically increase enrollment in vital programs that improve health outcomes and reduce inequities. At the same time, many health…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (102+ words) A new report from MedCity News and Cotiviti on AI readiness offers insights and candid perspectives from 70 healthcare executives at payers and providers, surveyed in the summer of 2026. A webinar scheduled for September 30 from 1pm to 2pm ET will review the 2026 Healthcare…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (165+ words) Patient trust, physician credibility, and payer goodwill are not soft considerations alongside the balance sheet; they are the mechanism by which a pharmaceutical product generates revenue over time. What if health plans could identify member decline before an avoidable hospitalization…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (665+ words) LEP Biomedical is developing a dissolvable implant that replaces weeks of self-administered eye drops after glaucoma surgery, aiming to fix the compliance problems that drive surgical failure rates as high as 40%. For glaucoma patients, the most difficult part of treatment…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (187+ words) The 2026 Healthcare AI Readiness Index, a new report by Cotiviti and MedCity News, is based on a survey of 70 healthcare leaders over the summer and shares candid views of how they balance harnessing AI with operational, regulatory and security challenges…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (447+ words) The House VA Committee voted 19-0 to subpoena Oracle Health executives Larry Ellison and Mike Sicilia after learning the VA's EHR contract ballooned from $10 billion to $27 billion — despite Oracle's promise to Congress that it would absorb any costs beyond the original…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (245+ words) A roundup of the seven most notable hospital mergers and acquisitions announced or completed this summer, including Prisma Health’s acquisition of Erlanger Health and Sanford Health’s purchase of North Memorial Health Summer brought no slowdown in M&A in the…...