What You Should Know:
- AnswersNow, the leader in virtual Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy, today announced that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by HealthQuest Capital, with participation from existing investors Left Lane Capital, Owl Ventures, and others.
- AnswersNow delivers clinically proven outcomes in one-sixth the hours of traditional therapy, creating substantial cost savings for payors while delivering superior results for families.
AnswersNow Scales
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Archives for 2026
Zarminali Pediatrics Secures $110M to Solve America’s Child Health Crisis
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- Zarminali Pediatrics, the first outpatient pediatric destination purpose-built to provide integrated primary and specialty care nationwide, today announced a $110M Series A funding round.
- Healthier Capital led the round, along with participation from existing investor General Catalyst, and new investor K2 HealthVentures.
Zarminali Pediatrics Accelerates Nationwide Expansion to Redefine Family-Centered Pediatric Care
Zarminali Pediatrics is building the
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Beyond the Hype: New KLAS Data Validates the Financial and Clinical ROI of Ambient AI
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The News: A new report by KLAS Research validates the performance of Suki, an AI clinical intelligence platform, across three major health systems: FMOL Health, McLeod Health, and Rush University System for Health.The Numbers: The systems reported significant ROI, including a 26.8% reduction in documentation time and monthly revenue gains exceeding $1,000 per provider due to improved coding and volume.The Takeaway: Ambient AI has graduated from "experimental pilot" to
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Consolidating Clinical Intelligence: Rapid Care Acquires DeepDoc to Scale AI Summarization
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The Deal: Rapid Care has acquired DeepDoc, a generative AI platform specializing in summarizing complex medical records with over 99% accuracy. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The Problem Solved: The technology addresses the "unstructured data" crisis in healthcare by automating the review of massive patient files for insurance claims, legal cases, and utilization reviews.Acquisition Impact: This is Rapid Care’s third major acquisition in three
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How Crossroads Health Ventures’ $21M Fund Accelerates Indiana Life Sciences
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The News: Crossroads Health Ventures (CHV) has launched a new early-stage venture fund with over $21M in capital to support Indiana-based life sciences startups.The Backers: The fund represents a rare collaboration between the state (IEDC), academia (Indiana University), and three global industry leaders: Eli Lilly (human health), Elanco (animal health), and Corteva (plant health).The Strategy: CHV aims to bridge the early-stage funding gap for companies operating
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Harmony Healthcare IT Acquires Blue Elm to Build MEDITECH Data Engine
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The News: Harmony Healthcare IT has acquired Blue Elm, a specialist provider of data solutions for the MEDITECH EHR platform.The Impact: The deal creates a single, end-to-end partner for MEDITECH hospitals, covering everything from data extraction and optimization to long-term archiving and system decommissioning.The Value: By combining Harmony’s archiving scale with Blue Elm’s technical nuance (covering all MEDITECH versions from Magic to Expanse), the combined entity
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Why Patient Understanding is the Most Important Metric You Aren’t Tracking
Health systems are drowning in metrics. We can tell you how many portal messages were answered within 24 hours, how many patients closed a care gap, and how many clinicians are using ambient AI in their notes. But there is one question our dashboards rarely answer:
Did the patient actually understand what we told them well enough to act on it?
We have turned “patient education” into a checkbox: an after-visit summary printed, a link to an online library, a line in the note that says,
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Analysis: The Dual Crisis of 2026—Supply Chain Disruptions and the Clinical Alignment Gap
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- The 2026 State of Healthcare Supply Chain Survey from symplr reveals a "dual crisis" as supply chain leaders struggle to balance persistent global disruptions with escalating multi-million dollar savings targets.
- Optimism has plummeted, with 53% of leaders expecting challenges to worsen this year, while a deepening disconnect with clinicians—only 3% of whom are seen as "strongly supportive"—threatens essential cost-containment and standardization efforts.
The
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The “Digital Front Door” or a Revolving Door? Why Nurse-Led Access is 2026’s Critical Efficiency Lever
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- A new national report from Conduit Health Partners reveals that 74% of patient triage cases are resolved without an ER visit when clinical expertise is placed at the first point of contact.
- The report, “The Connected System: Insights on Patient Access and Throughput,” finds that aligning nurse-led triage with centralized transfer centers can drive a 3:1 return on investment by protecting hospital capacity and reducing the "firefighting" of downstream
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Analysis: The “Password Pain” Tax—Why 85% of Healthcare IT Leaders Are Moving Beyond Legacies
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- A new report from Imprivata reveals that 85% of healthcare IT leaders now view passwordless authentication as "very important" or "mission-critical".
- Despite this, only 7% of organizations have fully adopted passwordless workflows, leaving clinicians stuck in a cycle of "password pain" that causes delays in patient care for 41% of institutions and drives risky workarounds in 46%.
A 7% Adoption Reality
The most striking finding is the chasm between
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