What You Should Know:
- WellSky, a health and community care technology company, has announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to deliver a transformative suite of AI-powered solutions.
- The collaboration will leverage Google's latest Gemini multimodal AI models to create an AI-first platform for post-acute, acute, and community care, moving providers away from fragmented data and siloed applications.
Embedding AI into WellSky’s Clinical Workflow
The
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Bayer Exits Radiology AI Market, Discontinuing Calantic and Blackford
What You Should Know:
- Bayer has announced it will no longer participate in the radiology AI software platform sector, AuntMinnie first reports.
- The company is discontinuing its Calantic Digital Solutions AI platform and services from its Blackford Analysis subsidiary. This decision marks the end of a five-year initiative by the contrast media firm to provide a radiology AI platform that helped practices integrate AI applications from various developers.
Discontinuing
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Strive Health Raises $550M to Expand Value-Based Kidney Care with AI and Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Strive Health, a provider of value-based kidney care announced it has secured $550M, consisting of a $300M Series D equity round and $250M in debt financing.
- The equity funding was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with additional investments from a syndicate of leading financial institutions, including CVS Health Ventures, CapitalG, and BlackRock, Inc.. Hercules Capital led the debt financing.
- The funding will enable Strive and its team of
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M&A: Cohere Health Acquires ZignaAI to Transform Payment Integrity
What You Should Know:
- Cohere Health, a leader in clinical intelligence solutions, has acquired ZignaAI and launched a new Payment Integrity (PI) Suite, which is anchored by Cohere Validate™. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Cohere Health’s approach is designed to provide transparency, accuracy, and control to claims payments through clinical intelligence. The new solution is already delivering faster payments, 30% efficiency gains, and 8-9x ROI to health
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athenahealth Launches AI-Native athenaClinicals with Predictive Diagnoses and Ambient Notes
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth, a provider of network-enabled software and services, has announced new advancements in its electronic health record (EHR), athenaClinicals.
- The new features are part of the company's ongoing launch of its AI-native athenaOne platform and are designed to simplify clinical workflows, automate routine tasks, and deliver personalized insights to enable a more patient-centered approach to care.
Intelligent and Adaptive Clinical
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Ascend Learning Acquires Laudio to Enhance Healthcare Workforce Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Ascend Learning, a healthcare and learning technology company, has announced its acquisition of Laudio, an innovator in frontline leader solutions for health systems.
- The acquisition will enhance Ascend’s suite of workforce management tools and extend its support of the healthcare workforce beyond the classroom, from the student to the practice.
Comprehensive Workforce Solution
Health system frontline leaders today face mounting pressures, often
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Amazon Pharmacy Expands RxPass to Texas, Offering $5 Monthly Prescriptions for Chronic Conditions
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Pharmacy has announced the expansion of its RxPass subscription service to Texas.
- The service, which costs Prime members just $5 per month, provides access to over 50 commonly prescribed medications that treat chronic conditions like anxiety, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.
- Texas ranks fourth in the percentage of U.S. adults with three or more chronic conditions, making the expansion a significant move for the state. The
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Hospital Margins Dip to 0.9% in Q3 as Supply and Drug Costs Escalate
What You Should Know:
- A new Strata Decision Technology report on the financial performance of U.S. hospitals and physician groups, drawn from monthly data from over 1,600 hospitals and 135,000 physicians, reveals that health system operating margins dipped to 0.9% in July 2025. While health systems continue to benefit from steady revenue growth, they face persistent pressures from rising expenses.
- The report finds median year-to-date (YTD) health system operating margin was 0.9%
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Phreesia to Acquire AccessOne for $160M to Expand Healthcare Payment Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Phreesia, Inc., a company specializing in patient activation, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AccessOne Parent Holdings, Inc., a portfolio company of Frontier Growth.
- The all-cash transaction is valued at $160M and is expected to close in the third or early fourth quarter of Phreesia’s 2026 fiscal year.
AccessOne Background
AccessOne is a market leader in providing financing solutions for healthcare receivables, working
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Hello Patient Raises $22.5M to Scale Conversational AI for Patient Communications
What You Should Know:
- Hello Patient, a conversational AI company secures $22.5M in Series A financing led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from 8VC, Bling Capital, Max Ventures, Remus Capital, and FirstLook Partners.
- The Hello Patient platform handles end-to-end patient conversations across voice, text, and chat, helping healthcare practices run leaner, grow faster, and deliver better care. With this new funding, the company plans to continue expanding its product
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