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Family, friends remember former WBRC sports reporter Christina Chambers
A funeral Mass was held Monday morning at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Cullman. Chambers was killed at her home in Hoover on Dec. 16, 2025.
Hoover Business Happenings: January 2026
See what's happening in the Hoover business community.
People, Politics, and Places fellowship grants students a closer look at rural America
The Hoover Institution’s People, Politics, and Places Fellowship affords students first-hand summer experiences in rural American communities.
Unpermitted tamales, missing sanitizer among Jefferson County health violations
Three Jefferson County food establishments, Sunshine Foodmart #8 in Mulga, Johnny Brusco's NY Style Pizza in Hoover, and Bessemer Academy in Bessemer, scored below 85 in recent health inspections.
3 bold predictions for Indiana football vs Western Kentucky
From Josh Hoover’s final statline to the margin of victory, here’s three bold predictions for WKU week.
Georgia tops Arkansas, wins first SEC Baseball Championship
Jack Arcamone drove in four runs with a home run and a single and the Georgia Bulldogs, the tournament's top seed, won their first SEC Baseball Championship, defeating the Arkansas Razorbacks 11-1 in seven innings on Sunday in Hoover, Alabama.
Recent $11 Million Grant to Broad Metro Highlights Economic Partnerships Between Business and State, Federal Government - Alabama Department of Labor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2026 Recent $11 Million Grant to Broad Metro Highlights Economic Partnerships Between Business and State, Federal Government Hoover, Alabama – A recent grant in the amount of $11,751,607.34 in federal Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER) Program funding that was awarded for two innovative projects in Hoover, Alabama—Broad […]
New police Chief Clay Morris to speak to Hoover Small Business Alliance
The breakfast will be at the Hoover Randle Home and Gardens on Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Movie review: 'Verity' cracks the code of adapting Colleen Hoover's work
Did director Michael Showalter just nail the Colleen Hoover adaptation? The third major movie version of the blockbuster author’s work hits the big screen with “Verity,” and things are starting
Who is Josh Hoover? Meet Indiana's new QB1 replacing Fernando Mendoza
Curt Cignetti is hoping a transfer portal quarterback can take Indiana back to the promise land.
Trump’s UFC matches are unprecedented, but sports at the White House aren’t
From “Hoover-ball” to horseshoes, sports have long been a part of the White House, although there has never been anything like the live UFC event to be held Sunday.
One transfer portal addition who could swing College Football Playoff hopes for every post-spring top 25 team
From must-perform offensive linemen to ceiling-raising quarterbacks, these 25 transfers are poised to change the College Football Playoff race in 2026
'Verity' film adaptation honors original story
On Oct. 2, the movie adapted from Colleen Hoover’s novel “Verity” hit theaters starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett.
How to watch Thompson vs Hoover High School football
You can watch Thompson football all season long with NFHS Network, including this week’s game against Hoover High School.
'Verity' puts Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett in a steamy Colleen Hoover thriller
Anne Hathaway stars in “Verity,” a psychological thriller where trust is elusive | KCBS All News 106.9FM and 740AM
After FBI departure, Andrew Bailey says his focus is not on 2028
Andrew Bailey walked out of the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. Friday and was back in Missouri watching his son play football Saturday, ending a roughly 13-month stint as co-deputy director of the FBI.
Birmingham business hosts grand reopening after fire
Birmingham business hosts grand reopening after fire
Jeff State, Shelby Chamber, 58 Inc. partner for free business leader training
The training opportunities are scheduled to take place in January 2026.
Austin soul food staple Hoover’s Cooking to close after nearly 30 years
While the Manor Road soul food spot is ending its sit down dining service, it will still book private events through the summer.
Big Ten post-spring overreactions: Indiana thrives without Fernando Mendoza, West Coast crashes CFP party
The Big Ten, which has produced the previous three national champions, has multiple contenders again in 2026
‘Verity’ review: This Anne Hathaway movie’s inert from the get-go
Anne Hathaway does her best to liven up this inert movie based on a Colleen Hoover bestseller.
