What You Should Know
- OpenAI has officially entered the medical market with OpenAI for Healthcare, a suite of products led by ChatGPT for Healthcare and the GPT-5.2-powered API.
- Already rolling out to eight leading institutions—including Stanford Medicine, HCA Healthcare, and UCSF—the platform provides a secure, HIPAA-compliant workspace for clinical reasoning, evidence retrieval with transparent citations, and the automation of administrative tasks like prior authorizations and
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The Automated OR: Apella Secures $80M to Scale Ambient Video Intelligence Across the Surgical Suite
What You Should Know
- Apella has announced an $80M Series B round to scale its ambient AI platform designed for the most complex environment in the hospital: the operating room (OR). The round was led by HighlandX, with returning investors Vensana Capital, Casdin Capital, PFM Health Sciences, Upside Partnership, and Operator Partners, and includes new investors K2 HealthVentures, OpAmp Capital, and Houston Methodist.
- By using computer vision to autonomously identify 14 surgical
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Canopy Secures $22M to Scale Healthcare Safety Platform
What You Should Know
- Canopy, the category leader in connected safety platforms, has closed a $22M Series B funding round led by 111° West Capital and ACME Capital.
- As workplace violence in healthcare has surged 63% over the last five years, Canopy has rapidly scaled its "Location ID" network to protect over 300,000 healthcare workers across 60 major U.S. systems, providing a unified infrastructure for both staff safety and operational intelligence.
The Safety-First Pivot:
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Mount Sinai Deploys AI-Powered Clinical Trial-Matching Platform to Expand Access to Cancer Research
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center has deployed PRISM, an AI-powered platform designed by Triomics for systemwide clinical trial matching.
- Utilizing OncoLLM—a large language model pipeline built specifically for oncology—PRISM identifies eligible patients across the entire Mount Sinai Health System (including Queens and Brooklyn) in real-time.
- The strategic initiative aims to accelerate research enrollment and provide equitable access to cutting-edge
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IntelyCare Acquires CareRev to Unify Acute and Post-Acute Staffing
What You Should Know:
- IntelyCare has acquired CareRev, creating a comprehensive clinical labor platform that spans both acute and post-acute care. Led by CEO Matthew Levesque, the combined company offers a unified technology solution for managing internal resource pools, contingent labor, and permanent staff.
- This acquisition aims to reduce operational complexity for health systems while providing clinicians with a flexible, "full-spectrum" talent platform to manage their
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OncoRx Insights Announces Native Epic Integration for Oncology Decision Support
What You Should Know:
- OncoRx Insights has completed a native integration with Epic Systems, enabling Single Sign-On (SSO) access to precision oncology treatment data. Led by CEO Kristin Ashcraft, the platform allows clinicians to access medication-related insights and decision-support tools without leaving the Epic patient record.
- The integration aims to reduce administrative burden and "app fatigue" for oncology teams, supporting more informed, real-world treatment
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OpenAI Debuts ChatGPT Health: A ‘Digital Front Door’ That Connects Medical Records to Agentic AI
What You Should Know
- OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a dedicated, secure environment that allows users to connect their medical records and wellness apps (e.g., Apple Health, MyFitnessPal) directly to ChatGPT’s intelligence.
- Built in collaboration with over 260 physicians and utilizing a new clinical evaluation framework called HealthBench, the platform aims to synthesize scattered health data into actionable insights for the 230 million people who already ask health
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Function and OpenAI Unveil Lab Integration for ChatGPT Health
What You Should Know
- Function has announced a strategic integration within the newly launched ChatGPT Health ecosystem, allowing its members to securely ground AI conversations in high-level summaries of their lab results.
- By unifying Function’s dataset of over 50 million lab tests with OpenAI’s agentic intelligence, the partnership aims to move personal health navigation from generic advice to data-driven, metabolic guidance.
The Architecture of Grounded Intelligence
The
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Credit Over Equity: Catalio Capital’s $325M Fund Signals a New Financial Playbook for Healthcare Innovation
What You Should Know
- Catalio Capital Management has closed its second credit fund with over $325M in commitments, marking a significant expansion of structured financing options for commercial-stage healthcare companies.
- As traditional equity funding becomes increasingly scarce, this fund addresses growing demand for debt and structured capital that allows innovative healthcare companies to preserve equity ownership while scaling operations, with 21 investments already deployed across
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Headlamp Health Launches AI Platform to Bring Precision Medicine to Neuroscience Drug Development
What You Should Know
- Headlamp Health has launched Lumos AI, an analytical decision-support layer specifically engineered to solve the "Complexity Gap" in neuroscience drug development.
- Unlike tools focused on trial logistics, Lumos AI utilizes longitudinal real-world data and clinical logic to identify patient subtypes most likely to respond to a therapy, aiming to bring the precision-based success of oncology to the field of psychiatry.
The Failure of ‘One-Size-Fits-All’
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