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The between a code that satisfies a payer and the information a physician needs to treat a person, is what nearly every healthcare AI tool is racing past. As we push these systems toward precision medicine and genomics, that gap stops being an annoyance and becomes a patient safety issue. The post The Code Gets You Paid — The Variant Gets You Treated appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →[Sponsored] A new whitepaper by League highlights examples from collaborations with Baptist Health. The post Moving Beyond Reactive Healthcare: 5 Traits of Successful Healthcare Organizations appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →Doctronic acquired Summer Health to expand into pediatric care and strengthen its AI-powered primary care platform. The post Doctronic Acquires Summer Health to Expand into Pediatric Primary Care appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →With the merger, Processa’s new lead asset is a Vidya Therapeutics immunology drug that offers pipeline-in-a-product potential addressing a target that has clinical and regulatory validation from a recently approved Novartis drug. Vidya’s molecule is a next-generation drug that could have advantages over Novartis’s pill. The post Processa Acquisition Lands Immunology Drug That Could Rival a New Novartis Product appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →A survey of 112 health system executives finds that Epic’s hold on hospital IT keeps getting stronger — but startups still have a shot, provided they solve a specific problem, prove strong ROI or offer a product that Epic is lagging behind on. The post Epic-First Doesn’t Mean Epic-Only: Where Hospitals Are Still Buying from Startups appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →While acknowledging that changes must be made to the hospice industry, health policy researchers and providers worry that negative attention and the potential for overly punitive regulations could put patients at risk.
Read full article →Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants. AHRQ hasn’t issued a new one in over a year.
Read full article →When surgery became unavoidable, a man with no insurance shopped around for the best price for a hernia repair — and saved thousands by traveling out of state.
Read full article →CMS’s new framework sounds like a gentle opt-in. There’s no requirement to meet every standard on day one, just a commitment to work toward doing the right thing. That sounds great. But to actually participate in the network, you have to meet a baseline level of interoperability. The post A New Era of Interoperability, But Who Gets Left Behind? appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →The most common and most expensive misunderstanding in healthcare cloud strategy is treating the cloud as a destination you either reach or you do not, when it is really a progression through five distinct stages, each one unlocking capabilities the stage before it could not support. The post The Healthcare Cloud Maturity Model: The Five Stages Most Health Systems Skip appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →Throne Science — a startup selling an AI-powered toilet camera that tracks gut health, hydration and urinary function — closed a $10 million Series A funding round. CEO Scott Hickle said the goal is to become a “smoke detector for colorectal cancer,” filling a monitoring gap he noted the wearables industry has largely ignored. The post Smart Toilet Sensor Startup Is Flush with $10M Funding appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →Included Health announced plans to acquire Firefly Health to accelerate its alternative health plan strategy for employers. The post Included Health to Acquire Firefly Health to Expand Alternative Health Plan Offering for Employers appeared first on MedCity News .
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