Health IT Business News – July 16, 2026

Trending News

Caris Life Sciences Launches Caris Detect, the World’s Most Sensitive and Comprehensive Multi-Cancer Early Detection Blood Test
Caris Life Sciences®, a patient-centric, next-generation AI TechBio company and precision medicine pioneer, announced the commercial launch of Caris Detect™, a groundbreaking multi-cancer early detection blood test designed to uncover cancer signals at earlier, more treatable stages.

Product News

Carta Healthcare Brings Hybrid Intelligence to Oncology with Lighthouse for Cancer Registry Abstraction
Carta Healthcare, a provider of enterprise clinical data management, announced Lighthouse for Oncology. Health systems can now apply Carta Healthcare’s Hybrid Intelligence approach to cancer registries, one of the most complex and labor-intensive areas of clinical data abstraction.

Cantata Health Solutions Announces New Capabilities for Child and Youth Services Organizations
Cantata Health Solutions, a provider of technology solutions for behavioral health and human services, announced expanded child and youth services capabilities within Arize, its modern EHR platform for managing clinical, financial and operational workflows. The new features are designed to help organizations that provide foster care, adoption, family preservation, and related services to quickly identify available homes, manage placement requirements and reduce the manual work that slows operations.

MedeAnalytics Announces Innovations to Improve Quality and Financial Performance of Medicare Advantage Plans
MedeAnalytics, the healthcare performance improvement company, announced innovations to Medicare Advantage Insights, one of the core offerings of its enterprise healthcare analytics portfolio. These new capabilities help Medicare Advantage (MA) health plans unify fragmented data across quality, risk, finance, utilization, social determinants of health (SDOH), and member experience. By turning that data into predictive, prioritized insights and intelligent workflows, Medicare Advantage Insights helps plans improve financial performance, quality outcomes, and value-based care execution.

CareHive Health Launches New Service to Help Members Choose High-Quality, Lower-Cost Care
CareHive, a physician-led healthcare technology company, announced the launch of its healthcare decision guidance service in collaboration with a leading Texas health plan. The service proactively identifies plan members who can save money by receiving routine clinical services, such as laboratory tests, in lower-cost care settings without compromising quality. It then provides clear, personalized guidance and support to help members make a confident change. The service is available to members at no cost, regardless of how much they save.

1upHealth Announces 1up Gateway to Simplify CMS-0057-F Compliance for Health Plans
1upHealth, a leader in health data interoperability, announced the 1up Gateway, a new model to support compliance with the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) among health plans with existing FHIR infrastructure. With this new release, 1upHealth is ensuring the broader payer ecosystem is prepared for interoperability regulations ahead of the final January 1, 2027 deadline.

Trice Workspace Reporting Launches to Evolve Obstetric & Maternal Fetal Medicine Workflows
Despite declining birth rates worldwide, the complexity of pregnancy is increasing. Advanced maternal age, IVF assisted pregnancies, rising obesity rates and higher prevalence of hypertension and diabetes, means that more cases require specialist monitoring, advanced imaging, and multidisciplinary care. At the same time, clinical teams are stretched and facing increasing administrative demands. Designed to address the challenges, Trice Imaging, has launched ‘Trice Workspace Reporting’, an innovative reporting tool built specifically for Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine.

MDaudit Advances Its Meaningful AI Strategy with the Addition of Auditor Assist to Its Continuous Risk Monitoring Solutions Suite
Payers are denying claims at AI-driven speed, often autoflagging and subsequently denying valid claims for provided care that hospitals and health systems must fight to recover. Benchmark data from MDaudit tells the story: payer audit volume and dollars at risk climbed 30% year over year, with coding-related denials up as much as 26%. Regulatory scrutiny of AI-assisted coding and documentation is also intensifying, contributing to rapidly growing audit backlogs. To help healthcare organizations fight these headwinds, MDaudit, an award-winning continuous risk-monitoring platform, offers a suite of revenue integrity solutions grounded in its standard of Meaningful AI, in which technology is judged by its return on investment (ROI), the friction it removes, and whether a human remains firmly in control of every decision.

Collaboration News

Doctronic and Simple HealthKit Partner to Create First End-to-End AI-Native Health Screening and Care Platform
Doctronic, an AI native health platform, and Simple HealthKit, an end-to-end at-home healthcare platform, powered by AI, announced a first-of-its-kind partnership to create a fully integrated care experience from engagement, screening to follow-up care, built to meet people where they are.

IMAT Solutions and Firely Partner to Accelerate Digital HEDIS® and Quality Measurement Transformation for Health Plans
IMAT Solutions, a provider of healthcare data management, aggregation, and interoperability solutions, and Firely, a global leader in FHIR-native healthcare technology and digital quality measurement, announced a strategic partnership to help health plans accelerate their transition to digital quality measures (dQMs) and modernize HEDIS® quality reporting.

PatientGenie and RevSpring Partner to Connect AI Scheduling Agents to Live Provider Directories
PatientGenie, the orchestration layer for health plans and health systems to automate patient outreach and close care gaps, announced a partnership with RevSpring, the leading provider of healthcare engagement and payment solutions. The integration connects PatientGenie’s AI agents directly to RevSpring’s National Provider Directory MCP, giving agents accurate, real-time provider details, including phone numbers, locations, sub-specialties, clinical expertise, and availability they need to recommend and reach the right provider and schedule appointments on members’ behalf.

Making the Cut, Milestones, Accolades, Awards and More

Intermountain Health Doctors Perform 100th Surgical Procedure to Improve Lives of Epilepsy Patients Using High-Tech Brain Implants to Reduce Seizures
Intermountain Health neurologists are celebrating a major milestone: the 100th surgery of a groundbreaking implantable device that is proving to be a major success in reducing seizures in patients with patients with focal epilepsy.

Bassett Healthcare Network Nationally Recognized for System-Wide Excellence in Age-Friendly Care
Bassett Healthcare Network has been recognized nationally among only 14 leading health organizations as an Age-Friendly Health System committed to care excellence for older adults.

Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center Named Among Newsweek’s Best U.S. Maternity Hospitals for 2026
Each year, thousands of families choose Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center to welcome their babies. Now, the hospital’s Birth Center has earned national distinction for its care. Newsweek has named Shady Grove Medical Center to its list of America’s Best Maternity Hospitals for 2026.

Black Book Research Recognizes Inovalon for End-to-End Revenue Cycle Platform and Eligibility Intelligence
Inovalon, a provider of data and solutions empowering data-driven healthcare, has been named a top-rated revenue cycle management (RCM) vendor by Black Book Research, earning recognition in two categories: (i) Full Provider Cloud RCM Suite: Intake-to-Final-Payment Platform Breadth and (ii) Eligibility, Benefits Verification, and Real-Time Payer Rule Interpretation. The rankings are based on verified evaluations from more than 1,300 hospital and health system finance and revenue cycle leaders.

Product Certification News

FDA Clears CliniComp PACS Viewer (MIMPS), Unifying Diagnostic Imaging, Enterprise EHR, and Native AI in a Single Platform
CliniComp, a pioneer in high-performing, reliable, electronic health record (EHR) solutions, announced FDA 510(k) clearance of its PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) Viewer as a Medical Image Management and Processing System (MIMPS). The clearance enables diagnostic-quality image viewing and advanced image processing directly within CliniComp’s New Era EHR with Native AI Solution Suite, expanding the unified enterprise platform by bringing diagnostic imaging, clinical workflows, and AI-driven decision support together in a single patient record.