By Matt Fisher – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its proposed 2027 Physician Fee Schedule for Medicare (the 27 PFS) on July 14, 2026. The 27 PFS contained a pretty big surprise: a complete shift in approach to the two primary modes of remote monitoring: remote physiologic monitoring and remote therapeutic monitoring.
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By Theo Sakalidis – When I worked on the buy side of healthcare private equity, we underwrote a lot of physician practices. And I can tell you that the clinical work, the thing the doctors trained a decade to do, was almost never the thesis. The thesis was the back office.
By Shawn Spurlock and Liz Turi – We are excited to announce the 2026 standards approved by the National Coordinator through ONC’s Standards Version Advancement Process (SVAP). This year, we highlight two important groups of standards.
By Tharun Kumar Nallamothu – Lessons from Real Clinical Environments – Artificial intelligence in healthcare has reached a point where technical capabilities are no longer the primary limitation. Models can transcribe clinical conversations, extract insights, and support decision-making with increasing accuracy.
By Maithilee Mitra – It started with a cloud infrastructure project that should have been straightforward. An enterprise IT team was tasked with building a cloud environment for researchers and data scientists, call them data users, to analyze findings and contribute to a multi-site data warehouse.
By Maithilee Mitra – It started with a cloud infrastructure project that should have been straightforward. An enterprise IT team was tasked with building a cloud environment for researchers and data scientists, call them data users, to analyze findings and contribute to a multi-site data warehouse.
By Chris Rogowski – Hospitals across the U.S. are hoping that 2026 ends much differently than it began. In January, a difficult financial operating environment carried over from the prior year, as expenses and bad debt grew, while patient volumes declined. Expenses per calendar day rose 5% year-over-year in January, pushed higher by rising costs for drugs and labor.
By Lauren Sausser & Darius Tahir – Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients.
By Darius Tahir – At one call center in the Philippines, workers help Americans with diabetes or neurological conditions troubleshoot devices that monitor their health. Sometimes they get pressing calls: elderly patients who are alone and experiencing a medical emergency.