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Cara publishes white papers, field notes, and original research drawn from our Enablement Sprints and our evaluation of the healthcare AI landscape. Our partners and anyone thinking seriously about this space are welcome to read.

Flagship white paper

White Paper·April 2026 · v1.1

Comparative Analysis of Leading EHR Platforms

With a new dimension: Coding Agent Readiness.

21 EHRs evaluated across 8 dimensions including the first published framework for Coding Agent Readiness. A Cara-pioneered axis measuring how AI coding agents can autonomously integrate with healthcare platforms. 70+ primary sources cited.

21 EHRs8 dimensions70+ sources

Research streams

Categories and industries.

AI market access is moving from workflow automation to intervention.

Prior authorization, benefit verification, patient support, and brand visibility are collapsing into the same operational layer.

Clinical trialsApril 2026 · 6 min read

Clinical-trial AI is moving upstream into protocol and site design.

The important shift is not just patient matching. It is feasibility, site selection, protocol realism, and activation speed.

Coding agentsApril 2026 · 6 min read

Coding agents are becoming a healthcare integration strategy.

Cursor, Claude Code, Devin, and MCP-style gateways change how teams extend EHRs, but only when governance and testability are designed into the workflow.

Patient experienceFebruary 2026 · 6 min read

The front door is now the growth engine for medical practices.

For specialty, DPC, concierge, and multi-site practices, patient experience starts before the first visit and keeps compounding after it.

Patient experienceMarch 2026 · 7 min read

Patient support is becoming the brand experience in pharma.

For specialty therapies, patients often experience the brand through access friction: benefits verification, prior authorization, copay support, hub follow-up, and therapy start delays.

Patient experienceMarch 2026 · 6 min read

Member experience is an operations problem, not a payer portal problem.

Members do not experience the payer as a website. They experience eligibility confusion, prior authorization delays, care gaps, denials, and call-center loops.

Patient experienceApril 2026 · 6 min read

Health-system patient experience fails at the handoff.

Hospitals lose trust when scheduling, referrals, discharge, follow-up, prior authorization, and care management are fragmented across teams.

Patient experienceFebruary 2026 · 6 min read

In digital health, retention is the patient experience.

Virtual-first care companies win or lose on longitudinal engagement: protocol-aware outreach, refill support, side-effect routing, and escalation.

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