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- Feb 13, 20264 min
HITshow Daily: Thursday, February 12, 2026
Today on HITshow: Today's stories point to a clear trend: health systems investing heavily in automation at both front door and back office, while financial pressure continues to reshape workforce strategy. Mayo Clinic and Ubie launch AI-powered platform to improve patient triage, scheduling, and navigation, CommonSpirit deploys AI tools for financial operations to identify savings and detect revenue slippage, Memorial Hermann offers voluntary buyouts to manage costs, Cigna announces plans to reduce workforce by 2,000 employees globally, and in today's Bright Spot, a coalition launches AI Care Standard framework for patient-facing AI safety. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 Digital Health --- Nate Collier Mayo Clinic collaborating with digital health company Ubie to develop AI-powered platform designed to improve patient triage, scheduling, and navigation. Goal is helping patients find right level of care faster—primary care, urgent care, virtual care, or specialty services—while reducing pressure on call centers and intake staff. Digital front door has become one of most important operational battlegrounds. AI tools increasingly used to guide patients through symptoms, recommend appropriate care settings, and connect directly to scheduling systems. For large systems, improving access directly affects throughput, revenue capture, and capacity management. Access improvements often produce fastest ROI in healthcare because they increase utilization of existing capacity and reduce administrative workload simultaneously. 📍 Finance & Capital --- Teresa Vaughn CommonSpirit Health deploying AI tools to improve financial operations by identifying savings opportunities, analyzing cost patterns, and detecting areas where revenue may be slipping through cracks. Large health systems operate incredibly complex financial environments with thousands of supply contracts, reimbursement streams, and operational cost centers. AI platforms analyzing financial and operational data in near real time, allowing leaders to detect trends earlier and intervene faster. Shift reflects broader change in how hospital CFOs view technology investments—prioritizing tools that directly affect margin, productivity, and operational efficiency. Starting with larger systems due to scale and data infrastructure, but mid-size organizations watching closely. 📍 Strategy & Transformation --- Teresa Vaughn Memorial Hermann Health System begun offering voluntary buyouts to some employees as part of strategy to manage costs and improve operational efficiency. Health systems nationwide face rising labor costs, slower reimbursement growth, and ongoing inflation. Many responding by restructuring administrative roles, consolidating departments, and investing in automation. Cigna announced plans to reduce workforce by roughly 2,000 employees globally as part of efforts to streamline operations and remain competitive. These moves reflect broader shift: organizations redesigning workflows, not just trimming budgets, looking at where automation, outsourcing, or process redesign can replace manual work. Most leaders see this as structural—operating model of healthcare organizations is changing. 📍 Digital Health --- Nate Collier (Bright Spot) Coalition of healthcare leaders launched AI Care Standard, new framework to evaluate safety of artificial intelligence tools that communicate directly with patients. Initiative announced by Vital CEO Aaron Patzer with contributors from MedStar Health, HCA Healthcare, Stanford, Highmark, Indiana University Health, Hackensack Meridian Health, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and Texas Children's Hospital, along with patient-safety advocates and nursing leadership groups. Framework provides scoring tools and principles for health systems and vendors to evaluate whether patient-facing AI tools are safe, reliable, and appropriate for clinical environments. Goal is creating practical middle ground as governance, transparency, and measurable safety standards become essential. 🎙️ 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.
