Cigna Executives Commit to $3B Modernization Push
The savings-focused productivity plan will lean heavily on AI tools, streamline supplier and vendor relationships…
Cigna Executives Commit to $3B Modernization Push
The savings-focused productivity plan will lean heavily on AI tools, streamline supplier and vendor relationships and aim to reinvest part of the savings into the company’s business units.
More Consolidation in Chicagoland: Endeavor, Rush Seek to Merge
Combined organization, operating under the Rush name, would have 12 hospitals and more than 400 care sites
Is Your AI Query Tool Compliant by Default?
By BRIAN FENGLER Every night in the emergency department, the electronic health record hums with small demands for attention. A nudge about sepsis. A best-practice advisory. A documentation suggestion that arrives between patients and asks for one more click. Most of us treat those prompts as background noise. Almost none of us stop to ask…
Why Agentic AI Works in Hospitals When You Strip It Down
Many hospitals are now trying to use AI to automate processes and free up staff time, running simultaneous pilots to perform as many tasks as possible. This quickly leads to pilot sprawl — a state where organizations can no longer even say which agents are still in active use. The post Why Agentic AI Works…
Individual Market Enrollment Continues to Fall Through Mid-2026
Enrollment in the individual health insurance market fell by 18%—over 4.6 million people—from 25.2 million in June 2025 to 20.5 million in June 2026. This represents an even steeper drop in enrollment than had previously been reported. The individual market is composed primarily of people with Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace coverage as well as…
California’s Billionaire Tax Promises Healthcare Relief. The Fine Print Is Murkier.
The pitch behind California’s billionaire tax proposal is simple: Tax the richest residents in the nation’s wealthiest state to offset steep federal cuts to healthcare, food assistance, and education. But if approved by voters in November, it’s unclear how much money the ballot initiative would raise, how quickly the funding would become available, and how…
Aging Life Care Managers Can Be a ‘Godsend’ for Families
Kristin Martinelli began her workday at 7:30 a.m. on a recent Monday, completing an online Medicaid recertification form for a client in a nursing home in Austin, Texas. Next, she drove to meet an 85-year-old and her daughter, who had come in from out of town. The older woman had “pretty advanced dementia” and was…
Happy Health’s Cuffless BP Device Wins FDA Clearance
Happy Health has received FDA clearance for its wearable ring, which continuously measures blood pressure without a cuff or external calibration. The post Happy Health’s Cuffless BP Device Wins FDA Clearance appeared first on MedCity News.
Cyberattacks Disrupt Patient Care at 97% of Healthcare Organizations, Report Finds
Data loss incidents and AI-related risks pose new challenges for healthcare cybersecurity
Discharge Planning Ends at the Funeral Home. That’s a Health System Failure.
By EVAN REID We reconcile medications at discharge because we decided, correctly, that the handoff out of a hospital is a clinical event with its own failure modes. Then a patient dies, and the same hospital that would not let them leave with an unreconciled med list hands the family a folder and a phone…
