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  • HITshow Daily: December 11, 2025 (Thursday)

    HITshow Daily: December 11, 2025 (Thursday)
    2025/12/11
    Today on HITshow: Leadership and capital are on the move across healthcare. AHA President Rick Pollack announces retirement after 43 years, Boston Children's lands a record $100M gift for pediatric behavioral health, and New York greenlights $1.1B to modernize SUNY Downstate. Plus: Community Health Systems locks in permanent leadership, Artera raises $65M to scale patient communication AI, and a new tool turns smartphones into sleep trackers. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 Healthcare Policy & Advocacy --- Anika Shah The American Hospital Association announced that President and CEO Rick Pollack will retire at the end of 2026 after 43 years with the organization and nearly a decade in the top job. The board has launched a national search, and Pollack will serve as president and CEO emeritus during the transition. 📍 Finance & Capital --- Logan Stokes Boston Children's Hospital received a record $100M gift from philanthropists Rob and Karen Hale to help anchor a roughly $650M pediatric behavioral health hospital on the Franciscan Children's campus in Brighton. The funding will expand inpatient and outpatient services, build out research and training, and support a 23-hospital collaborative focused on pediatric mental health. 📍 Strategy & Transformation --- Teresa Vaughn Governor Kathy Hochul's office confirmed the design phase is kicking off for a $1.1B plan to modernize SUNY Downstate's hospital and build a new annex facility in Brooklyn. Funding will be drawn from two consecutive state budgets, aiming to stabilize and reposition Downstate as a modern anchor for central Brooklyn after past attempts to downsize faced community pushback. 📍 Finance & Capital --- Logan Stokes Community Health Systems confirmed Kevin Hammons as permanent CEO and Jason Johnson as permanent CFO after both served in interim roles since October. Hammons has been closely associated with Project Empower, an ERP modernization CHS expects will generate up to $60M in savings in 2025, while the company continues divesting underperforming hospitals. 📍 AI & Machine Learning --- Jade Romero Artera raised $65M to build out autonomous AI agents for patient communication that handle scheduling, rescheduling, intake, and billing questions. The company says 94% of patient conversations are now completed without staff intervention, translating into roughly 250,000 hours of staff time saved annually for clients. .📍 Digital Health --- Nate Collier Sleep Sense uses on-device AI to analyze motion, light, and phone usage patterns overnight, turning smartphones into sleep trackers without wearables. The pitch is nearly 100% population coverage without extra hardware, subscriptions, or data leaving the device unnecessarily. 📍 AI & IT Round-Up --- Rhonda Brooks Sword Health launched MindEval, a multi-turn benchmark testing large language models through realistic mental health conversations, with early scores showing even top models struggling with severe cases. A new State of Enterprise AI report shows healthcare among the fastest-moving sectors for putting AI into daily workflows. And KLAS released its 2025 report on IT planning and assessment services, which we'll unpack in detail on tomorrow's show. 🎙️ Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts, and if you like our show, please follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/hit_show. HITshow is made possible by EY, Ovatient, and Kimmchi.
