Healthcare

CMS centralizes health tech authority in new office covering AI, interoperability, and claims modernization

CMS's new Office of Health Technology and Products takes on 90+ responsibilities, signaling a major shift in who leads federal health IT strategy.

Rebuilding Medicine Around Presence: The Future of Physician House Calls with Dr. Yevhen Pavelko, Founder of Inviah Health

Tempus AI's $1.7B Personalis deal leads a surge in health-tech M&A that is already reshaping vendor choices for health system operators

Digital health M&A and VC activity are accelerating fast, with Tempus AI's $1.7B Personalis acquisition and $7.4B in H1 2026 funding reshaping what health syste

Digital health AI investment hits $7.4B in H1 2026 as CMS, hospitals, and startups all accelerate adoption

From a new CMS technology office to a $1.7B cancer-tech acquisition, the first half of 2026 shows enterprise-scale commitment to healthcare AI.

Sensor networks and AI push structural health monitoring toward a $8.6 billion market by 2035

The global SHM market is on track to more than double by 2035, driven by AI-powered analytics, wireless sensors, and aging infrastructure demands.

NIH is harmonizing 12 petabytes of biomedical data to power the next wave of health AI

A cross-agency NIH initiative to standardize 70 years of biomedical data is building the foundation enterprise health IT leaders need to deploy AI at scale.

ONC marks universal EHR adoption and one billion TEFCA health records exchanged in inaugural Coordinator's Quarterly

ONC's first-ever Coordinator's Quarterly declares universal EHR adoption across the U.S. healthcare ecosystem and announces TEFCA has exchanged one billion reco

OpenEvidence expands clinical AI across NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia, and Weill Cornell as Linux Foundation targets open-source health stack

Healthcare IT's week in review: clinical AI deployments scale across NYC, Delaware broadens HIE access, and an open-source health foundation launches.

AI agents for patient care draw $335 million in a single month as health tech investment accelerates

Four health tech companies closed major funding rounds in June 2026, with AI agent platforms for scheduling, chronic care, and home health leading the pack.

Healthcare's digital skills gap: why existing competency tools aren't built for the full workforce

Two major 2026 reviews expose a critical gap in how health systems measure and build digital competence across clinical and public health teams.

St. Kitts and Nevis launches national digital health platform covering 51,000 citizens

The NDHIS platform integrates EHRs, AI decision support, and health information exchange across St. Kitts and Nevis's entire healthcare ecosystem.

Clinical AI at a crossroads: skill decay, robotic surgery, and the wearable data frontier

Three converging developments are forcing health system operators to rethink how AI is deployed, governed, and evaluated across clinical settings.

Healthcare CIOs are shifting from AI deployment to AI governance

Health system technology leaders say the hard part of enterprise AI is no longer getting models live — it's keeping them accurate, accountable, and trusted by c

CMS launches dedicated health technology office as AI and interoperability pressure mounts on hospital IT teams

CMS's new Office of Health Technology and Products centralizes AI, interoperability, and digital health strategy — raising the stakes for hospital IT and procur

Medical device supply chains face persistent pressure as federal glove push falls short

From failed domestic glove manufacturing to hospital product shortages and a $1.5B heart valve market battle, medtech supply signals are shifting.

From Chaos to Control: Dr. Mo Canellas on AI, Emergency Medicine & Why Most “AI Companies” Fake It

Dr. Maureen "Mo" Canellas wears a lot of hats. She is the associate chief medical officer at UMass Memorial Medical Center, a researcher in machine learning and health care operations, a faculty collaborator at MIT, and a longtime contributor to the Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance. But th

Food as Medicine: Can What You Eat Replace the Medicine Bottle? - Adam Devito, Monj, and Maggie Biscarr, Food-as-Medicine SME

The Future of Healthcare Is Already Here: Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge on Virtual Care, AI, and Access

How Lived Experience Drives One's Clinical Practice Leadership - Patrick Makarewich, UTSouthwestern

Digital health enters a recalibration phase as ROI pressure reshapes the sector

Holland & Knight's mid-2026 healthcare trend report flags AI workflows, chronic disease management, and measurable outcomes as the defining forces in digital he

IQVIA's new white paper maps how digital health technologies can reshape CNS clinical trial endpoints

IQVIA's July 2026 white paper offers a practical framework for validating digital endpoints in CNS trials, covering sensors, software, and connected devices.

Clinical AI safety, intelligent ventilators, and payment accuracy: health tech's big moves on July 15

Five major health technology announcements dropped July 15, signaling that AI safety benchmarks, autonomous front-office tools, and smarter critical-care hardwa

Saudi Arabia's digital health push: what a $77 billion market means for enterprise operators

Saudi Arabia's healthcare spend is projected to hit $77.1B by 2027, with digital health revenue topping $1B and 16.2M users expected by 2029.