Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Department of Labor’s employee benefits arm proposed a rule Wednesday that would allow insurers to share mandatory group health plan disclosures with their beneficiaries electronically. Many of the communications, like summary plan descriptions, claims denials…
What You Should Know U.S. Health IT M&A and buyout volume rebounded in Q2 2026 to 121 announced transactions after averaging 101 transactions across Q4 2025 and Q1 2026, according to Healthcare Growth Partners’ July 2026 Health IT Market Review report. The HGP Health IT Revenue Multiple recovered to 4.7x revenue by the end of…
Dive Brief: Tempus AI said Monday it has agreed to buy Personalis for $1.5 billion. Fremont, California-based Personalis makes a molecular residual disease test for cancer. Tempus expects the acquisition will allow it to better support patients around cancer diagnostics, treatment selection, recurrence and monitoring. The planned purchase follows recent interest in blood-based cancer tests…
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials said Monday they remain focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite, despite inaccurate test results that the government briefly publicized over the weekend. Food and Drug Administration officials on Monday said a laboratory test incorrectly identified a positive result for cyclospora on a…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Clinic and physician practice bankruptcies snowballed in the first half of the year, even as the filings in the healthcare sector overall stabilized compared with historic averages, according to a report released Monday by restructuring advisory…
What You Should Know The 2026 KLAS ERP Implementation Services Report evaluates services firms across two distinct operational tracks: ERP Implementation Leadership (prime technical/project implementers) and ERP Business Transformation & Implementation Leadership (broad strategic, operational, and financial redesign). The Performance Leaders: Huron took the 2026 Best in KLAS award for ERP Implementation Leadership (scoring 91.5…
Large language models (LLMs) show considerable potential for atrial fibrillation (AF) management, yet current clinical applications frequently remain suboptimal due to accuracy limitations. To address these limitations, this study developed PULSE (Potentiated User-friendly LLM-driven Search Engine), a novel knowledge-enhanced, domain-aware LLM agent specifically designed to improve AF patient self-management across the entire care continuum. The…
Dive Brief: Resmed has contacted customers about a ventilator issue linked to five serious injuries, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. A subset of Astral 100 and Astral 150 ventilators can inadvertently enter a fail-safe state and stop delivering therapy, creating a risk of serious injury or death. Resmed informed customers of the issue…
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A specialty drug shows up on your trend report with a six-figure price tag. You assume that’s the drug cost. But in specialty pharmacy, the story is often more complex. Take the recent case of a state-sponsored plan that was charged $138,000 a year for a generic cancer drug, which had a wholesale cost of…