- Feb 12, 20263 min
HITshow Daily: Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Today on HITshow: Hospitals are adapting to a new reality: fewer staff, more care outside the hospital, and policy changes reshaping access to care. Healthcare still carrying 700,000+ open positions nationwide with shortages especially severe in rural areas, specialty nursing, and behavioral health. Hospital-at-home programs expanding rapidly after federal waivers extended, with several large systems now treating it as core service line. Plus: CMS introduces new staffing incentives for nursing homes and long-term care facilities, price transparency enforcement tightening, federal primary-care program cancellation creates uncertainty, Alabama directs $200M in federal funding toward rural healthcare workforce, and Savvy Cooperative rebrands as Real Patients. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 Strategy & Transformation --- Teresa Vaughn Healthcare still carrying more than 700,000 open positions nationwide, with shortages especially severe in rural areas, specialty nursing, and behavioral health. Some hospitals reducing services because they cannot staff them safely. Executives no longer planning for short-term shortage but long-term constraints, accelerating investment in automation, virtual nursing, and care-at-home models. Top concern: retention and burnout. Hiring improved in some markets, but turnover still offsetting gains. Workforce stability remains top operational priority. 📍 Digital Health --- Nate Collier Hospital-at-home programs expanding rapidly after federal waivers extended. Programs now include remote monitoring, infusion therapy, and some acute-level services delivered in patients' homes. Executives say this helps manage bed shortages and improves patient satisfaction. Hospitals redesigning care pathways and staffing models to support distributed care. Several large systems now treat hospital-at-home as core service line, not pilot programs. 📍 Healthcare Policy & Advocacy --- Teresa Vaughn CMS introducing new incentives for nursing homes and long-term care facilities, including loan repayment and financial incentives to attract nurses. Hospitals watching closely because staffing shortages in skilled nursing facilities directly affect discharge timelines and patient flow. Improving post-acute capacity is one of fastest ways to relieve hospital congestion. 📍 Healthcare Policy & Advocacy --- Xavier Banks CMS continuing to increase enforcement and education around hospital price transparency rules. For executives, message is clear: compliance expectations tightening. Hospitals advised to audit files, verify data accuracy, and ensure pricing is accessible and machine-readable. Risks include fines, reputational risk, and more complicated payer negotiations. 📍 Healthcare Policy & Advocacy --- Teresa Vaughn Providers reacting to cancellation of long-running federal primary-care program, creating uncertainty in funding and care coordination. Instability in primary care often leads to more emergency visits, delayed diagnoses, and higher acuity admissions. Executives say strengthening primary care remains essential to controlling downstream costs. 📍 Strategy & Transformation --- Teresa Vaughn Alabama directing roughly $200M in federal funding toward strengthening rural healthcare workforce, including training pipelines, recruitment incentives, and infrastructure support. Rural hospitals continue to face some of the most severe staffing and financial pressures in the country. 📍 Digital Health --- Nate Collier Health systems investing in technology and care redesign focused on measurable results. Examples include population-health platforms helping reduce inpatient utilization and improve care coordination. Executives say emphasis now is ROI, scalability, and outcomes, not just pilots. 📍 Industry Update --- Rhonda Brooks Savvy Cooperative has rebranded as Real Patients, reflecting mission of bringing real lived patient experience directly into healthcare decision-making. Focus on capturing authentic patient voices, over time, in their own words, rather than relying only on indirect or incomplete data. 🎙️ 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.
- Feb 12, 20268 min
HITshow Daily: Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Today on HITshow: Forces shaping healthcare right now: workforce pressure that isn't letting up, new federal policy moves affecting costs and competition, and technology finally moving beyond pilots to deliver real operational results. Kaiser Permanente strike continues in California affecting tens of thousands of workers, while NYC negotiations produce tentative agreements at Mount Sinai and Montefiore. Plus: CMS proposes new rules on transparency and competition, ViVE conference preview shows shift toward ROI and operational efficiency, and technology delivering measurable results including Integrity Health's 16% reduction in inpatient costs and growth in value-based care networks. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 Strategy & Transformation --- Teresa Vaughn Kaiser Permanente strike continues in California affecting operations across multiple facilities with tens of thousands of workers involved in disputes over staffing levels, wages, and working conditions, forcing administrators to rely heavily on contingency staffing. In New York, negotiations produced tentative agreements at several major hospitals including Mount Sinai and Montefiore that could bring thousands of nurses back to work, though not all facilities reached agreements. Common theme: workforce shortages and retention pressures are becoming structural realities, not temporary disruptions. The longer-term concern is sustainability—even when strikes resolved, underlying drivers like burnout, competition for staff, and rising labor costs don't disappear. 📍 Healthcare Policy & Advocacy --- Peter Betterworth Federal regulators proposed new rules aimed at increasing transparency and competition while continuing efforts to control program costs. While still in rulemaking phase, proposals signal continued pressure on hospitals to demonstrate value and efficiency, particularly in areas tied to reimbursement and reporting. Regulatory expectations are not easing—compliance requirements, data reporting, and cost controls remain central priorities. Organizations that start preparing early tend to avoid biggest disruptions later. 