What You Should Know:
- A new Strata Decision Technology report on the financial performance of U.S. hospitals and physician groups, drawn from monthly data from over 1,600 hospitals and 135,000 physicians, reveals that health system operating margins dipped to 0.9% in July 2025. While health systems continue to benefit from steady revenue growth, they face persistent pressures from rising expenses.
- The report finds median year-to-date (YTD) health system operating margin was 0.9%
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Phreesia to Acquire AccessOne for $160M to Expand Healthcare Payment Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Phreesia, Inc., a company specializing in patient activation, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AccessOne Parent Holdings, Inc., a portfolio company of Frontier Growth.
- The all-cash transaction is valued at $160M and is expected to close in the third or early fourth quarter of Phreesia’s 2026 fiscal year.
AccessOne Background
AccessOne is a market leader in providing financing solutions for healthcare receivables, working
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Hello Patient Raises $22.5M to Scale Conversational AI for Patient Communications
What You Should Know:
- Hello Patient, a conversational AI company secures $22.5M in Series A financing led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from 8VC, Bling Capital, Max Ventures, Remus Capital, and FirstLook Partners.
- The Hello Patient platform handles end-to-end patient conversations across voice, text, and chat, helping healthcare practices run leaner, grow faster, and deliver better care. With this new funding, the company plans to continue expanding its product
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Revalia Bio Launches ‘Human Data Trials’ with $14.5M to Transform Drug Development
What You Should Know:
- Revalia Bio Inc., a new pre-clinical research company secures $14.5M in seed funding round to support the launch of its "Human Data Trials".
- The funding was co-led by America's Frontier Fund and Sierra Ventures, with participation from Roger Ferguson, former Vice Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, and other existing investors. This brings Revalia's total funding to $19.5M.
A New Paradigm for Pre-Clinical Research
The investment comes at a crucial time
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HealthEdge and UST HealthProof Merge to Modernize Health Plans
What You Should Know:
- HealthEdge and UST HealthProof have announced the successful completion of their merger, following Bain Capital's acquisition of UST HealthProof from UST.
- The combined company will operate as HealthEdge, with its headquarters in Boston. With a reach that touches over 110 million lives in the U.S., HealthEdge is now positioned to empower health plans with modern, AI-enabled technology and services that can lower total costs and improve operational
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MCG Health and Avo Launch AI Assistant to Reduce Hospital Length of Stay
What You Should Know:
- MCG Health, a part of the Hearst Health network, and Avo, a clinician-created AI platform, have launched a new AI assistant designed to tackle the challenge of hospital length of stay (LOS).
- The partnership integrates recovery milestones from MCG's proprietary guidelines directly into electronic health record (EHR) workflows using Avo's new assistant. This tool gives hospitalists and case managers a real-time picture of each patient’s readiness to go
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HHS Announces Crackdown on Information Blocking to Empower Patients and Innovators
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a new initiative to increase resources dedicated to curbing the practice of "information blocking".
- Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has directed HHS to take active enforcement against healthcare entities that restrict patients’ access, exchange, and use of electronic health information.
Empowering Patients and Innovators
The announcement states Information blocking was not
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Parasym Launches Nuropod, a Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation Device
What You Should Know:
- Parasym has launched Nuropod, the first ear-based, clinically studied vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) device in the U.S. that does not require surgery.
- The wearable device is designed to reduce symptoms such as persistent fatigue, anxious states, and markers related to inflammation by activating the vagus nerve to restore the body’s "rest and digest" state. The device is backed by more than 50 completed clinical studies.
A Non-Surgical Alternative
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Prominence Advisors Acquires Tegra Analytics to Unify Healthcare and Life Sciences Data
What You Should Know:
- Prominence Advisors, a leader in healthcare data enablement, has announced its acquisition of Tegra Analytics, a life sciences analytics consultancy. The acquisition extends Prominence's data enablement platform into the life sciences sector, strengthening its services across providers, payers, and life sciences organizations.
- The acquistion will bring together expertise from both healthcare and life sciences, along with industry-leading customer service.
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Epic Launches Comet: A New AI Platform to Predict Patient Health Journeys
What You Should Know:
- Today, Epic announced the launch of a new form of healthcare intelligence, named Comet, developed to help clinicians, health systems, and patients make more informed decisions.
- Built on Epic Cosmos, a secure data platform, Comet is designed to predict what is likely to happen next in a patient’s journey by estimating disease risk, length of stay, and treatment outcomes. The platform has learned from more than 100 billion patient medical events to
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