August Monthly Review: ChatGPT In Epic
Death, taxes, another frontier lab healthcare launch inspiring truly insane LinkedIn takes. As much as I want to stay away, I repeatedly am the crewman unplugging his ears whenever we pass these sirens. So it’s not the first and probably not the last time we dial up the typewriter rather than tie ourselves to the mast. The full blow-by-blow timeline: Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe The End of the Standalone PHR (Jan 8): ChatGPT Health arrives for consumers, at the time powered by b.well. I was bullish on the approach in that the best way for the PHR to finally solve distribution was to meet consumers were they already are (i.e. When Horizontal Meets Healthcare (Jan 9): OpenAI for Healthcare puts out the shingle for enterprises, with SharePoint ingestion standing in for the EHR integration the product actually needed. Another One: Anthropic’s Healthcare Debut (Jan 16): Claude's version, on HealthEx rails instead of b.well, with Agent Skills for FHIR development as the one true vertical-specific investment. ChatGPT for Clinicians: The Trap Sprung (Apr 24): OpenAI filled in the missing GTM middle with a free product for verified clinicians, effectively peeling the enterprise wrapper off ChatGPT for Healthcare and taking the PLG fight directly to OpenEvidence. OpenAI’s Second Attempt at Health (Jul 31): a relaunch of their patient specific app, now branded Health in ChatGPT, where the privacy partition came out, the connectors thinned, and b.well disappeared in favor of first-party FHIR work against a smaller network Beyond a Shingle So what was announced now? Today, we’re introducing a new electronic health record integration that brings authorized patient context from Epic into ChatGPT for Healthcare, along with the Healthcare Public Data plugin for direct, structured access to official healthcare datasets like PubMed, DailyMed, and CMS Coverage. Together, these capabilities bring ChatGPT closer to the systems and sources healthcare teams trust, while supporting the controls and compliance healthcare work requires. The core portfolio is unchanged from prior announcements we delineated and discussed (aside from the relaunch of patient-facing). Since trade publications still seem to be confusing them by using the wrong names: Enterprise sales motion: ChatGPT for Healthcare Protecting their core product / PLG: ChatGPT for Clinicians Consumer/patient-facing product: Health in ChatGPT So really, this is a feature release (specifically for ChatGPT for Healthcare when it comes to EHR integration). What’s cool about it, though, is that we are moving beyond just putting out a shingle. Everything in the January enterprise launch was horizontalizable: Horizontal tech companies thus generally start verticalization with their “putting out a shingle phase”. Telling the world you’re open for business as a horizontal tech company reliably attracts early inbound interest from buyers who are already trying to force-fit horizontal tools into domain-specific workflows and are eager for any signal that the vendor intends to support their use case more directly. Nothing was really vertical specific, which is exactly what you'd expect from the ultimate hypergrowth horizontal company dipping their toes into specific industries. But eventually you have to stop changing the sign on the door and start changing the product. Can you guess where the horizontal product was going to run out of road? This is the core dilemma writ large: verticalization requires differentiation, while scale economics of consumer and horizontal push toward unification. I’ve buried the lede so deep here it will be painful to some readers, but what should be shocking to no one is that my perspective is that EHR integration is the only path that meaningfully resolves this tension for ChatGPT for Healthcare. Integration with Microsoft Sharepoint is fine, but it is categorically insufficient for any product that hopes to influence clinical decision-making. SMART Money Well here we are, eight months later! Real vertical investment has begun, which surprised a few people. One friend in the industry messaged me: “Absolutely no way Epic gave ChatGPT API access.” Looking forensically at the announcements, the integration is notably read-only across appointment notes, laboratory results, medications, and specialist documentation. So while I’m not a betting man, I'd wager the house this is a SMART