Senate Panel Has Obtained Copy of Fauci’s Government Cellphone
The development comes as a Senate committee prepares to vote Thursday on whether to hold Dr. Anthony S. Fauci in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at a hearing.
Definitive Healthcare Launches Early Adopter Program for AI-Powered Intelligence Platform
What You Should Know Definitive Healthcare announced an early adopter program for its new AI-powered healthcare intelligence platform, inviting select customer organizations in August 2026. General av
Transcarent Names Optum Veteran Mike Morgan as Chief Commercial Officer
What You Should Know Agentic AI-powered health and care platform Transcarent has appointed Mike Morgan as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Reporting directly to CEO Glen Tullman, Morgan will le
Millie joins UCSF Health's clinically integrated network to coordinate maternity care
Millie and UCSF Health providers will work together as a clinically integrated care team with shared protocols and EHR integration. Millie is also tapping into UCSF’s payer contracts, streamlining in-
Oscar Health hikes 2026 outlook after record profitability during first half of the year
CEO Mark Bertolini said during Thursday’s earnings call that the company brought in $1.1 billion in earnings and $1 billion in net income for the first half of 2026.
FHIR, HL7, and EHR Integration: The Backbone of Telemedicine Apps - Nasscom
FHIR, HL7, and EHR Integration: The Backbone of Telemedicine Apps Nasscom
Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases
Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.
Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents
Meta today released Muse Code , a terminal-based AI coding agent now in beta, alongside Muse Spark 1.2 , a coding-focused update to its Muse Spark family of frontier models — a one-two punch that puts
How Lightspeed found its newest hire … via Instagram DM
Lightspeed partners Josh Machiz and Claire Zau stopped by the Equity studio to talk about the strategies behind their growing social media presence and their podcast, Lightwork.
URAC Awards First Health Care Artificial Intelligence Accreditations to Guidehealth, RediMinds, and SandsRx
What You Should Know Independent accreditor URAC announced that Guidehealth, RediMinds, and SandsRx are the first three organizations nationwide to earn its Health Care Artificial Intelligence Accredi
Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders
The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.
Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers: here's what enterprises should know
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI ) disclosed last night that the leading two frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unsanctioned actions against the live internet during cybersecurity
Trump Seeks a Boost for Hemp That Would Benefit a Top Aide’s Family
At the White House’s request, senators tucked a change sought by the hemp industry into a crucial spending bill. It would benefit the son-in-law of Susie Wiles, the president’s chief of staff.
AI startup Hark unveils first product: an affordable, fast computer use agent Hark Handoff
Hark , the secretive AI startup founded earlier this year by serial entrepreneur and roboticist Brett Adcock, today announced Handoff , a "computer use agent" (CUA) that it says is among the top-perfo
CMS’ Proposed Changes to Remote Monitoring Could Reshape Digital Healthcare Delivery
Over the past decade, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) have transformed from emerging technologies into integral components of chronic disease management. Fueled
Wellinks Raises $10M to Scale Predictive Cardiopulmonary Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know New Haven-based cardiopulmonary digital health provider Wellinks closed a $10M first tranche of its Series B funding round. The financing was led by strategic partner UMass Memori
Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team
Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.
Nordic Opens Mexico Delivery Facility to Support Healthcare AI, Managed Services, and Epic Optimization
What You Should Know Global healthcare IT consulting firm Nordic® announced the opening of a new delivery facility in Mexico to expand its nearshore technical capabilities. The Mexico facility will su
MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store
MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.
CVS enhances supports for patients taking GLP-1s
CVS Health is raising its guidance for the year as it blew past Wall Street analysts' expectations in the second quarter.
AI is exposing the limits of traditional network architecture
Health systems using Rhapsody and Epic must prepare for AI-driven FHIR data traffic patterns that will overwhelm traditional network architectures, requiring new integration approaches to maintain interoperability standards. The unpredictable, always-on traffic from AI inference workloads will strain existing HL7 v2 and FHIR messaging infrastructure, forcing healthcare IT teams to rearchitect their network control layers to support real-time data pipelines.
Your Healthcare AI Strategy Has a Data Problem. And It’s an Interoperability Problem.
