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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 ...

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. ...

45,000 providers just found out their EHR was breached. And the full damage still isn't clear. On March 16, 2026, CareCloud, a cloud-based EHR and practice management platform used widely by independent practices and specialty ...

AI just wrote a complete radiology report in seconds. Not a summary. Not a flag. A full, structured report. At ECR 2026, United Imaging Intelligence demonstrated multimodal AI agents that can detect 73 findings on ...

FQHCs don't just need funding. They need patients with coverage. And the Senate reconciliation bill threatens both at the same time. Most of the conversation around the "Big Beautiful Bill" has focused on specific line ...

The drug program keeping free clinics alive is on the chopping block. And most people outside of healthcare have never heard of it. The 340B Drug Pricing Program requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell outpatient drugs ...

Medicaid work rules could hollow out your FQHC patient base. Here is what no one is talking about loudly enough. The Senate's reconciliation bill doesn't just cut Medicaid dollars. It restructures who qualifies entirely. The ...

Lung-RADS was never designed for AI. That's the problem. For years, we've used a 1-to-4 categorical scoring system to decide who needs follow-up after a chest CT. It works. But it was built for human ...