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SAIC launches alliance to speed up state-led implementation of $50 billion rural healthcare transformation program – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

SAIC launches alliance to speed up state-led implementation of $50 billion rural healthcare transformation program – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

February 23, 2026 – Science Functions Worldwide has launched the Alliance for Advancing Rural Healthcare (AARH) to convey collectively the very best healthcare organizations to assist state governments rapidly and efficiently implement the Rural Well being Transformation (RHT) Program – a federal initiative designed to strengthen healthcare techniques in rural and native communities. The alliance of SAIC, Arcadia, Castlight Well […]

[UPDATED] Kinderhook Industries acquires Enhabit for $1.1 billion

[UPDATED] Kinderhook Industries acquires Enhabit for $1.1 billion

Personal fairness agency Kinderhook Industries has agreed to amass house care and hospice supplier Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) for about $1.1 billion in an all-cash deal. The deal, introduced on Monday, will take Enhabit personal, with its shares ceasing buying and selling as soon as the transaction is accomplished. “Over the previous 4 years, Enhabit has strengthened its position as […]

Biocomposites will launch Synicem in Nice Britain for orthopedic functions

Biocomposites will launch Synicem in Nice Britain for orthopedic functions

Synicem bone cements are designed for protected and steady fixation between prosthesis and bone throughout joint substitute surgical procedure. Credit score: H_Ko / Shutterstock.com. Medical system firm Biocomposites is to launch its Synicem bone cement merchandise within the UK for orthopedic surgical procedure with quick impact. The Synicem bone cement line has been produced by Synimed, a subsidiary of Biocomposites, […]

Baylor Scott & White Well being Drives Investments to Develop Care in Key Areas – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

Baylor Scott & White Well being Drives Investments to Develop Care in Key Areas – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

February 19, 2026 – Baylor Scott & White Well being is increasing its strategic investments in Brenham and surrounding communities, with new providers, specialists and a deliberate clinic designed to strengthen native entry to care. The healthcare system has introduced a sequence of enhancements aimed toward holding extra sufferers near house for each routine and specialised remedies. The intensive providing […]

Dynarex Launches New Damaging Strain Remedy System – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

Dynarex Launches New Damaging Strain Remedy System – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

February 20, 2026 – Dynarex Company introduced the launch of its new Damaging Strain Wound Remedy (NPWT) pump and an expanded portfolio of suitable wound care merchandise designed to assist advanced wound administration in acute, post-acute and residential care settings – together with power, surgical and traumatic wounds. The transportable system weighs simply 350 grams and gives as much as […]

Novartis’ RemIND trial of oral remibrutinib meets main endpoint

Novartis’ RemIND trial of oral remibrutinib meets main endpoint

Novartis has filed a supplemental new drug software with the FDA for remibrutinib in symptomatic dermographism. Credit score: Melnikov Dmitriy / Shutterstock.com. Novartis has reported that its pivotal part III trial RemIND, evaluating oral remibrutinib in continual inducible urticaria (CIndU), has met its main endpoint. The examine met this endpoint for the three commonest CIndU varieties: chilly urticaria, cholinergic urticaria […]

Well being o meter Skilled Scales Introduces New ADA Compliant, Area-Saving, Wall-Mounted, Folding Wheelchair Scale

Well being o meter Skilled Scales Introduces New ADA Compliant, Area-Saving, Wall-Mounted, Folding Wheelchair Scale

February 20, 2026 – Pelstar LLC, the producer {of professional} well being scales, is proud to announce the launch of the ADA Compliant 2920KL-AM Antimicrobial Wall Mount Antimicrobial Folding Wheelchair Scale, a next-generation answer designed to satisfy the most recent Medical Diagnostic Gadget (MDE) requirements for accessible gear. The 2920KL-AM has been awarded Corada’s Platinum Certification, which permits impartial third […]