There is a familiar arc to healthcare AI initiatives. A promising tool is selected. A pilot launches with real enthusiasm. The early demo impresses everyone in the room. And then the project quietly f
How to get the best hotel deals for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
We’ve partnered with hotels around Moscone West during Disrupt, taking place October 13 to 15, to secure the best prices available for attendees.
Medicaid Urges States to Increase Autism Therapy Oversight
The program’s spending on the therapy has quintupled since 2021, far outstripping the growth in diagnoses and raising concerns about overprescribing and fraud.
Justice Dept. Charges Doctor in $95 Million Skin Substitute Fraud Scheme
Dr. Stephen Dubin, a wound care doctor in Nevada, is accused of applying unneeded, expensive wound coverings to seniors. He used the profits to buy yachts, the department said.
Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
AI coding agents are blowing through budgets — Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic explain how they're managing it
Health IT professionals using FHIR-based integrations will face similar budget pressures as AI coding agents become mainstream, with token costs potentially exceeding traditional integration development expenses. Systems architects at health systems using Rhapsody or Epic will need to evaluate whether AI agents can safely handle FHIR resource processing workflows while managing the regulatory compliance implications of automated code generation.
Inside Doctronic’s AI prescription refill pilot program in Utah
The company was “very conservative” with the initial formulary, and there are plans to add new medications once it is proven safe to do so, Matt Pavelle, Doctronic co-founder and co-CEO, said.
Daffodil Health unveils AI-powered payer platform for managing NSA disputes
This matters for Rhapsody integrators because Daffodil's platform will likely integrate with existing payer systems through FHIR APIs to handle No Surprises Act dispute workflows. Health systems using Epic or other platforms will need to ensure their integration infrastructure can support the new AI-powered dispute management capabilities being deployed by payers.
Healthcare Payers Don’t Have an AI Problem. They Have an Infrastructure Problem.
Every day, payers deploy artificial intelligence (AI) into claims and prior authorization with the hope of eliminating delays, rework, and provider friction. Yet, too many are still seeing clean claim
Best 50+ Open Source AI Agents Listed - AIMultiple
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Epitel Closes $26M to Commercialize REMI Remote EEG Platform
What You Should Know Salt Lake City-based digital health innovator Epitel, Inc. closed a $26M Series B funding round co-led by Catalyst Health Ventures and Genoa Ventures. The Series B financing suppo
The Missing Discipline in Healthcare Modernization
Modernization in healthcare is usually measured by what gets implemented next: an ERP platform replaced, EHR systems consolidated, a database moved to the cloud. But a successful go-live does not equa
Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use
Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max , a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large languag
Asana's AI agents share memory across your company — but not your secrets
This story matters to Rhapsody integration professionals because Asana's AI agent memory architecture demonstrates how enterprise AI systems can maintain persistent context across workflows, similar to how FHIR-based clinical data exchange requires maintaining patient context across multiple care team interactions. The challenge of AI agent state management parallels the interoperability challenge of maintaining consistent patient data flows between Epic and other health systems, where each integration must preserve clinical context across multiple touchpoints in the patient journey.
Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated
This story matters to health IT professionals because it highlights the legal ambiguities around AI governance that could affect how healthcare organizations implement and govern AI-powered clinical decision support tools integrated through FHIR APIs. The unclear liability frameworks around AI security breaches like those involving OpenAI and Anthropic could impact how health systems approach vendor risk management for AI-enabled workflows in their Rhapsody or Epic platforms, particularly regarding compliance with HIPAA and 21st Century Cures Act requirements for secure data exchange.
Congress’ favorite AI tool? ChatGPT
Health IT professionals should note that ChatGPT's legislative use highlights the growing regulatory pressure for AI governance in healthcare, particularly around HIPAA-compliant AI integration workflows. This trend directly impacts how Rhapsody and Epic integration teams must approach AI-assisted clinical documentation and automated care coordination processes that must comply with CMS AI requirements.
QuantHealth raises $45M series B to accelerate AI-driven clinical trial simulations
The company plans to use the fresh capital to advance its R&D, grow its team and expand its product portfolio, CEO and co-founder Orr Inbar told Fierce Healthcare.
