Health IT leaders looking to scale enterprise imaging programs should take note of digital pathology.Whole slide images, often two to ten times the size of a radiology study, have forced pathology to confront the challenges that most imaging modalities eventually face, but at an order of magnitude that’s particularly instructive. Here are the lessons learned about what works at scale and where implementations fall short.
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Archives for 2026
Linux Foundation and Google Announce Intent to Launch Open Health Stack Software Foundation
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Open source infrastructure giant The Linux Foundation has announced its intent to launch the Open Health Stack Software Foundation (OHS-SF) as a vendor-neutral, community-led home for interoperable digital health tools.First launched as a joint project with Google in 2023, Google will fully contribute the project's code and core underlying assets to the new Foundation, backed by a $3 million sustainability grant from Google.org.Built to eliminate fragmented international
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AccurKardia and Wellysis Form Multi-Year Strategic Partnership to Deliver End-to-End Cardiac Monitoring
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ECG-led diagnostics software pioneer AccurKardia and Samsung SDS spin-off Wellysis have executed a multi-year agreement in Seoul to launch a turnkey cardiac monitoring solution in the United States.The strategic alliance pairs Wellysis’ S-Patch wearable ECG monitor directly with AccurKardia’s cloud-based automated analytics to streamline Holter, extended Holter, and mobile cardiac telemetry (MCT) clinical workflows.All biometric telemetry captured by the wearable is
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Why Health Tech Leaders Need to Stop Setting Goals and Start Drawing Ladders
Every health tech marketing leader I've talked to in the last two years has said some version of the same thing: "We know where we want to be. We just can't seem to get there."
They have a goal. They have a budget. They have a team. What they don't have is a map.
"Grow ARR 30% this year." "Increase brand awareness in the mid-market." "Become the go-to platform for patient engagement." These are not strategies. They are wishes with a deadline attached. And in health tech, where sales cycles
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Pearl Health Secures $110M to Scale AI-Driven Value-Based Care Platform for Medicare
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Value-Based Care (VBC) platform innovator Pearl Health has announced a $110M capital raise, combining a $50M Series B equity round led by Andreessen Horowitz with a $60M credit facility from Trinity Capital.Confronting a massive macroeconomic bottleneck where national Medicare expenditures exceed $1 trillion annually, the company helps providers successfully pivot from legacy fee-for-service models to outcomes-driven risk management.The company achieved a rare milestone
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KLAS Releases Global Hospital EHR Market Share 2026 Report: Purchasing Decisions Hit 5-Year Low
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The KLAS Healthcare IT Insights division has published its flagship Global Hospital EHR Market Share 2026 report, revealing that total global EHR purchasing decisions plummeted to an almost five-year marketplace low.A strict capital tightening is reshaping international margins; the volume of impacted healthcare facilities (447 hospitals) and active clinical beds (81,261) represented the lowest deployment volume tracked by KLAS in at least a decade.Monolithic
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Handspring Health Secures $19M to Scale AI-Powered Youth Mental Health Platform
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Youth virtual mental health innovator Handspring has announced a $19M Series B financing round led by RPS Ventures, with participation from Angelini Ventures and returning backers including Cobalt Ventures and NextView Ventures.The financing brings Handspring's total capital raised to $37M, driven by deepening payer and employer conviction in its clinically rigorous, full-acuity care model.Rejecting the traditional 1099 contractor marketplace model, Handspring employs its
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Follistatin-344: Myostatin Signaling, Tissue Plasticity, and Molecular Modulation Research
Within the expanding landscape of regulatory peptides and growth factor biology, Follistatin-344 occupies a distinctive conceptual position. Rather than functioning as a classical signaling hormone, Follistatin-344 represents a precursor isoform of a broader follistatin protein family studied for binding and neutralizing members of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) superfamily. Research indicates that follistatin isoforms participate in finely tuned molecular coordination across
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M&A: ResMed to Sell MatrixCare Business to Frazier Healthcare Partners for $450M
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Global health technology leader ResMed has announced a definitive agreement to sell its MatrixCare business to healthcare-exclusive private equity firm Frazier Healthcare Partners for $450M.The corporate divestiture explicitly aligns with ResMed’s 2030 strategy, allowing the company to narrow its focus and reallocate capital toward high-growth, scalable opportunities in sleep health, breathing health, and cloud-connected home care.MatrixCare represents a major post-acute
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Done Global Executives Sentenced to Prison in $90M Online Adderall Fraud Case
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Ruthia He, the founder and former CEO of digital mental health startup Done Global Inc., has been sentenced to six years in prison and a fine of $1M for orchestrating a massive telehealth prescription fraud scheme.Co-defendant David Brody, Done’s former clinical president, was separately sentenced to two years in prison and fined $1M after admitting he personally authorized over 394,000 Schedule II stimulant pills for patients he never evaluated.Driven by a
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