Syngene and VivaMed collaborate on therapeutic applications

Syngene and VivaMed collaborate on therapeutic applications

The mixing permits a direct pipeline from computational drug identification to translational and experimental validation. Credit score: AnaLysiSStudiO / Shutterstock.com. Syngene Worldwide has entered right into a strategic partnership with VivaMed BioPharma to advance AI-based repurposed therapeutic applications. This partnership goals to broaden VivaMed’s validation infrastructure for AI-driven drug repurposing partnership applications and facilitate the supply of scientifically validated, partner-ready […]

What TheKey’s Non-public Obligation Push says about diversification – and integration – in dwelling care

What TheKey’s Non-public Obligation Push says about diversification – and integration – in dwelling care

This text is a part of your HHCN+ membership Earlier this week I reported on TheKey’s push to increase from an organization largely rooted in private dwelling care to a bigger footprint in privately paid nursing. It isn’t day by day {that a} supplier of TheKey’s dimension makes a concerted effort to diversify its providing, and that is not a […]

Serina Therapeutics enrolls first affected person in SER-252 research

Serina Therapeutics enrolls first affected person in SER-252 research

Serina Therapeutics is partnering with Parkinson’s Australia and Neuroscience Trials Australia to recruit the Section Ib SER-252 trial. Credit score: Chinnapong / Shutterstock.com. Serina Therapeutics has enrolled the primary affected person in its Section Ib registrational research of SER-252 for superior Parkinson’s illness (PD). The research assesses the security, pharmacokinetics, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of SER-252 in people with superior […]

Medline Introduces Enhanced Ankle Fracture and Foot Reconstruction Plate Methods at ACFAS 2026 Annual Scientific Convention

Medline Introduces Enhanced Ankle Fracture and Foot Reconstruction Plate Methods at ACFAS 2026 Annual Scientific Convention

February 20, 2026 – Medline will debut its improved ankle fracture and foot reconstruction plating methods subsequent week on the American School of Foot and Ankle Surgeons annual scientific convention in Las Vegas. The Complete Ankle Fracture Plate System expands to 10 distinctive plate households with greater than 50 distinctive choices to deal with a variety of ankle fracture patterns […]

AngioDynamics Expands European Indications for NanoKnife System

AngioDynamics Expands European Indications for NanoKnife System

Medical analysis demonstrates the procedural feasibility and promising outcomes of IRE know-how in numerous stable tumor contexts. Credit score: Create Jobs 51 / Shutterstock.com. AngioDynamics has expanded the indications for its NanoKnife system throughout Europe to incorporate gentle tissue ablation for tumors within the liver, kidneys, prostate and pancreas, together with use in sufferers with intermediate-risk prostate most cancers. This […]

New 2920KL-AM Wheelchair Scale Meets ADA Necessities and Encompasses a House-Saving Design – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

New 2920KL-AM Wheelchair Scale Meets ADA Necessities and Encompasses a House-Saving Design – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

February 19, 2026 – Pelstar LLC, the producer of Well being o-meter® Skilled Scales has launched the 2920KL-AM antimicrobial folding wall-mount wheelchair scale, designed to satisfy the newest ADA and MDE accessibility requirements. This modern scale incorporates a space-saving folding design that extends to simply 11.5cm from the wall, a big 32″ x 40″ platform, twin ramps with security edge […]

Novartis reviews closing information from the ALIGN research in IgAN

Novartis reviews closing information from the ALIGN research in IgAN

The research in contrast Vanrafia with a placebo in people with IgA nephropathy who’re liable to worsening kidney operate. Credit score: NMK-Studio / Shutterstock.com. Novartis has introduced closing information from the Part III ALIGN trial, highlighting that Vanrafia (atrasentan) slowed the decline of kidney operate in adults with immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN). The randomized, international, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter research confirmed […]

QuidelOrtho podcast explores how high-sensitivity troponin speeds emergency care and cardiac analysis – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

QuidelOrtho podcast explores how high-sensitivity troponin speeds emergency care and cardiac analysis – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

