Health IT, EHR systems, telehealth, and clinical technology
The U.S. government moved CIRCIA's effective date to July 2027, giving healthcare CISOs 14 extra months to build incident-reporting infrastructure and rationalize tooling.
Healthcare navigation vendor Quantum Health's acquisition of virtual care platform CirrusMD forces employers to rethink standalone telehealth contracts. Bundling navigation and virtual care in one contract now delivers lower effective PMPM costs.
1upHealth is first to deploy all four CMS-0057-F APIs to production customers, putting health plans in compliance 8 months early. Epic and athenahealth scale TEFCA networks to over 1,000 hospitals combined.
Google's Pathway Assistant surfaces evidence-based guidelines at point of care across 40 locations. Shifts clinical AI from pilot to production, forcing hospitals to choose a cloud platform.
Oracle launched TEFCA-aligned interoperability and EHR workflow upgrades. Suki AI deployed ambient documentation across 12 MEDITECH health systems, signaling maturity in cross-EHR clinical AI.
FDA now requires formal cybersecurity documentation—including software bills of materials—in premarket submissions for network-connected devices. Hospitals gain procurement leverage; vendors without SBOM practices face clearance risk.
Telehealth platforms are moving beyond video delivery into patient access automation, changing enterprise RFPs from clinical service comparisons to workflow integration decisions.
New CMS rule requires payers to support electronic prior authorization for medical-benefit drugs via FHIR APIs by October 2027, with mandatory usage reporting.
Three funded platforms raised $146M in two weeks, backed by health system venture arms. For buyers, this changes the risk calculation on chronic care and oncology AI.
Ambience Healthcare extended its clinical documentation platform to nursing staff with ambient flowsheet tools, shifting enterprise budgets from physician-only pilots to cross-disciplinary rollout and billing-risk governance.
Critical infrastructure healthcare entities must now report cyber incidents to CISA within 72 hours or face civil enforcement. The requirement coincides with expected mid-2026 HIPAA Security Rule changes requiring annual penetration testing and mandatory MFA.
KeyCare raised $27.4 million to scale virtual care inside Epic workflows, backed by three major health systems. The financing pressures standalone telehealth vendors to justify integration costs.