Sessions and speakers originating from the Americas region.
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A new FDA draft tells surgical-robot makers to validate the full operating-room system—from latency and cybersecurity to clinical evidence and team training—raising the bar for connected, AI-enabled platforms.
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A U.S.-built clinical decision-support platform is expanding free access across about 100 lower-income countries, testing whether local adaptation, evidence standards and governance can keep pace with global scale.
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Anthropic has opened a San Francisco Bay Area wet lab to connect Claude with physical biology experiments. The move could shorten research cycles, but the company has disclosed no results and does not plan to run clinical trials.
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Two House cybersecurity bills would strengthen federal coordination and build a rural hospital workforce pipeline. The hearing exposed a central challenge: mandates are advancing faster than many small providers can fund or staff them.
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CMS is testing direct, outcomes-linked Medicare payments to technology organizations for chronic care as the FDA rethinks how generative medical AI should be evaluated, monitored and integrated safely.
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TPG is exploring a sale of claims-payment platform Lyric at a reported $5 billion valuation, testing how investors price healthcare data, embedded payer workflows and governed AI as automation reshapes payment integrity.
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A new HIMSS survey finds 73% of patients welcome healthcare AI when a clinician remains involved, sharpening the case for visible oversight, accountable workflows and patient choice as U.S. adoption accelerates.
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Arkansas is directing $149.3 million to rural telehealth, patient monitoring, emergency data exchange and AI-enabled clinical rooms, testing whether connected infrastructure can translate into durable access and measurable care gains.
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Boston Scientific plans to resume some product shipments after a cyberattack disrupted manufacturing, ordering and remote-monitoring activations, testing the resilience of a major medical-device supply chain.
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August 27, 2026 Dear Fellows, For those I have not yet had the opportunity to meet, I’m Ken Deans, President & CEO of Health Sciences South Carolina, the parent company of Health Data Management. I have had the privilege of working with many of you already, some for as
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A new Justice Department center will connect health claims with tax, financial and investigative data. Its promise is earlier fraud detection; its test is separating criminal schemes from ordinary billing anomalies.
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More than 1.5 billion electronic health documents have been exchanged through the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common