At AHIP 2025 in Las Vegas this week, Quest Analytics and Arcadia announced a data integration partnership that is expected to give payers the ability to build more competitive networks.

The company’s platform integrates systems to remove burdens on nurses and others, says symplr’s Tony DiGiorgio.

Today it’s conversational AI and in five years Mercy’s Tracy Breece expects technology to be a seamless part of the workflow so that nurses can use skills to empower the patient and family.

Ascension has announced that it is acquiring AmSurg and its 250 ambulatory surgery centers across 34 states. The Catholic, nonprofit health system said the transaction will significantly expand its ability to deliver care in community-based settings. WHY THIS MATTERS

A federal court in Massachusetts has struck down the National Institutes of Health‘s decision to cancel grants that fund biomedical research.

One breakthrough that has helped is the ability of ambient AI to document what’s happening in the room, says Regina Wysocki, senior informatics program manager at Lone Star Communications.  

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, on Monday released the committee’s version of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”  The committee’s text is the final piece of the upper chamber’s version of the bill to be released, and was the most highly anticipated, according to The Hill.

Intraoperative 3D scans can be projected to the surgeon’s eyes to align to pre-op imaging, says Nissan Elimelech, founder of Augmedics.  

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is expanding Medicaid services to American Indian and Alaska Native communities by approving Medicaid State Plan Amendments (SPAs) in several states.  The amendments give the Indian Health Service (IHS) and tribal clinics the Medicaid funding to support care beyond the physical clinic site, such as in homes, schools and […]

The WHO Foundation has launched an emergency campaign to raise $3.6 million for the Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network (GMRLN) to stop the spread of the infectious disease, says Anil Soni, CEO of The WHO Foundation.