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Vonage Brings Branded Calling to Epic Hello World to Drive 45% Patient Answer Rates

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Vonage Brings Branded Calling to Epic Hello World to Drive 45% Patient Answer Rates

What You Should Know Cloud communications provider Vonage, a subsidiary of Ericsson, announced the deployment of its Branded Calling technology natively within Epic Systems’ Hello World communication platform.Built using the programmable Vonage Voice API, the integration enables hospitals and ambulatory clinics to display their verified organization name, corporate logo, and specific reason for calling directly on a patient’s mobile handset before the call is answered.The feature addresses
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Theranica’s 53,000-Patient Study Proves 30-Day Longitudinal Patterns Predict Migraines with 91% Precision

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Theranica’s 53,000-Patient Study Proves 30-Day Longitudinal Patterns Predict Migraines with 91% Precision

What You Should Know Neuromodulation digital therapeutics pioneer Theranica announced the publication of a landmark, peer-reviewed clinical validation study in Neurology® Open Access evaluating Your Day Ahead, an integrated machine learning (ML) feature inside the Nerivio® mobile app.The investigation, titled “Machine Learning Assessment of Next-Day Migraine Likelihood Using Data From 53,000 App Users Living With Migraine,” analyzed 770,473 daily diary reports from 53,065 real-world users of
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Oracle Health Unveils Upstream AI Revenue Cycle Portfolio at Health and Life Sciences Summit

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Oracle Health Files TEFCA QHIN Application

What You Should Know At the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit, Oracle Health announced a major portfolio-wide expansion of embedded artificial intelligence capabilities across its Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) suite, scheduled for rollout in the coming months across U.S. healthcare organizations.The strategic deployment brings machine learning and generative workflows upstream into the earliest operational stages—spanning patient scheduling, financial clearance, clinical documentation,
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Heidi Secures $340M to Transition from Clinical Documentation to Supervised Agentic Execution

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Heidi Secures $340M to Transition from Clinical Documentation to Supervised Agentic Execution

What You Should Know Global clinical AI platform Heidi raises $340M in total new capital, comprising a $100M Series C equity round at a $900M valuation and a $240M growth investment from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF).The Series C equity financing was led by long-term investor Blackbird, with continued participation from Phoenix Court (LocalGlobe, Latitude, and Solar funds), Point72 Private Investments, and Headline, bringing Heidi’s cumulative funding to $436.6M.The $240M CVF
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Beyond Hospital Pre-Merger Notice: PESP Report Reveals States Are Targeting Private Equity Control via MSOs, Debt, and Sale-Leasebacks

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Beyond Hospital Pre-Merger Notice: PESP Report Reveals States Are Targeting Private Equity Control via MSOs, Debt, and Sale-Leasebacks

What You Should Know The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) released its comprehensive report, the 2026 State Healthcare Policy Review: Tracking Private Equity Oversight and Reform, examining nationwide legislative efforts to regulate private equity control across provider networks.As of August 2026, six states had enacted nine distinct healthcare oversight laws—one each in Washington, Vermont, and Delaware, and two each in Illinois, Maine, and Connecticut—while California and Oregon
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Abridge Wins Seat on $775.7M VA Enterprise Contract to Power Ambient Clinical AI

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Verizon Inks $448.3M Veterans Affairs Contract for Mobile Devices

What You Should Know Abridge, the AI-native clinician intelligence platform deployed across more than 300 U.S. health systems, announced it was selected through a distribution partner to provide ambient clinical AI under a landmark U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise contract.The multiple-award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract carries a total ceiling of $775.72 million over five years across all eligible competing vendors, allowing individual VA medical
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DexCare Acquires AI Care Coordination Platform Mila Health to Unify Patient Access and Conversational Scheduling

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What You Should Know Patient access and navigation leader DexCare, Inc. announced the acquisition of Mila Health, an AI-driven care coordination company whose conversational agents autonomously call, text, and chat with patients to manage scheduling, pre-visit preparation, and post-discharge follow-ups.The transaction represents DexCare’s second corporate acquisition, building on its 2022 purchase of Womp, Inc., and expands its capital-backed platform that has raised $146 million to date
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Ascend Learning Acquires AI Scheduling Platform M7 Health to Build End-to-End Healthcare Workforce Lifecycle

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Ascend Learning Acquires AI Scheduling Platform M7 Health to Build End-to-End Healthcare Workforce Lifecycle

What You Should Know Healthcare and education technology provider Ascend Learning announced the acquisition of M7 Health, an AI-powered clinical scheduling and workforce management platform utilized across large academic medical centers, community facilities, and rural hospitals nationwide.The transaction creates an integrated enterprise workforce platform connecting education, credentialing, competency management, frontline leadership engagement, and dynamic shift deployment under a single
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Experian Health Patient Access Curator Prevents $50M in Composite Health System Denials

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Experian Health Patient Access Curator Prevents $50M in Composite Health System Denials

What You Should Know A commissioned Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting in August 2026 revealed that Experian Health’s Patient Access Curator™ protected $50.4M in revenue over three years for a modeled composite health system.Over a three-year implementation window, the platform reduced coordination of benefits (COB) denials by 40%, eligibility denials by 35%, and registration-related denials by 20%.The financial analysis evaluated a composite integrated
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Angle Health Secures $600M at $2.7B Valuation to Scale AI-Native Small Business Health Plans

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Angle Health Secures $600M at $2.7B Valuation to Scale AI-Native Small Business Health Plans

What You Should Know Angle Health, an AI-native healthcare benefits platform designed for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), announced a $600M equity financing transaction at a $2.7 billion valuation.The financing was led by global growth investor Vitruvian Partners, with participation from new backer Town Hall Ventures and existing investors Blumberg Capital, Portage Ventures, PruVen Capital, and Y Combinator.Angle Health currently serves more than 5,000 employer groups with customizable
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