North America – October 27, 2026 -- WaitWell scored 9.4 out of 10 in its own ranking of six higher-education enrollment management platforms, ahead of Slate by Technolutions (8.4) and Salesforce Education Cloud (8.0). The vendor-published guide scored platforms on seven weighted dimensions, including recruitment CRM depth, student-services experience, SIS integration, multi-campus support and total cost of ownership.

Canada – October 27, 2026 -- WaitWell scored 9.4 out of 10 in its own evaluation of 10 medical practice management platforms, ahead of athenaOne (8.2), Tebra (7.8), SimplePractice (7.6) and RXNT (7.4). WaitWell publishes the guide and discloses a commercial interest in its conclusions.

United States – October 27, 2026 -- WaitWell released staff booking links that let each staff member create up to 10 links per location, alongside a rebuilt staff scheduling view, and announced a larger release for November.

Canada – October 27, 2026 -- Service-operations software provider WaitWell grew 500% over three years and ranked No. 57 of 375 on Canada's Top Growing Companies list.

The platform has served nearly 45 million people and saved more than 12.8 million hours of waiting. Thousands of service locations across the United States and Canada have adopted it over the period.

McKinney, Texas – October 27, 2026 -- SMS alerts, appointment scheduling, multi-language service and skill-based routing all sit above Nemo-Q's $290-per-month Essentials plan, according to a WaitWell comparison of 10 queue management alternatives. WaitWell published the guide on its own site and discloses a commercial interest in its conclusions.

Europe – October 27, 2026 -- Self-hosted LLM infrastructure tends to become the cheaper option above roughly 50 million tokens processed per day, while commercial APIs usually stay more economical below 5 million, according to AppsTek's analysis of when enterprises need a sovereign LLM. The figures are illustrative and should be checked against current provider pricing and actual workload patterns.

Hot Springs – October 27, 2026 -- Verizon Frontline displayed six categories of deployable connectivity assets at the 2026 Central States Communications Exercise in Hot Springs, Arkansas, many of them powered by ST Engineering iDirect technology.

United States – October 27, 2026 -- An analysis of 5,723 patients on Foundayo (oral orforglipron) found that 40.3% had no evidence of prior GLP-1 medication use, according to Truveta, which is pitching real-time "healthcare intelligence" to life science, healthcare and government teams.

Foundayo uptake runs mostly through primary care

Truveta researchers used Truveta Data to identify patients with a Foundayo prescription or medication dispense between April 1 and July 6, 2026. The drug was approved for obesity in April 2026.

United States – October 27, 2026 -- Computer-assisted navigation was used in 41.0% of endoscopic sinus surgeries in 2026, up from 29.2% in 2018, a 40.4% relative increase, according to a Truveta Data analysis of adult patients.

Navigation used in 35.5% of 98,971 procedures over the study period

The analysis covered endoscopic sinus surgeries performed between January 1, 2018, and August 31, 2026. Visits within 90 days of a prior surgery code were counted as a single procedure. Navigation was identified through a specific add-on CPT code.

United States – October 27, 2026 -- Robotic assistance in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) rose from 12.4% of procedures in 2018 to 36.1% in 2026, a 191% relative increase, according to an analysis of 362,667 procedures in Truveta Data.

Robotic assistance was used in 24.3% of all procedures in the study period, which ran from January 2018 to August 2026. Robotic-assisted cases ran longer. Median operation time was 136 minutes (IQR 116-160), against 126 minutes (IQR 109-149) without robotics.