Healthcare

Long Island City, N.Y. – September 11, 2026 -- Fidelis Care, a Centene Corporation health plan serving more than two million members across New York State, has opened applications for up to $140,000 in Here for Your Health maternal health grants targeting postpartum care gaps in underserved communities.

Grant deadline set for September 21 as postpartum visit adherence lags nationally

Applications are available at fideliscare.org/maternal-grant, with a submission deadline of 5 p.m. on September 21, 2026. The grants will fund healthcare providers and community-based organizations developing solutions to improve postpartum visit attendance and expand maternal depression screening.

Portland, Oregon – September 11, 2026 -- Livmor Inc. has been approved for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Blue Button API access and named to the CMS Blue Button V3 Advisory Council, giving its LivmorIQ platform direct visibility into real Medicare beneficiary claims and prescription data.

The integration rolls out to LivmorIQ customers later this month alongside a new Disenrollment Notification feature, timed ahead of the October 15 start of the Annual Enrollment Period (AEP).

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. – September 11, 2026 -- Modern Micro Endodontics has opened its ninth New Jersey location at 617 E. Palisades Ave, Suite 3 in Englewood Cliffs, acquiring the practice of longtime local endodontist Dr. Anthony Fasciano, DMD.

Ownership transition adds Bergen County to a nine-office New Jersey network

The deal extends Modern Micro Endodontics' specialty footprint into Bergen County, adding root canal therapy, surgical endodontics, and same-day emergency treatment for area patients and referring dentists. Dr. Fasciano, who led the Englewood Cliffs practice for many years, selected Modern Micro Endodontics as his successor and will remain with the office temporarily to support the handoff; longtime staff will continue in their roles.

San Francisco and Nashville – September 11, 2026 -- Parakeet Health and Qualderm have launched an AI-driven scheduling collaboration to reconnect dermatology patients across a network of nearly 160 practices in 17 states, as appointment wait times climb nationwide.

Dermatology wait times rise 6% since 2022, hitting 36.5 days on average

A recent study cited by the companies found patients in 15 major U.S. metropolitan areas now wait an average of 36.5 days for a dermatology appointment, up 6% since 2022. Qualderm, a management services organization supporting medical, surgical and cosmetic dermatology, skin cancer care, and plastic surgery practices, cited this access gap as the driver behind the partnership.

Tampa, Fla. – September 11, 2026 -- GOBEL has launched Gratify, a grateful patient intelligence platform that fuses electronic medical record (EMR) and constituent relationship management (CRM) data to help hospitals and health system foundations identify and prioritize donor prospects.

Gratify merges clinical and philanthropic data into a single Prospect Intelligence Profile

The platform combines clinical signals from EMR systems with giving history and engagement data from CRM systems, using GOBEL's proprietary AI-powered predictive models. Unlike general nonprofit benchmarking tools, these models were trained specifically on combined clinical and philanthropic records for healthcare philanthropy applications.

Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale – September 10, 2026 -- RHÖN-KLINIKUM Campus Bad Neustadt has enrolled 124 new trainees across nine healthcare and administrative professions, reinforcing staffing for a facility that treats more than 160,000 patients annually with roughly 3,000 employees.

Nursing intake dominates the 2024 cohort with 52 new trainees

The largest group consists of 25 aspiring nursing specialists and 27 nursing care assistants. Occupational therapy and physiotherapy each add 22 trainees, while ten students begin training as surgical technology assistants and four as anesthesia technology assistants.

Novi, Mich. – September 09, 2026 -- Managed Medical Review Organization, Inc. (MMRO) has earned URAC's Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Accreditation (Version 1.0), the first accreditation program in the U.S. to set standards for responsible AI use and development in healthcare.

MMRO built a year-long AI governance program to meet URAC's framework

The program includes responsible-use policies, risk and impact assessments addressing AI-specific data security challenges, and testing and training requirements, with formal clinical oversight from MMRO's Vice President of Clinical Programs, Jen Mongeau, DHA, MBA, MSN, RN.

Toronto – September 08, 2026 -- The Fertility Partners (TFP), Canada's largest fertility clinic network, has completed the sale of Illume Fertility, a Connecticut- and New York-based fertility practice, to IVI RMA North America, closing the deal on September 3, 2026.

TFP divests U.S. asset to concentrate capital on Canadian expansion

The transaction removes Illume from TFP's portfolio and redirects the company's capital, resources, and leadership attention toward growth opportunities across Canada. TFP CEO Heather Stark said the move reflects a deliberate portfolio decision, stating the company's strongest opportunities are in Canada and that the sale allows TFP to focus fully on building the country's leading fertility network.

Winnipeg, MB – September 08, 2026 -- Juvonno has expanded its free Open API ecosystem to more than 23 software developers, giving clinics across Canada, the UK, and the USA access to AI-powered reception, reporting, and charting tools without added licensing costs.

Juvonno's free Open API now supports 23-plus third-party developers

The clinic management software provider is building connected solutions ranging from AI-driven reception systems to automated reporting and charting tools, all integrated with its core practice management platform. The API remains free for all Juvonno customers, removing a common cost barrier to third-party integration in the allied health software sector.

Boston – September 08, 2026 -- HoneyNaps has developed a wireless polysomnography (PSG) system that replaces more than 24 wired sensors with four compact skin patches, combining patch-based sensing with AI-driven sleep analysis.

System consolidates dozens of wired sensors into four wearable patches

Conventional PSG, the standard diagnostic test for sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, typically requires patients to spend a night in a hospital wired to more than 24 sensors placed across the face, chest, abdomen and legs. HoneyNaps' Wireless PSG system instead uses a Head Sensor, Chest Sensor, Body Sensor and Leg Sensor to capture EEG, EOG, ECG, EMG, respiratory airflow, SpO2, body position and physical activity without cables.