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ATA Pushes Interstate Telehealth Back Onto the Federal Agenda

Jason Free — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:47:53 +0000

In a March 31 announcement, the American Telemedicine Association and Johns Hopkins Medicine launched the LIFTT initiative to push for targeted federal reforms that would ease cross state telehealth barriers without displacing state licensure authority. (ATA) The announcement reads like a policy campaign, but its deeper significance is simpler.

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Anthropic Pushes Deeper Into Biomedicine

Jason Free — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:45:23 +0000

The reported acquisition of Anthropic by a biology focused startup is notable less for its price tag than for what it says about where frontier AI companies believe durable value will come from next.

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HL7 Takes Device Interoperability Into Practice

Jason Free — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:34:21 +0000

Health Level Seven International did not launch the Caliper FHIR Accelerator because healthcare lacks standards language. It launched it because healthcare still lacks operational discipline around device data.

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CMS Draws a Harder Line on Medicare Advantage

Jason Free — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:13:21 +0000

The latest CMS rate notice is easy to misread. On paper, the agency is still increasing payments to Medicare Advantage plans in 2027. In substance, it is drawing a sharper distinction between legitimate clinical risk and revenue built on documentation tactics that have long inflated the program’s economics.

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A Cleaner Chain of Command for Health IT

Jason Free — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:56:45 +0000

Administrative reshuffles inside HHS usually land as management trivia. This one does not. The department’s March 31, 2026 decision to return enterprise technology, data, and AI leadership to the Office of the Chief Information Officer while restoring the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to a narrower health IT policy role arrives at a point when governance failures are no longer abstract.

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Where Hospital AI Starts Paying Off

Jason Free — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:10:55 +0000

When Mount Sinai Health System announced a March 17 collaboration with Midstream Health to deploy AI-driven financial intelligence in its supply chain operations, the news looked at first like another routine health system technology partnership. The more revealing story is where the deployment starts.

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The CMS Rule That Finally Targets the Paperwork Nobody Fixed

Jason Free — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:47:44 +0000

The latest move from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be easy to underestimate because it sounds so administrative. The newly finalized health care claims attachments rule deals with documentation, transaction standards, and electronic signatures, not a flashy care model or a breakthrough therapy. Yet it may prove to be one of the more important healthcare modernization actions in years precisely because it aims at a part of the system that has remained stubbornly primitive long after the industry declared itself digital.

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The VA EHR Program Has Reached Its Trust Deadline

Jason Free — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:22:02 +0000

The latest congressional pressure on the Department of Veterans Affairs is not really about whether the agency should modernize its electronic health record. That argument was settled years ago.

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Perplexity: When Health Search Becomes Health Infrastructure

Jason Free — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:18:06 +0000

Perplexity is entering one of the most consequential corners of consumer health technology with Perplexity Health, a new product that promises to combine medical records, lab results, and wearable data into one conversational layer. On the surface, that sounds like the natural next step for an AI search company. In reality, it signals something bigger. Consumer health AI is moving beyond answer retrieval and into the far riskier business of interpreting a person’s fragmented health life in one place.

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Cybersecurity: The Vendor Risk Reckoning

Jason Free — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:15:52 +0000

The breach at TriZetto Provider Solutions, a Cognizant business, should not be treated as another familiar HIPAA headline. A filing with the Maine Attorney General’s office indicates that 3,429,351 people were affected, while industry reporting tied to the same disclosure said the unauthorized access began on November 19, 2024, and the compromised data was not fully understood until late November 2025. In any sector, that kind of dwell time would be serious

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