📍 Finance & Capital --- Logan Stokes With ViVE digital health conference now two weeks away, biggest shift is change in tone. Hospital and health-system leaders increasingly focused on ROI, operational efficiency, and technologies that integrate into existing workflows rather than adding complexity. Priority list: tools that reduce workforce strain, protect revenue, and improve patient flow. Era of pilot projects without measurable outcomes is fading, executives asking tougher questions about results. 📍 Digital Health --- Nate Collier Integrity Health reported improved patient outcomes and significant reduction in inpatient costs after deploying population health platform to coordinate care and identify high-risk patients earlier. Patients managed through program saw inpatient costs averaging about 16% lower per claim, along with shorter hospital stays and lower readmission rates. Organizations like Aledade continue expanding participation among independent practices in value-based care networks. Virtual nursing programs helping extend workforce capacity by allowing experienced nurses to support bedside teams remotely. Remote patient monitoring gaining traction in chronic disease management as reimbursement pathways improve and health systems report fewer readmissions and better patient engagement. Common thread: technology adoption increasingly tied to results, moving beyond pilot projects to tools that demonstrably reduce cost, improve outcomes, or relieve workforce pressure. 📍 Closing Perspective --- Rhonda Brooks Themes becoming clear: workforce strain is part of operating environment health systems must plan for, financial discipline continues shaping decisions at every level, innovation entering new phase where tools expected to deliver measurable results, and regulation/reimbursement policy continue evolving ensuring operational strategy and compliance remain tightly linked. 🎙️ 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.
- Feb 11, 20268 min
HITshow Daily: Monday, February 9, 2026
Today on HITshow: Across healthcare, the pressure is rising and starting to show. Payers warning about margins, hospitals facing new scrutiny, supply chains and digital health companies forced to prove the numbers work. Molina Healthcare shares drop sharply after weak guidance citing rising medical costs and Medicare Advantage pressure, MultiCare agrees to settlement over allegations related to unnecessary procedures, and federal lawmakers advance PBM reform legislation on transparency and oversight. Plus: Cardinal Health raises earnings outlook driven by specialty pharmaceuticals, new analysis shows 700+ hospitals nationwide at risk of closure, and Carbon Health enters Chapter 11 restructuring after struggling to reach profitability despite $3B+ valuation. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 Finance & Capital --- Logan Stokes Molina Healthcare reported quarterly loss and projected earnings significantly below analyst expectations, citing rising medical costs, pressure in Medicare Advantage, and changes in Medicaid enrollment. Stock fell more than 25% in response, one of the sharpest reactions in payer sector in recent years. Executives pointed to utilization trends and reimbursement pressure as key drivers, reinforcing broader concerns that payer margins may tighten across government programs in 2026. Most analysts treating this as broader signal, not company-specific issue. For hospitals, could translate into tougher negotiations, slower reimbursement growth, and continued scrutiny of utilization and documentation. 📍 Strategy & Transformation --- Teresa Vaughn MultiCare agreed to settlement tied to allegations that some procedures were performed without sufficient medical necessity. While the organization did not admit wrongdoing, the case highlights increasing scrutiny from regulators and payers around utilization, documentation, and peer review processes. Many hospitals expanding clinical analytics and utilization review programs to identify outliers earlier and reduce risk before it becomes legal or compliance issue. 📍 Healthcare Policy & Advocacy --- Xavier Banks Federal lawmakers advanced legislation aimed at increasing transparency and oversight of pharmacy benefit managers. Proposals focus on pricing practices, rebate structures, and reporting requirements. For hospitals and health systems, changes in PBM practices could influence specialty drug purchasing, reimbursement dynamics, and employer-driven coverage decisions. Most analysts say effects would be gradual, but even incremental changes in drug pricing transparency could shift negotiations within a year or two. 📍 Finance & Capital --- Peter Betterworth Cardinal Health reported stronger-than-expected results and raised full-year earnings guidance, driven largely by growth in specialty pharmaceuticals and strong distribution performance. Executives pointed to sustained demand for high-cost therapies and continued pressure on healthcare supply chains to manage cost and inventory efficiently. Specialty pharmaceuticals continue to grow as share of spending—where much of financial pressure and opportunity is concentrating. 📍 Strategy & Transformation --- Teresa Vaughn A recent report finds more than 700 hospitals nationwide considered at risk of closure, with hundreds facing immediate financial vulnerability. Many are rural or safety-net providers where labor costs, payer mix, and declining volumes have strained margins. Trend contributing to consolidation, service reductions, and growing concern about access to care in certain regions. Some systems improving margins, but for smaller hospitals, workforce costs and reimbursement remain major challenges. 📍 Digital Health --- Nate Collier Carbon Health, once valued at more than $3B and seen as leader in hybrid virtual-and-in-person care, entered Chapter 11 restructuring after struggling to reach profitability. The trajectory reflects broader shift in digital health where investors and health systems now demand clear evidence of ROI, sustainable margins, and integration with clinical workflows. For hospital executives evaluating vendors: long-term viability now matters as much as innovation. Investment shifting toward companies demonstrating measurable outcomes and operational value. 🎙️ 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.
