Health IT, EHR systems, telehealth, and clinical technology
OpenLoop bought Hey Revia to add AI voice agents to its white-label telehealth platform, positioning it against Hyro's new Care Intelligence analytics product in the fight to automate patient access.
CMS launched voluntary FHIR API standards with 60+ organizations including major tech vendors. Payers face hard 2027 deadline for four-API compliance.
Two FDA moves shift clinical AI from workflow aid to regulated device. UpDoc's patient-facing LLM and Aidoc's report-drafting tool redefine risk, vendor shortlists, and budget justification.
athenahealth launched native AI tools for coding review and claim validation inside its EHR stack, raising pressure on standalone RCM vendors and forcing buyers to recalculate consolidation economics.
Most AI Act obligations take effect August 2, 2026, requiring vendors of high-risk healthcare AI to provide audit-ready documentation and traceability. Procurement cycles will lengthen as buyers demand conformity evidence before deploying diagnostic and triage tools.
OpenLoop's acquisition of Hey Revia puts AI call handling inside white-label telehealth infrastructure. Competing platforms now face pressure to embed voice agents or lose deals to bundled alternatives.
1upHealth deployed all four required CMS‑0057 APIs to health plan customers eight months ahead of the 2027 deadline. Epic passed 1 billion TEFCA record exchanges and became first to connect SSA.
Wolters Kluwer launched an auditable validation framework for its UpToDate Expert AI, forcing hospital CIOs to demand comparable evidence from all clinical GenAI vendors or walk away.
Oracle's new EHR performance upgrades and TEFCA-aligned data exchange shift the upgrade-versus-replacement calculus for health systems, while Suki's expansion to 12 Meditech organizations confirms ambient documentation is moving from pilot to line-item budget.
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.