Financial/Revenue Cycle Management

For the first in a three-part series, the CIO of the New Jersey health system and its president of advanced care operations describe how something started by necessity during the pandemic quickly evolved into something more substantial and valuable.

Founded by Duke Health innovator Dr. Mark Sendak, the company offers a marketplace of validated AI tools and will work with providers to promote their adoption and monitor their performance. It will also help commercialize effective models.

The collaboration gives tech startups the ability to demonstrate value directly with clinicians.

In this special hour-long episode, recorded in Chicago at the inaugural event, our hosts and guests offer a wide-ranging discussion about smart AI investments and strategic alignment. Produced in collaboration with the Straight Outta Health IT podcast.

Thirty-four MA plans earned 5 stars in 2026 star ratings.

The combined companies will use their respective expertise to build out an artificial intelligence platform designed to help healthcare providers and others with data and benchmarking to improve patient and employee experience.

With more patients using artificial intelligence on their own to help with self-diagnosis, treatment and more, health systems that don't offer new services could see revenue erode, says Ed Marx, longtime healthcare CIO, author and advisor.

eClinicalWorks showcased a series of artificial intelligence tools it says are all aimed at improving the relationships between doctors and patients, and billing departments and healthcare consumers.

The integrated platform will combine patient engagement, care access, provider data management, price transparency and payment tools.

By agreeing to be acquired by Patient Square Capital, the healthcare improvement company hopes the new ownership structure will offer it the flexibility it needs to accelerate its IT investments and expand its services for health systems.