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    14 分
  • HITshow Daily: December 10, 2025 (Wednesday)

    HITshow Daily: December 10, 2025 (Wednesday)
    2025/12/10
    Today on HITshow: The financial squeeze is easing a bit, but the pressure to restructure is not—and the "front door" of healthcare is getting more AI-powered by the day. Nonprofit hospital margins are expected to see modest gains into 2026, but systems are tightening now ahead of Medicaid uncertainty. A major payer-provider combo emerges in Hawaii. CVS raises guidance and lays out a new AI platform strategy. Measurable gains from AI scribes in the emergency department. Medline sets terms for what could be the biggest U.S. IPO of 2025. Plus a Bright Spot on a milestone in the physician pipeline. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 Nonprofit Margins & Medicaid Tightening — Teresa Vaughn Nonprofit hospitals expected to see modest margin improvement through 2026, but the message is clear: don't confuse "better" with "back to normal." Systems are tightening now because of policy risk on the horizon, especially around Medicaid. The window to lock in resilience won't stay open long. 📍 Hawaii Payer-Provider Merger Talks — Logan Stokes Hawaii Pacific Health and Hawaii Medical Service Association (the state's largest payer) are exploring a possible merger or affiliation. The stated goals are affordability and access, but the real question: what changes when the biggest payer and a major provider start rowing in the same direction? Regulators and employers are watching. 📍 CVS Raises Outlook & AI Strategy — Nate Collier CVS raised 2025 guidance and is pushing a new AI-powered platform designed to unify consumer experience across pharmacy, benefits, and care delivery. The real implication: the consumer front door is becoming more automated. Payers will guide members in real time—shaping volume, routing, and patient expectations. 📍 AI Scribes Show ED Throughput Gains — Jade Romero Cabrini Health in Melbourne, Australia piloted an AI scribe with Heidi Health in the emergency department—and care wrapped up about 24 minutes earlier on average. The takeaway: AI scribes are moving from "promising" to "measurable," but only if you build governance and accountability to scale responsibly. .📍 Medline Sets IPO Terms — Peter Betterworth Medline is targeting a valuation of up to $55.3 billion in what could be the biggest U.S. IPO of 2025. Supply chain is strategy—contracts, standardization, inventory discipline are no longer "back office" topics. Expect the entire segment to sharpen. Bright Spot: U.S. medical school enrollment tops 100,000 students for the first time in the 2025–2026 academic year. Applications are also up about 5%, reversing a three-year decline. The pipeline is strengthening—essential for long-term care delivery stability. 🎙️ Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts, and if you like our show, please follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/hit_show. HITshow is made possible by EY, Ovatient, and Kimmchi.
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    12 分
  • HITshow Daily: December 9, 2025 (Tuesday)

    HITshow Daily: December 9, 2025 (Tuesday)
    2025/12/10
    Today on HITshow: Resilience is not optional—whether that’s patching vulnerabilities, staying operational through EHR downtime, or building the data foundation for AI at scale. CISA flags the “React2Shell” threat tied to React Server Components. Spare Tire raises three million dollars to expand EHR continuity, with perspective from co-founder Allen Alashi. HHS moves forward on an interagency AI data platform with C3. UC Irvine Health opens the nation’s first all-electric acute-care hospital in Irvine, California. And Sharecare partners with CLEAR on trusted digital identity for AskMD. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 CISA Flags “React2Shell” Risk — Anika Shah CISA has flagged a critical vulnerability tied to React Server Components, with real-world exploitation concerns. For health systems, this isn’t abstract—React-based apps sit everywhere from patient access to internal tools. The playbook: confirm exposure, patch and redeploy, and tighten monitoring for suspicious activity. 📍 Spare Tire Raises 3 Million Dollars for EHR Continuity — Nate Collier Spare Tire raised three million dollars to expand EHR continuity during cyberattacks, weather events, and planned maintenance—plus a sound bite from co-founder Allen Alashi. The executive lens: time-to-continuity is only half the battle; clean reconciliation after downtime is where hidden cost and revenue-cycle drag show up. 📍 HHS + C3 Interagency AI Data Platform — Jade Romero HHS is moving forward with an interagency AI data platform with C3 positioned as the technology partner. This is where expectations form—data governance, measurement standards, and AI-driven oversight often start here and later ripple into reporting, audits, and policy direction. 📍 Nation’s First All-Electric Acute-Care Hospital Opens — Logan Stokes UC Irvine Health is opening the nation’s first all-electric acute-care hospital in Irvine, California—built to expand capacity for Orange County’s growth while showcasing a lower-emissions infrastructure model. For operators, electrification changes long-term planning: energy strategy, maintenance models, resilience assumptions, and total cost of ownership. 📍 Digital Identity Moves to the Center of the Front Door — Peter Betterworth Sharecare partnered with CLEAR to enable trusted digital identity for the AskMD experience, with rollout described for 2026. Watch the tradeoff: reducing fraud and account takeover while keeping patient experience friction low—and deciding who “owns” identity in the consumer-to-care journey. 🎙️ Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts, and if you like our show, please follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/hit_show. HITshow is made possible by EY, Ovatient, and Kimmchi.
