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Vitalize Secures $31 Million to Address Healthcare’s Staffing Chaos

October 09, 2026
healthcare, labor, AI, personnel
Epic’s AI Security Test Exposes Untraceable Patient Data Access
Artificial Intelligence // October 08, 2026

Epic Systems found flaws in certain MyChart configurations that could let someone view patient records without the access appearing in an audit trail. The company found them by testing its software with Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, Stirling Martin, Epic’s chief security officer, told The New York...

Robots Give Hospitals More Capacity Without Adding Beds
Healthcare // October 06, 2026

Clara Quakenbush, a medical assistant at Hancock Health’s Sue Ann Wortman Cancer Center in Indiana, used to make 10 to 15 trips a day carrying specimens to the hospital lab, according to an October 2025 news release from autonomous delivery company Arrive AI. She spent...

Oura Halts Plans to Go Public Amid Market Uncertainty
Wearables // September 29, 2026

Smart ring maker Oura has paused plans to go public, citing uncertain market conditions. The company’s initial public offering (IPO) had been slated for this week but has now been postponed “despite strong demand,” Oura announced Tuesday (Sept. 29). “Our mission is to empower people to live healthier, longer,...

Doctors Stop Typing as AI Takes Over the Chart
Artificial Intelligence // September 25, 2026

University Hospital at Downstate is piloting an ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribe with 50 physicians across family medicine, internal medicine, cardiology and the emergency department. The tool has drafted notes for more than 900 patient encounters since May, Altera Digital Health said on Tuesday (Sept....

Interviews & Exclusives
Benefits Payment Exceptions Eat Up 62.5 Staff Hours a Month

September 24, 2026
Benefits teams can spend more than a week of staff time every month handling transactions that don’t move cleanly through the system. For a benefits program with 5,000 active accounts, the new PYMNTS Intelligence report produced with SoFi Tech Solutions titled “Making Health and Wellness Benefits Perform: What Modern Card Infrastructure Changes” models what happens […]

Rutgers Gives Future Doctors an AI Head Start

September 21, 2026
Watch more: Digital Shift With Rutgers’ Dr. Amy Murtha It’s quite a time to launch a new medical school. First there are the standard issues of funding and partnerships. Second...

Healthcare AI Agents Help Patients Get Care Faster

September 14, 2026
Agentic AI is entering healthcare through the work that happens between a medical decision and the care a patient eventually receives. These systems go beyond summarizing records or answering requests....

Petwealth Uses AI to Turn Pet Lab Results Into Action

September 01, 2026
Angelo Palivos built Petwealth after losing his own pet to an illness that a diagnostic lab couldn’t catch in time. That loss became the company’s founding premise. Veterinary care moves...

Quick Reads
Vitalize Secures $31 Million to Address Healthcare’s Staffing Chaos

October 09, 2026
Vitalize raised $31 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the growth of its artificial intelligence (AI)-native platform that helps health systems manage labor and capacity, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. The Vitalize platform is designed for the healthcare workforce and coordinates staffing and capacity across the entire […]

Oura Halts Plans to Go Public Amid Market Uncertainty

September 29, 2026
Smart ring maker Oura has paused plans to go public, citing uncertain market conditions. The company’s initial public offering (IPO) had been slated for this week but has now been postponed “despite...

Walmart Pushes Deeper Into Health and Wellness

September 25, 2026
Walmart plans to continue adding ways to make health and wellness products and services affordable and convenient for customers, the retailer said in a Monday (Sept. 21) press release marking...

AI-Generated Medical Coding Adds Nearly $1 Billion to Blue Cross Costs

September 24, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools used by healthcare providers to identify patients’ secondary medical conditions contributed nearly $1 billion in additional costs for Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers over two years,...