Healthcare

Göttingen, Germany – September 28, 2026 -- University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) has become the first hospital in Germany and the European Union to deploy MDClone's ADAMS platform, layering advanced data utilization tools onto its existing UMG-MeDIC data integration center.

UMG becomes first EU adopter of internationally deployed ADAMS model

ADAMS is already operational at institutions including UChicago Medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, and Sheba Medical Center. UMG's rollout marks the model's first entry into a German or EU university hospital, building directly on infrastructure established under Germany's national Medical Informatics Initiative (MII).

Pittsburgh – September 28, 2026 -- Allegheny Health Network (AHN) has secured a $1 million commitment from Greg and Ellen Jordan to fund the Greg and Ellen Jordan Endowed Professorship for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders within its Department of Neurology.

Jordan gift targets research, education and expanded memory disorder care

The endowment will fund clinical care, neuroscience research and support programming for patients with Alzheimer's disease, dementia and cognitive impairment. Greg Jordan is chairman of the Board of Directors of Highmark Health since 2025, sits on the board of MSA Safety, and serves as vice chairman of PNC after retiring as PNC's general counsel and chief administrative officer in 2024.

"We have each lost a parent to memory-related diseases, and we know that supporting AHN's research in this field is needed to continue to make progress on finding ways to deal with these challenges," Jordan said.

Houston – September 28, 2026 -- The Inner Circle has named Patryk Kania, a Chief Executive Officer in the orthopaedic healthcare sector, as a Lifetime Member in recognition of his leadership and industry contributions.

Kania brings 21 years of healthcare executive experience to orthopaedic services leadership

Kania has spent more than two decades in healthcare leadership roles, spanning both established enterprises and startup ventures. As CEO, he directs strategy for orthopaedic services organizations, with a focus on operational performance, growth initiatives, and patient-care outcomes.

Executive holds a master's degree from Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business

Kania's academic credentials include a master's degree from the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, which he credits as foundational to his approach to business strategy and organizational development in healthcare.

Rosemont, Ill. – September 28, 2026 -- More than 75 million people in the United States live in a county without a vascular surgeon, according to new county-level data released by the American College of Surgeons (ACS), exposing a care gap as the population most vulnerable to vascular disease grows sharply toward 2030, when all baby boomers will be at least 65.

New mapping tool counts just 4,685 vascular surgeons across 3,144 U.S. counties

The ACS Surgical Workforce Mapping Tool, built with the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), found an average of 1.4 vascular surgeons per 100,000 people nationwide. While 290 hospital referral regions contain at least one vascular surgeon, 2,320 counties within those same regions have none, showing that regional averages mask local access failures.

Melbourne – September 28, 2026 -- Heidi, the AI Care Partner used across global health systems, unveiled Heidi II, a platform upgrade that executes the administrative work surrounding patient visits rather than merely documenting them, the company announced.

Heidi supports 2.8 million weekly patient visits and surfaces 10 million follow-up tasks

Until now those tasks were handed back to clinicians to complete manually. The average doctor spends 8.7 hours a week, or 16.6% of working hours, on administration spread across four to six separate systems per visit, according to Heidi.

Heidi's Scribe has recorded 175 million visits and 67 million clinical hours to date

Heidi Evidence has answered more than 10 million clinical queries since launch, and the platform has surfaced over 400 million follow-on tasks since February 2024.

Boston – September 28, 2026 -- PrescriberPoint has joined athenahealth's Partner Community as a Solution Partner, putting its AI-powered prior authorization tool directly into the e-prescribing workflow of more than 170,000 clinicians on the athenaOne network.

Integration lets providers submit prior authorizations without leaving their e-prescribing workflow

The new listing in the athenahealth Marketplace allows providers to initiate and complete prior authorizations using clinical and patient details pulled automatically into the submission. Denied claims can be advanced with appeals and supporting documentation prepared automatically rather than restarted from scratch.

Washington – September 28, 2026 -- More than 15 million Americans live in one of 1,180 US counties with no general surgeon, according to a national analysis unveiled at the ACS Clinical Congress 2026 and published simultaneously in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Study maps 12 surgical specialties across all 3,144 US counties for the first time

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill identified 201,394 surgeons practicing nationwide as of April 2025, equal to 59.2 surgeons per 100,000 people. Of the country's 3,144 counties, 951 (30%) had no identified surgeon in any of the 12 specialties, affecting 9.6 million people, while 1,180 counties (38%) had no general surgeon, affecting 15.1 million.

Boone, N.C. – September 27, 2026 -- Fuse Oncology plans to demonstrate a potential integration linking GE HealthCare's Intelligent Radiation Therapy (iRT) software to its S!GNAL charge capture platform at the ASTRO 2026 Annual Meeting, running September 27-29 in Boston at booth 2533.

Concept links radiation therapy workflow software directly to charge review

The showcased workflow would allow iRT to launch S!GNAL using existing patient information, giving radiation oncology teams a direct path from treatment coordination to targeted charge review without re-entering data across systems. The capability is described as planned for a future iRT release and is currently in development and evaluation, with no confirmed commercial availability date.

Beachwood, Ohio – September 25, 2026 -- Saber Healthcare Group has disclosed a cybersecurity incident in which an outside party encrypted a portion of its corporate network files on July 27, 2026, potentially exposing personal and medical information tied to an undisclosed number of individuals.

Attacker encrypted files causing service outage on July 27, 2026

Saber detected a service outage affecting internal and external computer systems on that date. The company secured and isolated its systems and launched an investigation with outside cybersecurity experts, who confirmed an unauthorized party had accessed the corporate network and encrypted a small portion of files, triggering the outage.

Camarillo, Calif. – September 25, 2026 -- Gold Coast Health Plan (GCHP) has awarded $2,087,811 in one-year grants to seven providers and community organizations in Ventura County to help Medi-Cal members retain coverage ahead of new federal eligibility rules taking effect in 2027.

GCHP's RISE program brings cumulative community investment past $13 million

The 2026 round is the second year of GCHP's Resilience, Innovation, Sustainability & Equity (RISE) Grant Program, following $11.3 million distributed across 16 grants in 2025. The program has now invested more than $13 million into local providers and community groups since launch.