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    8 分
  • HITshow Daily: December 8, 2025 (Monday)

    HITshow Daily: December 8, 2025 (Monday)
    2025/12/08
    Today on HITshow: Big decisions in the background—deals that don't close, policies that reshape the market, and operational "leaks" that quietly drain health systems. Aya Healthcare walks away from its planned $615 million acquisition of Cross Country Healthcare. Hologic heads toward privatization with Blackstone and TPG acquiring the company for up to $79 per share. Federal health agencies roll out a unified AI strategy coordinating efforts across CDC, CMS, and FDA. The FDA introduces TEMPO, a new pilot pathway for digital health technologies. New research shows acute care at home can improve outcomes for rural patients. Plus a practical look at how health systems stop losing money on referral leakage. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 Healthcare Staffing Deal Falls Apart — Teresa Vaughn Aya Healthcare is walking away from its planned $615 million acquisition of Cross Country Healthcare. Regulatory scrutiny made the path too uncertain. For health systems relying on external labor partners, the vendor landscape can shift fast—expect contract leverage conversations and margin protection pushes. 📍 Hologic Heads to Private Equity — Logan Stokes Blackstone and TPG are acquiring Hologic for up to $79 per share in a roughly $18.3 billion deal. When PE commits at this scale, expect shifts in commercial strategy, contracting posture, and product investment priorities in women's health diagnostics. 📍 Federal AI Strategy Alignment — Anika Shah Federal health agencies are moving toward a unified AI approach, coordinating efforts across CDC, CMS, and FDA. Less "every agency does its own thing," more shared principles for trust and oversight. Expect more attention to auditability, governance, and cybersecurity fundamentals. 📍 FDA's TEMPO Pilot — Nate Collier The FDA is introducing TEMPO to complement CMS's ACCESS model—a structured pathway for certain digital health technologies to be used under a defined framework while evidence is gathered. The due diligence burden moves closer to the health system. 📍 Rural Hospital-at-Home Outcomes — Jalen Cross New research suggests acute care at home can improve outcomes for rural patients. The make-or-break factor: reliable escalation. Rural hospital-at-home works when the "what if the patient turns" plan is crystal clear and resourced. 📍 Stopping Referral Leakage — Peter Betterworth Health systems continue to lose money and continuity when referrals slip out of network. The fix: tighten pathways, standardize workflows, reduce manual handoffs, and track outcomes. One metric to demand weekly: closed-loop rate on outbound referrals. 🎙️ Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts, and if you like our show, please follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/hit_show. HITshow is made possible by EY, Kimmchi and HLTH 2025 — the epicenter of healthcare innovation, where the future of care happens.
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    11 分
  • HITshow Daily: December 5, 2025 (Friday)

    HITshow Daily: December 5, 2025 (Friday)
    2025/12/05
    Today on HITshow: Today's theme is pretty simple: money is moving, and resilience is mandatory. From value-based care financing to the long tail of claims disruption to cyber readiness heading into the weekend. Aledade secures a $500 million credit facility, signaling continued capital confidence in primary-care-led VBC. The Oracle Health legacy Cerner breach ripples expand, potentially reaching roughly 80 impacted organizations. A new analysis of the Change Healthcare disruption reveals uneven financial relief and teaches us about building resilience. Cyber activity continues to emphasize credential theft and rapid encryption tactics. Plus a Bright Spot on what health systems should focus on heading into 2026. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 Value-Based Care Financing — Teresa Vaughn Aledade secured a $500 million credit facility. The signal: capital still believes in primary-care-led VBC, especially for organizations helping practices succeed in risk arrangements. For health systems, the question is partner versus build—and well-funded VBC enablers move faster on practice recruitment, workflow support, and contracting strategy. 📍 Oracle Health Breach Ripples — Anika Shah The Oracle Health legacy Cerner breach ripple effects could reach roughly 80 impacted organizations. Vendor incidents become your incident fast—patient notifications, identity monitoring, call center strain, compliance burden. Pressure-test your vendor access model, data-sharing pathways, and incident escalation terms now. 📍 Change Healthcare Disruption Lessons — Logan Stokes A new analysis of the federal relief approach after Change Healthcare found financial relief didn't land evenly. For CFOs: clearinghouse concentration risk, claims routing redundancy, and cash contingency planning need to be operational disciplines, not afterthoughts. 📍 Cyber Readiness Weekend Brief — Jalen Cross Healthcare cyber activity continues to emphasize credential theft, lateral movement, and rapid encryption. The operational question: how fast can we contain and restore? Ask for a one-page weekend readiness brief—who's on point, what systems are critical, what the first 60 minutes looks like. Bright Spot: As planning season ramps up, 2026 is shaping up as a year where health systems stop treating innovation like a side project and start treating it like an operating model. Three sticky predictions: AI stops being a tool you buy and becomes a process you run. The front door matters more than the lobby. The winners won't do more projects—they'll do fewer, better projects that actually change throughput, experience, and margins. Nate Collier reports. 🎙️ Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts, and if you like our show, please follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/hit_show. HITshow is made possible by EY, Kimmchi and HLTH 2025 — the epicenter of healthcare innovation, where the future of care happens.