- Jan 14, 202610 min
HITshow Daily: January 14, 2026 (Wednesday) — JPM Week Day 3
Today on HITshow: Revenue-cycle consolidation meets patient privacy concerns as JPM Week continues. EnableComp acquires H/ROI to create a comprehensive platform for complex revenue, Epic and several major providers sue over alleged misuse of patient records in the TEFCA ecosystem, and JPM Week signals shift from AI demos to credible ROI. Plus: federal policy reinforcing interoperability accountability, and a Bright Spot on solving patient identity to finally get rid of the clipboard. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 Finance & Capital --- Teresa Vaughn EnableComp is acquiring H/ROI (Human Resources Optimization) to create a comprehensive platform for complex revenue including denials, DRG validation, and complex claims recovery. EnableComp CEO Frank Forte says a typical VA claim that takes 90 minutes manually can be 90-95% automated and completed in minutes or seconds. The deal signals revenue-cycle tech is consolidating around platform plays as margin pressure continues. 📍 Healthcare Policy & Advocacy --- Peter Betterworth Epic, along with OCHIN, Reid Health, Trinity Health, and UMass Memorial Health, filed a federal lawsuit alleging Health Gorilla and a network of companies improperly accessed and monetized patient medical records. The lawsuit is essentially one TEFCA participant taking another to court, alleging bad actors exploited national health information exchange pathways by requesting records under the appearance of legitimate care purposes for profit instead of treatment. 📍 Healthcare Policy & Advocacy --- Anika Shah (JPM Coverage) Federal policy is showing up directly inside JPM conversations, with senior government leaders reinforcing that the next phase isn't just talking about interoperability but proving it works at national scale with real accountability. Health systems should expect more scrutiny around how data is accessed, governed, and used. 📍 AI & Machine Learning --- Jade Romero (JPM Coverage) JPM announcements are shifting from shiny tech to operational adoption. Revenue cycle is becoming an AI battleground focused on automation that takes work off teams' plates. Provider partnerships are being framed as clinical workflow plus data plus outcomes, not just new tech. Wearables are inching closer into clinical workflow when data can be incorporated in ways clinicians can actually use. 📍 Finance & Capital --- Logan Stokes (JPM Market Read) JPM Week compressed months of strategy talk: AI is everywhere but the bar has moved from cool demo to credible ROI, real anxiety around public funding and Medicaid dynamics is shaping growth conversations, and executives are watching payer behavior closely. For hospital leaders evaluating technology: treat every AI pitch like a budget conversation asking what cost disappears, what risk drops, and what capacity returns to the workforce. The winners are tying AI to measurable operational relief and proving it can live inside real workflows. 📍 Digital Health --- Jalen Cross (Bright Spot) Verato is solving patient identity to eliminate the clipboard moment. Clay Ritchey explains the most common experience health systems get wrong is lack of context at every touch of the care journey, forcing patients to re-explain themselves repeatedly. Only 25% of millennials or younger have a primary care physician compared to 80% of those 65+, making micro-moment experiences more important. Younger generations are 3x more likely to switch providers because they expect better consumer experiences. 🎙️ 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. Presented by: Ovatient | Verato | Spare Tire
- Jan 13, 20268 min
HITshow Daily: January 13, 2026 (Tuesday) — JPM Week Coverage, Day 2
Today on HITshow: Continuing JPM week coverage from San Francisco where the big theme is practical: healthcare AI is getting closer to the work, the visit, the record, and the back office. Breaking: NYC nurses strike enters second day with roughly 15,000 nurses walking out across multiple private hospital systems. Plus: HCA and MEDITECH announce Expanse is now live across 43 HCA hospitals, Owkin unveils agentic infrastructure trained on multimodal patient data, Hippocratic AI acquires Grove AI for clinical trial operations, Abridge and Availity team up for real-time prior authorization, and OpenAI reportedly acquiring Torch for around $100M. