Rural communities face a complex web of barriers that hinder access to quality healthcare, including long travel distances, workforce shortages, limited broadband for telehealth, underinsurance, low health literacy, and social stigmas. These obstacles often discourage individuals from seeking timely medical care and contribute to disproportionate health burdens such as shorter life expectancy, higher rates of chronic disease, and fewer preventive care options compared to urban areas. Despite
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Arbiter Emerges from Stealth with $52M Funding to End Healthcare Fragmentation with AI
What You Should Know:
- Arbiter, a new AI-powered care orchestration platform, has launched from stealth with $52M in funding, led by TriEdge Investments and MFO Ventures, to unite payers, providers, and patients and rebuild the operating spine of U.S. healthcare.
- The company is built and funded by leaders overseeing over $25B in annual healthcare payments and millions of patient lives. Its team combines executive leadership from major health systems and payers (Cigna,
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WellBeam Raises $10M Series A to Break EMR Silos Between Acute and Post-Acute Care
What You Should Know:
- WellBeam, a healthcare technology company, announced that it has successfully raised $10M in Series A funding led by Wittington Ventures and included participation from F-Prime, Advocate Health, and Oncology Ventures.
- The funding will accelerate WellBeam’s growth, significantly expanding its interoperability infrastructure across health systems, physician groups, and post-acute partners. The core mission is to break down EMR data silos and enable
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Denial Prevention AI: Ember Raises $4.3M to Cut Healthcare Denials by Over 57%
What You Should Know:
- Ember, the AI-native solution for denial prevention secures $4.3M in seed funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners and Y Combinator.
- Its platform uses deep knowledge of payer policies to cut denials by more than 57% and boost net collections by 25% for health systems.
The Denial Crisis: Fueling Burnout and Financial Loss
Healthcare providers nationwide face an intensifying crisis driven by claim delays and denials, which create significant
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Doctors Can Now Search RWE on Microsoft Teams: Atropos Health Integrates Evidence™ Agent with Microsoft Teams
What You Should Know:
- Atropos Health, a pioneer in translating clinical data into personalized Real-World Evidence (RWE) and insights, has launched the Atropos Evidence™ Agent.
- The expert agent is designed to integrate directly with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 to revolutionize how personalized evidence is delivered to the point of need.
- The integration allows multidisciplinary care team members, such as those participating in Tumor Boards or care coordination
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Humana and Epic Launch Coverage Finder to Deliver Digital-First Medicare Advantage Check-In
What You Should Know:
- Humana today announced the broad activation of Epic’s Coverage Finder and Digital Insurance Card Exchange for its Medicare Advantage members.
- The partnership streamlines check-in and ensures automated, paperless insurance verification for over 800,000 members at hundreds of health systems today announced the broad activation of Epic’s Coverage Finder and Digital Insurance Card Exchange capabilities for its Medicare Advantage membership – marking a
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Distalmotion Closes $150M to Accelerate US Adoption of DEXTER® Robotic Surgery System
What You Should Know:
- Distalmotion, a MedTech company with a mission to empower access to the benefits of robotic surgery secures $150M in Series G financing round led by Revival Healthcare Capital.
- The new funding will primarily be used to accelerate the U.S. commercial adoption of its soft tissue robotic surgery system, DEXTER. A major focus of the U.S. expansion is the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) market, recognized as one of the fastest-growing segments in surgical care
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NVIDIA, Sheba, and Mount Sinai Partner to Decode 98% of Human Genome with LLM
What You Should Know:
- ARC Innovation at Sheba Medical Center and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (part of the Mount Sinai Health System) have announced a major three-year collaboration with NVIDIA. The initiative focuses on applying Large Language Model (LLM) technology to genomic research.
- The primary objective is to pioneer the decoding of the majority (98%) of the human genome that remains poorly understood. By deciphering this area—once labeled "junk DNA"—researchers
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VahatiCor Secures $23M to Combat Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction (CMD)
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- VahatiCor, a medtech company focused on transforming cardiac care secures $23M in Series B funding led by S3 Ventures, with support from Intuitive Ventures and a strategic investor.
- The capital infusion will be used to advance VahatiCor’s SERRA-I early feasibility study (30 subjects across six sites), accelerate engineering development, and prepare the company for crucial pivotal trials.
The Urgent Need: Inadequate Treatment for CMD
The need for new
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Thrivory Raises $25M Credit and $3.5M Equity to Eliminate Healthcare Reimbursement Delays with AI
What You Should Know:
- Thrivory, the AI-powered healthcare fintech company, has secured $3.5M in equity led by Redesign Health and up to $25M in credit from Trinity Capital.
- The funding supports the scale of its ThriveNow API, which embeds instant, non-recourse claims payments directly into EHR and practice management systems.
Solving Healthcare’s Biggest Financial Barrier: Slow Reimbursement
Thrivory, a healthcare AI company founded in 2023, is tackling the slow and unpredictable
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