Prior Authorization

Utah Lets the Algorithm Work and Regulates Who Signs the Denial

Senate Bill 319 takes effect January 1 and requires Utah insurers to disclose AI use and to base adverse determinations on independent medical judgment rather than a recommendation from any other source.

By Vasil V.·September 23, 2026·8 min read

Drug Policy

When Michigan Stopped Treating Gabapentin as a Controlled Drug, Prescriptions Rose

Michigan removed gabapentin from its controlled substance schedule in May 2024, and Medicaid dispensing rose right away, a rare read on what a scheduling decision does to prescribing.

By James T.·September 23, 2026·8 min read

Tech Regulation

Washington Told Australia Its Feed Law Is Censorship and Canberra Called It a Choice

The US embassy in Canberra used Australia's consultation on a digital duty of care to argue that mandating how platforms rank content is viewpoint-based censorship. Australia's prime minister answered that the law hands choice back to users, and the bill still goes to parliament this year.

By Victoria C.·September 23, 2026·8 min read

AI governance

Burnham Offered the UN Global AI Standards and Trump Rejected the Premise

Britain's prime minister told the UN the UK would use its G20 presidency to agree a single set of global AI principles. Hours earlier, the US president rejected any globalist scheme to control the technology and said he wants it renamed super intelligence.

By Victoria C.·September 23, 2026·8 min read

Obesity

The Obesity Question Moves From How Much to How Often

Viking's maintenance study found that stretching VK2735 dosing to every other week or monthly preserved most of the weight loss over 12 weeks, with gastrointestinal side effects no worse than placebo. The weight endpoints were exploratory.

By James T.·September 23, 2026·8 min read

Urticaria

Barzolvolimab Met Every Endpoint and the Question Moved to the Label

Celldex's barzolvolimab met the primary endpoint and every key secondary in two Phase 3 hives trials, then the shares fell as two anaphylaxis cases moved to the center of the filing question.

By James T.·September 23, 2026·8 min read

Interchange

A Swipe Fee Ban Whose Reach Depends on Which Regulator Charters the Bank

Federal credit unions joined the list of institutions exempt from Illinois's interchange fee ban, leaving a coverage map drawn by charter type and a July 2027 deadline for the institutions still inside it.

By Vasil V.·September 23, 2026·8 min read

Rebates

Florida's Insulin Suit Reaches the Layer That Prices the Rebates

The complaint names three manufacturers, three pharmacy benefit managers and the aggregators that negotiate and retain fees on their behalf, arriving after the FTC already settled with two of the three PBM families.

By James T.·September 23, 2026·8 min read

Enrollment

CMS Gave Itself a Standing Power to Cut Brokers Out of the Exchanges

The new rule codifies a permanent authority to suspend agent and broker registration, then uses it for the first time on the brokers who joined last year while 315,000 enrollments covering 760,000 people come off the books.

By Vasil V.·September 23, 2026·8 min read

Intent Data

Intent Data Providers For B2B

Non-English intent signal is still under twenty percent of total volume industrywide, which means most platforms are seeing a fraction of the buying activity happening outside English language markets.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management Solutions

One vendor is explicitly competing on restraint, arguing that a plausible AI generated article that is subtly wrong is worse for a knowledge base than no article at all.

By Marko P.·8 min read

MDR

Managed Detection And Response Services

Forrester's own buyer guidance undercuts the AI pitch: providers are getting measurably more efficient, and there is little evidence yet that any of that efficiency is reaching customer pricing.

By Marko P.·8 min read

MDR Europe

Managed Detection And Response Services In Europe

Forrester's guidance to buyers is blunt: having a data centre in the EU answers one sovereignty question out of four, and most vendor pitches stop at the first.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Manufacturing Tech

Manufacturing Technology Services

Forrester frames 2026's binding constraint as a workforce that cannot be trained fast enough, which makes this a services category built around people more than platforms.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Market Intelligence

Market And Competitive Intelligence Platforms

Generative AI should have commoditized this category, and instead Forrester's criteria count kept climbing, because the moat was always licensed source access, not summarization.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Open Banking

Open Banking Intermediaries

Two of the category's most prominent independent players are now owned by the card networks they were supposed to route around.

By Marko P.·8 min read

Change Management

Organizational Change Management Services

Forrester's provider count nearly doubled in three years, and every other technology category in this series points at the same root cause: the software works and the organisation does not change.

By Marko P.·8 min read

PLM

Product Lifecycle Management Platforms For Discrete Manufacturers

Every reference customer for one vendor said they would buy again, which in PLM can mean genuine excellence or a customer base that has nowhere else to go once the evidence chain is built.

By Marko P.·8 min read