The largest federal investment in rural health in a generation deserves more than disconnected tools. AssureCare and CURIS are making sure FQHCs make it count.

CINCINNATI, July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AssureCare®, a leading AI-powered population health management company, and CURIS, a national consulting firm specializing in clinical transformation for community health centers, today announced a partnership to help Federally Qualified Health Centers and rural clinics translate the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Rural Health Transformation (RHT) program funding into care infrastructure that lasts long after the grant cycle ends.

The RHT program represents a $50 billion federal commitment to rural health — the largest of its kind in a generation. Distributed across all 50 states over five federal fiscal years, the program funds five strategic goals: making rural America healthy again, expanding sustainable healthcare access, strengthening the rural health workforce, and driving innovation in both care delivery and technology. AssureCare and CURIS will unpack all five goals – and how the right technology delivers on them – in a live webinar on July 28th.

AssureCare brings the only integrated platform purpose-built for Federally Qualified Health Centers to the partnership, connecting care management, AI-powered analytics, and intelligent patient engagement and outreach capabilities, in a single seamless system. AssureCare’s NutraVance™ now extends that platform into nutrition management, giving FQHCs a clinical pathway for Food as Medicine that connects directly to the chronic disease management goals at the heart of the RHT program – not as a separate initiative, but as part of the same care plan and within the same integrated system.

“FQHCs are being asked to do more with RHT funding than most technology vendors are equipped to help them do,” said Yousuf Ahmad, President and CEO of AssureCare. “Care management, patient engagement, nutrition – these aren’t separate initiatives. They’re all part of the same patient journey, and they require one connected system. That’s what we built. And it’s why care teams using our platform spend less time working around technology and more time doing what they came into this field to do – improve patient outcomes.”

CURIS brings more than a decade of hands-on FQHC expertise, including leading population health strategies and assessments across more than 300 health centers nationwide. Together, AssureCare and CURIS offer FQHCs both the consulting expertise to navigate the RHT program’s requirements and the technology infrastructure to meet all five of its strategic goals on a single, connected platform.

“The organizations that get this right won’t just hit their goals on paper, they’ll achieve sustainable infrastructure that keeps working long after the funding stops,” said Shannon Nielson, Founder and Principal Consultant at CURIS. “The RHT program provides FQHCs real opportunity, but funds alone won’t fix fragmented care. Technology is what turns dollars into real access, better outcomes, and sustainability that lasts. That’s exactly what we’re empowering organizations to do.”

AssureCare and CURIS provide FQHCs with a 360-degree view of every patient, from the first data point to the last interaction. This kind of integrated infrastructure is exactly what the RHT program’s funding is meant to support: technology that improves efficiency, data sharing, and patient outcomes today, while building a foundation FQHCs can rely on tomorrow.

To learn more, AssureCare and CURIS invite FQHC leaders to join their live webinar, Rural Health Transformation in Action: Building Sustainable Care with the Right Technology, on July 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM EST – Register Here

About AssureCare®

AssureCare is a leading provider of AI-powered population health management solutions designed to manage large, complex populations. AssureCare enables healthcare organizations to digitize care processes, optimize clinical and financial performance, and personalize member engagement across the continuum. Serving health plans, government agencies, providers, pharmacies, and community organizations, AssureCare’s platform supports more than 60 million lives through intelligent care management, analytics, and engagement solutions. The company continues to lead the industry in applying responsible AI and advanced technology to improve healthcare outcomes and operational efficiency. AssureCare is a proud member of the Vora Ventures portfolio.

Learn more: www.assurecare.com

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About CURIS

CURIS is a national healthcare consulting firm specializing in operational improvement, compliance, and clinical transformation for community health centers nationwide. CURIS has lead population health strategies and assessments for more than 300 health centers across the country.

