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Vista AI, a provider of automated MRI scanning software for hospitals and imaging centers secures $29.5M in Series B financing, backed by a powerhouse group of new investors including Cedars-Sinai, Intermountain Health, and Tampa General Hospital.
- The funding will accelerate the expansion of the company's FDA-cleared automated MRI scanning platform into new anatomies—including brain, spine, and prostate—while scaling remote scanning services to address the national
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The Autonomous Revenue Cycle: Waystar Launches Agentic AI to Prevent Billions in Denials
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- Healthcare payment provider Waystar has announced the introduction of agentic intelligence to its cloud-native platform, marking a pivotal step toward the industry's first autonomous revenue cycle.
- Powered by the Waystar AltitudeAI™ engine and a dataset comprising 7.5 billion annual transactions, the new agentic network is designed to execute defined tasks and learn from outcomes with minimal intervention, significantly reducing administrative friction for
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Epic and Health Systems Sue Health Gorilla Over Alleged Medical Record ‘Syndicate’ and Data Monetization
What You Should Know
- Epic Systems—alongside OCHIN, Reid Health, Trinity Health, and UMass Memorial Health—has filed a major lawsuit against the health information network Health Gorilla and companies including Mammoth and RavillaMed.
- The lawsuit alleges the defendants operated an "organized syndicate" to improperly access and monetize nearly 300,000 patient records from the Epic community, alongside an unknown number of records from the VA and other EHR providers, for purposes
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HPS/PayMedix Secures $33M to Scale Guaranteed Healthcare Payments
What You Should Know
- HPS/PayMedix secures $33M in combined equity and debt financing to accelerate the growth of its healthcare financing and payments platform.
- Led by HLM Investment Partners, the funding will be used to expand the PayMedix solution, which unifies all healthcare stakeholders through guaranteed provider payments, interest-free patient financing, and a consolidated SuperEOB® experience.
The Affordability Mandate: Unifying the Payment Experience
As
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Converge Bio Lands $25M to Replace Trial-and-Error Drug Discovery
What You Should Know
- Converge Bio has announced a $25M Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing its total raised to $30M.
- Moving beyond the "AI promise" gap, the company provides end-to-end AI systems that plug directly into existing drug development workflows, already serving over a dozen pharmaceutical and biotech customers to optimize target discovery and protein manufacturing.
The Systemic Pivot: Bridging the Gap Between Promise and Reality
While
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FinThrive Report Reveals 71% of RCM Leaders Prioritize Experience Over Revenue
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- FinThrive's 2026 Transformative Trends Report marks a historic turning point: for the first time, improving the patient experience has surpassed increasing revenue as the top strategic goal for healthcare financial leaders, with 71% identifying it as their primary focus.
- The shift indicates that leaders are moving away from short-term fixes toward AI-enabled platform consolidation and automation to drive long-term stability and workforce
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Zelis Acquires Rivet to Bring AI-Powered Analytics to 750+ Providers
What You Should Know
- Zelis, a global leader in healthcare financial modernization has acquired Rivet, a pioneer in revenue cycle analytics. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The deal integrates Rivet’s AI-enabled analytics and intuitive dashboards directly into the Zelis platform, providing 750+ payers and millions of providers with actionable data to reduce denials, minimize "rework," and navigate rising regulatory complexity.
The Intelligence Layer:
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OpenAI Acquires Torch: Building the ‘Unified Medical Memory’ for ChatGPT Health”
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- OpenAI has officially acquired the healthcare technology startup Torch, marking a significant expansion of its ChatGPT Health capabilities.
- The deal, valued at approximately $60M -$100M according to reports, aims to create a "unified medical memory" for AI by consolidating scattered patient data from hospitals, labs, and wearables into a single, context-aware engine.
The "Unified Medical Memory" Pivot: Solving Data Silos
For most patients, medical data is
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Digital Health Funding Hits $14.2B in 2025: A Year of AI Exuberance and Market Bifurcation
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- If 2024 was a year of correction, 2025 was the year of crystallization. The tremors of innovation have settled into bedrock infrastructure, and the market has responded with a distinct roar.
- Annual funding for U.S. digital health startups climbed to $14.2Bin 2025, a meaningful 35% increase over the previous year, according to Rock Health’s annual year-end report. While we haven't returned to the fever dream of pandemic-era peaks, the data reveals a "new
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Mitch Rales Leads $43M Round to Scale VieCure’s AI Oncology Platform
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- VieCure has raised $43M led by Mitch Rales (co-founder of Danaher) and Northpond Ventures. The funding will scale VieCure's Halo Intelligence™ platform, an AI-powered clinical decision support system that has already increased tumor sequencing rates by 8x for 30,000 patients.
- Through a partnership with Rales' firm New Bearing, VieCure will implement a world-class business system to modernize community oncology clinics, which treat 80% of U.S. cancer
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