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    9 分
  • HITshow Daily: December 4, 2025 (Thursday)

    HITshow Daily: December 4, 2025 (Thursday)
    2025/12/05
    Today on HITshow: Today's theme is trust: trusting what we see, what we hear, what we sign, and increasingly, what the machines are generating. We've got a new warning about AI-powered scams aimed at hospitals, a watchdog report on ACA subsidy fraud risk, a lab divestiture that signals where systems are drawing boundaries, a major privacy settlement that's a wake-up call for digital governance, a rapid AI rollout inside a hospital, and a note on where federal AI expectations are heading. Plus a Bright Spot on AI's creative era in cancer care. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 AI-Powered Scams — Anika Shah The American Hospital Association is warning healthcare organizations about scams using AI-generated voices, video, and deepfakes to impersonate executives and vendors. Build verification into workflows—call-back rules, second-channel confirmation, approval limits that can't be overridden by urgency. 📍 ACA Subsidy Fraud Risk — Xavier Banks The Government Accountability Office is raising concerns about enhanced ACA subsidies creating fraud risk. For health systems, the downstream issue is coverage instability: when policy shifts, patients churn, confusion rises, and you feel it in access and uncompensated care pressure. 📍 Community Health Systems Lab Divestiture — Logan Stokes Community Health Systems is selling select ambulatory outreach lab assets to Labcorp for $194 million. Systems are deciding what they truly want to own versus what they'd rather partner on for scale and margin predictability. 📍 Kaiser Privacy Settlement — Jade Romero Kaiser Permanente agreed to a $46 million+ class-action settlement tied to online tracking and data sharing. Marketing tech can become a clinical brand risk fast. Health systems need clear governance over trackers and data flows across digital properties. 📍 Tampa General AI Voice Agents — Nate Collier Tampa General Hospital rolled out AI voice agents with Hyro in about three months for patient access workflows. The success metric isn't deployment—it's whether wait times fall, abandonment drops, and escalation is clean. 📍 HHS AI Strategy — Peter Betterworth HHS is rolling out an AI strategy signaling expectations on governance and responsible use. The practical takeaway: move fast, but be able to document oversight, monitor performance, and justify how AI is used in real workflows. Bright Spot: AI's Creative Era in cancer care. Platforms like 4D Path are extracting actionable insight from routine pathology images—predicting tumor behavior, estimating treatment response. The trend: routine pathology becomes a predictive sensor, not just a diagnostic snapshot. Jalen Cross reports. 🎙️ Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts, and if you like our show, please follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/hit_show. HITshow is made possible by EY, Kimmchi and HLTH 2025 — the epicenter of healthcare innovation, where the future of care happens.