Learn more: https://curis-consulting.com/

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Morpheus Studios completed the entire three-minute sequence using only its AI video creation platform AICRON — 289 AI-generated cuts, zero live-action footage — saying the team “deliberately avoided what AI does best”

SEOUL, South Korea, July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Korean drama “Agent Kim: Reactivated” has ended its run with a nationwide rating of 23.0% and a peak of 27.1% (Nielsen Korea), the highest-rated Korean miniseries of 2026 to date. Aired on SBS in Korea and streaming on Netflix, the series topped Netflix’s Global Non-English TV chart for three consecutive weeks and reached the Top 10 in 73 countries (per Netflix Tudum). It is also the first Korean commercial drama to feature a fully AI-generated three-minute sequence. Morpheus Studios, which produced the sequence, released production data to coincide with the finale.

The sequence, aired across Episodes 1 and 2, depicts a past covert mission of the protagonist (So Ji-sub) in North Korea — a building explosion, a snowbound car chase, gunfights and a river plunge. Not a single frame of live-action footage appears anywhere in the sequence: every shot, including multiple close-ups of the lead actor’s face, was generated by AI. The actor’s AI-recreated likeness was produced with his consent and the production company’s cooperation.

Morpheus Studios generated roughly 500 concept images in the first month to lock the visual direction, then 1,000 AI images and over 2,000 video clips in two months; 289 cuts made the final broadcast. Everything from planning and image generation to editing and color grading ran 100% within AICRON, overseen by Ryu Jae-hwan, Vice President of Morpheus Studios and VFX supervisor (“Road to Boston,” “Swing Kids,” “The Flu”).

“‘Agent Kim: Reactivated’ gave the team a clear goal: use AI to fully realize the protagonist’s past exploits — scenes that would have demanded significant time and cost to shoot in live action,” said Ryu. “What AI does best is reproducing patterns from the data it was trained on, and relying on that alone produces generic images. The key was pushing the technology toward what it is not naturally good at — cinematic angles and dramatic moments.”

After the sequence aired, Korean social media reaction was dominated by “I had no idea it was AI.” A disclaimer noted AI was used in parts of production, but the sequence’s fully AI-generated nature went unnoticed until Morpheus Studios disclosed it — demonstrating that AI can now carry full sequences at broadcast quality, not just assist individual VFX shots.

For Morpheus Studios, the sequence also serves as a showcase for AICRON itself. “AICRON was built to give creators a new creative tool in AI, and we will keep upgrading it,” said Sean Lee, CEO of Morpheus Studios.

About Morpheus Studios

Morpheus Studios is an AI video production studio founded by veteran VFX professionals from Korean film and television. In February 2026, the studio launched AICRON, a node-based AI video creation platform integrating more than 150 AI models. For more information, visit aicron.io.

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Global AI hospitality platform adopts a single, purpose-built payment solution, backed by remote device management and a lifetime device warranty, to power its next phase of growth.

SEAL BEACH, Calif., July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — MagTek, a global leader in secure payment technology and security solutions, and Tabit, a global hospitality commerce and AI platform, today announced that Tabit has moved its payment hardware and gateway processing to MagTek’s DynaFlex secure card readers and the Magensa Payment Protection Gateway via Unigate (Unigate). The move consolidates Tabit’s payment infrastructure, giving the company a more reliable, streamlined foundation for both card-present and online transactions across its global operations.

As part of the transition, Tabit integrated its POS with the DynaFlex II Go, a mobile payment device built on MagTek’s newest hardware platform. The device is engineered around AES-256 encryption, the highest security standard in the industry, giving Tabit and its customers additional peace of mind with every transaction. DynaFlex II Go has been widely adopted by the industry’s leading case manufacturers, who design enclosures for iOS, Android, and Windows devices, making it easy and reliable for restaurants to bring mobile POS and payments directly to the table. Beyond payments, the DynaFlex II Go platform also supports non-payment NFC use cases, including MIFARE, NTAG, Apple VAS and Google SmartTap, DynaCast (for delivering receipts, surveys, and other content to a guest’s mobile device), access control, and mobile driver’s license (mDL) reading, making it one of the most versatile hardware platforms in the industry.

As Tabit’s footprint grew, the opportunity to simplify became clear: a single, unified partner for both hardware and gateway services would streamline development, speed up certification for new processors, and give the team a clearer picture of performance across every transaction.

