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Healthcare Cybersecurity: The AI Foundation Problem
I keep thinking about how we are building AI on top of a security disaster. Healthcare is the most attacked industry in America. Not finance. Not energy. Healthcare. The HHS Office for Civil Rights breach ...
Healthcare AI: Why Don’t Clinicians Use It?
Why do we keep buying healthcare AI that nobody uses? Health systems spent an estimated $45 billion on AI and analytics tools in 2025. That number is climbing in 2026. And yet, when you walk ...
Medicaid DSH Cuts Threaten Safety-Net Hospitals
The hospitals serving the poorest patients may not survive this bill. As the Senate takes up the reconciliation package in June 2026, one of the quieter provisions is getting very little attention outside of hospital ...
CMS 2027 Fee Schedule Cuts Threaten Providers
CMS just proposed cutting physician pay again in 2027. And if you run a clinic, imaging center, or community health center, this one deserves your full attention. Every year, CMS releases its proposed Medicare Physician ...
Healthcare AI Startups Raise $4.1B in Q2 2026
Healthcare AI just had its biggest funding quarter ever. And most clinicians have no idea it happened. In Q2 2026, healthcare AI startups raised more than $4.1 billion across 120-plus deals, according to analysis from ...
Section 330 Cuts Could Shutter 1,300 FQHCs
1,300 health centers could close. And most Americans have no idea. The reconciliation bill working its way through Congress in June 2026 contains a provision that has received almost zero mainstream coverage, but it may ...
AI Opportunistic Calcium Scoring Now Billable
CMS just made your routine chest CT a cardiac screening tool. And most imaging centers do not realize what that means for their revenue, or their patients. Starting April 1, 2026, health systems and imaging ...
Ambient AI Reaches FQHCs in 2026
Your FQHC clinicians are drowning in notes. AI can fix that. Here is a number worth sitting with: primary care physicians spend nearly 2 hours on documentation for every 1 hour of direct patient care. ...







