DataSpring, hospital venture stuff, RAAPID 👏, aging 'omics, retail health, etc.

Healthcare through a Kentucky lens. Yeah, it's niche. But neat!

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Andrew Steen
June 16, 2026

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CAQH rebrands

CAQH is now DataSpring, powered by CAQH. Remember, DataSpring, powered by CAQH, has a footprint in Louisville. And Sarah Ahmad, Chief Executive Officer at DataSpring, is a Louisville native.

CAQH Rebrands as DataSpring to Power the Next Era of Healthcare Data

DataSpring builds on over 25 years of industry trust and a data foundation spanning 4.8 million provider records and member eligibility data on 75% of US covered lives.

www.dataspring.com/blog/caqh-rebrands-as-dataspring-to-power-the-next-era-of-healthcare-data

In case you missed this…

CAQH Appoints Dr. Alex Ding as Chief Medical Officer

Appointment brings clinical leadership to CAQH’s work connecting accurate, trusted healthcare data across the industry.

www.dataspring.com/blog/caqh-appoints-dr-alex-ding-as-chief-medical-officer

Alex is not a Louisville native. But, he’s Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology at UofL. And a Venture Partner with SpringTide Ventures.

High KLAS

Louisville-based RAAPID.

RAAPID Featured In a KLAS Emerging Company Spotlight Report for Defensible Coding & Audit-Ready Retrospective Risk Adjustment

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260610293135/en/RAAPID-Featured-In-a-KLAS-Emerging-Company-Spotlight-Report-for-Defensible-Coding-Audit-Ready-Retrospective-Risk-Adjustment

Humana news

“Under Rechtin, the CenterWell business has been more focused on higher growth areas including specialty pharmacy and pharmacy.” My emphasis.

Humana To Divest End-Of-Life Care Business For $900 Million

Humana, one of the largest U.S. sellers of Medicare Advantage insurance for older adults, will divest its stake in a provider of end-of-life services for $900 million.

Forbes • Bruce Japsen

Tampa General

“Core thesis: the value was never the algorithm. It was data unification plus workflow plus a human rapid response loop. All three are replicable by one skilled contractor embedded inside a hospital”

How Tampa General & Palantir Built a Sepsis Detection System That Saved 886 Lives

How a Solo, Bootstrapped, Vibe-Coding Entrepreneur Could Build the Same Thing Inside Any Hospital Without the Nine Figure Contract

Thoughts on Healthcare

Supply chain

“Founded in 2020, Clarium is trusted by more than 20 health systems representing nearly 30% of U.S. healthcare supply chain spend. The company has raised more than $43 million from leading investors, including General Catalyst, Northzone, AlleyCorp, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, and the TMC Venture Fund.”

Mount Sinai Health System Deploys Clarium Computer Vision to Modernize Surgical Supply Operations Across System

/PRNewswire/ -- Clarium, an AI-powered supply chain automation platform for health systems, today announced a strategic partnership with Mount Sinai Health...

Clarium

Understanding aging

“…across 581,763 samples from 425,258 individuals.”

A generative AI framework unifies human multi-omics to model aging, metabolic health, and intervention response

Cell Metab. 2026 Jun 2;38(6):1229-1244.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2026.03.014. Epub 2026 Apr 21.

www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(26)00108-7?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1550413126001087%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Yo, Louisville.

CDC report

This NCHS Data Brief is interesting. Patients aged 65 or older tended to use retail health clinics far more than urgent care centers.

Urgent Care Center and Retail Health Clinic Use: United States, 2024

Published: May 27, 2026

www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db562.htm

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