Most verification and validation (V&V) frameworks in medical devices were built on a foundational assumption: the device you ship is the device that gets used. A fixed product, a fixed software version, and a defined validation cycle.
That assumption no longer holds.
Cloud-based connected health platforms operate as continuously evolving systems rather than static devices. Software updates dynamically, data flows bidirectionally between patient and infrastructure, and system boundaries
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Archives for 2026
Surescripts Expands Prior Authorization Automation: Slashing Prescription Approval Times as New CMS Interoperability Rules Loom
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Surescripts has expanded its Prior Authorization Automation solution, increasing the number of enabled clinicians by 50% since December 2025 to reach 68,000 prescribers across 42 major health systems.Automated prior authorization systems achieved a median approval time of just 18 seconds when clinical determination criteria were met, bypassing traditional manual forms, faxes, and telephone calls.Real-Time Prescription Benefit tools saved patients $19.7 million from
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Spero Health Partners with UnityAI to Deploy PatientOps Platform Across National Network
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Healthcare operations company UnityAI has launched a strategic partnership with national substance use disorder (SUD) treatment provider Spero Health to automate inbound patient intake and scheduling.Spero Health will deploy UnityAI’s PatientOps platform across its network of over 60 locations to eliminate long hold times, missed patient connections, and front-line friction during critical moments of treatment readiness.The platform utilizes an agentic workforce
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HealthEx and 23andMe Partner to Unify Medical Records and Genomics
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Consumer identity and health data platform HealthEx has partnered with 23andMe to allow users to securely link their comprehensive electronic medical records directly to their genetic profiles.The integration enables 23andMe to combine real-world clinical data—such as laboratory results, historical diagnoses, and active prescription histories—with genomic profiles to build dynamic, personalized disease risk models.By utilizing HealthEx's specialized digital identity
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Nourish Raises $100M to Expand Nation’s Largest Dietitian-Led Virtual Clinic
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Nourish—the country’s largest dietitian-led virtual metabolic clinic—disclosed a $100M Series C funding round led by Menlo Ventures, accelerating its total capital raised to $215M. The round included participation from Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, Maverick Ventures, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, Atomico, Daybreak and Operator Partners. The platform addresses nutrition-related chronic conditions by delivering clinical outcomes that
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Commure Secures $70M to Drive 85% Autonomous Revenue Cycle Execution
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Commure, an AI platform for healthcare operations, secured a $70M financing round at a $7 billion post-money valuation led by General Catalyst, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Kirkland & Ellis.Tackling the $1 Trillion Problem: The company’s agentic AI infrastructure targets administrative waste—a sector that consumes an estimated $1 trillion annually in the U.S. alone.Proven Operational Automation: Commure’s end-to-end revenue cycle
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Century Health Raises $5M for CHARM AI Platform to Accelerate Life Sciences Research
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Century Health has closed an oversubscribed $5M seed financing round led by Origin Ventures, bringing its total funding to an industry-accelerated position.The platform's proprietary Century Health Abstraction & Retrieval Model (CHARM) automates the curation of unstructured EHR data (notes, reports, and documentation), achieving a 97% accuracy rate validated against clinical expert judgment.Century Health expanded its specialty provider data network 60x over the past
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Vocal Biomarkers: Helping Clinicians Detect What Patients Hesitate to Share
Five years into caring for a patient, a primary care physician saw her again shortly after she delivered her first child. The visit was scheduled as a routine six-week newborn evaluation. As is common in primary care, the encounter extended beyond the infant to include the mother’s well-being.
During the appointment, the new mother appeared upbeat. “I’m doing great — it’s such a joy to have my baby at home and to be through the process of pregnancy,” she said. On the surface, there were no
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3 in 4 Compromised Healthcare Devices Expose Patient Records, Flare Report Reveals
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The Cyber Threat Surge: In its newly released report, The State of Healthcare Credential Exposure in 2026, Threat Exposure Management leader Flare documented a 33% year-over-year increase in compromised healthcare credentials.EHR Systems Compromised: Flare's analysis of over 154,000 infostealer malware logs revealed that nearly 74% of infected healthcare devices contained credentials for Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems.The U.S.
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Evvy Launches AI Advisor to Decode Vaginal Dysbiosis and Biomarkers
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Precision women's health pioneer Evvy has launched EvvyAI—an AI advisor designed to translate complex vaginal microbiome science into personalized, real-time guidance for every user.Traditional general-purpose large language models currently fail on roughly 60% of women's health queries, largely because their baseline training models are built on historical medical data that severely underrepresents female physiology.EvvyAI directly addresses this dataset deficiency by
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