HHS Unveils $700M in Behavioral Health and Addiction Funding
HHS will direct more than $700 million in new federal funding toward behavioral health and addiction treatment, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced June 17, 2026. The package…
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Healthcare Call Center Benchmarks 2026: Converting Cost Centers into Revenue Engines
Healthcare call centers are losing 14% of daily revenue to patient no-shows and missing up to 40% of calls during peak hours — performance gaps that compound across…
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JAMA Study: Ambient AI Scribes Boost RVUs 5.8% — The Real ROI Is Physician Retention
Ambient AI scribes at health systems generate measurable financial returns: a peer-reviewed JAMA Network Open study examining 1.2 million ambulatory encounters found access to an ambient AI scribe…
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Dental Intelligence Engagement Suite Integrates With Denticon to Automate DSO Patient Communication
Dental support organizations using the Denticon practice management system can now access Dental Intelligence’s full Engagement Suite through a native integration, eliminating manual data syncs between the two…
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Microsoft and Mayo Clinic to Build a Frontier AI Model Owned by Healthcare
Microsoft and Mayo Clinic announced a strategic collaboration to develop a frontier AI model specifically designed for clinical reasoning and healthcare use cases. The partnership combines Mayo Clinic’s…
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Wolters Kluwer 2026 AI Survey: Clinician Adoption Triples, but Trust Gap Widens
Wolters Kluwer’s 2026 Future Ready Healthcare Survey—355 clinicians and 254 patients polled by Ipsos in March—reveals AI adoption surging while governance awareness lags sharply. Physician AI use tripled…
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Anthropic Expands AI Cybersecurity Program to Include Healthcare Organizations
Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing — its AI-powered cybersecurity initiative — to 150 additional organizations, adding healthcare to the program for the first time. The program uses Claude…
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The Healthcare Call Center Metrics That Predict Revenue: 2026 Benchmarks
Healthcare practices running below a 55% new patient conversion rate lose $270,000–$500,000 annually in preventable revenue, according to Patient Prism’s analysis of 12.5 million patient interactions across dental,…
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Therapist Enablement Platforms Win Providers — But Autonomy Pays the Price
Small independent therapists are increasingly joining enablement platforms like Headway and Alma under payer pressure, trading autonomy for administrative relief. These platforms handle credentialing, payer contracting, and billing…
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10 Data Points Revealing the Widening DSO Performance Gap in 2026
Planet DDS’s “2026 Dental Industry Outlook: Deep Dive” analyzed more than 8,500 dental practices and found a deepening divide: one-third grew by more than 10% last year, while…