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AArete appoints Pam Shipley as chief executive officer. 13 August 2026 Consulting.us AArete, a Chicago-based management consultancy, has appointed Pam Shipley as chief executive officer. Shipley, a Fortune 25 healthcare executive with 30+ years of experience, succeeds AArete founder Loren Trimble, who has let the consulting firm for 18 years. Trimble will remain at the firm as a board member. Shipley has extensive leadership experience across healthcare technology, provider operations, and consulting-driven transformation. She joins AArete from Centene Corporation, a managed care company, where she spent nearly 14 years and was chief strategy officer. Shipley previously was SVP of performance markets at Kaiser Permanente and chief operating officer at Sharecare. She has a bachelor's degree from Chestnut Hill College. Founded in 2008, AArete provides strategy, profitability improvement, data and analytics, and technology services to clients in healthcare, education, public sector, financial services, retail, technology and professional services, and private equity. The firm has more than 500 employees listed on LinkedIn. The firm has a particular focus on advising healthcare payers, including US health plans across Medicaid, Medicare, ACA Marketplace, and commercial. "What we've built at AArete would not be possible without a culture built on integrity, excellence and care for the people we serve, and I'm proud that Pam will continue that legacy," Trimble said. AArete in 2025 received a strategic investment from Parthenon Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm. "AArete has become an essential partner to many of the nation's leading health plans, and Pam is exactly the right leader to build on the firm's momentum going forward," said Dan Killeen, partner at Parthenon Capital. "Her payer expertise and track record of driving growth and performance make her uniquely suited to lead AArete into the future."

Sharecare launches AskMD nationwide to turn any health question into a personalized plan. Monday, August 10th, 2026 Sharecare today announced that AskMD, its AI-powered health navigation experience grounded in each individual's medical history, health plan, and location, is now available nationwide. Designed to turn a person's health question into a clear next step, AskMD is free on the App Store, Google Play, and the web, as well as through the Medicare App Library. While people are not short on health information, they are often overwhelmed by it, unsure of its validity, or uncertain what to do with it. AskMD closes those gaps. People can ask a question in plain language and get trustworthy guidance and evidence-based content that's also grounded in their personal context by giving AskMD permission to connect their medical records and health plan details. AskMD matches people to doctors, aligned with specialty, quality, and location, prioritizing those covered by their plan. It gives them visibility into what their care costs, from prescriptions to procedures, in- and out-of-network. And it rewards people for taking healthy actions with incentives they will actually use, from gift cards to discounts at local businesses. "The industry is arriving at the very thing that drove me to create WebMD and later found Sharecare: People want one trusted place to understand and manage their health," said Jeff Arnold, co-founder and executive chairman of Sharecare. "But answering a person's health question in a vacuum is not adequate. People need guidance that reflects their medical history, their health plan coverage, the care available and convenient to them, and transparency on what it costs. AskMD combines the clinical foundation Sharecare has built over decades serving millions of people with the navigation capabilities required to help them move from a health question to a practical next step." AskMD by Sharecare is built on a proprietary multi-model architecture that applies the right model to each task. Clinical standards, safety controls, and escalation pathways govern every interaction, so AskMD knows when to hand someone off to a healthcare professional. Paired with insurance-aware navigation and augmented by Sharecare's exclusive, NCQA-accredited health education content, that guidance helps people move from a question to an informed next step, supporting licensed clinicians rather than replacing them. Additionally, underlying AskMD's orchestration layer is a foundation Sharecare has been expanding on since the company's early years, grounded in the work of Dr. Lawrence Weed, renowned for creating the problem-oriented medical record (POMR) and SOAP notes. In 2012, Sharecare acquired Dr. Weed's company, PKC Corporation, for its proprietary clinical knowledge methodology and management system, which AskMD uses to train its models and help people make sense of their own fragmented health information. Among its many capabilities, AskMD organizes a person's relevant history, concerns, questions, and next steps into a clear, portable summary that helps them prepare for an appointment and communicate more effectively with their practitioner. "So much of the doctor-patient visit gets spent reconstructing the story: when did their symptoms start, what triggers make them worse or better, what did the last practitioner say, which medications are they taking and what dosage," said Rajesh Aggarwal, MD, PhD, physician and Sharecare's clinical AI strategy advisor. "AskMD does the heavy lifting to organize that information before the patient walks in the exam room, and presents it in the problem-oriented structure physicians already think in. I start the appointment practicing medicine, my patient gets more out of our time together, and the plan we leave with is one they actually understand and can carry out, and is aligned with their insurance coverage." AskMD guides the journey; care teams guide treatment. AskMD does not diagnose, prescribe, or replace a clinician. It is designed to direct people to the right professional care at the right moment, and make that encounter more productive and the follow-up more affordable and accessible. Arnold added, "AskMD is not another chatbot layered on top of healthcare content. It is a private, secure, and connected health experience designed to turn a person's health question into the right next step. We have spent years building and innovating toward this moment: the point when the complexity of healthcare is finally simplified for every American, wherever