on FHIR launch: That sounds a lot like USCDI! The recommended path for the workflow they outline would be SMART on FHIR Their Health AI lead’s post is evocative of both standalone and EHR launch SMART, which another termed “ChartGPT” and “EHR Plugin” The implementation burden for SMART on FHIR is the lowest of the available integrative paths This is the team who literally did patient-facing SMART on FHIR with Epic last month Most importantly, if you’re a horizontal company, you generally still haven’t taken the full plunge and thus (overly) value reusability. SMART on FHIR is the logical compromise: healthcare-specific enough to matter, but standardized enough to reuse. Nobody Asked Judy Another friend asked “I thought they had to go to each health system, or did they go direct to Epic and now health systems opt in?” Given the trust paradigms in healthcare, this functionally cannot be Epic hoovering up all the data for OpenAI and shoving ChatGPT in their customers’ faces (or they would revolt). However, I do believe the aforementioned terrible coverage by TechCrunch and other outlets is probably responsible for that question, given the 325 million reference. When using FHIR as a business associate to an Epic customer, there is no EHR gatekeeping to speak of, as that isn’t how fhir.epic.com works: You register an app You pick your APIs You test against the sandbox APIs You list as “Ready for Production” Hospitals pick your app You test and go live with them Bluntly, nobody had to say yes or no in Verona (nor were they given the chance). Vendor Services (their next developer tier up that I doubt OpenAI is using quite yet in this initial release) certainly has contractual paperwork that some resent, but even there, the twin pressures of mounting antitrust and information blocking make outright gatekeeping increasingly fraught. My friend’s sentiment is, to me, representative of a broader industry neurosis, perhaps a sort of scar tissue of prior eras: people assume the gate is still there and never actually try the door. There are certainly other ways Epic (and any EHR) can put its thumb on the scale, but they are not so dumb as to stand in front of a federally mandated API and play bouncer at this exact moment in time. So I think they can and probably should go deeper, as this release is at best parity and at worst behind vertical-specific competition. OpenEvidence did a basic SMART launch with Sutter Health in February, allowing for more convenient evidence search by providers. They then add patient-context (the equivalent SMART on FHIR flow to what we see here) when Cedars-Sinai went enterprise-wide in May. UpToDate has four distinct applications across deeper workflows like patient engagement listed in Epic Showroom and announced a partnership with Epic to power Art at UGM Abridge and other ambient scribes have invested deeply into the deepest bidirectional clinical copilot workflow with integrations well beyond SMART on FHIR. In that light, the “Who is OpenAI primarily targeting here?” is clear. This release brings them into striking distance of OpenEvidence, but not the others quite yet. They are the only one of the three you can reach without building something truly Epic-specific. When will they go further? Competition is a great motivator to overcome the horizontal demons and start building things that can’t be reused: not across industries, not across EHRs, maybe not past the customer you built them for. That’s the price of actually verticalizing. The question is if and when OpenAI will be willing to pay it. Month in Review Here is the monthly review. As a reminder, this is a regular round-up of the month’s posts and other content to surface things you may have missed across regulation, litigation, interoperability, and beyond. AI assistance is used in these bullet summaries so I can focus on articles. Articles Published: None this month Video Content: The Information Exchange: Standards-based Thruple Edition (Aug 14): Back to school for us too, with Brad reporting in from the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem’s one year anniversary in DC. We get into the January CMS-0057 deadline, the fall rulemaking reading list, and why enrollment still keeps most apps off FHIR. The Information Exchange: Epic Dúnadan Edition (Aug 25): A UGM roundup with Ryan Brickner joining for the first time to check our takes against what the building actually thinks. Rangers, Ergo sitting on