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A digital health startup wraps up a strong meeting with a pharma sponsor’s medical affairs team. The pitch lands and next steps get scheduled. A week later, the sponsor’s regulatory team sends over a tech requirements document. Half the terms on the page are new to the CTO: combination product, 21 CFR Part 11, GxP, validated software, data use agreement, co-promotion complian...

If you’re stuck on the Cerner and Epic comparison, you’re not the only one. Epic and Cerner are the two EHRs (and the two medical software platforms) most hospitals end up choosing between, and they have the market shares to show for it.

For most hospitals and clinics, the call on Epic Systems vs Cerner comes down to one thing: which functionality actually fits how you...

AI-powered practice management for one specialty is different work from bolting an AI layer onto a generic system, and the gap shows up fast.

Automated prior auth that works for primary care falls apart on a fertility IVF cycle, because the clinical justification doesn’t look anything like a primary-care PA letter. Ambient documentation tuned to general psychiatry prod...

According to the Parkinson’s Foundation, Parkinson’s disease (PD) affects roughly 1.1 million Americans today, with about 90,000 new US diagnoses a year. PD is also the world’s fastest-growing neurological disorder, per WHO. Progressive. Incurable. Serious daily care load: medication multiple times a day, motor monitoring, therapy adherence, care coordination.

Yet most...

The first real user entered their health data into your vibe-coded app three weeks ago. You were still tuning the UI. Encryption felt like a later problem. The app worked. People used it. Then someone asked you a question you weren’t ready for.

It’s one of three questions, in our experience. An investor’s technical partner asking for HIPAA compliance documentation. A h...