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Craif Inc., a bio-AI company developing a non-invasive urine analysis platform for early cancer detection, closed an approximately $33M Series D round (¥5.28 billion), bringing its total capital raised to roughly $88M (¥14.2 billion).The financing was co-led by Granite-Integral (a joint venture between Granite Asia and Integral Corporation) and TAUNS Laboratories, Inc. (one of Japan’s largest rapid diagnostic test manufacturers), with participation from U.S.-based
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R1 to Acquire Humata Health, Advancing Phare OS with AI-Powered Prior Authorization Automation
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R1 entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Humata Health, an AI-powered prior authorization technology company, to embed agentic, touchless authorization capabilities into R1’s Phare Operating System (Phare OS).The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2026, with the Humata team joining R1’s R37 innovation lab to accelerate agentic AI engineering across the revenue cycle.Prior authorizations remain a top-three driver of hospital claim
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M&A: Trusted Health Acquires ShiftOS to Embed Holly AI Scheduling Agent into Trusted Works Platform
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Trusted Health announced the acquisition of the technology, intellectual property, and assets of ShiftOS, developer of Holly, an AI-native scheduling agent designed for hospitals and complex healthcare workforces.Holly will be integrated directly into Trusted Works, Trusted Health’s staffing and scheduling optimization platform for hospitals and health systems.Unlike traditional scheduling tools that add bolt-on AI features, Holly operates on an agent-first architecture
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Function Launches Health Data Connector for ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity
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Function launched a secure health data connector enabling members to bring their longitudinal lab results and clinician-reviewed notes directly into third-party AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.The connector addresses a primary limitation of consumer health AI by replacing generalized population averages with personal biological context, covering 160+ diagnostic lab tests across heart health, hormones, thyroid, metabolism, heavy metals, nutrients,
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Abridge Scales Clinical Intelligence Agent Enterprise-Wide Across 300+ Health Systems
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Abridge announced that partner health systems can now deploy its clinical intelligence agent enterprise-wide to every clinician, regardless of whether they currently use ambient documentation.The agent delivers context-aware clinical decision support (CDS) embedded directly inside native EHR interfaces or accessible via a companion mobile and web experience connected to the patient chart.Across more than 300 enterprise health systems, monthly active users of Abridge's CDS
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Black Book Research Releases 2026 State of U.S. Military and Defense Health IT Report
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Black Book Market Research released the State of U.S. Military and Defense Health Information Technology 2026, drawing on 1,037 survey responses and an 813-respondent analytical cohort of federal and defense health leaders.Released alongside the 2026 Defense Health Information Technology Symposium (DHITS) in New Orleans, the report marks the entry into a "post-EHR deployment era" following the completed worldwide rollout of MHS GENESIS.The FY2027 defense health IM/IT
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InsideTracker Unveils Source-Agnostic Blood Data Connector Across Consumer App and B2B Terra Platform
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InsideTracker announced a near-universal blood data connector for its consumer app and recently launched enterprise B2B platform, Terra™.The connector enables source-agnostic, format-agnostic biological data ingestion—processing print lab reports, digital PDFs, Apple Health files, and direct EMR integrations using HL7 and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards.The upgrade expands InsideTracker’s diagnostic and analytical engine across nearly 120
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Inovalon Research Identifies Preventable Drivers of Claim Denials and Prior Authorization Delays
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An Inovalon national survey of over 400 revenue cycle management (RCM) leaders by Inovalon reveals that healthcare's most costly billing problems begin before a claim is ever submitted.Front-end workflow breakdowns drive 78% of denied claims, led by insurance eligibility verification, patient registration, and prior authorization delays.Prior authorization remains heavily manual: 93% of provider organizations rely on phone, fax, or payer portals, with only 7% utilizing
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Suvi Health Launches Ambient AI Platform for Inpatient Care Coordination
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Suvi Health has officially launched its Ambient AI Care Coordination Platform to streamline hospital stays, improve care continuity, and reduce delayed discharges.Created through 1842 Studio (the venture studio of the 1842 Fund, managed by Alloy Partners), the company was co-developed alongside researchers from the University of Notre Dame and clinicians from Mayo Clinic.Suvi Health will initiate a four-month pilot site deployment with Mayo Clinic starting in September
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Epic Launches One-Click Care Everywhere Diagnostic Image Exchange
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Epic has officially released Care Everywhere Diagnostic Image Exchange, enabling clinicians at Epic-connected health systems to retrieve diagnostic-quality CTs, X-rays, and MRIs with a single click.The technology bridges a long-standing interoperability gap by applying open image-sharing standards across Epic’s Care Everywhere network to transport full-resolution files directly between PACS/archiving systems.Prior to this release, clinicians were limited to viewing
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