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The Funding: Sage, an integrated care platform for senior living and skilled nursing, has raised a $65M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total capital to $124M.The Market Crisis: The senior care industry is currently short 1.8 million licensed caregivers and suffers from a staggering 79% turnover rate. Meanwhile, 72 million Americans will reach retirement age by 2030.The Tech Solution: Sage is deploying predictive AI to shift the
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Archives for 2026
Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) Acquires Rimidi for Chronic Care Management and RPM Integration
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The Acquisition: Health Recovery Solutions (HRS), a dominant player in remote patient monitoring (RPM) and enterprise remote care, has officially acquired Rimidi, an Atlanta-based chronic disease management company. Financial details were not disclosed. The Strategic Shift: The deal accelerates HRS's transition from a primarily post-acute monitoring company into a comprehensive, end-to-end longitudinal care provider. It bolsters the "PatientFirst Pathways" care model
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Using Clinical NLP to Unlock Untapped Quality Data for HEDIS Compliance
From my experience working with healthcare providers and payers, there’s one thing that stands out to me: the most important insights for compliance are almost never in the data fields you expect. Instead, they’re buried somewhere in the mounds of clinical data amassing in healthcare every day. As a practicing radiologist, I see firsthand just how much of the most meaningful information never makes it into traditional reporting. In my experience working with payers and providers, the difference
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Greater Good Health Raises $20.5M to Expand Value-Based Primary Care Clinics
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The Funding: Greater Good Health has secured a $20.5M Series B led by Allumia Ventures, alongside up to $12.5M in venture debt from HSBC Innovation Banking.The Backers: The round features strategic participation from heavy hitters, including DaVita Venture Group, Granite Financial Holdings (the investment arm of Blue Cross of Idaho), Optum Ventures, and Flare Capital Partners.The Model: The company tackles the primary care physician shortage by deploying a Nurse
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Sword Health Evolves ‘Bloom’ into an AI Operating System for Women’s Health
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The Evolution: Sword Health is expanding its highly successful Bloom product from a condition-specific pelvic care solution into a comprehensive, life-stage-based women's health platform.The Clinical Scope: The platform now provides end-to-end support across a woman's entire lifespan, covering fertility and preconception, pregnancy, postpartum recovery, menopause, and persistent pelvic symptoms.The Menopause Anchor: To anchor the expansion, Bloom is launching a
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Salesforce Unveils 6 New Agentforce Health Agents and Integrations with Verily, HealthEx, and Viz.ai
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· The Launch: Salesforce has officially launched 6 new Agentforce Health agents, deploying an autonomous digital workforce to alleviate the crushing administrative burden on healthcare providers, payers, and public health agencies.
· The Integrations: The platform integrates deeply with healthcare infrastructure including HealthEx (digital health wallet), Verily (multimodal health data), Viz.ai (AI imaging workflows), Informatica (data governance),
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Eight Sleep Raises $50M at $1.5B Valuation with Strategic Investment from Tether
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The Deal: Eight Sleep has secured a $50M strategic investment led by Tether Investments, pushing the smart sleep technology company to a massive $1.5 billion valuation.The Financial Reality: Unlike the majority of cash-burning consumer hardware startups, Eight Sleep achieved free-cash-flow positivity in 2025. This rare milestone proves the viability of its high-margin hardware-plus-subscription model.The Tech Shift: Eight Sleep is transitioning from a reactive sleep
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UnityAI Secures $8.5M to Scale Agentic AI for Healthcare Operations
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The Funding: UnityAI has closed an $8.5M in Series A funding round led by Third Prime, with participation from Nashville Capital Network, Whistler Capital Partners, and others, bringing its total capital raised to $15M.The Technology: The company is deploying an "agentic AI workforce." Unlike passive software that simply organizes information, these AI agents actively execute multi-step operational tasks across patient operations (scheduling, follow-ups, referrals) and
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athenahealth 2026 Physician Sentiment Survey: AI Adoption, EHR Efficiency, and VBC Trends
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The Affordability Crisis: According to the newly released 2026 Physician Sentiment Survey from athenahealth’s research hub, athenaInstitute, access to affordable healthcare has surged to become the #1 policy concern among physicians (52%, up a massive 14 points over the last three years), indicating that patient financial strain is now directly impacting clinical delivery.The Technology Paradox: While overall optimism about the U.S. healthcare system remains stagnant at
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Personalized, Measurable, Flexible: The Next Generation of Digital Health Networks
New innovation breeds new complexity, and that’s exactly what we’ve seen in the digital health market. Over the past decade, employers have invested heavily in point solutions to help address nearly every conceivable health need, spanning mental health, diabetes, musculoskeletal (MSK) care, sleep, maternity, weight management, and more.
The intent makes sense: meet the diverse needs and close the gaps in care for your workforce. Yet in practice, it almost always creates a fragmented
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