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Wound Care Fraud Settlement Exposes Deeper Risks in EHR-Driven Billing

Jason Free — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:54:18 +0000

The recent $45 million settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Vohra Wound Physicians marks more than a punitive action. It also surfaces a structural weakness in healthcare billing that leaders can no longer afford to overlook. Vohra, one of the largest providers of bedside wound care in skilled nursing facilities, was accused of engineering an internal system that used electronic health records (EHRs) and billing automation to systematically overcharge Medicare for unnecessary and sometimes unperformed surgical debridement procedures.

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Clinical Trials Enter the Automation Era, But Oversight Must Keep Pace

Jason Free — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 02:14:47 +0000

The debut of real-time data integration between Epic and clinical trial systems at Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center signals a deeper shift in how leading institutions are reimagining research infrastructure, where speed, accuracy, and regulatory readiness are becoming as critical as scientific discovery itself.

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VA’s AI Strategy Shifts from Ambition to Infrastructure

Jason Free — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:28:45 +0000

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has released an expansive roadmap for operationalizing artificial intelligence, articulating a five-priority strategy to embed AI across clinical, administrative, and support functions. While many federal AI initiatives remain aspirational, the VA’s plan marks a notable shift: from proof-of-concept pilots toward foundational infrastructure, system-wide governance, and workforce-scale enablement.

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Oracle’s Patient-Facing AI May Challenge Industry’s Comfort with Complexity

Jason Free — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:08:32 +0000

With its latest move to embed conversational AI into the Oracle Health Patient Portal, Oracle has entered a delicate corner of healthcare: the interface between patients and their own medical data. This shift, announced during the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit in Orlando, aims to give patients plain-language summaries of their diagnoses, test results, and treatment options, an advance that reflects growing interest in patient-centric AI but also surfaces new regulatory and operational questions.

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AI-First EHRs Must Prove They Can Cut Risk, Not Just Clicks

Jason Free — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:41:28 +0000

Oracle’s announcement of a newly built, AI-powered electronic health record (EHR) system is as ambitious as it is emblematic. In declaring that “the EHR had to be reimagined from the ground up,” the company aims not just to enter the modern health IT arms race, but to reset the terms.

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Tim O’Connell of emtelligent on Structuring Healthcare Data for Responsible AI

Jason Free — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:55:31 +0000

Tim O’Connell, M.Eng., M.D., co-founder and CEO of emtelligent, offers a rare blend of clinical insight and technical acumen when it comes to the challenges of responsible AI in healthcare. As the industry confronts a surge of generative AI deployments, health-system leaders must reconcile the push for rapid automation with ethical imperatives around data governance, algorithmic fairness, and patient safety.

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Building Enterprise Intelligence with Hyland’s Agentic Document Processing

Jason Free — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:23:42 +0000

Agentic document processing is redefining how healthcare organizations manage unstructured clinical content, and Hyland’s next-generation solution exemplifies this shift. By embedding semantic, context-aware intelligence into enterprise workflows, Hyland enables autonomous agents to interpret, reason over and act on documents—transforming vast repositories of healthcare records into decision-grade data and orchestrating end-to-end processes across electronic health record (EHR), revenue-cycle and care-coordination systems.

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Altera’s Sunrise 25.1 Recasts EHR Vendor Expectations in an Era of Performance-Linked Technology

Jason Free — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:00:38 +0000

One week after the rollout of Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise 25.1, the conversation has shifted from feature analysis to strategic implications. This release redefines how health systems should evaluate their electronic health record (EHR) vendors, not just for functionality, but for alignment with performance-linked, modular modernization.

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Epic’s Legal Troubles and the Deeper Crisis in Health Data

Jason Free — Thu, 15 May 2025 21:24:11 +0000

CureIS Healthcare’s lawsuit against Epic Systems is more than a routine addition to the mounting pile of digital health litigation. It marks a deeper unraveling—one that exposes the structural fragility of the U.S. electronic health record (EHR) market. For years, a handful of entrenched vendors have controlled this space with minimal resistance. Now, that dominance appears to be reaching its breaking point. What is unfolding is not just a legal dispute, but a potential collapse of platform control, strained by contradictions around interoperability, data stewardship, and competitive neutrality.

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Award-Winning Health IT Platforms Reflect Broader Shifts in Care Access, Payment Integration, and Patient Support

Jason Free — Mon, 12 May 2025 12:52:34 +0000

Recognition from the 2025 MedTech Breakthrough Awards spotlighted three companies—TrustCommerce, Peerbridge Health, and DrFirst, whose platforms exemplify key trends shaping the future of digital healthcare delivery. Their award-winning solutions reflect an industry-wide push toward embedded, patient-centric technologies that address long-standing friction in payments, diagnostics, and adherence.

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