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Washington, D.C.-based digital infrastructure startup Wrapped Health announced the closing of a $2.1M pre-seed financing round co-led by Lightbank and Arteria Capital, the specialized healthcare AI venture fund established by former Headspace CEO Russell Glass.The company will deploy the new capital to expand its core product and engineering teams, scale integrations across major electronic health record (EHR) platforms, and deepen commercial distribution with hospital
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From Automation to Agency: Rethinking the Future of Healthcare
For years, healthcare provider organizations have pursued automation to improve revenue cycle efficiency. Rules-based workflows, robotic process automation, predictive analytics, and machine learning have each helped reduce manual intervention and accelerate the completion of repetitive tasks.
But reimbursement for specialty healthcare services, such as laboratory, radiology, pathology, and specialty pharmacy, is becoming too complex for efficiency alone to solve.
The challenge facing
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M&A: Equiti Acquires Lexi AI to Pair Autonomous Language Models with Martti’s 250+ Human Interpreter Network
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Healthcare language access and technology leader Equiti officially announced the acquisition of Lexi AI, an award-winning healthcare artificial intelligence language interpretation company.The transaction unifies Lexi’s on-demand artificial intelligence interpretation with Equiti’s established Martti platform, creating an integrated hybrid language access architecture across clinical and administrative workflows.Equiti introduces its proprietary Modality Matters™
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Vera Health Raises $28.5M for Clinical AI Search Engine: Surpasses 800,000 Global Physician Users
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Clinical artificial intelligence search platform Vera Health announced the closing of a $28.5 million Series A funding round led by Threshold Ventures.The financing included participation from Mantis VC and SV Angel, with existing institutional backers Y Combinator and Gradient tripling down on their initial investments, bringing total capitalization to $32M.Operates at high capital and workforce efficiency: with an engineering and clinical team of only 12 employees, the
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Clinisys Unveils AI Innovation Roadmap: Introducing CLS MCP, No-Code Workflows, and Specialized Laboratory Agents
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Global laboratory informatics provider Clinisys officially unveiled its AI Innovation Roadmap, establishing an open, governed platform strategy designed to embed artificial intelligence, analytics, and workflow automation into routine laboratory operations.The roadmap articulates a compounding evolutionary progression that advances laboratory informatics across four distinct architectural phases: from a System of Record to a System of Workflow, a System of Intelligence,
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ONC Finalizes HTI-5 Deregulatory Rule to Cut $1.55B in Health IT Compliance and Accelerate FHIR APIs
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially released the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: ONC Deregulatory Actions to Unleash Prosperity (HTI-5) Final Rule.Directly implements the administration’s regulatory reform directives under Executive Order 14192 (Unleashing Prosperity through Deregulation) and Executive Order 14267 (Reducing Anti-Competitive
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Kivo Health Secures $10M to Scale Virtual Pulmonary Rehab
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Seattle-based virtual respiratory care provider Kivo Health has raised a $10M Series A financing round led by Allumia Ventures.The round included participation from Corewell Health Ventures, Y Combinator, Heuristic Capital, and MassMutual Ventures, bringing Kivo's total institutional funding to just over $16M.The new capital provides the company with approximately two years of operational runway, with commercial market expansion expected as early as next year.Kivo Health
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Senseonics Doses First Human in Trial of Freedom Fully Implantable One-Year CGM
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Senseonics Holdings, Inc. announced the initiation of its first-in-human clinical feasibility study evaluating Freedom, an investigational continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system.Freedom represents an evolution of the company's commercialized Eversense 365 platform, incorporating an integrated battery and embedded Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transceiver to communicate directly with mobile devices.The system is designed to eliminate the external, on-body transmitter
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Rezilient Health Appoints Workplace Health Veteran Lisa Ness as Chief Revenue Officer
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Rezilient Health announced that Lisa Ness, MBA, RD, CDE, has joined the executive leadership team as Chief Revenue Officer.Lisa Ness brings more than three decades of enterprise healthcare experience, having previously held senior commercial growth roles at QuadMed, CareATC, Proactive MD, Premise Health, and Pfizer.In her new capacity, Ness will direct Rezilient’s commercial growth strategy, expanding national distribution across self-funded employers, benefits broker
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Eko Health Launches CORE 300: FDA-Cleared AI Stethoscope Unifying Traditional and Digital Listening for Adult and Pediatric Care
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Digital health and cardiovascular AI innovator Eko Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance and commercial rollout of CORE 300, an AI-enabled stethoscope designed for pediatric and adult populations.Introduces a dual-mode hardware innovation: CORE 300 is the first stethoscope to integrate traditional analog acoustic listening and advanced digital listening modes directly within a single chestpiece, allowing clinicians to toggle between acoustic
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