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UNC Health officially announced the rebranding and expansion of Rex Health Ventures into UNC Health Ventures, establishing a unified, systemwide corporate venture capital (CVC) and strategic investment platform.The venture platform builds on more than a decade of strategic healthcare investing, having supported nearly 30 early-stage healthcare companies since its founding in 2012.UNC Health Ventures is directly funded through UNC Health’s broader investment portfolio,
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Rise of Cloud Conversational Voice AI in Healthcare
Healthcare providers are turning to cloud-based conversational AI to fix an access crisis that traditional staffing models can no longer solve, with intelligent voice networks now handling everything from appointment scheduling to insurance verification without a human on the line.
What began as a customer-service experiment is fast becoming core clinical infrastructure. Hospitals and clinics are routing scheduling, triage, billing and payer communication through AI systems that understand
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Cityblock Acquires Homeward and Secures $116M to Unify Urban-Rural Care
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Cityblock Health entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Homeward Health in an all-stock transaction, paired with a $116M Series E financing round led by General Catalyst.The combined entity now serves nearly 200,000 members nationwide across Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, and dual-eligible programs, generating $2.2B in annualized revenue (up 77% year-over-year and more than 4x its 2021 fundraise level).Homeward Health brings a dedicated rural-first Medicare
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Bristol Myers Squibb Partners with Chai Discovery for AI Antibody Design
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Chai Discovery announced a strategic biopharmaceutical collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) to advance the discovery and engineering of therapeutic antibodies using artificial intelligence.Bristol Myers Squibb will integrate Chai’s proprietary molecular folding and de novo design models across its drug discovery portfolio to power an AI-driven, continuously learning discovery system.Chai Discovery’s platform acts as a computer-aided design (CAD) suite for
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DCAI and Corti Launch Sovereign AI Control Layer on Gefion Supercomputer
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The Danish Center for AI Innovation (DCAI) and clinical AI lab Corti have launched Corti Models, a governed, model-agnostic infrastructure layer providing European enterprises with sovereign control over AI deployments, data security, and compliance.The platform provides an OpenAI-compatible API supporting sovereign cloud and on-premises environments, allowing organizations to route workloads to leading foundation models without rewriting existing SDK integrations or
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Radial Acquires Mindful Health Solutions MSO to Scale 27-Clinic Brain Medicine Network
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Radial has acquired the Management Services Organization (MSO) supporting Mindful Health Solutions, creating the nation’s largest clinical management network dedicated to advanced brain medicine and interventional psychiatry.The combined management platform supports 27 outpatient clinics across California, Texas, Washington, and New York, encompassing over 100 clinicians and serving hundreds of thousands of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), PTSD, OCD, tardive
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XiFin Names Chris Martin Chief Product Officer Amid Rapid AI-Enabled Empower Platform Growth
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XiFin, Inc. appointed Chris Martin as Chief Product Officer (CPO) to lead product strategy, drive solution modularity, and expand adoption of the company's AI-enabled XiFin Empower revenue cycle management (RCM) platform.Martin's appointment follows the February 2026 hiring of Chief Technology Officer Sanjay Kumar, forming a technical leadership pairing focused on translating AI innovation into measurable customer value across new healthcare segments.XiFin reported a
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The Real Reason Investors Are Backing Maternal Health
There’s a reason investors are pouring money into maternal health right now, and it’s not just because it’s the “right thing to do.” It’s because maternal health sits at the intersection of some of the biggest challenges in healthcare today: cost, access, workforce shortages, chronic disease, behavioral health, health equity, and long-term outcomes.
And the numbers are becoming impossible to ignore.
Despite spending more on healthcare than any other developed nation, the United States
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Aily Labs Partners with Google Cloud to Scale AI Decision Intelligence for Pharma and Biotech
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Aily Labs, developer of an AI-native Decision Intelligence platform, announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to launch its platform on the Google Cloud Marketplace.The collaboration enables global life sciences, pharmaceutical, and biotech enterprises to procure and deploy Aily’s AI agents directly through existing Google Cloud contracts, counting toward committed cloud spend without additional vendor or compliance reviews.Aily’s decision-ready agents
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Craif Secures $33M to Bring AI-Powered Urine Oncology Diagnostics to the U.S.
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Craif Inc., a bio-AI company developing a non-invasive urine analysis platform for early cancer detection, closed an approximately $33M Series D round (¥5.28 billion), bringing its total capital raised to roughly $88M (¥14.2 billion).The financing was co-led by Granite-Integral (a joint venture between Granite Asia and Integral Corporation) and TAUNS Laboratories, Inc. (one of Japan’s largest rapid diagnostic test manufacturers), with participation from U.S.-based
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