If you are building an ambient clinical documentation tool, getting a model to write a note is the easy part, as AI scribes exist to cut the documentation burden on clinicians. The harder work is the pipeline around the model.

AWS ended support for AWS IoT Greengrass V1 on 7 October 2026. Two other AWS IoT services, AWS IoT Analytics and AWS IoT Events, have already shut down. Many guides to the AWS IoT platform still list all three as current, so a team scoping a connected product can easily plan around services that no longer exist.

Let's imagine the patient opens her hospital’s app to book a follow-up. The form asks for her "preferred encounter type." She isn’t sure if that means a phone call, a video visit, or an in-person exam, so she closes the app and calls the front desk instead.

By February 2026, more than 80% of US health care technology executives told Deloitte they expect agentic AI to deliver moderate-to-significant value across clinical and back-office healthcare work this year. It is a sharp jump from the wait-and-see mood of 2024.

The WebAIM Million scanned the top 1,000,000 home pages in 2026 and found WCAG 2 failures on 95.9% of them, with an average of 56.1 errors per page. HealthTech products are not the exception.

The telemedicine market has its own rules and growing drivers. To make wise decisions, founders and healthcare business owners need precise stats and numbers.

In 2025, 96% of US non-federal acute care hospitals electronically sent summary-of-care records to other organizations. In the same survey, 79% could integrate a record they received without manual entry, and that number has not moved since 2023. The plumbing works. What happens at the far end of the pipe is a different question.

Reading from an Electronic Health Record (EHR) is basically a solved problem: every certified EHR exposes the same read API. EHR write-back is not. Certification stops at read, so the moment your app needs to send a value into the chart instead of just pulling one out, there is no standard path waiting for it.

A national survey of health information exchanges found that 80% make laboratory results available to the organizations they connect. In the same survey, 36% reported that a laboratory had sought to limit or refuse access to electronic health information. Of the exchanges that hit that wall, 96% hit it with an independent or commercial lab. Availability and a working connection are two different things.

Getting a SOC 2 report used to mean a year of screenshots, spreadsheets, and chasing control owners before an auditor ever showed up. SOC 2 automation promises to cut that work roughly in half, and buyers have noticed.

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