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Cassie McGrath

Cassie McGrath joined Healthcare Brew in May 2024. She previously worked for the Boston Business Journal, MassLive, Frontline PBS, GBH, the Daily Hampshire Gazette and the Massachusetts Daily Collegian. She graduated from the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2021 with a dual degree in journalism and political science and a certificate in international relations.

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Hospitals & Facilities

How hospital finance execs are preparing for 2026

Hospitals have largely bounced back from Covid-related financial hardship, but new challenges are on the horizon.

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Tech

What are AI scribes?

Note-taking is often a time strain on clinicians. Some say ambient listening tools are changing the game.

Kings Mill Hospital Accident and Emergency department
Hospitals & Facilities

How hospitals prepared, responded to weekend winter storms

Bad weather over the weekend hit at least 35 states.

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Tech

Amazon One Medical launches new agentic AI tool

The retail giant follows Google and OpenAI with a tool that can answer patients’ medical questions.

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Hospitals & Facilities

Missouri’s Ranken Jordan simulated home helps families transition out of hospital care

Some patients have never been outside the hospital.

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Hospitals & Facilities

CMS is dispersing the rural health fund, but experts say it doesn’t offset Medicaid cuts

States brace for $1+ trillion in Medicaid cuts.

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Hospitals & Facilities

Signed and Scrubbed: December 2025 hospital M&A

Last month, CommonSpirit and NYC Health + Hospitals shared news.

Healthcare Brew monthly series on AI Startups
Tech

AI 411: December 2025

Your monthly roundup of AI announcements is here.

Healthcare Brew's August on Rotation editorial feature
Direct Care

On Rotation: December 2025

Last month, the FDA saw a transition of a top official and Community Health Systems confirmed a new CEO.

A portrait of Eyal Heldenberg, co-founder of medical translation company No Barrier
Tech

Startup No Barrier is using AI to improve medical translation

The company just closed a $2.7 million seed funding round on Nov. 17.