Regulatory Compliance

Berlin – September 15, 2026 -- Broken business processes are costing companies an average of $1.55 million each as artificial intelligence initiatives collapse under outdated workflows, according to a new report from Camunda.

Process failures drive 72% of AI project setbacks, study finds

The AI Process Gap report, commissioned by Camunda and conducted by Sapio Research, found that 72% of enterprises have seen AI projects fail due to process-related challenges. Another 72% warn of spiraling costs if they fail to overhaul their processes, while 82% believe AI investments will flop without deep process re-design.

The core issue: 79% of companies say bolting AI onto existing workflows meets less internal resistance than redesigning them from scratch. Yet 82% estimate it will take up to five years to make core processes truly AI-ready, and 61% admit their process re-design efforts cannot keep pace with AI adoption speed.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- The Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) has endorsed a National Kidney Foundation (NKF) quality measure that tracks annual kidney testing for adults with diabetes and/or high blood pressure, a move aimed at closing a diagnostic gap affecting an estimated 37 million U.S. adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Measure tracks two annual tests for at-risk adults aged 18 to 85

The endorsed measure, Rate of Annual Kidney Health Evaluation Among Adults with Diabetes and/or Hypertension, monitors whether patients receive both an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) blood test and a urine albumin-creatinine ratio (uACR) test within a measurement year. The combination helps clinicians identify CKD and assess risk of disease progression and cardiovascular complications.

Norwalk, Connecticut – September 15, 2026 -- GameChange Energy's subsidiary, GameChange Solar Corp., has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nextpower in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleging unauthorized use of its high-tilt stow tracker technology.

Lawsuit targets Nextpower's tracker systems over U.S. Patent 12,449,161

The complaint states that GameChange Solar Corp. holds U.S. Patent 12,449,161, which covers the disputed high-tilt stow technology used in its single-axis solar tracker systems. GameChange contends that Nextpower's products infringe on one or more claims of this patent.

GameChange seeks injunction and monetary damages

GameChange Solar Corp. is seeking injunctive relief to halt further alleged infringement by Nextpower, along with monetary damages tied to the claim. No financial figures for damages sought were disclosed in the filing.

Washington – September 15, 2026 -- An estimated 18,460 people died in U.S. motor vehicle crashes during the first half of 2026, a 2% decline from the revised first-half 2025 count, according to preliminary National Safety Council (NSC) data released Sept. 9, 2026. The drop occurred even as total miles driven rose 0.8% between January and June, pushing the estimated fatality rate to 1.12 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled -- down 3.4% year-over-year and 10.4% from 2024.

State-level fatality trends diverge sharply across the country

Thirteen states recorded double-digit decreases in traffic deaths, led by Hawaii (-30%), Illinois (-24%) and West Virginia (-24%), followed by Kansas (-21%), Oklahoma (-20%), Idaho (-18%), New Hampshire (-16%), Nevada (-14%), Maryland (-13%), Wisconsin (-13%), Tennessee (-12%), Utah (-11%) and Massachusetts (-10%).

Fort Worth, Texas – September 15, 2026 -- Elbit Systems Ltd.'s U.S. operating segment will now operate as Twenty-Six Defense, a rebranding that reinforces the Israeli defense contractor's long-term commitment to domestic manufacturing amid U.S. government pressure to expand industrial capacity.

New entity employs 3,300 workers with three decades of military support

Twenty-Six Defense, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, employs 3,300 Americans who have supported the U.S. military for more than 30 years. The company remains a reportable operating segment of Elbit Systems Ltd. and continues to operate under a Special Security Agreement, a structure required for foreign-owned defense contractors handling classified U.S. government work.

Austin, Texas – September 15, 2026 -- Milagro has extended its autonomous surgical coding platform to three additional ambulatory surgery centers operated by Constitution Surgery Alliance (CSA), bringing total deployment to 12 CSA facilities across New England and the Northeast.

CSA scales automated coding while keeping certified coders in the review loop

The expansion supports increasingly complex surgical coding workflows at CSA, one of the largest independent operators of outpatient surgery centers in the U.S. Sayword Hill, SVP of Revenue Cycle for CSA, said Milagro's automation is layered with the organization's existing coding review, quality assurance and auditing processes, allowing certified coding professionals to maintain oversight as automation scope grows.

Boulder, Colo. – September 15, 2026 -- State sales tax audits drag on for an average of 223 days and can stretch as long as 682 days, according to internal data released by tax compliance firm TaxValet, which has guided 38 clients through such audits.

TaxValet has managed $458,492 in historical tax exposure accumulated by clients before they joined the firm

Defending a single audit consumes more than 20 hours of expert support, TaxValet reported. The firm noted that 45 current clients switched directly from popular sales tax software providers after those tools failed to close compliance gaps.

Fremont, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- Q'Apel Medical has launched the Lynx Aspiration Catheter System in the United States, expanding its neurovascular portfolio into the aspiration category for mechanical thrombectomy, the standard of care for acute ischemic stroke caused by vessel occlusion.

Lynx becomes the second Q'Apel product built on proprietary QLCT technology

The Lynx system marks the second device to feature Q'Apel's proprietary Q'Apel Laser Cut Tube (QLCT) technology, following the company's earlier product on this engineering platform. The catheters use a bimetal shaft design with an open-spaced nitinol structure intended to balance proximal support with distal flexibility while resisting kinking during navigation through complex cerebrovascular anatomy.

Berlin – September 15, 2026 -- The European Commission is redrawing public procurement rules to treat supply security as a strategic asset, pressuring Germany to overhaul how statutory health insurers award pharmaceutical rebate contracts.

Brussels Moves to Rank Quality and Resilience Above Lowest Price

The Commission's draft directive would require public tenders to be awarded based on the best price-quality ratio rather than price alone, explicitly allowing supply security and resilience to factor into contract awards. The proposal also permits splitting large contracts into smaller lots to reduce dependency on single suppliers and diversify supply chains. For strategically sensitive procurement categories, the draft opens the door to preferential treatment for European or trade-aligned suppliers.

Berlin – – September 15, 2026 -- The European Commission today unveiled the EU Public Procurement Act (PPA), a comprehensive proposal to modernize European procurement law, drawing an immediate response from Germany's pharmaceutical industry association BPI.

BPI demands supply security as binding procurement criterion

Dr. Kai Joachimsen, Chief Executive of the BPI (Bundesverband der Pharmazeutischen Industrie), said the European Commission must make supply security a mandatory guideline for pharmaceutical procurement. He stated the goal must be supply sovereignty, achieved through strong production capacities in Europe and diversified, resilient supply chains.