What You Should Know:
- Forward, a leading AI-powered healthcare company, has announced $100M in growth capital to expand its network of Forward CarePods, self-service AI-powered doctor's offices. This investment will fuel Forward's mission to revolutionize healthcare by making it more accessible, affordable, and high-quality.
- The funding round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Founders Fund, Samsung Next, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and Softbank. In addition to
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M&A: BehaVR and Fern Health Merge to Form RealizedCare Focused on Digital Therapeutics
What You Should Know:
- BehaVR and Fern Health have merged to create RealizedCare, a new company that will provide digital care management solutions for chronic pain. RealizedCare's platform combines digital therapeutics (DTx) with traditional wraparound services to deliver personalized care at scale.
- The company has partnered with Grünenthal, a global research-based pharmaceutical company, as a strategic investor.
Chronic Pain Challenges
Chronic pain affects an estimated 52
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M&A: AAPC Acquires Semantic Health’s AI-Powered Medical Auditing Solution
What You Should Know:
- AAPC, a leading global solutions provider in healthcare revenue cycle management, has acquired Semantic Health, an early-stage healthcare technology company focused on creating AI-powered inpatient medical auditing software for health insurance plans and hospitals.
- This acquisition will allow AAPC to offer its members innovative tools to streamline auditing processes, reduce denials, and improve documentation quality.
AI-Powered Inpatient Medical
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Ambience AI Powers End-to-End Epic Integration at John Muir Health
What You Should Know:
- John Muir Health (JMH) and Ambience Healthcare have announced a collaboration to launch a generative AI platform that is fully integrated with Epic's electronic health record (EHR).
- The integration will enable Ambience's AI medical scribe and suite of generative AI products to read from and write information directly to Epic on behalf of and under the oversight of JMH clinicians.
AI Integration with Epic for Enhanced Clinician Experience
Clinicians at JMH
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UnitedHealthcare Accused of Using Faulty AI Model to Deny Healthcare Claims to Elderly Patients
What You Should Know:
- UnitedHealthcare, one of the largest health insurance companies in the United States, has been sued for allegedly using a faulty AI model to deny healthcare claims to elderly patients, the Register first reports.
- The lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in federal court in Minneapolis, alleges that UnitedHealthcare has been using the AI model, called nH Predict, since at least 2020 to improperly deny claims for post-acute care, such as nursing home stays and home
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UHealth and Aidoc Partner on AI-Driven Care Diagnostic Imaging
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UHealth has launched a system-wide AI deployment powered by Aidoc, a pioneer in artificial intelligence. The initiative aims to support UHealth's mission of delivering high-quality, compassionate care by utilizing AI to identify suspected findings early in the care process.
UHealth will integrate Aidoc's 13 FDA-cleared algorithms and pathway-optimized workflow technologies. Aidoc's platform, the aiOS™ flags suspected acute abnormalities in patient scans, expedites
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Mercy’s AI-Powered Texting Platform Intercepts Chemo-Related Hospital Admissions
What You Should Know:
- Mercy has developed a new AI-driven texting platform called The Chen Chemotherapy Model, which is helping to keep chemotherapy patients out of the hospital by raising red flags before symptoms become severe. The model was created by Jiajing Chen, a data scientist who passed away from cancer earlier this year.
- The Chen Chemotherapy Model predicts the likelihood of outpatient chemotherapy patients experiencing symptoms that may result in hospitalization within 30
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MIT Spun Out Layer Health Launches with $4M to Build the AI Layer for Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Layer Health, a healthcare AI company spun out of MIT, has been launched with $4M in funding from investors such as GV (Google Ventures), General Catalyst, and Inception Health.
- The company is focused on solving the information problem in healthcare by using AI to quickly perform any clinical, administrative, or research task that requires chart review from unstructured data.
Building the AI layer for healthcare — powered by large language models.
Layer
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NYU Langone Health Makes History with Successful Whole-Eye & Partial-Face Transplant
What You Should Know:
- A surgical team at NYU Langone Health performed the world’s first whole-eye and partial-face transplant on a 46-year-old military veteran, Aaron James, who survived a high-voltage electrical accident at work.
- The 21-hour surgery was led by Dr. Eduardo D. Rodriguez, director of the Face Transplant Program at NYU Langone along with a team of more than 140 surgeons, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.. James had lost his left eye and suffered extensive facial
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Providence Pioneers Data Sharing for Value-Based Care with HL7® Da Vinci Clinical Data Exchange
What You Should Know:
- Providence has become the first health system in the United States to develop a data-as-a-service (DaaS) product driven by HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).
- This product facilitates the exchange of clinical data between providers and payers, aiming to standardize clinical data across the system.
Barriers to Data Exchange
Traditionally, one of the most significant barriers to seamless clinical data exchange has been the lack of
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