February 19, 2026 – QuidelOrtho Company launched episode 56 of its Science Bytes podcast, with Dr. Lindy Carlstrom, International Medical Affairs Supervisor for Acute Care. On this episode, Carlstrom and host Josh Casey talk about how high-sensitivity troponin (hs-troponin) is reworking early cardiac analysis and bettering emergency room effectivity. Key insights Sooner solutions when time issues: hs troponin detects coronary […]

Cityblock Well being makes the house ‘much more central’, expands long-term providers, helps

Cityblock Well being makes the house ‘much more central’, expands long-term providers, helps

Worth-based healthcare supplier Cityblock Well being has expanded its long-term providers and assist (LTSS) choices throughout its 10-plus states, making the house “much more central” to the corporate’s providing. The growth, introduced Thursday, expands the supplier’s current LTSS program in Massachusetts and its coordination providers in New York, North Carolina and Indiana. Cityblock’s long-term providers and assist embody common in-home […]

MSD and Mayo Clinic are working collectively to advance AI in drug growth

MSD and Mayo Clinic are working collectively to advance AI in drug growth

The partnership provides MSD entry to datasets, registries, biorepositories, AI instruments, analytics and scalable options via Mayo Clinic. Credit score: ART STOCK CREATIVE / Shutterstock.com. Merck & Co (MSD) and Mayo Clinic have entered right into a analysis and growth collaboration to make use of AI, superior analytics and multimodal medical information to assist drug discovery and precision medication. The […]

Cepheid Chosen by CDC as Nationwide Collaborator, Advancing Fast Diagnostic Innovation to Strengthen U.S. Pandemic Preparedness

Cepheid Chosen by CDC as Nationwide Collaborator, Advancing Fast Diagnostic Innovation to Strengthen U.S. Pandemic Preparedness

February 19, 2026 – Cepheid pronounces it has been chosen by the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) as one in all 4 nationwide collaboration companions beneath a brand new federal initiative designed to speed up the event and deployment of fast diagnostic applied sciences throughout public well being emergencies. The award – offered beneath a a number […]

NG Biotech Pronounces FDA Approval for Diagnostic Testing

NG Biotech Pronounces FDA Approval for Diagnostic Testing

NG-TEST Candida auris and NG-TEST Acineto-5 LFA cassettes. Credit score: Hardy Diagnostics/PRNewswire. NG Biotech and Hardy Diagnostics have acquired breakthrough system designation from the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) for 2 speedy diagnostic checks, NG-TEST Candida auris and NG-TEST Acineto-5, concentrating on vital drug-resistant pathogens. The designation applies to pathogen testing particularly concentrating on Candida auris and Acinetobacter baumannii, […]

UPMC Cole plans groundbreaking photo voltaic farm to energy campus and help group – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

UPMC Cole plans groundbreaking photo voltaic farm to energy campus and help group – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

February 18, 2026 – UPMC is advancing its sustainability efforts with plans for a large-scale photo voltaic power mission at UPMC Cole in north-central Pennsylvania, permitting the agricultural hospital campus to run largely on renewable power. The well being care system introduced it should break floor on a 5.5-megawatt photo voltaic farm in Coudersport in 2026, the primary mission of […]

J&J’s Rybrevant Faspro receives FDA approval for brand new dosing in NSCLC

J&J’s Rybrevant Faspro receives FDA approval for brand new dosing in NSCLC

The PALOMA-2 examine confirmed that month-to-month Rybrevant Faspro with Lazcluze achieved a excessive response charge in untreated, superior EGFR-mutated NSCLC. Credit score: Arif biswas/Shutterstock.com. Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has obtained approval from the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) for a brand new month-to-month dosing routine for the mixture remedy Rybrevant Faspro (amivantamab and hyaluronidase-lpuj) for the remedy of sufferers […]

Medtronic Broadcasts First Hugo™ Robotic-Assisted Surgical procedure System Surgical procedure within the U.S., Carried out at Cleveland Clinic

Medtronic Broadcasts First Hugo™ Robotic-Assisted Surgical procedure System Surgical procedure within the U.S., Carried out at Cleveland Clinic