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    8 分
  • HITshow Daily: December 3, 2025 (Wednesday)

    HITshow Daily: December 3, 2025 (Wednesday)
    2025/12/03
    Today on HITshow: Systems are trying to create more capacity and less friction, but the risks and the dollars are right there in the room with them. New reporting reveals persistent patient-safety concerns with the VA's EHR modernization despite billions spent. The U.S. House passes legislation extending Medicare waivers supporting acute hospital-at-home care for five more years. Humana and Epic roll out automated digital insurance verification starting with Medicare Advantage. LCMC Health moves to systemwide ambient AI implementation with Nabla following a successful pilot. Plus rapid-fire updates on hospital deal drama, payer contract negotiations going sideways, autonomous coding claims, and major bankruptcy threads. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 VA EHR Modernization Safety Concerns — Anika Shah New reporting reveals persistent patient-safety and workflow issues tied to the VA's EHR modernization despite billions spent. VA leaders say the system is improving and preparing for 2026 expansion, but clinicians report major problems still showing up in day-to-day care. A reminder: big EHR transitions are clinical operations and safety at scale, not just IT projects. 📍 Hospital-at-Home Extension — Teresa Vaughn The U.S. House passed legislation extending Medicare waivers supporting acute hospital-at-home care for five more years. If it becomes law, it keeps the program's legal runway in place through around 2030, giving health systems confidence to invest in home-based workflows and virtual nursing models. 📍 Automated Coverage Verification — Peter Betterworth Humana and Epic rolled out automated digital insurance verification and streamlined check-in, supporting 800K+ Humana Medicare Advantage members across ~120 health systems. Fewer manual steps, cleaner billing inputs, better patient experience—small friction fixes that add up. 📍 Ambient AI Systemwide Implementation — Nate Collier LCMC Health is moving systemwide with ambient AI using Nabla after a successful pilot. The next phase: less "does it work," more "how do we govern, scale, and measure real impact?" Durable, safe workflow change is the hard part. 📍 SSM Health vs. UnitedHealthcare — Teresa Vaughn SSM Health negotiating with UnitedHealthcare—if no deal by December 31, some patients lose in-network access January 1, 2026. Prepare your comms plan now. 📍 UConn Health / Aetna Out-of-Network — Teresa Vaughn UConn Health now out-of-network for many Aetna members after missed deadline; ~15,000 patients affected. Expect confusion, rescheduling, and surge in "what does this mean for me" calls. 🎙️ Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts, and if you like our show, please follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/hit_show. HITshow is made possible by EY, Kimmchi and HLTH 2025 — the epicenter of healthcare innovation, where the future of care happens.
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    10 分
  • HITshow Daily: December 2, 2025 (Tuesday)

    HITshow Daily: December 2, 2025 (Tuesday)
    2025/12/02
    Today on HITshow: It's a show about margins and maneuvering—hospital operators flexing, policy fights that hit the safety net, and big payers tightening the map. We'll check the pulse on interoperability because "data sharing" still isn't the same as "data you can actually use." HCA Healthcare's stock hits an all-time high. Hospitals sue to block a 340B rebate pilot that could hit cash flow. CMS finalizes the 2026 home health rule with payment decreases. UnitedHealth fully exits Latin America with the Banmedica sale. And a distressed-hospital settlement shows what stabilization really costs. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 HCA Stock Hits All-Time High — Logan Stokes Wall Street is grading hospital operations in real time. The signal: big, efficient operators can keep delivering despite labor pressure and a messy payer environment. For CFOs, it's a mirror—double down on capacity management, length-of-stay discipline, and clean charge capture. .📍 Hospitals Sue Over 340B Rebate Pilot — Anika Shah Hospitals and hospital groups are suing to block the federal 340B rebate pilot before it takes effect January 1, 2026. The core issue: rebate-style setup could create cash-flow risk and administrative churn compared to upfront discounts. 📍 CMS Home Health Payment Rule — Teresa Vaughn CMS finalized the 2026 home health rule with an estimated 1.3% aggregate payment decrease. For hospitals, the pressure point is discharge flow—if home health capacity tightens, length of stay and ED bottlenecks become real problems. 📍 UnitedHealth Exits Latin America — Jade Romero UnitedHealth agreed to sell Banmedica to private equity firm Patria for roughly $1 billion, completing its retreat from South America. Watch for sharper priorities and tighter contracting posture as the company refocuses. 📍 Interoperability Still Misses the Mark — Peter Betterworth Even as data sharing expands and networks grow, clinicians report poor usability of EHR data. The gap: connectivity without usability doesn't count if it doesn't show up at the point of care. 📍 Waterbury Hospital Tax Settlement — Jalen Cross A judge approved an $8.8 million tax settlement tied to Prospect Medical Holdings—a reminder that turnaround is expensive, and modernization costs follow distressed-asset deals long after the handshake. 🎙️ Subscribe here or wherever you listen to podcasts, and if you like our show, please follow us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/hit_show. HITshow is made possible by EY, Kimmchi and HLTH 2025 — the epicenter of healthcare innovation, where the future of care happens.
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    8 分