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Healthcare performance improvement company Vizient released its Summer 2026 Spend Management Outlook, projecting an overall supply chain, capital, and purchased services price inflation rate of 3.39% for 2027.Indirect spend and purchased services represent the highest growth category at 4.73% projected inflation, heavily driven by investments in IT hardware and software (6.29%), IT security (8.50%), construction (4.70%), and non-medical capital equipment (4.15%).Total
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Wolters Kluwer Health Partners with Epic to Deliver Integrated Clinical Content Solutions
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Wolters Kluwer Health has collaborated with Epic to offer an integrated suite combining UpToDate Lexidrug, Medi-Span, and UpToDate Patient Education directly within Epic EHR workflows.The combined offering targets safety-net institutions facing budget and resource constraints, including rural hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), state hospitals, tribal healthcare organizations, and small ambulatory practices.The integrated bundle consolidates three
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WellSpan Health and Hippocratic AI Form Multi-Year Co-Development Partnership for Voice AI Agents
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WellSpan Health expanded its multi-year partnership with Hippocratic AI, transitioning from single use cases to a platform-wide deployment across inbound, outbound, ambulatory, and inpatient settings.The health system currently operates "Ana," a generative AI voice agent handling over 160,000 monthly patient calls and 7,000 conversational hours for appointment management and digital access queries.New workflow expansions will focus on proactive outbound care gap closures,
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Akido Unveils First AI-Native Health System Powered by ScopeAI
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Akido announced the expansion of its proprietary ScopeAI technology across 100 clinics, virtual care operations, and field medicine services, serving 1 million patients across California, New York City, and Rhode Island.The company dropped "Labs" from its corporate name to become Akido and debuted "Akido Medical" as the brand for its AI-native physical and digital clinics.ScopeAI operates during visits by organizing real-time clinical pictures and providing diagnostic
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ThinkSono Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for First AI-Powered DVT Ultrasound Software
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Medical AI developer ThinkSono has secured FDA 510(k) clearance for ThinkSono Guidance, the first AI-powered ultrasound guidance software cleared in the U.S. for evaluating suspected lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT).Operating via a mobile app connected to compatible Clarius handheld point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) scanners, the system enables non-ultrasound-trained healthcare staff to capture clinical-grade vascular compression cine-loops after 60 to 90 minutes
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Caristo Diagnostics Receives FDA De Novo Authorization for CaRi-Heart AI Platform
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Oxford spin-out Caristo Diagnostics has secured FDA De Novo authorization for CaRi-Heart®, making it the first and only technology authorized in the U.S. to quantify coronary inflammation from routine Coronary CT Angiography (CCTA).CaRi-Heart uses advanced AI to analyze inflammation-driven changes in the pericoronary adipose tissue, generating a Fat Attenuation Index Score (FAI-Score™) and a 10-year personalized cardiovascular mortality risk estimate.The FDA clearance
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Counsel Health Launches Counsel Studio to Bring Physician-Supervised Medical AI to Enterprise Apps
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Counsel Health launched Counsel Studio, a white-label deployment platform allowing health plans, health systems, and consumer health apps to embed AI-enabled, physician-supervised primary care directly into existing digital interfaces.The platform powers virtual care capabilities for partners like ŌURA, enabling Oura Members to transition from biometric health insights to direct physician consultations within the Oura App.Enterprise deployment supports flexible
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Sheba Medical Center Partners with OpenAI in First International ChatGPT for Healthcare Deployment
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Israel’s Sheba Medical Center (ranked among Newsweek's World's Best Hospitals for 8 consecutive years) has entered an official partnership with OpenAI to execute the first global, hospital-wide rollout of ChatGPT for Healthcare.Gives physicians, nurses, researchers, and operational staff access to generative AI models pre-calibrated to synthesize peer-reviewed medical literature, clinical guidelines, and internal hospital protocols with full, verifiable citations.Led by
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Oxford Spinout Mirae Secures $5.4M to Scale AI Chronic Care Platform
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AI-driven continuous care platform Mirae has officially launched with $5.4M in funding led by Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE).Built directly on computational health research from the University of Oxford’s Computational Health Informatics Lab, co-founded by Dr. David Clifton and CEO Anuj Patel.Targets inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—a complex autoimmune condition characterized by unpredictable flare-ups, variable treatment responses, and high annual medical
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HealthEx Unveils TEFCA-Accredited HealthEx Wallet & Partners with Sharecare to to Ground AskMD in Whole-Health Clinical Context
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At the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Health Technology Ecosystem event, HealthEx introduced HealthEx Wallet (a TEFCA-accredited personal health record app) and announced a major integration with Sharecare's AskMD.HealthEx operates as a federally accredited Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) Individual Access Services (IAS) provider. It verifies identities using the IAL2 standard and manages records under enterprise-grade HIPAA
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