February 18, 2026 – Medtronic declares that the primary U.S. industrial surgical case utilizing the lately FDA-approved Hugo™ Robotic-Assisted Surgical procedure (RAS) System has been efficiently carried out by Jihad Kaouk, MD, professor and chairman of the Glickman Urologic Institute and the Zegarac-Pollock Endowed Chair in Robotic Surgical procedure on the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Kaouk efficiently accomplished a robot-assisted prostatectomy […]

How Pennant, LiveWell, is Rising with a Density Mindset

How Pennant, LiveWell, is Rising with a Density Mindset

Residence care suppliers – even energetic patrons – are demonstrating that operational density has grow to be the highest precedence as they develop their companies. The development towards operational density throughout a broad geographic footprint has grown over the previous two to a few years, and Pennant Group and LiveWell Companions have exemplified this development by coupling its density-first technique […]

Solera Well being launches a behavioral well being community with Calm and Lyra

Solera Well being launches a behavioral well being community with Calm and Lyra

Solera Well being, a digital well being firm, unveiled its new behavioral well being community on Tuesday with Calm Well being and Lyra Well being as companions. Phoenix, Arizona-based Solera Well being is working with payers and employers to assist members and staff discover options. Utilizing the corporate’s HALO platform, clients can handle all their contracted level options in a […]

Janux will start dosing members within the Part I trial JANX011

Janux will start dosing members within the Part I trial JANX011

JANX011 targets CD19-expressing B cells in blood and tissues for a deep, long-lasting immune reset within the therapy of autoimmune ailments. Credit score: Asian Remoted / Shutterstock.com. Janux Therapeutics has dosed the primary participant in a Part I scientific trial of JANX011, a Cluster of Differentiation 19 (CD19)-targeted bispecific candidate designed utilizing its adaptive immune response modulator (ARM) platform. The […]

Merck and Mayo Clinic announce new analysis and growth collaboration to help AI-enabled drug discovery and precision medication

Merck and Mayo Clinic announce new analysis and growth collaboration to help AI-enabled drug discovery and precision medication

February 18, 2026 – Merck, recognized exterior the US and Canada as MSD, and Mayo Clinic, introduced a analysis and growth settlement to use synthetic intelligence (AI), superior analytics and multimodal medical knowledge to help drug discovery and growth. The settlement integrates Mayo Clinic’s platform structure and medical and genomic datasets with Merck’s ambition to leverage AI-enabled digital cell applied […]

Eli Lilly Joins Chase for Sizzling Irritation Goal, Pays $100 Million for Rights to CSL Drug

Eli Lilly Joins Chase for Sizzling Irritation Goal, Pays $100 Million for Rights to CSL Drug

Eli Lilly is on the lookout for medicine to comply with the trail paved by its blockbuster cardiometabolic medicine. In its newest pipeline-building deal, the pharmaceutical firm paid $100 million for the rights to a clinical-stage drug from CSL Restricted that targets an more and more aggressive goal linked to persistent irritation. Below deal phrases introduced late Tuesday, CSL will […]

Portal Diabetes’ insulin pump receives breakthrough machine designation from the FDA

Portal Diabetes’ insulin pump receives breakthrough machine designation from the FDA

As a part of a brand new drug software, two sufferers obtained Portal Insulin injections into the intraperitoneal area in San Diego. Credit score: Kitreel/Shutterstock.com. Portal Diabetes has obtained breakthrough standing from the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) for its implantable insulin pump system, often known as the Portal Pump. The corporate has additionally begun a Part I research […]

The CEO of TheKey is planning an enlargement of dwelling care

The CEO of TheKey is planning an enlargement of dwelling care

This text is a part of your HHCN+ membership Residence care supplier TheKey primarily presents dwelling care, however the firm’s CEO has plans to increase its dwelling care providing to 4 further states by 2026. Presently, TheKey, primarily based in Delray, Florida, offers non-public paid nursing providers in two states, however CEO Chris Gerard plans to supply the providers in […]

