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The Funding: Anterior, a clinician-led AI platform for health plans, has raised a $40M funding round, bringing its total capital to $64M. The round included participation from NEA, Sequoia Capital, FPV, and Kinnevik.The Model: Unlike point solutions that often stall at the pilot stage, Anterior uses a "Forward Deployed Clinician" model. This means they embed their own clinicians alongside health plan staff to optimize AI accuracy and drive adoption.The Results: This
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Ambience Healthcare Launches “Chart Awareness” to Automate Coding and Clinical Summaries
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The Leap: Ambience Healthcare has launched "Chart Awareness," a capability that allows its AI to interpret a patient’s full longitudinal record (labs, imaging, prior notes) rather than just transcribing the current conversation.The Features: The update includes Chart-Aware Patient Summaries, Diagnostics (auto-extracting lab trends), and Coding (substantiating complex codes like G2211 based on patient history).The Proof: In a head-to-head evaluation at MultiCare Health
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Ubie and Mayo Clinic to Launch “Smart Support” AI Triage Platform
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The Deal: Ubie, a Google-backed AI healthcare platform, has announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to co-develop "Ubie Smart Support."The Tech: The platform aims to unify the "fragmented" digital front door by integrating chat and voice interfaces into a single access point. It uses AI to triage symptoms, route patients, and schedule appointments 24/7.The Future: Beyond scheduling, the partners plan to co-develop an add-on module for chronic disease management,
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GE HealthCare Installs Allia Moveo at USF Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation
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The Installation: The University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) has become the first institution in Florida (and third in the world) to install GE HealthCare’s Allia Moveo.The Tech: Allia Moveo is a next-generation image-guided therapy (IGT) solution featuring a compact, cable-free C-arm. Its lateral wide-bore design allows for Cone Beam CT (CBCT) imaging even with patients' arms down, accommodating a wider range of body
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Mayo Clinic Platform Standardizes Cancer Data to Speed Up Trials
Mayo Clinic Platform Standardizes Cancer Data to Speed Up Trials
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The Upgrade: Mayo Clinic Platform_Orchestrate has launched new capabilities that allow researchers to access standardized, "research-ready" cancer data.The Standard: The platform now utilizes the OMOP Oncology framework, which structures complex, messy data (like pathology reports and tumor staging) into a consistent format that algorithms can easily analyze.The Future: Later this year, Mayo will
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Wellumio Raises $7.28M to Bring MRI Scans Directly to the Bedside
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The Raise: New Zealand-based Wellumio has raised $7.28M in the first close of its pre-Series A round, led by Nuance Connected Capital, to fast-track its portable stroke detection technology. The round also included participation from Icehouse Ventures, NZ Growth Capital Partners, Pacific Channel and the New Zealand Government’s Active Investor Plus (AIP) program.The Tech: The company’s flagship device, Axana, is a 50kg, battery-powered MRI scanner. Unlike traditional
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Hillsboro Health to Deploy Oracle Health Foundation EHR and Clinical AI Agent
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The Switch: Hillsboro Health, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Illinois, is transitioning from legacy systems to the Oracle Health Foundation EHR to standardize clinical operations across its network.The AI: The hospital is deploying the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, a generative AI voice tool that automatically drafts structured notes from patient-clinician conversations, drastically reducing "pajama time" for doctors.The Network: By implementing Oracle Health
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Solace Health Raises $130M to Expand Patient Advocacy Network
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The Deal: Solace Health has raised a $130M Series C led by IVP with participation from Menlo Ventures, SignalFire, propelling the company to a valuation of over $1 billion. This "unicorn" status reflects a massive bet that healthcare advocacy is becoming essential infrastructure.The Mission: Solace acts as a "human layer" on top of the fragmented healthcare system. It connects patients with over 2,000 trained advocates (often nurses) to manage logistics, appointments, and
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Garner Health Secures $118M to Reward Top Doctors
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The Funding: Garner Health has raised $118M in Series D funding led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Redpoint Ventures, Maverick Ventures, and Kaiser Permanente Ventures., bringing its total capital to approximately $200M.The Mechanism: Unlike passive transparency tools, Garner acts as a financial overlay on existing health plans. If an employee visits a "Top Provider" identified by Garner's data, the employer covers their out-of-pocket costs
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Midstream Health Partners with CommonSpirit Health to Deploy AI Financial Operations Platform
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The Deal: Midstream Health, a platform backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), has secured a strategic partnership with CommonSpirit Health. The health system isn't just a customer; its venture arm is an initial investor.The Tech: Midstream deploys "AI Agents" that scour financial data to find lost value. Unlike standard analytics, these agents are "contract-aware," proactively flagging missed rebates, pricing errors, and underpayments that humans miss.The Impact: The
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