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The Raise: Talkiatry has secured $210M Series D financing round led by Perceptive Advisors, with participation from Sofina and prior lead investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), blisce/, and Left Lane Capital, alongside a debt facility from Banc of California, bringing total raise to date to over $400M.The Scale: Talkiatry is now the nation's largest private employer of psychiatrists, with over 800 full-time W2 physicians (not contractors) and 3 million patient visits
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Anterior Secures $40M to Expand AI Deployments in Health Plans
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The Funding: Anterior, a clinician-led AI platform for health plans, has raised a $40M funding round, bringing its total capital to $64M. The round included participation from NEA, Sequoia Capital, FPV, and Kinnevik.The Model: Unlike point solutions that often stall at the pilot stage, Anterior uses a "Forward Deployed Clinician" model. This means they embed their own clinicians alongside health plan staff to optimize AI accuracy and drive adoption.The Results: This
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Keragon AI Transforms Healthcare Operations with HIPAA-Compliant Conversational Interface
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Keragon has unveiled an AI-powered healthcare automation platform that connects 300+ healthcare applications and enables HIPAA-compliant workflows through simple conversational prompts—no coding required.Healthcare’s tech stack has grown 73% in less than a decade, yet siloed systems, IT bottlenecks, and manual configuration continue to drive inefficiency and administrative overload.Early adopters report fuller schedules and double-digit reductions in administrative time,
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Ambience Healthcare Launches “Chart Awareness” to Automate Coding and Clinical Summaries
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The Leap: Ambience Healthcare has launched "Chart Awareness," a capability that allows its AI to interpret a patient’s full longitudinal record (labs, imaging, prior notes) rather than just transcribing the current conversation.The Features: The update includes Chart-Aware Patient Summaries, Diagnostics (auto-extracting lab trends), and Coding (substantiating complex codes like G2211 based on patient history).The Proof: In a head-to-head evaluation at MultiCare Health
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Ubie and Mayo Clinic to Launch “Smart Support” AI Triage Platform
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The Deal: Ubie, a Google-backed AI healthcare platform, has announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to co-develop "Ubie Smart Support."The Tech: The platform aims to unify the "fragmented" digital front door by integrating chat and voice interfaces into a single access point. It uses AI to triage symptoms, route patients, and schedule appointments 24/7.The Future: Beyond scheduling, the partners plan to co-develop an add-on module for chronic disease management,
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GE HealthCare Installs Allia Moveo at USF Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation
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The Installation: The University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) has become the first institution in Florida (and third in the world) to install GE HealthCare’s Allia Moveo.The Tech: Allia Moveo is a next-generation image-guided therapy (IGT) solution featuring a compact, cable-free C-arm. Its lateral wide-bore design allows for Cone Beam CT (CBCT) imaging even with patients' arms down, accommodating a wider range of body
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Andor Health Scores Three Premier Contracts to Automate Virtual Care
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The Win: Andor Health, the leader in "agentic AI" solutions, has been awarded three separate national agreements with Premier Inc.The Categories: The agreements cover Virtual Care (effective Dec 1, 2025), Clinical Communications & Collaboration (Feb 1, 2026), and Remote Patient Monitoring (March 1, 2026).The Tech: ThinkAndor®, the company's AI-powered infrastructure, uses "agentic intelligence" to optimize workflows and reduce administrative burdens. Premier members
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Mayo Clinic Platform Standardizes Cancer Data to Speed Up Trials
Mayo Clinic Platform Standardizes Cancer Data to Speed Up Trials
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The Upgrade: Mayo Clinic Platform_Orchestrate has launched new capabilities that allow researchers to access standardized, "research-ready" cancer data.The Standard: The platform now utilizes the OMOP Oncology framework, which structures complex, messy data (like pathology reports and tumor staging) into a consistent format that algorithms can easily analyze.The Future: Later this year, Mayo will
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How Open Source Collaboration Can Accelerate Medical AI Innovation and FDA Approval
Big medicine, medical startups, and much of medical academia have historically been steeped in secrecy and proprietary research. This is a direct result of the privacy in patient and medical data, but as AI supercharges everything from diagnostic medicine to patient treatment and care, it’s time to change the paradigm. By embracing the principles of open source collaborations and finding a balance between protecting privacy and sharing knowledge, the industry can
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Wellumio Raises $7.28M to Bring MRI Scans Directly to the Bedside
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The Raise: New Zealand-based Wellumio has raised $7.28M in the first close of its pre-Series A round, led by Nuance Connected Capital, to fast-track its portable stroke detection technology. The round also included participation from Icehouse Ventures, NZ Growth Capital Partners, Pacific Channel and the New Zealand Government’s Active Investor Plus (AIP) program.The Tech: The company’s flagship device, Axana, is a 50kg, battery-powered MRI scanner. Unlike traditional
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