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- Catalio Capital Management has closed its second credit fund with over $325M in commitments, marking a significant expansion of structured financing options for commercial-stage healthcare companies.
- As traditional equity funding becomes increasingly scarce, this fund addresses growing demand for debt and structured capital that allows innovative healthcare companies to preserve equity ownership while scaling operations, with 21 investments already deployed across
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Inova Health Partners with Notable to Scale ‘Agentic’ RCM and Referral Automation
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- Inova Health, a non-profit provider in Northern Virginia, has announced a strategic partnership with Notable to deploy an integrated AI platform across its revenue cycle and patient access operations.
- By utilizing "Agentic AI"—autonomous agents that execute multi-step workflows—Inova aims to reclaim 80% of staff time lost to manual documentation requests and reduce orthopedic referral leakage by 20%.
How Notable's AI Platform Automates High-Friction
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Headlamp Health Launches AI Platform to Bring Precision Medicine to Neuroscience Drug Development
What You Should Know
- Headlamp Health has launched Lumos AI, an analytical decision-support layer specifically engineered to solve the "Complexity Gap" in neuroscience drug development.
- Unlike tools focused on trial logistics, Lumos AI utilizes longitudinal real-world data and clinical logic to identify patient subtypes most likely to respond to a therapy, aiming to bring the precision-based success of oncology to the field of psychiatry.
The Failure of ‘One-Size-Fits-All’
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Rewriting the Front Door: How AI-Assisted Intake Solves the 2026 Mental Health Crisis
For all the hype about AI “replacing therapists,” the more immediate and profound shift is happening somewhere far less glamorous: the intake process.
Across health systems, primary care physicians, insurers, and community providers are still funnelling patients into behavioural health through faxed referrals, phone tag, and unstructured web forms. Patients finally find the courage to ask for help, then hit voicemail, long waits, and confusing eligibility rules. In many organisations, no one
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Utah Becomes First State to Approve AI System for Prescription Renewals
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- The Utah Department of Commerce has officially authorized Doctronic to become the first AI system in the U.S. to legally participate in medical decision-making for prescription renewals.
- Operating under Utah’s "Regulatory Sandbox" framework, the pilot aims to address the $100 billion in avoidable medical expenses caused annually by medication non-compliance, specifically targeting the 80% of medication activity that involves routine refills.
The
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Why Tegria’s Exit from Providence Reshapes Health IT Outsourcing
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- Providence St. Joseph Health has officially offloaded Tegria Services Group to private equity firm Altaris, marking the end of a high-profile experiment in health system-owned IT consulting.
- This move decouples Tegria from its non-profit roots, handing the reigns to a PE player with $9B in assets and a mandate to scale Tegria’s MEDITECH and Epic optimization services across a fragmented market.
The Post-Captive Pivot: Can Tegria Compete Without a Safety
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Healthconnect Texas and PCIC Unify to Build the Ultimate Social Drivers of Health (SDoH) Infrastructure
What You Should Know
- Healthconnect Texas and the Patient Care Intervention Center (PCIC) have announced a strategic unification, merging statewide clinical connectivity with deep community-based data on non-medical drivers of health.
- The unified infrastructure aims to provide a "360-degree view" of patient wellness, enabling providers and policymakers to address the 80-90% of health outcomes driven by lifestyle and environmental factors that typically live outside the Electronic
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The Agentic Era: Why Glen Tullman is Killing the Healthcare Chatbot in 2026
What You Should Know
- Transcarent has officially launched WayFinding 2.0, marking a strategic shift from the "chat assistant era" to the "agentic action era" in healthcare.
- By integrating autonomous AI agents that can schedule appointments, triage symptoms, and manage follow-ups via a proprietary Total Recall Memory Engine, the platform aims to eliminate the chronic administrative friction that currently defines the American healthcare experience.
The Death of the Chatbot: Entering
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The Digital Insider: Securing Agentic AI in the 2026 Healthcare Landscape
Hospitals have thrown their doors open to a new kind of technology that can think, act and make changes faster than any human. And with healthcare generating more than 30% of the world’s data, the industry has, for better or worse, become the ultimate proving ground for AI, from all of the good it can support to all of the threats that it amplifies.
AI is being woven into diagnostics, scheduling, documentation and the overarching integration and interoperability plans that make healthcare
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Designing Trust-Centered Digital Health Systems for Sensitive Patient Interactions
Digital health tools now shape many of the most sensitive moments in the patient experience. Individuals use digital platforms to report concerns, describe symptoms they hesitate to discuss in person, and provide feedback that carries emotional weight. When these exchanges occur in digital environments, system design influences whether users feel supported, dismissed, or uncertain about how their information will be handled. Trust becomes a central factor in these moments. As digital health
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