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Seattle-based virtual respiratory care provider Kivo Health has raised a $10M Series A financing round led by Allumia Ventures.The round included participation from Corewell Health Ventures, Y Combinator, Heuristic Capital, and MassMutual Ventures, bringing Kivo's total institutional funding to just over $16M.The new capital provides the company with approximately two years of operational runway, with commercial market expansion expected as early as next year.Kivo Health
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Senseonics Doses First Human in Trial of Freedom Fully Implantable One-Year CGM
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Senseonics Holdings, Inc. announced the initiation of its first-in-human clinical feasibility study evaluating Freedom, an investigational continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system.Freedom represents an evolution of the company's commercialized Eversense 365 platform, incorporating an integrated battery and embedded Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transceiver to communicate directly with mobile devices.The system is designed to eliminate the external, on-body transmitter
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Rezilient Health Appoints Workplace Health Veteran Lisa Ness as Chief Revenue Officer
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Rezilient Health announced that Lisa Ness, MBA, RD, CDE, has joined the executive leadership team as Chief Revenue Officer.Lisa Ness brings more than three decades of enterprise healthcare experience, having previously held senior commercial growth roles at QuadMed, CareATC, Proactive MD, Premise Health, and Pfizer.In her new capacity, Ness will direct Rezilient’s commercial growth strategy, expanding national distribution across self-funded employers, benefits broker
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Ouma Health Launches Ouma Connect to Provide Real-Time MFM Clearance Visibility for Surrogacy Agencies
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Ouma Health officially launched Ouma Connect, introducing an invitation-only partner portal built specifically for surrogacy and reproductive-services agencies.Circle Surrogacy, one of the nation's largest and oldest surrogacy agencies with more than 30 years of operational history and over 4,000 births, serves as the flagship agency partner on the platform.The platform addresses an operational blind spot by giving surrogacy agencies direct visibility into gestational
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Eko Health Launches CORE 300: FDA-Cleared AI Stethoscope Unifying Traditional and Digital Listening for Adult and Pediatric Care
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Digital health and cardiovascular AI innovator Eko Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance and commercial rollout of CORE 300, an AI-enabled stethoscope designed for pediatric and adult populations.Introduces a dual-mode hardware innovation: CORE 300 is the first stethoscope to integrate traditional analog acoustic listening and advanced digital listening modes directly within a single chestpiece, allowing clinicians to toggle between acoustic
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Redesign Health Merges with Sheba Medical Center’s ARC Global and Agrees to Acquire AVIA
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Healthcare company-creation platform Redesign Health and ARC Global, the healthcare transformation engine established at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, announced a definitive merger.Concurrently, the combined enterprise has agreed to acquire AVIA, the leading U.S. health system digital transformation advisory network (subject to final regulatory approvals).The combined conglomerate unifies more than 100 health systems spanning five continents, creating an end-to-end
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Withings and Function Partner to Fuse 160+ Biomarkers with Daily Home Biometrics
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Connected health hardware pioneer Withings and comprehensive diagnostic platform Function announced an enterprise integration, creating a bi-directional data bridge connecting continuous daily physiological telemetry with longitudinal clinical lab testing.The technical bridge allows Withings daily metrics—spanning body composition, segmental muscle mass, visceral fat, blood pressure, and sleep staging—to sync automatically into the Function app. In turn, Function’s
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WebMD Ignite Ruby Launches Agentic AI Growth Ecosystem Across 2.7B Clinical Encounters
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Healthcare growth and engagement partner WebMD Ignite (a division of WebMD and Internet Brands) announced the launch of WebMD Ignite Ruby, an agentic AI growth ecosystem engineered specifically for acute health systems, academic medical centers, and healthcare provider organizations.Directly addresses the changing operational profile of healthcare marketing, where marketing leaders project the proportion of work automated by artificial intelligence will more than double
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b.well and MyDirectives Connect Advance Directives to Daily Consumer Health Records
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Consumer health data integration platform b.well Connected Health and digital advance care planning (ACP) leader MyDirectives announced an enterprise partnership to integrate advance care planning documents directly alongside longitudinal medical records.Represents a major milestone in health data rights: b.well serves as the first consumer-facing organization to integrate directly with MyDirectives’ nationwide registry for a direct patient access use case, expanding
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Kindbody and Babyscripts Team Up to Eliminate Point-Solution Fatigue in Maternity Benefits
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Virtual obstetric care pioneer Babyscripts and employer family-building benefits platform Kindbody announced a strategic partnership to launch KindPregnancy, a Kindbody-branded digital maternity offering powered by Babyscripts’ clinical technology stack.Directly addresses the fragmented "cliff" in reproductive health benefits: while employers historically purchased standalone fertility carve-outs (IVF, IUI, egg freezing) that abruptly ended upon conception, KindPregnancy
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