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Healthcare access management and identity security leader Imprivata released national research conducted by independent research firm Vanson Bourne, surveying 250 U.S. healthcare leaders responsible for identity security and AI strategy across health systems, IDNs, and academic medical centers.The Shadow AI Crisis: 72% of healthcare organizations report that AI tools or agents are deployed without formal IT approval at least occasionally, while 37% cite an ad hoc or
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Quantum Health Appoints Dr. Susan Mani as Chief Medical Officer
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Healthcare navigation platform Quantum Health (Dublin, OH) announced on September 15, 2026, the appointment of Dr. Susan Mani as its new Chief Medical Officer (CMO).Dr. Mani brings extensive executive leadership in value-based care and population health, having previously directed clinical and cost-containment initiatives at Humana and regional health system LifeBridge Health.Clinical pedigree includes completing medical school and internal medicine residency at the Johns
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GE HealthCare Launches CareIntellect for Operations to Deliver 72-Hour Predictive Inpatient Capacity Forecasting
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GE HealthCare announced on September 15, 2026, the launch of CareIntellect™ for Operations, a cloud-native, AI-enabled Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application engineered to forecast hospital capacity constraints up to 72 hours in advance.Duke Health and The Queen’s Health Systems (The Queen’s Medical Center) will be the first health systems to implement the platform, providing frontline operational and clinical feedback to guide engineering iterations.Built on Amazon Web
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Inspiren Secures $70M to Scale Physical AI Across Senior Living
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Senior living physical artificial intelligence pioneer Inspiren has raised $70M in Series C funding at a post-money valuation exceeding $500M.The financing round was led by NewView Capital, with broad syndicate participation from Insight Partners, Primary Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Vintage Investment Partners, Lightbank, Avenir Growth Capital, Story Ventures, and Camber Creek.Brings Inspiren’s total capital raised to $225M—marking the largest fundraising
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Abridge Enters the Mid-Revenue Cycle with Pre-Bill AI for CDI and Coding Teams
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Ambient clinical AI leader Abridge has expanded its enterprise clinician intelligence platform into the mid-revenue cycle, launching an AI-powered pre-bill review capability tailored for Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI), coding, and health system revenue cycle management (RCM) teams.Marks Abridge’s formal product expansion from point-of-care ambient documentation into institutional revenue integrity, auditing inpatient claims before submission for
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Khosla Ventures Backs Nara Health with $14M to Rebuild Self-Insured Health Plans via Agentic AI
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Nara Health, an AI-native Third-Party Administrator (TPA) rebuilding employer health insurance infrastructure, announced $14 million in total funding across combined pre-seed and seed rounds led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Long Journey Ventures, Superior Studios, and strategic angel investors.Nara Health tackles a macroeconomic employer crisis: 170 million Americans receive employer-sponsored insurance, where average family premiums reached $27,000
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Notable Appoints Former Houston Methodist Executive Dr. Nicholas Desai as Chief Medical Officer
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Healthcare AI workforce platform Notable has named Dr. Nicholas Desai as its Chief Medical Officer (CMO), adding extensive executive health system leadership across clinical technology, acute operations, and quality.Dr. Desai joins Notable directly from Houston Methodist, where his career spanned dual executive tracks across system-wide clinical informatics and hospital-level operating responsibility:Served as system-wide Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO).Held
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Hanger to Acquire Numotion in Cash Transaction to Create “Hanger Numotion” Under Patient Square Capital
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Orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) patient care leader Hanger, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Numotion, a major provider of Complex Rehabilitation Technology (CRT) and mobility solutions, forming Hanger Numotion.Structured as an all-cash acquisition of Numotion by Hanger. The combined entity will be majority-controlled by healthcare private equity firm Patient Square Capital (which took Hanger private in 2022). Numotion is being sold by primary
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ARPA-H Awards UpDoc Up to $9.2M to Lead ADVOCATE Autonomous Clinical AI Program
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has selected clinical AI company UpDoc as a lead performer in its Agentic AI-Enabled Cardiovascular Care Transformation (ADVOCATE) program, granting an award of up to $9.2M.The award assembles a high-profile technology syndicate: UpDoc leads the clinical AI development, supported by Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA.Represents the first federal health research program designed to produce an autonomous, FDA-authorized
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Verily Secures Strategic Investment from NVIDIA to Accelerate Precision Health AI Platform
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Verily Health Inc. has secured a strategic equity investment from NVIDIA, extending its fundraising momentum following its corporate restructuring and initial $300 million funding round in early 2026.CU Healthcare Innovation Fund II, LP committed an additional follow-on investment, joining a capitalization syndicate that includes Alphabet (as a minority stakeholder), Series X Capital, and UCHealth.Directly accelerates commercial deployment of the Verily Pre Platform, the
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