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 Breaking News --- Rhonda Brooks A major NYC nurses strike is now in its second day, with roughly 15,000 nurses walking out across multiple private hospital systems. Hospitals are working to maintain services with contingency staffing, and state leaders have taken emergency steps to give hospitals more flexibility to bring in temporary workers. Both sides continue to urge patients not to delay care. 📍 Health IT --- Peter Betterworth HCA and MEDITECH announced MEDITECH Expanse is now live across 43 HCA hospitals, described as the first large-scale wave of an enterprise rollout. The foundational move sets up standard workflows, cleaner data, and a clearer runway for future automation and decision support. 📍 AI & Machine Learning --- Nate Collier (JPM Coverage with Interview) Owkin unveiled agentic infrastructure trained on multimodal and multi-omics patient data, connecting pathology, imaging, clinical context, and other signals at the per-patient level. Owkin's Dinesh Divakaran explains patients will soon walk into visits with their own AI-generated summaries, just like clinicians use transcription. For hospital leaders, this means governance matters: who validates summaries, where do they get stored, and how do they influence decision-making without creating risk? 📍 AI & Machine Learning --- Jade Romero (JPM Coverage) Hippocratic AI acquired Grove AI as it expands into life sciences and clinical trial operations. Grove built an always-on, multilingual AI agent called Grace that supports trial participant engagement across voice, text, and email, plus a participant relationship management platform with oversight and regulatory alignment. 📍 Finance & Capital --- Teresa Vaughn (JPM Coverage) Abridge and Availity announced a collaboration aimed at real-time prior authorization tied to the clinician-patient conversation, with plans to extend across more revenue-cycle workflows. The goal is reducing lag between what's said in the visit and what the payer needs to approve care. 📍 Finance & Capital --- Logan Stokes (JPM Coverage) Multiple reports say OpenAI has agreed to acquire a small healthcare AI startup called Torch, with reporting suggesting a price around $100M in equity. The major AI platforms aren't just building models, they're looking for workflow footholds in regulated industries like healthcare. 🎙️ 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 Verato, EnableComp & Spare Tire
- Jan 12, 202610 min
HITshow Daily: January 12, 2026 (Monday) — JPM Healthcare Conference Coverage
Today on HITshow: The 44th Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference kicks off in San Francisco, running January 12-15 at the Westin St. Francis with 8,000+ attendees. This year's agenda shows 22 not-for-profit health systems presenting on day one. Breaking news: thousands of NYC nurses on strike at multiple major hospitals. Plus: Imagine Pediatrics expands into four more states, Tampa General and Mass General Brigham launch joint ambulatory network in Florida, and major AI announcements including Anthropic's Claude for Healthcare, personal health records connecting into AI via HealthEx partnership, and Abridge plus Availity bringing real-time prior authorization. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 Healthcare Policy & Advocacy --- Anika Shah (Breaking) Thousands of nurses are on strike today at multiple major New York City hospitals after contract talks failed. The union says the core issue is safe staffing and that promises from the last strike haven't translated into unit-level reality. Hospitals argue they've made significant offers but union demands are too costly. The timing adds pressure during heavy flu season with hospitals hiring temporary nurses and adjusting operations. 📍 Strategy & Transformation --- Teresa Vaughn Imagine Pediatrics is expanding into four more states (Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina, and New York) and moving into the commercial health plan market. The 24/7 model combines virtual care with in-home support for children with special healthcare needs, now serving more than 70,000 kids with population doubling over the past year. 📍 Finance & Capital --- Logan Stokes Tampa General Hospital and Mass General Brigham are launching a joint ambulatory care network on Florida's East Coast, focused on expanding primary care, specialty services, and surgical care across Martin, St. Lucie, and Palm Beach counties. The template: brand plus ambulatory access plus referral control. 