Hospital divestitures reshape 2027 portfolio strategy
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Amazon, Google and other self-funded employers have joined CMS' voluntary prior authorization pledge, but ERISA plans sit outside the federal rule, so the milestones only bind through ASO and TPA contracts.
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Epic Connectors AI agents expose a contract gap for CIOs
Epic's forthcoming Connectors tool will let its AI agents complete work inside other vendors' systems, raising audit, liability and approval questions most health systems have not written into contracts.
Digital health vendor viability is now a 2027 contract term
Capital is concentrating into a few AI-native platforms while M&A stays flat and the IPO window stays shut, leaving health systems exposed to mid-contract failure in scheduling, monitoring and virtual care.
Healthcare vendor data extortion breaks the downtime playbook
The newest breaches hit labs, distributors and revenue-cycle software instead of hospital networks, producing zero clinical downtime and maximum legal exposure that incident response plans were never built to handle.
Keytruda biosimilar 2028: hospitals need a plan now
The first publicly announced pembrolizumab biosimilar is under FDA review just as Merck accelerates subcutaneous conversion abroad, leaving oncology service lines roughly 18 months to model two very different futures.
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KFF's 2026 benchmark survey shows worker contributions for family coverage rising 9% against 5% premium growth, pushing payers toward network and site-of-service levers for 2027 contracting.
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Epic Connectors AI agents expose a contract gap for CIOs
Epic's forthcoming Connectors tool will let its AI agents complete work inside other vendors' systems, raising audit, liability and approval questions most health systems have not written into contracts.
HTI-5 certification criteria cuts shift EHR proof burden to providers
ASTP/ONC's deregulatory package would retire roughly half the Health IT Certification Program's criteria while narrowing information blocking exceptions, leaving hospital IT, informatics and compliance teams to absorb validation work vendors once attested to.
The health system CIO role is absorbing AI, data and digital
Health systems are stacking AI governance, data strategy and digital ownership onto the CIO job instead of hiring around it, raising hard questions about budget, authority and EHR vendor dependency.
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Hospital divestitures reshape 2027 portfolio strategy
Q3 2026 earnings show health systems deliberately shrinking hospital counts, and the hard part is not the sale price but the stranded overhead, EHR separation and referral loss that follow.
Hospital credit rating downgrades 2026: liquidity is the new test
Revenue is growing and margins are not, and rating actions are clustering in systems that cannot buy scale, pushing days cash on hand ahead of operating margin as the metric boards should watch.
Medicaid state-directed payment cuts reprice hospital revenue
CMS rulemaking on state-directed payments is moving faster and cutting deeper than the statute Congress scored, and exposure is concentrated in a handful of high-SDP states.
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Payers & Insurance
Reimbursement, claims automation, value-based contracts, and data sharing, decoded for the teams navigating a tougher payer landscape.
Prior authorization pledge: employers in, enforcement on TPAs
Amazon, Google and other self-funded employers have joined CMS' voluntary prior authorization pledge, but ERISA plans sit outside the federal rule, so the milestones only bind through ASO and TPA contracts.
Employer health plan cost shifting hits its limit
KFF's 2026 benchmark survey shows worker contributions for family coverage rising 9% against 5% premium growth, pushing payers toward network and site-of-service levers for 2027 contracting.
Medicare Advantage enrollment caps reshape 2027 open enrollment
Fifteen parent insurers have capped enrollment on 65 Medicare Advantage plans for 2027, a quiet capacity limit that can close plans weeks before the December 7 deadline and scramble payer-mix forecasts.
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Digital Health
Virtual care, remote monitoring, and patient engagement, covered for the teams building the next generation of connected health experiences.
Digital health vendor viability is now a 2027 contract term
Capital is concentrating into a few AI-native platforms while M&A stays flat and the IPO window stays shut, leaving health systems exposed to mid-contract failure in scheduling, monitoring and virtual care.
AI triage virtual care shifts clinical risk to health systems
Automated intake is scaling into enterprise virtual front doors faster than the governance, liability and reimbursement frameworks around it, leaving health systems holding standard-of-care exposure they did not fully price.
Remote patient monitoring reimbursement: wider funnel, fewer vendors
CMS has lowered the time thresholds for billing RPM while moving to restrict third-party monitoring arrangements, turning what looks like a coding update into a staffing and procurement decision.
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Risk, resilience, and regulatory compliance, covered for the leaders protecting healthcare organizations from growing cyber threats.
Healthcare vendor data extortion breaks the downtime playbook
The newest breaches hit labs, distributors and revenue-cycle software instead of hospital networks, producing zero clinical downtime and maximum legal exposure that incident response plans were never built to handle.
Vendor breach notification falls on hospitals as Oracle tally grows
Oracle Health's victim count has climbed tenfold to nearly 20 million since July 2025, and the hospitals that used Cerner systems, not the vendor, are the ones mailing the letters.
Healthcare ransomware surge 2026 forces a mid-year budget reset
Attack volume against health systems roughly doubled year over year in the third quarter after rising just 14% in the first half, leaving FY security plans built on stale assumptions.
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Keytruda biosimilar 2028: hospitals need a plan now
The first publicly announced pembrolizumab biosimilar is under FDA review just as Merck accelerates subcutaneous conversion abroad, leaving oncology service lines roughly 18 months to model two very different futures.
FDA advisory committee conflicts cloud launch planning
Fresh scrutiny of industry ties among FDA adcomm members turns a once-predictable regulatory milestone into a variable that payers, P&T committees and commercial teams now have to price in.
China biotech licensing deals are reshaping 2028 formularies
A two-week wave of obesity, bispecific and ADC deals shows US and EU drugmakers buying their next assets from Chinese biotechs, and the effects will land on pharmacy budgets by 2028.
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