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Top Story Inside Healthcare's Hottest New AI Category: Agentic AI Healthcare organizations are starting to implement AI agents — autonomous, task-specific systems designed to perform functions with little or no human intervention. While initial adoption is focused mainly on non-clinical areas like scheduling and prior authorizations, experts predict that AI agents could eventually play a role in clinical decision-making, provided they meet rigorous safety and reliability standards. Sponsored How Hidden Costs Can Undermine Your Healthcare Practice Presented by Elation Health MedCity News Sign up for this on-demand presentation, and learn the key areas where practices are losing time and money and provide actionable solutions to overcome them. Discover how embracing technology and strategic practice models can reduce fragmentation, combat burnout, and address payment limitations—empowering your practice to thrive in the year ahead. Register Here.

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Gene Therapy in an Implant: Neurotech Lands First FDA Approval in Rare Vision Disorder Neurotech Pharmaceuticals' surgically implanted cell and gene therapy, Encelto, is now FDA approved to treat macular telangectasia type 2 (MacTel). It's the first therapy for this rare retinal degeneration disorder. Sunrise Introduces Sleep Offering Tailored to Women With Sunrise's women's health program, the company can support women battling sleep issues due to conditions like pregnancy, polycystic ovary syndrome, perimenopause, menopause and premenstrual syndrome. Navigating Diagnostic Deserts: How Portable Ultrasound is Improving Maternal Healthcare in Africa Providing affordable point-of-care diagnostic tools can be instrumental in quickly and efficiently assessing the well-being of all people, especially pregnant mothers. This can empower healthcare providers to be better diagnosticians and improve overall patient care, particularly for those at risk. Buprenorphine Access Still Lags, Even After Major Federal Policy Changes While the drop in drug overdose deaths is promising, and could potentially be partially attributed to the efforts of the federal government, we must remain cognizant about the sheer number of lives we continue to lose every year to overdose.

Video   Telehealth Can Be Easier Than You Think Dave Newman, chief medical officer of virtual care at Sanford Health, thinks that virtual care delivery is often more straightforward than people might think. For rural health systems like his, virtual care isn't just a "nice-to-have" — it's necessary to ensure patients are getting the care they need, he said.

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