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Athenahealth deploys more than 80 new artificial intelligence capabilities for revenue cycle management (RCM) operations on the AI-native athenaOne platform. Athenahealth provides electronic health record (EHR) software, RCM, and patient engagement solutions for small and independent healthcare providers. The new RCM roadmap aims to reduce manual administrative tasks and improve outcomes across the entire outpatient revenue cycle, the company said. “The most interesting thing about the current generation of AI is that it can read, write, and understand at its own AI level,” Paul Brient, chief product and operations officer at athenahealth, told Fierce Healthcare. “This allows us to dramatically…

Urban areas worldwide face mounting pressures from climate change and environmental threats driving up rates of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Collaboration among scientists, planners and advocates is essential.

To anyone who has ever seen ocean waves or fast-moving water, turbulence may seem like pure chaos. The powerful current twists, swirls, and swirls, and the vortex splits into smaller and smaller vortices, until its energy dissipates. For decades, scientists have believed that this process follows a predictable pattern. In three-dimensional environments such as the ocean and atmosphere, energy is thought to move from large structures to small structures. New research suggests the rules may not be as fixed as previously thought. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, working with collaborators at the University of Turin in Italy, have discovered…

The brain always predicts what the eye will see next, relying on an internal feedback network that physically rewires it to match the patterns it encounters in the world. Experiments manipulating vision in mice have revealed that our visual system behaves like an active learning machine, providing a biological basis for how the mind generates situational expectations. The results of the animal experiment were published in Current Biology. When light hits the retina, information travels through the back of the brain directly to the primary visual cortex. This region identifies basic visual elements such as primitive edges and simple geometric…

Get the health information and medications you need every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. good morning. As mentioned earlier, it’s ice cream every day season. But yesterday, while pedaling uphill, I had a tragic arachnid encounter that reminded me that this is also the season for spiders on your bike every day. (I park next to the bushes.) Impact of vaccine and coronavirus backlash on Ebola hemorrhagic fever countermeasures In 2020, NIH funded a network of 10 centers focused on emerging infectious diseases. Last year, the Trump administration cut funding to these centers as part…

Louisiana is awaiting the governor’s signature on legislation that will make it the fifth state this year to shield oil and gas companies from climate change lawsuits. The bill, passed by both state legislatures, would prohibit lawsuits seeking compensation for the effects of greenhouse gas emissions in the state. Existing lawsuits, including numerous legal disputes asking courts to hold companies financially responsible for Louisiana’s rapidly eroding coastline, will not be affected. A state Senate committee last month amended the bill to exclude those lawsuits, angering critics of challenges brought by coastal parish governments. However, the bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Brett…

In the highlands of the eastern Pyrenees, archaeologists have discovered evidence that could transform our understanding of how prehistoric people used mountain landscapes. Located more than 7,300 feet (2,235 meters) above sea level, the cave contains dozens of ancient hearths filled with green mineral shards that may indicate early copper mining activity. These discoveries suggest that people have repeatedly visited this remote location for about 2,000 years. The discovery challenges the long-held idea that prehistoric communities only briefly passed through high-altitude environments. Researchers also found the child’s finger bones and baby teeth, raising the possibility that the cave was used…

The all-star lineup of ultra-processed food researchers teaming up for a new special issue of the American Journal of Public Health delivers an overarching message to policymakers: “Do the policy!”The directive, proposed by food political scientist Marion Nestle at a press conference ahead of the issue’s launch, also comes with new polling showing widespread cross-party concern about the health risks associated with ultra-processed foods. A survey of 2,000 U.S. adults included in the new issue found that an overwhelming majority of Democrats, Republicans, and independents agree that ultra-processed foods are addictive and a leading cause of obesity, type 2 diabetes,…

In 2020, the National Institutes of Health funded a network of 10 centers aimed at “expanding knowledge about re-emerging and emerging infectious diseases.” But in recent months, these research centers were in no position to provide assistance when the dangerous Ebola and hantaviruses spread and caused outbreaks. In 2025, grants to the center were terminated by the Trump administration as part of cuts aimed at projects related to COVID-19 and pandemic preparedness. The agency told grant recipients in May 2025 that the network “is not considered safe for Americans and is not an effective use of taxpayer funds.” Of the…

Tara is in charge of the healthcare business. Her talk focuses on how hospitals, doctors, and their business practices impact patients, especially when private equity is involved. She also writes about health insurance and ideas for improving our broken health care system. You can access Tara with the signal tarabannow.70.Daniel is responsible for the interface between the healthcare industry and the federal government. He reports on corporate influence in government, the health impacts of federal policy, and health care policy. Sensitive information can be sent via Signal (danielp.100).Medicaid leaders and advocates say they are shocked by the Trump administration’s strict…