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WebMD Ignite, CCS Health, and Medicine for the Greater Good Partner to Launch Collaborative Care Network

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WebMD Ignite, CCS Health, and Medicine for the Greater Good Partner to Launch Collaborative Care Network

What You Should Know WebMD Ignite, CCS Health, and Medicine for the Greater Good (a Johns Hopkins Medicine initiative) launched the Collaborative Care Network™ (CCN), a clinical-community operating platform for rural health systems.Aligns with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Rural Health Transformation Program, which is distributing $50 billion between 2026 and 2030 to expand rural access, workforce, technology, and regional healthcare partnerships.Addresses major
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ECRI Calls on Health Systems to Report Clinical AI Errors and Malfunctions

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ECRI Calls on Health Systems to Report Clinical AI Errors and Malfunctions

What You Should Know Global patient safety nonprofit ECRI expanded its Problem Reporting Network to explicitly capture, investigate, and triage errors, malfunctions, and near misses involving artificial intelligence (AI) tools and AI-enabled medical devices used in patient care.Addresses a critical clinical oversight deficit: while AI is deployed across diagnostic imaging, clinical decision support, and ambient scribes, the industry lacks a centralized, healthcare-specific mechanism to track
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OmicsBank Secures $2.25M from Redesign Health to Scale Global Multi-Omics Data Infrastructure

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OmicsBank Secures $2.25M from Redesign Health to Scale Global Multi-Omics Data Infrastructure

What You Should Know OmicsBank, a clinical data infrastructure company connecting fragmented hospital archives for biopharma and frontier AI developers, raised $2.25M in seed funding from global venture capital and applied technology firm Redesign Health.Founded in 2025 by serial entrepreneurs Sumit Sinha (CEO) and Vijay Goel, the company has deployed its infrastructure inside 90+ hospitals and diagnostic laboratories across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.The data network
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M&A: WellStack Acquires DeLorean AI to Advance Predictive Decision Intelligence

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WellStack Acquires DeLorean AI to Advance Predictive Decision Intelligence

What You Should Know WellStack announced the acquisition of DeLorean AI, a healthcare artificial intelligence company specializing in predictive analytics, clinical risk stratification, and prescriptive decision support.The transaction unifies WellStack’s agentic healthcare data management platform and modular Decision Hubs with DeLorean AI’s predictive intelligence and next-action recommendation engine.The combined entity bridges the gap across the healthcare analytics maturity curve:
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Radiology Partners to Acquire Everlight Radiology, Creating a Global Leader in Teleradiology

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Radiology Partners to Acquire Everlight Radiology, Creating a Global Leader in Teleradiology

What You Should Know Radiology Partners, Inc. (RP) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Everlight Radiology, a major international teleradiology provider serving hospitals and imaging centers across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.The transaction unifies Everlight’s global network with RP Clinical Services’ vRad (Virtual Radiologic) division—the largest teleradiology practice in the United States—forming an international clinical teleradiology
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FGV Capital Closes $35M Fund II and Rebrands to Scale Platform-First Venture Model

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FGV Capital Closes $35M Fund II and Rebrands to Scale Platform-First Venture Model

What You Should Know FGV Capital (the venture arm of FGV, formerly known as Fiat Ventures) announced the final close of its $35M Fund II (inclusive of co-investment vehicles), oversubscribed from its initial $25M target.Fund II brings the firm’s total assets under management (AUM) to more than $60 million across its early-stage investment platform.Co-founded and led by Marcos Fernandez, Drew Glover, Alex Harris, and Rohit Ramkumar, the firm focuses on early-stage seed and pre-seed rounds at
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Suki Launches Standalone AI Dictation Integrated Natively into Epic and MEDITECH Workflows

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What You Should Know Ambient Clinical Intelligence (ACI) leader Suki announced the launch of Suki Dictation, an AI-powered clinical dictation solution built natively inside Epic and MEDITECH electronic health records (EHRs).The solution can be deployed as an independent standalone replacement for legacy dictation tools or used alongside Suki’s ambient listening documentation on a single unified platform.Breaks the traditional vendor packaging model where health systems are forced into costly,
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FDA Grants De Novo Authorization to Avulux, Establishing First Device Classification for Migraine Light Sensitivity

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FDA Grants De Novo Authorization to Avulux, Establishing First Device Classification for Migraine Light Sensitivity

What You Should Know The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted De Novo marketing authorization to Avulux, establishing a first-of-its-kind, FDA-recognized medical device classification for precision optical filters designed to manage migraine-associated light sensitivity.Decreases the impact of light sensitivity in patients diagnosed with episodic migraine aged 12 years and older, serving as an over-the-counter, non-invasive complement to usual care and pharmacological
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Roche Receives FDA Clearance for Elecsys pTau217, First Single-Biomarker Alzheimer’s Blood Test for Primary and Specialty Care

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Roche Receives FDA Clearance for Elecsys pTau217, First Single-Biomarker Alzheimer’s Blood Test for Primary and Specialty Care

What You Should Know The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Roche’s Elecsys® Phospho-Tau (217P) Plasma (pTau217) blood test, developed in strategic collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company.It is the first and only FDA-cleared, single-biomarker blood test supporting both rule-in and rule-out assessment of amyloid pathology associated with Alzheimer’s disease using the exact same validated clinical cutoffs across both primary care and specialty neurology settings.The test is
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Arintra Secures $25M to Scale GenAI Autonomous Medical Coding

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Arintra Secures $25M to Scale GenAI Autonomous Medical Coding

What You Should Know Arintra, an autonomous medical coding startup headquartered in Austin, Texas, with engineering operations in Bengaluru, raised approximately $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Define Ventures.The syndicate includes new strategic backing from Yale New Haven Ventures and Endeavor Ventures, alongside participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Ten13 Capital, Counterpart Ventures, Spider Capital, and Peak XV Partners (which previously led Arintra’s $21
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