Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Joseph France noted that HCA Holdings (HCA), Community Health (CYH), LifePoint (LPNT), Tenet (THC) and Envision Healthcare (EVHC) all have business in Florida and Texas and are all down today on the potential threat from Hurricane Irma and the impact from Hurricane Harvey last week. HCA reports nearly half of its beds are in Florida and Texas while Envision has said in the past that more than half of its anesthesia business and about half of its legacy ER business is in those two states, noted France, who adds that Community Health, LifePoint and Tenet are less exposed to those states. The analyst keeps an Overweight rating on HCA shares.

Catheter Precision (VTAK) has received its first purchase order for LockeT from an HCA Healthcare (HCA) facility.

Augmedix (AUGX) announced the general availability of Augmedix Go for emergency departments, marking the launch of the industry's first fully-automated, generative AI powered medical documentation product for EDs across the country. The launch incorporates learnings from a pilot program with HCA Healthcare (HCA), one of the nation's leading healthcare providers. As part of the pilot, ED physicians in four HCA Healthcare hospitals utilized Augmedix Go to automate medical documentation, with the product instantaneously drafting their medical notes from patient visits. "The launch of Augmedix Go in the ED represents our unwavering commitment to develop solutions for health systems that improve their workflows. Our agility and flexible architecture, exhibited by our broad product suite and open network platform, help us address the complex and varying needs of clinicians and providers," said Manny Krakaris, CEO of Augmedix. "We have built a sophisticated platform designed to enable clinicians to be present with their patients while trusting that Augmedix technology is doing administrative work unobtrusively in the background."