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WellSpan Health expanded its multi-year partnership with Hippocratic AI, transitioning from single use cases to a platform-wide deployment across inbound, outbound, ambulatory, and inpatient settings.The health system currently operates "Ana," a generative AI voice agent handling over 160,000 monthly patient calls and 7,000 conversational hours for appointment management and digital access queries.New workflow expansions will focus on proactive outbound care gap closures,
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Akido Unveils First AI-Native Health System Powered by ScopeAI
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Akido announced the expansion of its proprietary ScopeAI technology across 100 clinics, virtual care operations, and field medicine services, serving 1 million patients across California, New York City, and Rhode Island.The company dropped "Labs" from its corporate name to become Akido and debuted "Akido Medical" as the brand for its AI-native physical and digital clinics.ScopeAI operates during visits by organizing real-time clinical pictures and providing diagnostic
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ThinkSono Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for First AI-Powered DVT Ultrasound Software
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Medical AI developer ThinkSono has secured FDA 510(k) clearance for ThinkSono Guidance, the first AI-powered ultrasound guidance software cleared in the U.S. for evaluating suspected lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT).Operating via a mobile app connected to compatible Clarius handheld point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) scanners, the system enables non-ultrasound-trained healthcare staff to capture clinical-grade vascular compression cine-loops after 60 to 90 minutes
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Caristo Diagnostics Receives FDA De Novo Authorization for CaRi-Heart AI Platform
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Oxford spin-out Caristo Diagnostics has secured FDA De Novo authorization for CaRi-Heart®, making it the first and only technology authorized in the U.S. to quantify coronary inflammation from routine Coronary CT Angiography (CCTA).CaRi-Heart uses advanced AI to analyze inflammation-driven changes in the pericoronary adipose tissue, generating a Fat Attenuation Index Score (FAI-Score™) and a 10-year personalized cardiovascular mortality risk estimate.The FDA clearance
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Counsel Health Launches Counsel Studio to Bring Physician-Supervised Medical AI to Enterprise Apps
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Counsel Health launched Counsel Studio, a white-label deployment platform allowing health plans, health systems, and consumer health apps to embed AI-enabled, physician-supervised primary care directly into existing digital interfaces.The platform powers virtual care capabilities for partners like ŌURA, enabling Oura Members to transition from biometric health insights to direct physician consultations within the Oura App.Enterprise deployment supports flexible
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Sheba Medical Center Partners with OpenAI in First International ChatGPT for Healthcare Deployment
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Israel’s Sheba Medical Center (ranked among Newsweek's World's Best Hospitals for 8 consecutive years) has entered an official partnership with OpenAI to execute the first global, hospital-wide rollout of ChatGPT for Healthcare.Gives physicians, nurses, researchers, and operational staff access to generative AI models pre-calibrated to synthesize peer-reviewed medical literature, clinical guidelines, and internal hospital protocols with full, verifiable citations.Led by
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Oxford Spinout Mirae Secures $5.4M to Scale AI Chronic Care Platform
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AI-driven continuous care platform Mirae has officially launched with $5.4M in funding led by Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE).Built directly on computational health research from the University of Oxford’s Computational Health Informatics Lab, co-founded by Dr. David Clifton and CEO Anuj Patel.Targets inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—a complex autoimmune condition characterized by unpredictable flare-ups, variable treatment responses, and high annual medical
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HealthEx Unveils TEFCA-Accredited HealthEx Wallet & Partners with Sharecare to to Ground AskMD in Whole-Health Clinical Context
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At the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Health Technology Ecosystem event, HealthEx introduced HealthEx Wallet (a TEFCA-accredited personal health record app) and announced a major integration with Sharecare's AskMD.HealthEx operates as a federally accredited Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) Individual Access Services (IAS) provider. It verifies identities using the IAL2 standard and manages records under enterprise-grade HIPAA
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Inner Logic Raises $11.5M to Build Simulation Infrastructure for Procedural Devices
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Baltimore-based Inner Logic (formerly Semaphor) has secured an $11.5M seed round co-led by General Catalyst and Bison Ventures, with participation from J2VP, Defined, PTX, Valia Ventures, Page One, Alumni Ventures, and Flare.Replaces costly physical cadaver labs and animal testing by giving device manufacturers a virtual testing environment to design, iterate, and validate procedural devices across thousands of virtual patient anatomical models overnight.Provides the
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Wellumio Closes $9.75M to Commercialize Axana Portable Brain Imaging Device
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New Zealand medical technology startup Wellumio has finalized its oversubscribed $9.75M pre-Series A funding round, adding international venture capital from Australia (Bioshore Ventures) and the United States (Jumpspace Ventures).Led by Nuance Connected Capital, with continued participation from Icehouse Ventures, NZGCP Aspire Seed Fund, Pacific Channel, Booster, Cure Kids Ventures, Enterprise Angels, Flying Kiwi, the NZ Active Investor Plus program, and Snowball
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