top of EHI, and a down-market lineup that needs some cuts. Regulatory: Stacked Deck, Bad Hand (Aug 05): ONC’s website refresh took the entire HIT Policy Committee record with it, so I rebuilt the archive and went looking for the regulatory capture story everyone assumes is buried in there. Stacking the deck and winning the hand turn out to be very different things. The Sixth Generation of Patient Access (Aug 19): A quick catalog of the five generations of patient access we’ve layered on since HIPAA, and the two candidates now competing to be the sixth. One is planned. The other is the market routing around the plan entirely. Court cases: Three Cases Walk Into a Docket (Aug 06): Two surprise settlements cleared the board in a single week, and then Judge Maddox dropped ninety-four pages on Vyne v. Henry Schein. The sleeper is a DMCA holding that makes direct-to-database a considerably riskier business model. Epic v. Health Gorilla: Into the MDL (Aug 10): Nine class actions are headed to Miami, and the Panel signaled it wants to bring the case that spawned them along too. That would leave Epic arguing the requests were obviously fraudulent in one courtroom and unknowable in the other. Amazon v. Perplexity: Agents Are Legalized! (Aug 11): The Ninth Circuit vacated the injunction against Comet, holding that the user is the one accessing the servers rather than the company that built the agent. A real win for agentic access, and a much narrower one than the headline suggests. Veeva v. Epic: Come At Me, Bro (Aug 26): Epic’s response brief wants the dismissal affirmed and, unusually, wants the opinion published as precedent. Buried in it is Epic’s own description of what its non-competes actually prohibit, which current and former employees should read closely. EHRs: The Contract Epic Would Never Sign Today (Aug 04): A 1999 SEC exhibit catches Epic licensing nearly its entire product line, Tapestry included, to the company that became TriZetto. The marketing services menu attached to it is the part that will make you blink. Forecast from Verona (Aug 07): The Epic Almanac makes one argument six different ways: the AI is only as good as the networks behind it. Emmie headlines, Art’s context stack is the most ambitious part, and Penny finally gets an autonomous coding date on the calendar. Works With Epic MyChart (Aug 17): Epic’s first new Showroom category since the death of Workshop certifies hardware instead of software, badge on the box and all. Made for iPhone, but for blood pressure cuffs, and rough news for anyone selling the RPM stack sitting in between. UGM Hot Takes 2026 (Aug 20): Everyone else covered the AI announcements, so I went after Savvy deleting the payment gateway, Rangers as Boost with the timer removed, and a down-market lineup with too many entries. Plus the Health Grid tidbits I cannot help myself on. MyChart Central Grows Up (Aug 24): Device data and Emmie turn Epic’s identity hub into a full consumer platform, which is both a logical answer to ChatGPT and a bit of a mistake. It also happens to be the best scraping target Epic has ever shipped. Industry Analysis: The Wrong Yardstick (Aug 12): Vertical software keeps getting judged against Superhuman and Notion, which is the wrong bar entirely. Your user is comparing your product to a whiteboard and forty phone calls before lunch. Primitives vs. Abstractions (Aug 27): Developers want building blocks, systems of record prefer to hand out business logic, and both sides have a real case. There’s no test from the outside that separates the engineering reason from the competitive one, which is why this keeps ending up in court. Cross-industry Comparisons: The Two Kinds of Platform Power (Aug 18): Attention power and record power are different problems that keep getting handed the same regulatory toolkit. Congress’s latest swing at Big Tech shows both what’s possible and where it falls apart. The Dogs of (Platform) War (Aug 21): A CourtListener alert turned up a property management fight with healthcare’s exact shape and none of the Cures Act. Shell prospects, ghost accounts, a notetaker bot that came back to haunt someone, and a lawyer arguing both sides of the same theory in two states. Fractals All the Way Down (Aug 31): Yardi dominates property management right up until you zoom into one segment, where AppFolio owns it outright and Yardi doesn’t appear at all. Where you draw the line around a B2B software market is about to decide