Medtronic veteran departs for CEO role at heart valve startup
Bill Shields, who led transcatheter mitral and tricuspid therapies at Medtronic, has joined Versa Vascular, developer of a valve repair treatment.
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The multiyear partnership will connect Abbott’s over-the-counter Lingo sensor and the Google Health app.
Philips authorizes largest shareholder to increase stake to 22%
Philips framed the revised agreement with Exor, the holding company of Italy’s billionaire Agnelli family, as evidence of confidence in its strategy.
Walmart Leaders Transform Security Operations Without Going Bananas
The big-box giant has scaled its defenses by encouraging trust and innovation. Good communications, transparency and team spirit are key factors.
I Used to Buy Practices. AI Is Draining the Moat I Was Paying For.
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. The po…
Google says Chrome cuts 7 billion unwanted Android notifications a day to fight abuse
Google says Chrome's anti-abuse systems reduced unwanted notifications on Android by more than 7 billion per day during the first quarter of 2026. [...]
How One Growing TPA Cut Provider Call Volume by 81%, Without Adding a Single Headcount
The math was simple and unforgiving: the company couldn’t scale to serve new clients without physically scaling its call center, and physically scaling a call center is slow, expensive, and hard to reverse. The question isn’t whether AI can handle provider calls, it’s how much ca…
Designing a generative AI architecture on OCI for a HIPAA control program – Oracle Blogs
Designing a generative AI architecture on OCI for a HIPAA control program Oracle Blogs
CHG Healthcare Survey: Advanced Practice Providers Have Become Essential to Health System Workforce Strategy
Advanced practice providers (APPs) have moved from a reactive staffing solution to a foundational pillar of U.S. healthcare workforce strategy, according to a new survey of 327 healthcare facility leaders from CHG Healthcare, the nation’s leading physician and advanced practice w…
Ortho firms unfazed by Medicare joint replacement changes
Shifting more responsibility for procedure costs to hospitals is unlikely to pressure prices for orthopedic implants, CEOs said.
Teledyne inks $1.1B takeover of Varex Imaging
Buying Varex will increase Teledyne’s exposure to the healthcare market. Teledyne said the companies’ imaging technologies complement each other with minimal overlap.
CMS seeks feedback on faster coverage for breakthrough devices
The proposed “RAPID” pathway could help some new medical devices get national Medicare coverage within months of FDA authorization.
Mozilla updates GPG signing key for Firefox releases after exposure
Mozilla announced today that it updated the GPG key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after it was accidentally exposed on GitHub. [...]
Vague Task, Total Access: When AI Delegation Becomes a Security Risk
AI agents can improvise beyond the intended scope of a task when they are given broad access to enterprise systems and data. Token Security explains why organizations need to define agent intent and continuously enforce permissions around what each agent was actually created to d…
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with Reduced Safeguards for Exploit Development
OpenAI on Monday unveiled a new cybersecurity-focused model called GPT‑5.6‑Cyber that it said is focused on vulnerability research, penetration testing, and incident response. "Built on GPT‑5.6 Sol, it is trained to improve capabilities on several specialized cybersecurity tasks…
The Specialty Problem Generalist AI Scribes Don’t Solve
By Pat Williams - When healthcare leaders talk about ambient AI scribing, they almost always picture the same setting: a primary care physician, managing a panel of 15 to 20 patients, dictating notes between appointments. That's the benchmark the industry has built its expectatio…
'GhostJacking' Exposes Identity Governance Gaps in AI Agents
New research shows how attackers can use security alerts and blocked events to manipulate and hijack AI agents.
OpenAI releases ChatGPT 5.6 Cyber, but it's only for approved users
OpenAI has developed a new model called "GPT 5.6 Cyber," designed for vulnerability research, penetration testing, incident response, and remediation. [...]
Attend the AMCP NEXUS 2026 in San Diego
Starts October 26th in San Diego - We're in an era of rapid transformation across managed care pharmacy. Artificial intelligence, political volatility, and scientific breakthroughs have all made their mark on managed care, and AMCP Nexus 2026 is where leaders come together to mak…
Outdated Cybercrime Laws Put Security Researchers at Risk
A public policy expert mapped global cybercrime laws to develop a five-point framework for protecting ethical hackers and good-faith security research.