What You Should Know:
- Alphabet's Verily announced in an internal memo that is has closed its medical device division and laid off staff. The exact number of employees affected was not revealed.
- According to a spokesperson, the company has made the "difficult decision to discontinue manufacturing medical devices" and will no longer support them moving forward. This move is a continuation of a broader strategic shift from Alphabet in 2023, which saw the company cut 12,000 positions
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Mount Sinai Researchers Use AI and Lab Data to Predict Genetic Disease Risk
What You Should Know:
- Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a new method using artificial intelligence (AI) and routine lab tests to determine the likelihood that a patient with a rare DNA mutation will actually develop a disease.
- The concept is known in genetics as penetrance. The findings were published in the August 28 online issue of the journal Science.
A More Accessible Approach to Genetic Risk
Traditional genetic studies
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Scribematic Launches Matic Inside, an Embedded AI Scribe Solution for EHR Vendors
What You Should Know:
- The team behind Scribematic has launched Matic Inside, a fully embedded AI clinical documentation solution specifically built for EHR vendors.
- The launch comes at a time of a significant shift in the market, as the largest EHR vendor has announced it will implement its own embedded AI scribe across nearly half of the U.S. hospital market in 2026.
EHRs Face a "Right Now Crisis"
This move is creating a "right now crisis" for other EHR companies.
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ALIGNMT AI Raises $6.5M to Deliver AI Governance for Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- ALIGNMT AI, a company that provides an AI compliance platform for healthcare, has announced that it has raised $6.5M in seed funding led by AIX Ventures, with participation from Sancus Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and Dent Capital.
- The seed funding will enable ALIGNMT AI to expand its engineering team, accelerate product development, and scale partnerships with healthcare organizations that want to deploy AI responsibly while maintaining operational efficiency
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MaineHealth Deploys First AI Nursing Agent for Behavioral Health
What You Should Know:
- MaineHealth Behavioral Health at Spring Harbor (MHBHSH) has licensed Acuity Behavioral Health’s Behavioral Health Operations Intelligence (BHOI) platform and BHAI software for its inpatient psychiatric units.
- The goal is to eventually implement the platform across the entire MaineHealth system. As a national leader in the innovation of care for mental illness, MHBHSH will use the BHOI platform to improve the care and safety of patients and nursing
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mPulse Acquires Clarity Software Solutions to Redefine Health Communications
What You Should Know:
- mPulse, a provider of Health Experience and Insights (HXI) technology, has acquired Clarity Software Solutions, a leader in health communications technology. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclsoed.
- The strategic move brings together two organizations that are changing the status quo in healthcare and aiming to bring innovative new approaches to the market. Together, the companies partner with over 450 healthcare organizations, more than 50
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Sage Growth Partners Report: Healthcare C-Suite Acknowledges AI Potential but Lacks Trust
What You Should Know:
- A new report from healthcare consultancy Sage Growth Partners has revealed a growing disconnect between the potential of AI in healthcare and the preparedness of hospital and health system leaders to implement it.
- The report, The Healthcare C-Suite's Take on AI, is the first in a three-part series based on an annual survey of 101 C-suite leaders from various integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, and independent hospitals.
Healthcare
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Philips Unveils Cardiovascular Ultrasound System with 26 AI Apps
What You Should Know:
- Global healthcare technology leader Philips has announced the release of Transcend Plus, the next generation of its EPIQ CVx and Affiniti CVx cardiovascular ultrasound systems.
- The new system features major advancements in image quality and artificial intelligence (AI), including new FDA-cleared 2D and 3D image quality enhancements and an expanded suite of AI-enabled clinical applications. Transcend Plus is designed to help cardiology teams work smarter, not
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Cleveland Clinic and Dyania Health Partner to Accelerate Clinical Trial Recruitment with AI
What You Should Know:
- Cleveland Clinic and Dyania Health have announced a collaboration to integrate Dyania's Synapsis™ AI platform across Cleveland Clinic’s clinical research enterprise.
- The partnership, which follows successful pilot programs in cardiology, oncology, and neurology, aims to accelerate clinical trial recruitment by using medically trained large language models (LLMs) to speed up and scale patient identification for research studies. The ultimate goal is to provide more
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CareCloud Acquires Medsphere, Creating a Unified Healthcare Technology Platform
What You Should Know:
- CareCloud, a provider of healthcare technology and AI-powered solutions, has announced its acquisition of the business assets of Medsphere Systems Corporation. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Medsphere is a provider of enterprise inpatient and ambulatory solutions with a 23-year legacy and over 600 clients across 50 states and U.S. territories.
Comprehensive Hospital IT Ecosystem
Medsphere’s hospital IT ecosystem, now
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