Penn Medicine is integrating K Health’s AI-powered patient intake agents into its virtual primary care service, testing whether an AI ‘team member’ in the patient-provider relationship improves outcomes….
Patient-authored messages to providers have surged 153% since the COVID-19 pandemic, and a new JAMA study using Epic data finds the increase did not reduce telehealth or in-person…
Top U.S. health system executives say affordability and cost pressure now sit at the center of nearly every strategic decision. In a Chief Healthcare Executive roundtable, leaders including…
Frazier Healthcare Partners has agreed to acquire MatrixCare, the post-acute EHR platform serving hospice, home health, skilled nursing and senior living providers, from Resmed — a carve-out reported…
CMS is proposing a 2.4% increase in outpatient and ambulatory surgical center payments for 2027, alongside a cut to the 340B drug discount and a broader push toward…
Dental care demand is resilient—Americans spent $189 billion in 2024, tied for the highest annual total this century—but delivery margins are the tightest in years, a dynamic the…
ChartSpan has acquired Validic, combining ChartSpan’s care management services with Validic’s device-data infrastructure to create a single remote care management platform. The combined company will operate under the…
Commercial healthcare costs are projected to rise 9% in 2027, the highest medical cost trend in nearly two decades, as health plans cite AI-powered documentation and coding tools…
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…
Physician group private equity deal volume fell from 28% of global provider transactions in 2021 to 23% in 2025, per Bain & Company’s 2026 Global Healthcare Private Equity…
