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Healthcare at-home technology and clinical platform Abby Care raises an $82M Series C financing round led by Transformation Capital, with participation from new investors CVS Health Ventures, Frist Cressey Ventures, and Pivotal Ventures along with existing investors Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, and Sequoia Capital.Directly addresses the critical national shortage of home health aides and direct care workers: enables family members of vulnerable individuals to become
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M&A: Tegria Acquires CloudWave in First Move Under Altaris to Consolidate Healthcare Cyber Defense
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Global healthcare consulting, managed services, and technology solutions company Tegria announced its strategic acquisition of CloudWave, a full-service healthcare-exclusive cloud hosting, managed IT, and cybersecurity services provider.Marks a major corporate expansion milestone: this represents Tegria’s first acquisition since becoming a portfolio company of Altaris, a New York-based healthcare investment firm managing more than $9 billion in equity capital, earlier in
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Elation Health Launches Automated Payment Posting: Completing the End-to-End Primary Care Revenue Cycle
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Primary care technology and EHR platform Elation Health announced the addition of automated payment posting, closing the loop on an end-to-end operational pipeline that takes an outpatient primary care encounter from signed clinical note to posted payment with zero manual billing intervention.Solves the fragmentation between clinical charting and practice billing: establishes an integrated workflow where the clinical note feeds medical coding, the code generates the
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FDA Launches Rare Disease Framework Initiative to Modernize Small-Cohort Trial Design
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an operating division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), officially announced the launch of the Rare Disease Framework Initiative.Accompanied by the publication of a new agency white paper outlining a "fit-for-purpose" regulatory model engineered to match trial requirements to the realistic evidentiary constraints of ultra-small, geographically dispersed patient populations.Addresses a critical clinical
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Verily Health Awarded CDC Contract for National Wastewater Surveillance System: Scaling Genomic and Metagenomic Public Health Analytics
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Healthcare data intelligence leader Verily Health Inc. has been awarded a multi-year contract renewal by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue operating and expanding the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS).Builds on a four-year operational foundation: the contract extension expands the public health surveillance partnership Verily has maintained with the CDC since 2023.Delivered through Verily Sightline, the company’s specialized
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Diverge Health Merges with Medical Home Network: Creating a Premier Value-Based Care Platform for Underserved Communities
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Diverge Health and Medical Home Network (MHN) PBC announced a definitive merger agreement to form one of the nation's largest value-based care platforms dedicated entirely to safety-net populations and under-resourced communities.The combination establishes one of the largest value-based care platforms in the United States dedicated to underserved communities, entering 2027 with nearly 500,000 attributed Medicaid and Medicare lives and $3 billion in managed medical spend
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Mount Sinai Scientists Launch Human Tissue Organoids into Space: SpaceX CRS-35 Investigates Neurological and Cardiovascular Aging
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Mount Sinai Health System researchers launched bioengineered human brain and cardiovascular tissue models into orbit aboard the SpaceX CRS-35 Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station (ISS).Developed across Mount Sinai’s Departments of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Neuroscience, and Surgery, alongside the Cardiovascular Research Institute, the dual investigations pair patient-derived stem cell organoids and microfluidic
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Outro Secures $7M to Build Healthcare’s First Neuroscience-Based Deprescribing Platform
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Neuroscience-based deprescribing platform Outro announced that it has raised $7M in combined pre-seed and seed financing to establish clinical and technological infrastructure for discontinuing psychiatric medications safely.The financing syndicate is backed by Listen Ventures, Cake Ventures, Jason Calacanis’s LAUNCH, Actions Capital, Hannah Grey VC, SemperVirens, Brock Recovery Group, Pave Health Ventures, and additional strategic digital health investors.Outro combines
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Arcadia Unveils Ascent, CareJourney, and LifeScience to Operationalize Agentic Population Health
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Healthcare data platform Arcadia announced a major product portfolio restructuring during its annual customer conference, Aggregate, introducing three core solutions: Arcadia Ascent™, Arcadia CareJourney™, and Arcadia LifeScience.The solutions transition healthcare organizations from retrospective data reporting into active, coordinated execution across clinical, operational, and financial domains using embedded artificial intelligence and agentic workflows.The portfolio
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Sollis Health Decennial Report Decodes the Hidden Cost of Healthcare Waiting Rooms
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Concierge immediate and urgent care network Sollis Health published a comprehensive decade-long trend study, The Real Cost of Healthcare for Americans, that synthesizes national health economics research with ten years of proprietary internal patient utilization data.Quantifies the macroeconomic "Time Tax" across U.S. healthcare delivery: travel and waiting times alone cost American patients and employers an estimated $89 billion in lost economic value annually.Evaluates
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