Six U.S. health systems—including IU Health, UnityPoint Health, and Stamford Health—moved revenue cycle functions to outside vendors in the first half of 2026, signaling that RCM outsourcing has…
Dental M&A in 2026 has moved from “growth at any cost” to operational discipline, according to new data from TUSK Practice Sales. Although 69% of DSOs plan to…
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…
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…
Ambulatory surgery center M&A remains active in 2026, with private equity and health systems both accelerating acquisition pace. Tenet Healthcare’s USPI deployed $125 million in Q1 2026 alone…
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…
The FTC approved Ascension’s $3.9 billion acquisition of AmSurg, the nation’s largest independent ambulatory surgery center operator, under a consent order issued June 2, 2026. To preserve competition,…
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…
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…
Systematic value creation planning has become a non-negotiable discipline for PE-backed healthcare companies. Dan Cremons, a former private equity investor and CEO-turned-advisor, argues that the old PE playbook…