📍 AI & Machine Learning --- Jade Romero (JPM Coverage) Anthropic rolled out Claude for Healthcare with HIPAA-ready infrastructure for providers and payers, targeting documentation support, policy and coverage lookups, and generating drafts for review with stronger guardrails around health data handling. The executive question is shifting from "can it write?" to "can it plug into our governance and operations without creating new safety problems?" 📍 AI & Machine Learning --- Jade Romero (JPM Coverage) HealthEx and Anthropic partnered to let certain Claude subscribers securely connect medical records from tens of thousands of provider organizations, then ask questions grounded in their own history. Built on TEFCA (the national interoperability framework), patients will show up with AI-generated interpretations requiring health systems to have clear stances on accuracy and clinician response. 📍 Digital Health --- Teresa Vaughn (JPM Coverage) Abridge and Availity are teaming up to scale real-time prior authorization, compressing what can be a weeks-long process into something that happens during the encounter. Ambient documentation plus payer connectivity aims to move approvals from days to minutes when possible, reducing delays, reschedules, and staff time chasing paperwork. 📍 Finance & Capital --- Logan Stokes (JPM Coverage) Early JPM chatter suggests dealmakers expect a stronger year for healthcare M&A, including possibility of mega deals, helped by more permissive regulatory climate and looming patent cliffs in pharma. Consolidation shifts payer behavior, vendor pricing, and partnership options. 🎙️ 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 Spare Tire, Ovatient, and Kimmchi.
- Jan 9, 202611 min
HITshow Daily: January 9, 2026 (Friday)
Today on HITshow: Healthcare's AI moment is turning into infrastructure, while policy and capital markets help decide what scales and what gets funded. OpenAI launches a healthcare-specific product set with enterprise controls for protected health information, the House passes a 3-year ACA subsidy extension, and Apella raises $80M for ambient AI focused on operating room performance. Plus: Walmart launches Better Care Services as a digital health front door, and dealmakers signal an active M&A year ahead as JPM Healthcare Conference gets underway. HOST: RHONDA BROOKS 📍 Strategy & Transformation --- Teresa Vaughn OpenAI is now packaging a healthcare-specific product set aimed at organizations needing enterprise controls, clearer governance, and handling of protected health information. The platform targets documentation support, care team coordination, patient communication drafts, and operational tasks. Before scaling beyond pilots, executives should demand clear data controls (what's logged, retained, and who can access outputs) and evaluation in real workflows with measurement beyond satisfaction. 📍 Healthcare Policy & Advocacy --- Anika Shah The U.S. House passed a bill to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits for three years, affecting marketplace coverage affordability and hospital payer mix, charity care pressure, and collections. The bill faces a tougher path in the Senate, requiring scenario planning from revenue cycle and access teams for either renewals/re-enrollment surges or coverage churn. 📍 AI & Machine Learning --- Nate Collier Apella raised $80M to expand a platform using ambient AI and computer vision to measure operating room timing, workflow steps, turnover patterns, and bottlenecks. The platform creates a single source of truth for OR operations beyond just scheduling, with health systems participating strategically in funding to influence where the category goes. 📍 Digital Health --- Nate Collier Walmart launched Better Care Services, a digital health front door connecting consumers to third-party care options including urgent care and behavioral health. The move nudges patients toward convenience-first decisions, creating potential leakage risk for systems with fragmented, hard-to-navigate entry points. 📍 Finance & Capital --- Logan Stokes As the JPM Healthcare Conference gets underway, early signals suggest 2026 could be active for healthcare M&A driven by capability gaps, margin pressure, and competitive urgency. Watch for scale and portfolio reshaping, AI and automation acquisitions (especially revenue cycle, clinical productivity, and operational analytics), and vendor consolidation that changes pricing leverage and support. Hospital executives should review critical vendor contracts for change-of-control protections and identify top five mission-critical dependencies with real contingency plans. 🎙️ 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 Spare Tire, Ovatient, and Kimmchi.
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