they are in their personal journey." What you can do with AskMD * Ask what's on your mind. Describe a symptom or a worry and get calm, evidence-based guidance with safety guardrails that point to the right care. * See your health history in one place. With your permission, AskMD provides digital identity verification to securely access health records, connect across providers, labs, wearables, and insurance. * Know what your plan covers. Real-time, permission-based insurance eligibility and payor data integrations embed your benefits into every recommendation, so you know what your plan covers and what it will cost before you go. * Find the right doctor, not just the closest one. Care recommendations go beyond star ratings and online reviews. Through curated network data from Sharecare and its partners, AskMD connects you to quality providers and virtual care options that match your needs, your coverage, and your location. * Get your RealAge. The RealAge health risk assessment in AskMD, taken by more than 45 million people, shows how your everyday habits are shaping your health. * Learn about what matters to you. Throughout AskMD, you have access to trusted, research-backed health education resources, drawing from Sharecare's extensive content library. * Earn real-world rewards. AskMD rewards healthy actions, from connecting your records to completing a follow-up visit, with incentives people actually want to use. Built for health information AskMD is built with enterprise-grade privacy and security protections through Sharecare's HITRUST-certified security framework, along with defined clinical safety protocols and escalation pathways. People control which sources they connect, and can disconnect a source at any time. Healthcare expertise you can't retrofit In recent months, some of the largest names in technology and retail have introduced AI health assistants. That wave of investment confirms the belief Sharecare was founded on: People want a single, trusted front door to their health. The difference is what - and who - sits behind the door. For over a decade, Sharecare has been building, assembling, and synthesizing the assets that turn a conversation into care; from the clinical decision science and connected records to insurance integrations and quality provider networks. Sharecare is also among the early adopters that pledged to collaborate with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to support a voluntary, standards-based ecosystem of private-sector technology partners that integrate with the CMS Aligned Network. Actively engaged in two of the initiative's key categories - Conversational AI and Kill the Clipboard - Sharecare's AskMD has been selected for the Medicare App Library, a curated directory of vetted, patient-facing digital health applications available to all 68 million Medicare beneficiaries. Committed to fostering a culture of collaboration, Sharecare paired its experience in healthcare engagement and navigation with other members of the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), CLEAR, Flexpa, and HealthEx, among others, to power some features in AskMD that make privacy a priority and hyper-personalization possible. Availability AskMD is available today across the U.S. on the App Store, Google Play, and the web, as well as through the Medicare App Library. Getting started takes minutes: Within a few clicks, verify your identity to keep your information private and protected; connect your medical records to bring your health history in context; link your insurance if you have coverage; and just ask a question to get a personalized plan from your first conversation. Start with your question. End with the right plan for you. Just AskMD.

Bonus Features - August 2, 2026 - Vizient projects 8% increase in healthcare IT spending for 2027, 70% of clinicians chart outside of working hours, plus 26 more stories. August 2, 2026 Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there's so much happening out there in healthcare IT that we aren't able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you're informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Partnerships * The American College of Surgeons and Arcadia are collaborating to support the ACS Clinical Data Strategy to modernize how surgical clinical data are collected, connected, analyzed, and used. * athenahealth launched Mobile Charge Capture, which it's offering through partnership with HybridChart. * AI agents from Causaly can read the full-text articles from over 400 Sage and Mary Ann Liebert journals in life sciences. * Community health consultancy CURIS is partnering with AssureCare, a population health management company, to support long-term success for FQHCs and rural clinics participating in the Rural Health Transformation program. * Digital engagement technology from GoMo Health is now integrated with NuraLogix, a wellness management company. * HealthEx is partnering with Sharecare to bring clinical context into AskMD, Sharecare's next-generation health navigation experience. In addition, HealthEx introduced HealthEx Wallet, a web app to help individuals manage their health records. * Browser-native threat detection from Keep Aware is now integrated with HERE's enterprise browser. * Healthcare data integration technology from Redox is now integrated with Lapsi Health's Keikku AI documentation platform. * Wolters Kluwer Health is integrating UpToDate Lexidrug, Medi-Span, and UpToDate Patient Education with Epic's offerings for eligible rural hospitals, FQHCs, and tribal hospitals. * Health plan administration software maker Daffodil Health launched a new product for No Surprises Act dispute management. * Insurance software maker Ebix launched the A.D.A.M. Medical Coding Platform, along with new production and delivery capabilities across its Health Content and Wellness business. * Medidata launched Medidata Plus, making AI capabilities available across the Medidata Platform for scaling clinical trials. * Nabla announced Nabla Dictation for Mac, a clinical dictation app designed natively for macOS. Implementations Company News If you have news that you'd like us to consider for a future edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features, please submit them on this page. Please include any relevant links and let us know if news is under embargo. Note that submissions received after the close of business on Thursday may not be included in Bonus Features until the following week. Get Fresh Healthcare & IT Stories Delivered Daily