By Melissa Kotrys – Healthcare interoperability has made meaningful progress, but gaps remain between the national vision and the realities of local health information exchange. Achieving truly seamless, accessible data sharing requires national and local initiatives to work together, ensuring progress translates into meaningful impact for the communities and organizations that rely on it.

Newly released episode of AI Amplified. Host Dr. Heather Bassett talks to Rom Eizenberg, Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Product Innovation at Kontakt.io, to explore a blind spot in healthcare AI investment: while clinical technologies have attracted enormous attention and funding, the operational infrastructure supporting care delivery has been largely overlooked.

Reported payers and health insurance industry news from EHVA.ai, UnitedHealthcare, Independence Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, CVS Health, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Humana, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna Healthcare, AHIP, and more.

By Natosha McNeal – Agentic orchestration is what makes scale achievable. It sets the boundaries an agent operates within and records every step it takes, with a clinician or compliance check built in wherever the stakes call for it. This allows AI to take on real work while the people accountable for it remain in control.