With Magensa Unigate, Tabit now runs card-present and card-not-present transactions through a single integration to its major processors and acquirers, including Fiserv, TSYS, WorldPay, and Elavon. The consolidation gives Tabit one unified view into all of its transactions, regardless of processor or payment channel, and a simpler path to supporting new processors and payment types going forward. Because MagTek both manufactures the DynaFlex hardware and develops the Magensa Unigate gateway, the solution is engineered and supported as a single, tightly integrated stack rather than a pairing of separate vendors’ products.

Beyond the core hardware and gateway consolidation, Tabit adopted two additional MagTek services to extend the value of the solution. The Reader Management System (RMS), an API that integrates device management directly into Tabit’s restaurant AI POS, and allows firmware updates and configuration changes to be pushed to devices remotely in a lights-out environment, reducing support costs and keeping devices running at optimal performance. Tabit also adopted MagCare, which provides a lifetime warranty on MagTek devices along with simplified administration of returns and replacements (RMAs), allowing both Tabit and its merchants to focus on their customers rather than hardware logistics.

“The future of hospitality belongs to intelligent software, not payment complexity,” said Nadav Solomon, Co-Founder and President of Tabit Technologies. “Our role is to help restaurants leverage AI to operate more efficiently and create exceptional guest experiences, while remaining free to choose the payment partners that best serve their business. Consolidating our payments infrastructure with MagTek gives us a stronger technical foundation so we can innovate faster, simplify operations, and continue delivering an open, enterprise-grade platform for the hospitality industry.”

Tabit’s move to MagTek and Magensa reflects a broader shift among hospitality and restaurant technology providers toward consolidated payments infrastructure, as operators look to reduce the complexity, cost, and support overhead of managing hardware and gateway relationships across multiple vendors.

“Tabit has built one of the most thoughtful mobile-first platforms in hospitality, and we wanted our payments technology to match that same level of craftsmanship,” said Rod Vesling, Senior Vice President of Magensa. “By bringing our hardware and gateway together under one roof, we’re giving Tabit a single, tightly integrated foundation to build on — so their team can stay focused on what they do best: creating a seamless experience for restaurants and their guests.”

To see the full solution in action, visit MagTek at booth #910 and Tabit at Booth #537 at RSPA’s RetailNOW event, July 26 – 28, 2026 at Ceasar’s Forum Conference Center, Las Vegas, NV.

To learn more about MagTek visit www.magtek.com, email retail.solutions@magtek.com, or call 562-546-6400.

To learn more about Tabit visit www.tabit.cloud or call 833-822-4887.

About MagTek

Founded in 1972, MagTek is a leading manufacturer of electronic systems for the reliable issuance, reading, transmission, and security of cards, barcodes, checks, PINs, and identification documents. Leading with innovation and engineering excellence, MagTek is known for quality and dependability. Our hardware products include secure card reader/authenticators, Qwantum secure cards, token generators; EMV Contact Chip, EMV Contactless, barcode and NFC reading devices; encrypting check scanners, PIN pads, and credential personalization systems.

These products all connect to Magensa, a MagTek owned gateway that offers businesses the ability to securely process transactions using authentication, encryption, tokenization, and non-static data. At MagTek, we don’t outsource security. Our USA-based headquarters in Seal Beach, CA house our engineering, key injection, device management, production, sales, quality, and final assembly departments. Please visit www.magtek.com to learn more.

About Tabit Technologies, Inc.

Tabit Technologies is a global hospitality commerce and AI platform powering some of the most demanding restaurant, hotel, and entertainment operations in the world. Purpose-built for full-service and upper-market hospitality, Tabit delivers a mobile-first, cloud-native ecosystem that combines POS, payments orchestration, kitchen operations, guest engagement, online ordering, loyalty, and AI-driven operational intelligence into a unified platform. Trusted by innovative hospitality brands globally, Tabit supports restaurants and hotels ranging from boutique concepts to large-scale enterprise groups, including luxury hospitality destinations, major airport operators, and multi-location restaurant organizations across North America, Australia, and Israel. For more information about Tabit’s product suite, visit Tabit.cloud.

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