What You Should Know:
- Fabric, a leader in care delivery and consumer experience, today announced major updates to its Virtual Care platform, including the launch of a subscription-based care model that brings consumer-grade convenience and continuity to traditional healthcare organizations.
- These enhancements enable health systems, payers, employers, and digital health companies to offer more personalized, concierge care at scale—helping them expand access, build patient loyalty, and
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Archives for April 2025
illumicell AI Raises $2M to Transform Semen Diagnostics with Real-Time AI
What You Should Know:
- Techmed startup illumicell AI, founded by a team of Harvard-trained physician Michel Bielecki, former McKinsey consultant Jeyla Sadikova, and rocket engineer Loup Cordey, has secured $2M in pre-seed funding. The funding round was supported by a combination of healthcare operators, clinicians, and early-stage funds, including life science investors KOFA Healthcare, Harvard Phoenix Venture Fund, and MedTechSyndicates
- The company aims to transform fluid-based
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OMNY Health First EHR on Datavant Connect for Faster RWD Insights
What You Should Know:
-OMNY Health, the leading healthcare ecosystem for compliant real-world data insights at scale, today announced it has become the first electronic health record (EHR) company to offer its real world data (RWD) dataset on Datavant Connect powered by AWS Clean Rooms through its Lighthouse Partner Program.
- This collaboration builds upon the success of OMNY Health and Datavant’s longstanding relationship to enhance clinical research and drug development.
OMNY Health
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Beyond Demographics: Using Big Data to Personalize Healthcare
Healthcare is entering a new era,one where patient engagement isn’t just a buzzword but a fundamental driver of improved outcomes. Yet, for many organizations, effectively connecting with patients remains a challenge. Traditional outreach methods, often built on broad demographic assumptions, struggle to foster meaningful engagement. Messages may be sent, but are they received, understood and acted upon?
The key to breaking through this engagement barrier lies in reliable people-based data
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The Imperative of Health Equity: Why Data and Intention Matter
As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants who are both social workers, I observed how dedicated they were to their careers of service. Following in their footsteps, I am privileged to serve patients and families as a physician, and I have also become all too familiar with the undeniable truth about the impact of health inequities on specific populations.
The health care industry has made strides in addressing health inequities – but there is plenty of work to be done.
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UiPath Launches Medical Record Summarization AI Agent, Powered by Google Cloud
What You Should Know:
- UiPath, an enterprise automation and AI software company, has unveiled its new generative AI-based UiPath Medical Record Summarization agent at Google Cloud Next 2025.
- Powered by Google Cloud's Vertex AI and Gemini models, the platform is designed to transform how payer and provider organizations handle medical documents.
UiPath Medical Record Summarization AI Agent
Currently in private preview, the UiPath Medical Record Summarization AI agent
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Q1 Hospital M&A Activity Hits Historic Low Amidst Economic Uncertainty
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- Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for hospitals and health systems in the United States experienced a significant slowdown in the first quarter of 2025, according to a recent analysis by Kaufman Hall.
- The number of announced transactions reached a historic low, with only five deals recorded. Four out of the five transactions involved financially distressed organizations revealing broader market volatility and economic uncertainty, including concerns
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Corti Launches Medical Dictation API, Democratizing Access
What You Should Know:
- Corti, the leading AI infrastructure provider for healthcare, today opened access to its healthcare-specialized Dictation API, powered by its Solo foundation model.
- By launching this specialized API, Corti is democratizing access to premium dictation technology, enabling software vendors of all sizes to compete with existing solutions and tailor them to the highly specialized needs of diverse practitioners across healthcare.
Corti Redefines Medical Dictation
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Physician Burnout Rates Moderate But Remain High, AMA Calls for Continued Action
What You Should Know:
- A recent study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings indicates that occupational burnout rates among physicians in the United States are decreasing after reaching a peak in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Despite this improvement, the American Medical Association (AMA) emphasizes that U.S. physicians still experience a higher risk of burnout compared to other U.S. workers. The AMA is urging a continued focus on addressing the root causes of
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Poor Member Digital Experience Weighs Heavily on Health Insurers, J.D. Power Finds
What You Should Know:
- Health insurance members, both in commercial and Medicare Advantage plans, are increasingly relying on their health plan's websites and mobile apps for communication. However, these digital experiences are falling short of the standards members expect from other digital-forward industries.
- The J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Healthcare Digital Experience Study reveals that health plan websites and apps frequently fail to meet basic expectations for ease of
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