an awful lot of cases. Other News: If Judy Had the Courage (Aug 13): A short eulogy for the era when software was allowed to look insane: WinAMP, bold colors, and everything the grey chatbot era has taken from us. External Media: Portland Monthly Health Tech Meetup: Erin O’Brien channeled my own feelings - maybe it’s just because it’s August and beautiful, but the monthly edition of the PDX Health community meetup was a ripper. Make sure to reach out if interested to join for the next one. STAT’s Coverage of Epic This Month: Brittany Trang of STAT did a fantastic job of breaking the FTC investigation that’s been lurking, as well as UGM related coverage, so I had to give her her wish of a meme. Fall Conferences: I’m pumped to be kicking off my fall conference season in NYC at Nabla Accelerate next month, which Chrissy provided the link to apply for. Here’s the rest of my schedule in case you want to meet up: Commonwell (Redwood Shores, CA): Oct 13-14 Open@Epic (Madison, WI): Oct 21-22 eHealthExchange (Austin, TX): Oct 27 Sequoia Project (Austin, TX): Oct 28-29 HLTH (Vegas): Nov 15-18 RSNA (Chicago): Nov 29-Dec 3 Posts I Liked: HTI-6 Should Unbundle API Certification: Josh Mandel makes the case that HTI-6 should split (g)(10) into separate authorization and data certifications, so a PACS or a genomics platform can certify only the role it actually performs. Imaging is the urgent example, but the structure solves a much bigger problem. On implementing ePrior Auth with Epic: Scott Rossignol’s field notes from a live ePrior Auth build on Epic, including the two app registrations nobody warns you about and the CPT mapping problem waiting at the end. CMS-0057 implementations are going to be such a beast. Healthcare point solutions are starting to look a lot like streaming services: Spencer Dorn runs the cable-to-streaming arc against health IT and lands squarely on the bundling half of the cycle. Bundling can be good! It can also be bad! Life is nuanced. Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe
Elegance and legacy meet at the Oroville Inn
If the walls at the Oroville Inn could talk, they’d regale listeners with stories of a booming hotel where locals and visitors attended elegant social events and the rich and famous — including former presidents Herbert Hoover and Ro…
Assemblyman Josh Hoover says Capitol Annex project leaders are hiding information from lawmakers
California Republican Assemblyman Josh Hoover says some state lawmakers like him are getting little to no information on the Capitol Annex Project and how much it could cost taxpayers.
Indiana Builds Early Lead Over North Texas in Opener
Josh Hoover’s efficient debut and a dominant special teams spark powered the No. 6 Hoosiers to a commanding halftime advantage as the Mean Green struggled under pressure.
TCU quarterback Josh Hoover expected to transfer to Indiana
Indiana adds its Fernando Mendoza replacement
Former WBRC reporter Christina Chambers among 2 found dead in Hoover home
WBRC 6 News has confirmed former WBRC Reporter Christina Chambers is one of the two people found dead in a Hoover home Tuesday morning.
The "all politics" healthcare project in Hoover that's rewriting state regulations
The man who wrote Alabama's certificate of need regulations is concerned that decisions made over a Hoover project could place the regs in jeopardy.
Lancaster County public sales: Oct. 9, 2026
Martin & Rutt Auctioneers LLC, of New Holland, conducted a public auction of real estate Sept. 29 for Clyde and Erma Hoover at 910 Pine Hill Road, Lititz. A three-bedroom
Baptist Health, Seale Harris Clinic Named Lead Tenants at Riverwalk Health Center
Baptist Health and Seale Harris Clinic have signed leases to become lead tenants at the planned Riverwalk Health & Wellness Center in Hoover, with the facility
Is 'Verity' worth watching? Anne Hathaway's dark new thriller divides critics.
Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett star in the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestselling psychological thriller.
Robert E. Hall wins Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The professor of economics and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, emeritus, developed models that help governments and central banks respond to economic volatility.
Bham firms trade Hoover apartments for $7M
A Birmingham-based firm flipped a Hoover apartment property after nine months of new management and renovations.
