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Soccer star Brandi Chastain and fashion designer and entrepreneur Tory Burch also participated in the virtual care company's funding round.

Marcus Perez, president of Altera Digital Health, gives some advice on IT optimization and integration of voice tools into clinical workflows. He also offers perspective on helping provider organizations maintain financial stability and independence.

Confusion around CMS' final rules has been a challenge, yet the industry continues to advance seamless data exchange.

The investigation, billed as the first of its kind, had alleged that Dallas-based Piece Technologies made "deceptive claims" about the accuracy of its artificial intelligence products, which are deployed at several hospitals in the Lone Star State.

Crowdstrike has new partnerships that bolster and streamline SOC processes and spur AI-driven security innovations. Also, Oracle, Meditech and Innovaccer add tools to improve daily healthcare operations.

Beginning this month, Cigna members can connect for urgent care from board-certified doctors without phone or video.

It can help coders "work faster and perform better," says one AI and RCM expert. "Imagine that kind of potential across an entire revenue cycle."

Both electronic health record vendors have made open API code available to their health system clients that enables them to coordinate with the VA when treating veterans who have sought care at community providers.

OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Gemini did not recommend opioid medication for one group over another – suggesting that artificial intelligence could help address clinician bias and improve fairness in treating pain.

To effectively share data with patients, hospitals and health systems must build a tech foundation centered on interoperability, driven by rigorous data standardization and secure exchanges – and the adoption of HL7's FHIR.