Cleveland Clinic, Zipline take flight with prescription drug drone delivery partnership
This partnership demonstrates how FHIR-based health information exchange workflows can integrate with emerging drone delivery services to support medication distribution, potentially affecting Epic and Rhapsody interoperability workflows for pharmacy and patient care coordination. The deployment may trigger new regulatory considerations under HIPAA and 21st Century Cures Act requirements for secure data exchange between health systems and third-party delivery providers.
Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate
Health IT interoperability professionals using Epic and Rhapsody platforms should monitor Horizon3's AI-powered security validation capabilities, as the company's continuous threat detection approach directly impacts FHIR data exchange security requirements under HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2. The $250M Series E funding round demonstrates growing market demand for automated security solutions that can integrate with existing health IT infrastructures to prevent data breaches during patient record sharing workflows.
Why AI Finally Changes the Math on Fraud, Waste, & Abuse in Healthcare
The U.S. health care system loses more than $100 billion a year to fraud, waste, and abuse, and by some estimates several times that. We have known this for decades. What is new is that the technology
How NTT DATA AIVista closes the last mile of agentic AI for enterprise agents
This story matters to health IT interoperability professionals because NTT DATA AIVista's approach to closing the last-mile challenge of agentic AI operationalization directly impacts how FHIR-based clinical workflows can reliably integrate with enterprise AI agents in regulated healthcare environments. The discussion around guardrails, security, and context management in frontier AI models is particularly relevant for Rhapsody integration engineers who must ensure HIPAA-compliant data handling while enabling seamless interoperability between clinical applications and emerging AI agents.
The Real Truth About Zero Data Retention: What AI Coding Tools Actually Promise in a HIPAA-Compliant World
A developer on your team is debugging a scheduling algorithm. They paste a function into an AI coding tool that references a patient’s Medicaid eligibility window. Did that data just get retained? Log
NYU Langone and Dana-Farber Co-Develop Solavia Decision Suite
What You Should Know NYU Langone Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have co-developed the Solavia Decision Suite, an oncology decision support platform designed to deliver precise, evidence-based
CMS Releases FY 2027 IPPS and LTCH PPS Final Rule: Rates, Mandatory CJR-X Model, and EHR Changes
What You Should Know The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its FY 2027 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS final rule, enacting a 2.3
Structured AI data pipelines score 10.9 points below free-form code — DataFlow-Harness closes the gap
Health IT professionals using FHIR-based integrations will see improved AI-assisted data processing workflows for RAG systems that require structured pipeline development rather than free-form code generation. This advancement directly impacts Epic and Rhapsody integration teams who must now consider how AI tools can reliably build the systematic data ingestion and processing pipelines required for interoperable clinical data workflows.
How is your enterprise tracking AI agent telemetry? Groundcover thinks it should never leave your cloud
Health IT professionals using Rhapsody's FHIR integration capabilities need to understand how AI agent telemetry observability tools like Groundcover will impact their cloud-based interoperability workflows and compliance with HIPAA regulations governing AI-powered health data processing. The $100M funding round signals accelerated adoption of observability solutions that will likely become essential for monitoring FHIR API integrations and AI-driven clinical decision support systems in enterprise health IT environments.
CMS locks in 2.3% inpatient hospital base pay increase, nudges back CJR-X Model start date
This CMS IPPS final rule impacts Rhapsody integrators who must now align hospital payment data flows with the updated 2.3% base pay increase and revised CJR-X Model timeline, affecting Epic and Cerner systems that process inpatient discharge notifications and payment reconciliation workflows. The delayed CJR-X start date creates additional integration complexity for health systems implementing value-based care payment models under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).
A look at employers' attitudes toward ICHRAs
ICHRA implementation will require FHIR-based benefits enrollment and claims integration workflows between health systems and employer portals, affecting Rhapsody and Epic integrations that support consumer-directed health benefits. The survey highlights that employer resistance to ICHRA adoption stems from complexity in integrating these flexible benefits with existing FHIR-based health record systems, creating interoperability challenges for health IT vendors serving both employer and employee health data needs.
Revised 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program moves forward, despite provider pushback
The revised 340B rebate model pilot program affects Epic and Cerner health systems that must now integrate the new rebate tracking workflow through FHIR-based data exchange standards, requiring updated integration logic for the 25 eligible products. Health systems using Rhapsody or other interoperability platforms will need to ensure their FHIR-based clinical and financial data exchange capabilities can support the new mulligan program's administrative burden requirements.