Artificial Intelligence

United States – October 17, 2026 -- Nearly half of all heart attacks occur in patients classified as low risk under traditional factors such as age, cholesterol and family history, Elucid CEO Kelly Huang said in AdvaMed's "Insight Series: AI & Digital Health," arguing that AI must change clinical decisions rather than accelerate existing ones.

Elucid extracts plaque biology and blood-flow data from a single CT scan

Elucid's Plaque-IQ software analyzes an existing coronary CT angiogram to quantify plaque type and amount in coronary and carotid vessels. Its BioIntegrated FFR-CT predicts fractional flow reserve values along each vessel, using invasive FFR as ground truth. Plaque algorithms are validated against histology.

Huang said two patients can show identical plaque volume and similar stenosis yet carry different risk: one has lipid-rich, unstable plaque, the other calcified, stable plaque.

Virginia – October 17, 2026 -- VHHA Solutions, an affiliate of the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association, has named Andor Health's ThinkAndor® an endorsed platform for hospitals and care providers across Virginia, extending the AI-driven system beyond acute care into senior living and behavioral health.

Endorsement targets fragmented care technology

The partnership addresses health systems that run separate tools for virtual care, communication, monitoring and care coordination. ThinkAndor is designed to replace that patchwork with a single AI-powered infrastructure covering the path from the digital front door to post-acute follow-up.

[SOURCE_CITY] – October 17, 2026 -- Andor Health's ThinkAndor platform scored 92.6 in the 2026 KLAS ranking for Virtual Care Platforms, earning the Best in KLAS title and outperforming the category average, the company said.

Three independent bodies honor ThinkAndor in one cycle

Black Book Research named ThinkAndor the top-rated virtual care platform for the third consecutive year. The platform led in workflow integration, provider efficiency and patient engagement.

Frost & Sullivan gave Andor Health its Transformational Innovation Leadership award for excellence in acute care virtual health.

Many of the awards draw on direct, anonymous feedback from healthcare providers, including clinicians, administrators and leaders who use the platform daily.

United States – October 17, 2026 -- Andor Health ranked #1 in overall client satisfaction in the 2026 Black Book survey of non-EHR virtual care platforms, its fourth consecutive year at the top. Its ThinkAndor agentic AI platform scored 9.75 out of 10.

More than 1,100 healthcare professionals across care settings contributed feedback to the survey. ThinkAndor led in 14 of 18 performance categories tied to enterprise virtual care execution. These included clinical workflow integration and usability, interoperability across systems and devices, care team collaboration and escalation support, AI-assisted automation and workflow orchestration, and customer support and long-term partnership quality.

United States – October 17, 2026 -- Andor Health has expanded ThinkAndor with multimodal agentic AI that runs voice-based and conversational patient interactions from initial access through post-acute follow-up, targeting the fragmented patient communication that drives call center costs and clinician workload.

ThinkAndor agents initiate and manage patient conversations

The agents start and manage conversations rather than waiting for patients to navigate portals, websites and phone systems. According to the announcement, they read patient context in real time, recommend next best actions and coordinate workflows behind the scenes.

Platform covers four stages of the care continuum

ThinkAndor's multimodal infrastructure orchestrates conversations across four stages:

United States – October 17, 2026 -- Andor Health and Psynergy Health have launched the ACCESS Clinic, an approved CMS ACCESS Model clinic that runs on the ThinkAndor® AI-native clinical services operating system and targets Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions. The platform behind it already operates across more than 40 health systems and supports over 20 million patients in nearly every U.S. state.

Platform results span 35 million AI interactions

ThinkAndor® AI agents have completed more than 35 million clinical and patient interactions. According to the companies, health systems using the platform have achieved:

United States – October 17, 2026 -- Andor Health has reached General Availability in the CMS Health Technology Ecosystem initiative, with millions of patients across dozens of health systems already using its ThinkAndor® platform.

CMS recognized the company for patient-facing capabilities that ThinkAndor® has delivered since its inception. Patients use the platform to access care, retrieve health information, interact with Conversational AI, complete digital intake and connect with clinician-reviewed guidance.

Andor treats interoperability as infrastructure, not the outcome

Andor argues that a connected healthcare system is not necessarily a better one. Patients still face fragmented journeys, clinicians still spend significant time on coordination and administrative work, and health systems still assemble multiple vendors for different parts of care.

Las Vegas – October 17, 2026 -- Hyperscale Data, Inc. (NYSE American: GPUS) is targeting a separate public listing of its AI subsidiary askROI, Inc. by the second or third quarter of 2027, via a reverse takeover (RTO), an initial public offering (IPO) or a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger.

The timing depends on which route the company ultimately selects. In an RTO, askROI would be sold to a public company that has not yet been identified, in the first half of 2027. Hyperscale Data would receive shares of that company as consideration and would then need to file a resale registration statement for them. The plan is subject to financial and regulatory requirements and to prevailing market conditions.

San Antonio – October 17, 2026 -- Frost & Sullivan has awarded TP its 2026 Latin America Competitive Strategy Leadership Recognition in customer experience management (CXM), crediting an integrated delivery model that spans 16 countries.

Frost & Sullivan rates TP strong on both strategy effectiveness and execution

The analyst firm benchmarks companies on two dimensions: strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. TP excelled in both, according to Frost & Sullivan. Sebastian Menutti, Industry Director, ICT at Frost & Sullivan, said TP systematically uses enterprise-wide technology platforms, operating frameworks and governance standards while adapting implementation to local market conditions.

Samantha Fisher, Best Practices Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan, attributed TP's edge to its entrepreneurial culture and operating philosophy, noting that "competitors struggle to achieve similar results."

Global – October 16, 2026 -- The Gazelle optical computing evaluation board performs 8×2 fundamental optical matrix computations and is described by its maker as the highest-precision optoelectronic computing device known to date.

Gazelle pairs a programmable optical matrix with an FPGA and a ready-made software stack

The research platform is built on optical principles. An onboard FPGA and an out-of-the-box software stack are meant to let developers start work without building their own tooling. The optical matrix is programmable, and the board supports a range of commonly used debugging interfaces.

Three target workloads span AI inference, scientific computing and combinatorial optimization

For neural networks, Gazelle targets inference of models used in image recognition and object detection. For scientific research, it is positioned to solve scientific computing problems more efficiently than classical paradigms.