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Nara Health, an AI-native Third-Party Administrator (TPA) rebuilding employer health insurance infrastructure, announced $14 million in total funding across combined pre-seed and seed rounds led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Long Journey Ventures, Superior Studios, and strategic angel investors.Nara Health tackles a macroeconomic employer crisis: 170 million Americans receive employer-sponsored insurance, where average family premiums reached $27,000
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Notable Appoints Former Houston Methodist Executive Dr. Nicholas Desai as Chief Medical Officer
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Healthcare AI workforce platform Notable has named Dr. Nicholas Desai as its Chief Medical Officer (CMO), adding extensive executive health system leadership across clinical technology, acute operations, and quality.Dr. Desai joins Notable directly from Houston Methodist, where his career spanned dual executive tracks across system-wide clinical informatics and hospital-level operating responsibility:Served as system-wide Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO).Held
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Hanger to Acquire Numotion in Cash Transaction to Create “Hanger Numotion” Under Patient Square Capital
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Orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) patient care leader Hanger, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Numotion, a major provider of Complex Rehabilitation Technology (CRT) and mobility solutions, forming Hanger Numotion.Structured as an all-cash acquisition of Numotion by Hanger. The combined entity will be majority-controlled by healthcare private equity firm Patient Square Capital (which took Hanger private in 2022). Numotion is being sold by primary
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ARPA-H Awards UpDoc Up to $9.2M to Lead ADVOCATE Autonomous Clinical AI Program
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has selected clinical AI company UpDoc as a lead performer in its Agentic AI-Enabled Cardiovascular Care Transformation (ADVOCATE) program, granting an award of up to $9.2M.The award assembles a high-profile technology syndicate: UpDoc leads the clinical AI development, supported by Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA.Represents the first federal health research program designed to produce an autonomous, FDA-authorized
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Verily Secures Strategic Investment from NVIDIA to Accelerate Precision Health AI Platform
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Verily Health Inc. has secured a strategic equity investment from NVIDIA, extending its fundraising momentum following its corporate restructuring and initial $300 million funding round in early 2026.CU Healthcare Innovation Fund II, LP committed an additional follow-on investment, joining a capitalization syndicate that includes Alphabet (as a minority stakeholder), Series X Capital, and UCHealth.Directly accelerates commercial deployment of the Verily Pre Platform, the
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H1 Acquires Healthcare Data Company Defacto Health to Bolster Provider Network Intelligence
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Healthcare professional intelligence leader H1 has acquired Defacto Health, a specialized healthcare data company focused on payer-provider networks, accepted insurance plans, and directory accuracy.The transaction formalizes a long-term data partnership, absorbing Defacto's proprietary directory auditing, error-cluster isolation, and network benchmarking engines directly into H1’s global platform.Defacto will operate directly within H1; co-founders Ron Urwongse and Tarun
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Flatiron Health Renews NCCN Collaboration Through 2028 and Deploys Flatiron Telescope
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Flatiron Health, an independent affiliate of the Roche Group, has renewed its strategic oncology research partnership with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) through 2028, extending a collaborative alliance originally established in 2014.Core Academic Assets: Participating NCCN Member Institutions maintain access to Flatiron’s curated, de-identified real-world datasets spanning more than 6 million oncology patient journeys across academic and community
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Forus Triples Raises $150M to Put AI Agents in Every Medical Practice
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Forus, the AI-powered network connecting physicians, retail and specialty pharmacies, commercial payers, and biopharma manufacturers, announced a $150M Series C financing round at a $3B valuation.The round triples the company’s valuation just months following its Series B round, lifting cumulative equity financing past $300M.Led by seed-stage backer Bain Capital Ventures, the insider round featured 100% reinvestment from existing institutional backers, including Thrive
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Flow Neuroscience Launches FDA-Approved At-Home tDCS Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder
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Swedish neurotechnology company Flow Neuroscience officially launched FL-100 across the United States, introducing the first FDA-approved at-home transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) treatment for depression to the American market.Backed by formal premarket approval (FDA PMA P230024), the prescription-only medical device is indicated for adults (18+) with moderate to severe major depressive disorder (MDD) in the current episode who are not treatment-refractory,
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Salesforce Unveils Agentic Life Sciences Suite to Turn Reactive Operations into Compliant-by-Design Intelligence
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Salesforce announced three major enterprise artificial intelligence additions to its life sciences portfolio: Regulated Content Management (RCM), Command Center for Life Sciences, and Life Sciences MCP (Model Context Protocol).Focuses on widespread industry inefficiencies, targeting scenarios where half of all pharmaceutical drug launches fail to meet pre-launch projections and commercial teams spend months waiting for manual Medical, Legal, and Regulatory (MLR)
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