Quick Reaction: Indiana beats North Texas 52-16
Indiana got off to an imperfect start to the follow up of its perfect season, with Indiana being out-gained by North Texas well into the fourth quarter, but emerged victorious in week one against the Mean Green. Josh Hoover and the offense shined, bringing Curt Cignetti’s winning streak to 17 games. The Hoosiers were off […]
Microsoft CEO warns that AI winners could hollow 'entire industries'
AI models are hoovering up corporate knowledge, and that's leaving one big loser, says Satya Nadella.
Hoover East Sports Park reopens after $4.1M electrical overhaul
HOOVER, Ala. (WBMA) — Hoover East Sports Park is back open after a major electrical overhaul that shut down parts of the facility for more than a year.City lead
The ’Gay’ Attacks on Lindsey Graham Are All About Politics
Was Lindsey Graham gay? As the author of a book about the history of gay Washington, D.C., it’s a question I’ve been asked frequently for years, and even more so since his sudden death last weekend. The South Carolina Republican’s lifelong confirmed bachelorhood, vocal intonation, and Southern dandy demeanor (if not sartorial choices) prompted many to conclude that he was, as they say in that part of the country, “light in his loafers.” Graham’s repeated attestations to the contrary had zero effect on those invested in the narrative that he was. Only about the matter of J. Edgar Hoover’s rumored cross-dressing (for which there is much circumstantial but no direct evidence) am I questioned more. Whenever I’ve been asked to speculate upon Graham’s sexuality—and speculate was all that I or anyone else could do—I always answered the question honestly. While my personal sense is that Graham was probably gay, as a journalist and a historian I cannot rely on my intuition to make factual assertions. (Gaydar hasn’t yet been scientifically perfected.) Given the absence of any known female or male romantic interests, Graham may very well have been a heterosexual unlucky in love. He might also have been asexual. Barring the highly unlikely postmortem emergence of a personal diary or some other unassailable evidence attesting to Graham’s innermost yearnings, we will never know the answer. As is depressingly the case these days when a public figure dies, a chorus of voices reveled in Graham’s passing, many of them making light of his presumed homosexuality.
Photo gallery: Shady Spring defeats Herbert Hoover, 43-37
ELKVIEW, W.Va. — Photo gallery from Shady Spring’s 43-37 win at Herbert Hoover. (Photo gallery courtesy of Teran Malone/Malone Sports Media)
AFT raises mold, health concerns at Abrams Elementary in Bessemer
ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, Alabama offers news, sports, and weather reporting for the surrounding communities including Tuscaloosa, Anniston, Cullman, Gadsden, Talladega, Sylacauga, Carbon Hill, Jasper, Hoover, Bessemer, Vestavia Hills, Alabaster, Trussville and Homewood.
Stardome Comedy Club Founder Announces Retirement and Sale After Decades of Entertainment
After more than four decades at the helm of one of Birmingham’s most well-known entertainment venues, Bruce Ayers has announced his retirement and the sale of T
Josh Hartnett reveals which family member was ‘absolutely not on board’ with his “Verity” casting
The actor plays Jeremy in the upcoming adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s book of the same name.
Video Colleen Hoover shares health update
The "It Ends with Us" author took to Instagram to provide an update on her battle with cancer during a recent radiation treatment.
Lancaster County public sales: Sept. 18, 2026
Kline, Kreider & Good Auctioneers, of Bowmansville, conducted a public auction of real estate Aug. 11 for Norman G. and Eunice B. Hoover at 765 Glenwood Drive, Ephrata. A farmhouse,
Man Buys $299K Rolls-Royce for $39K, Fixes It With Cardboard on Drive Home
YouTuber Tyler Hoover, the creator of Hoovies Garage, bought a 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost for just $39,000, then attempted to drive the aging luxury sedan nearly 1,000 miles from Detroit, Michigan, to his home in Kansas. ... Read more