ExCellThera secures German NUB Standing 1 itemizing for Zemcelpro

ExCellThera secures German NUB Standing 1 itemizing for Zemcelpro

Greater than 120 sufferers with hematological malignancies participated in medical trials in Canada, Europe and the US. Credit score: Anamaria Mejia / Shutterstock.com. ExCellThera and its wholly owned subsidiary Cordex Biologics have acquired a standing 1 itemizing from the New Analysis and Therapy Strategies (NUB) program in Germany for Zemcelpro (dorocubicel), also referred to as UM171 cell remedy. This follows […]

HIDA Product Information Trade to Streamline Product Info Trade – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

HIDA Product Information Trade to Streamline Product Info Trade – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

February 17, 2026 – The Well being Business Distributors Affiliation (HIDA) introduced that 33 corporations have signed up for HIDA’s Product Information Trade (PDX) pilot program. The aim of the PDX is to standardize and centralize the trade of Product Info Administration (PIM) information between producers and distributors. PIM information is vital to success in on-line and e-commerce gross sales […]

Ocular Therapeutix Eyes FDA submitting after moist AMD drug surpasses Regeneron’s Eylea in Section 3 trial

Ocular Therapeutix Eyes FDA submitting after moist AMD drug surpasses Regeneron’s Eylea in Section 3 trial

An Ocular Therapeutix drug developed for the moist type of age-related macular degeneration was higher at serving to sufferers protect imaginative and prescient in comparison with a blockbuster Regeneron Prescription drugs drug that may be a normal therapy for the imaginative and prescient loss dysfunction. Section 3 outcomes additionally show the remedy’s potential to supply sufferers much less frequent eye […]

Daffodil Well being Secures $16.3 Million for Well being Plan Administration Platform

Daffodil Well being Secures $16.3 Million for Well being Plan Administration Platform

Daffodil Well being, an AI platform for well being plan administration and claims processing, has raised $16.3 million in Sequence A funding to assist the corporate scale, it introduced Tuesday. The San Francisco-based startup offers AI-based software program for U.S. well being plans and third-party directors to handle claims pricing and cost integrity. The platform permits payers to deal with […]

CStone receives FDA approval to provoke CS2009 Section II examine

CStone receives FDA approval to provoke CS2009 Section II examine

CS2009 is a trispecific antibody that targets PD-1, VEGFA and CTLA-4. Credit score: Michele Ursi / Shutterstock.com. CStone Prescribed drugs has obtained approval from the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) for its new drug software (IND), permitting the corporate to provoke a Section II medical trial of CS2009, the trispecific antibody, in sufferers with superior strong tumors. The continued […]

Medtronic Experiences Sturdy Third Quarter FY 2026 Outcomes, With Highest Company Income Progress in Ten Quarters

Medtronic Experiences Sturdy Third Quarter FY 2026 Outcomes, With Highest Company Income Progress in Ten Quarters

February 17, 2026 – Medtronic plc proclaims monetary outcomes for the third quarter (Q3) of fiscal 12 months 2026 (FY26) ended January 23, 2026. Key highlights of the third quarter Income of $9.0 billion, up 8.7% as reported and 6.0% organically, 50 foundation factors larger than Q3 expectations GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.89; non-GAAP diluted earnings per share […]

The way forward for pharmacy is now: healthcare methods should take motion to drive innovation, entry and sustainability

The way forward for pharmacy is now: healthcare methods should take motion to drive innovation, entry and sustainability

Healthcare is at a vital inflection level: an growing older inhabitants, breakthrough therapies, regulatory modifications and technological advances are converging to reshape the best way care is delivered, with some surprising outcomes. Whereas some hospitals and healthcare methods are merely adapting to the modifications as they come up, many will not be solely proactively assembly the challenges; additionally they see […]

Regulatory Innovation as a Catalyst: How New Compliance Methods Speed up Healthcare Expertise Adoption

Regulatory Innovation as a Catalyst: How New Compliance Methods Speed up Healthcare Expertise Adoption

