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Headline 1: Amazon Launches Health AI for One Medical—The Clinical AI Race Heats Up Amazon rolled out Health AI integrated directly into One Medical's app, letting patients access records, book appointments, and manage prescriptions through agentic AI—positioning itself against OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to own clinical AI interactions.

Headline 2: CMS Finalizes HIPAA Security Rule—72 Hours to Restore or Report Healthcare organizations now have 72 hours to restore ePHI after a cyberattack or report it as a breach, plus new technical safeguards and encryption requirements—forcing health systems to either upgrade their disaster recovery or face mandatory breach reporting.

Headline 3: PBM Reform Gets Bipartisan Momentum—The Rebate System Might Actually Change Congress is pushing bipartisan legislation to ban spread pricing, require rebate pass-through, and increase PBM transparency—reforms that could fundamentally reshape how drug pricing works in healthcare if they actually make it through.