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The Merger Clause Nobody's Underwriting

Hospital M&A due diligence checklists have no line item for inherited AI model inventories, and two live deals show why that gap is now material.

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Clinical AI Already Has Rules. Most Deployments Sit Outside Them.

The real governance decision for health systems is not whether to build an AI committee, but which deployments already sit inside CLIA, ONC certification, or HIPAA, and which sit in open air.

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The Breach Behind Healthcare's AI Interoperability Push

A 20 million-person Oracle Health breach exposes a certification gap: AI riding on certified EHR pipes answers to no one in particular.

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Your Patients Are Uploading Health Data Into a Regulatory Gap

Life sciences firms building patient-facing AI tools are relying on a HIPAA and FDA perimeter that consumer health AI routinely sits outside.

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The Claims Pipeline's Real Risk Isn't AI vs. AI. It's No One Verifying Either Side

Providers and payers are both automating the claims lifecycle with AI, but governance visibility hasn't kept pace with either deployment.

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When the Scribe Starts Talking to Patients

Ambient AI vendors are moving from note-drafting scribes to patient-facing intake agents, and most health systems haven't re-run the risk assessment for that leap.

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The Escalation Contract Patient-Facing AI Actually Needs

Penn Medicine's AI-moderated epilepsy messaging pilot shows the real governance work is designing the human review loop, not picking the model.

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When Health Data Leaves the Regulated Perimeter

FDA's wellness classification determines more than marketing claims. It decides whether patient data uploaded to AI tools carries any regulatory protection at all.