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Extended reality (XR) clinical innovator XRHealth has announced the formal acquisition of digital therapeutics pioneer Swing Therapeutics, making it the largest multi-device XR digital health platform for chronic conditions.The transaction absorbs Swing’s flagship Stanza program, the first FDA De Novo–authorized prescription digital behavioral therapeutic indicated for the treatment of fibromyalgia symptoms, which impact 10 million Americans.Validated by a Phase 3
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Archives for 2026
Brain Health’s Infrastructure Era: Proving Clinical Outcomes with Integrated Neuromotor Tracking
The senior living operator runs brain health programming for hundreds of residents and still can't say, with confidence, which ones are genuinely improving. The rehabilitation provider clears a patient to return to activity based on symptoms, not on whether the underlying deficit is actually resolved. The sports organization has to decide, in real time, whether an athlete is truly ready to perform under pressure, often with little more than instinct and a stopwatch. The pharmaceutical company
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Thyme Care Appoints Dr. Brad Diephuis as CEO, Co-Founder Robin Shah Appointed Executive Chairman
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Value-based oncology leader Thyme Care has announced a comprehensive executive succession matrix: co-founder Robin Shah will transition to executive chairman, while current president and COO Brad Diephuis, M.D., will step into the CEO role, effective September 1, 2026.Dr. Diephuis, a primary care physician and cancer survivor, brings deep value-based policy expertise to the chief executive seat, having previously served as a senior advisor at the Center for Medicare and
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M&A: Lyric Acquires Concert to Scale AI-Powered Healthcare Decision Intelligence
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Healthcare decision intelligence leader Lyric has announced the acquisition of Concert, a precision health payment accuracy innovator specializing in translating machine-readable clinical policies into real-time claims workflows.The transaction embeds Concert’s proprietary policy intelligence directly within Lyric42, Lyric’s AI-powered Healthcare Decision Intelligence Platform, expanding its scale amid a surge in advanced genetic testing and precision therapies.The
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Wheel Launches Expanded Clinical Infrastructure for CMS ACCESS Model and Medicare GLP-1 Programs
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Clinical infrastructure pioneer Wheel has announced the commercial launch of expanded capabilities engineered explicitly to support healthcare organizations participating in CMS's value-based ACCESS Model and the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge program.The infrastructure rollout arrives as a direct technical response to the macroeconomic freeze on core database spending, enabling enterprise health networks and digital health brands to operationalize complex cardiometabolic pathways
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Capital Rx Rebrands as Judi Health Following $400M Expansion Round
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Transparent pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry pioneer Capital Rx has officially rebranded as Judi Health™, unifying its expanding enterprise healthcare software lines under a single, cohesive corporate identity.Backed by a major $400 million financing round, the company is shifting beyond its initial prescription drug core to launch Unified Claims Processing™—consolidating pharmacy, medical, vision, and dental benefits onto a single cloud-native system of record
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The Digital Health Front Door Doesn’t Have a UX Problem. It Has An Honesty Problem
Healthcare didn’t build a digital front door. It built a digital facade.
Over the last decade, health systems invested heavily in the look and feel of modern consumer technology—clean interfaces, frictionless scheduling flows, real-time messaging features, instant cost estimate tools. They borrowed the visual language of companies that had genuinely reinvented consumer experience. What they didn’t borrow was the operational infrastructure that makes those experiences reliable. The result is a
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Chai Discovery Raises $400M to Accelerate AI-Driven Molecular Design Platform
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Structural biology and AI drug design pioneer Chai Discovery has announced a $400M Series C funding round, valuing the company at $3.8 billion just two years after its 2024 founding.The heavily oversubscribed round was led by Index Ventures, alongside Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Dimension, with strategic backing from existing investors OpenAI and Thrive Capital.Moving past legacy computational screening methods, Chai’s generative platform engineers entirely de
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Sage Growth Partners Releases State of Maternal & NICU Care 2026 Impact Report
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Healthcare growth advisory firm Sage Growth Partners has published The Communication Chasm: Why Mothers Feel Lost in the System and How Health Plans Can Help, the second installment in its State of Maternal & NICU Care 2026 research series.Independent survey data from 300 recently pregnant women and 50 health plan executives exposes a profound care deficit: while 53% of mothers receive automated text reminders, only 28% find them valuable.Structural comprehension of
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The New Ethics of Healthcare Data: Rebalancing Privacy and Progress
In the world of healthcare data, there has always been an uneasy balance between privacy and innovation.
The healthcare industry has historically operated under a culture of caution, often withholding data out of fear of HIPAA violations or penalties, which has fostered a "when in doubt, don't share" mentality.
Now, however, the pendulum may be swinging in the direction of innovation.
An information-blocking "crackdown" by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is
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