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End-to-end revenue cycle management leader Ensemble Health Partners announced at its Healthcare Leadership Exchange, a strategic enterprise partnership with Penelope Health ("Penelope"), a real-time healthcare policy intelligence platform.The collaboration natively embeds Penelope’s structured clinical policy engine directly into Ensemble’s proprietary revenue cycle intelligence layer, shifting policy and medical necessity verification upstream before clinical care is
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America’s Elder-Care Crisis Has Arrived. We’re Not Ready.
For years, America has talked about the aging population as a problem we will need to solve somewhere down the road. That framing is outdated. The crisis is already here.
The population of older adults grew 13% between 2020 and 2024, far faster than the working-age population. There are over 61 million older adults in the United States. By 2030, every Baby Boomer will be at least 65 years old.
After decades in healthcare, I have seen how quickly demographic trends become realities
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UltraSight Secures $24M to Scale Point-of-Care Cardiac Ultrasound Across Health Systems
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UltraSight™, a pioneer in AI-guided cardiac ultrasound workflows, announced it raised $24M in Series B2 financing.Alive HealthTech Growth Fund led the funding round, with co-investment from Deep Insight, Star51 Capital, Connecticut Innovations, and eHealth Ventures, and participation from existing clinical and venture stakeholders, including Mayo Clinic Ventures, NYU, and Iron Nation.Proceeds will fund the U.S. commercial expansion of the UltraSight Echosystem and
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Vonage Brings Branded Calling to Epic Hello World to Drive 45% Patient Answer Rates
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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