The velocity at which medical know-how is creating is exceptional. Hospitals are integrating superior instruments into their scientific workflows at a tempo that was troublesome to think about a decade in the past, and sufferers can now use related gadgets to observe their well being at residence. Nonetheless, adoption is determined by components apart from the capabilities of the know-how. […]

VB Backbone acquires xvision Backbone System from Augmedics

VB Backbone acquires xvision Backbone System from Augmedics

The partnership goals to unify and optimize picture processing workflows and enhance radiologist effectivity. Credit score: Create Jobs 51 / Shutterstock. VB Backbone has signed a definitive settlement to amass Augmedics’ xvision Backbone system so as to add augmented actuality (AR) navigation to its enhanced visualization providing. The transaction, topic to regulatory approvals and customary closing circumstances, is anticipated to […]

CME Corp. Publicizes Cooperative Council of a Governments (CCOG) Contract – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

CME Corp. Publicizes Cooperative Council of a Governments (CCOG) Contract – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

February 16, 2026 – CME Corp. is happy to announce that it has been awarded a government-procured aggressive contract for medical, surgical, laboratory and pharmaceutical provides, tools, companies and associated options from Area 10 Schooling Service Heart (Area 10) / The Cooperative Council of Governments (CCOG), a Lead Company of the Equalis Group. With this contract, CCOG members can have […]

Amgen receives EC approval for Uplizna in gMG

Amgen receives EC approval for Uplizna in gMG

MINT enrolled 238 adults with gMG, together with 190 AChR+ and 48 MuSK+ sufferers. Credit score: luchschenF / Shutterstock.com. Amgen has obtained approval from the European Fee (EC) for Uplizna (inebilizumab) as an add-on remedy to plain remedy for adults with generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) who’re constructive for the anti-acetylcholine receptor or anti-muscle particular tyrosine kinase antibodies. This approval gives […]

Respiratory ailments persist nationwide as instances of influenza B and RSV enhance – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

Respiratory ailments persist nationwide as instances of influenza B and RSV enhance – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

February 16, 2026 – As one pressure of the flu virus begins to say no, one other takes its place. Influenza A continues to be the commonest sort of flu circulating, however influenza B has been on the rise for 2 weeks straight, in accordance with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. Influenza B made up about 23% of […]

When well being {dollars} go to people, infrastructure will determine who wins

When well being {dollars} go to people, infrastructure will determine who wins

Latest statements from the present administration have revived a coverage framework that may place well being care affordability {dollars} in individually managed accounts fairly than channeling funds via insurers or employer-sponsored profit constructions. The structure examined continues to be within the framework part and requires legislative motion. It indicators a doable shift in the best way well being care buying […]

From pilots to protocols: why VR remedy wants dosage requirements to change into actual scientific care

From pilots to protocols: why VR remedy wants dosage requirements to change into actual scientific care

Digital actuality remedy has an odd drawback. It could actually look clinically helpful in minutes. A affected person places on headphones. Their consideration shifts. Ache scores drop. The worry decreases. Docs see a sensible impact, typically in environments the place conventional choices are restricted, after which the pilot ends. Not as a result of immersive remedy has no worth, however […]

Immunic secures a $400 million fund to assist commercial-stage improvement

Immunic secures a $400 million fund to assist commercial-stage improvement

Proceeds shall be used to finish ENSURE’s ongoing Section III research for vidofluidimus calcium in RMS. Credit score: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com. Immunic has introduced an oversubscribed non-public placement of as much as $400 million, cementing its transition from a analysis and development-focused group to a commercial-stage entity. The location was led by current investor BVF Companions and was joined by entities equivalent […]

Exploring Robotics within the Healthcare Provide Chain – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

Exploring Robotics within the Healthcare Provide Chain – The Journal of Healthcare Contracting

February 16, 2026 – Robotics is actually not the primary automation expertise to generate intense curiosity, generate miles of media consideration and itch ears throughout convention and commerce present periods. And it actually will not be the final. Do you bear in mind the barcodes from the Seventies? Proprietary Digital Knowledge Interchange (EDI) within the Eighties? Worth-added networks (VANs) that […]