What You Should Know
- Inova Health, a non-profit provider in Northern Virginia, has announced a strategic partnership with Notable to deploy an integrated AI platform across its revenue cycle and patient access operations.
- By utilizing "Agentic AI"—autonomous agents that execute multi-step workflows—Inova aims to reclaim 80% of staff time lost to manual documentation requests and reduce orthopedic referral leakage by 20%.
How Notable's AI Platform Automates High-Friction
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Women’s Health Crisis Revealed: 68% Don’t Trust Their OB/GYN, Report Finds
What You Should Know:
- O Positiv Health has released its 2026 State of the Vagina Report, a survey of over 3,000 women that exposes profound deficits in health literacy and provider trust. The data reveals that 96% of women cannot identify the phases of their menstrual cycle, while a startling 68% explicitly lack trust in their OB/GYNs, leading many to skip annual appointments entirely.
- The report underscores how deep-seated stigma and educational gaps are driving dangerous hygiene
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Healthconnect Texas and PCIC Unify to Build the Ultimate Social Drivers of Health (SDoH) Infrastructure
What You Should Know
- Healthconnect Texas and the Patient Care Intervention Center (PCIC) have announced a strategic unification, merging statewide clinical connectivity with deep community-based data on non-medical drivers of health.
- The unified infrastructure aims to provide a "360-degree view" of patient wellness, enabling providers and policymakers to address the 80-90% of health outcomes driven by lifestyle and environmental factors that typically live outside the Electronic
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How Medable’s Agentic AI TMF Solves the Clinical Trial ‘Clerical Debt’ Problem
What You Should Know
- Medable has announced its TMF Agent, a first-of-its-kind agentic AI tool designed to automate the labor-intensive Trial Master File (TMF) process at JPM 2026. It automates 95% of manual document workflows, ingesting and classifying files for Veeva Vault and OpenText.
- By reducing the administrative burden that consumes 33% of a CRA's time, Medable enables "one-day study starts" while maintaining human-in-the-loop (HITL) compliance and audit traceability.
The
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Beyond the Sensor: How January AI’s Food Scanner Replaces CGM Friction for GLP-1 Care
What You Should Know
- January AI has transitioned its science-validated "virtual glucose monitor" technology into a suite of Enterprise APIs, enabling B2B partners to embed AI-powered food recognition and glucose prediction into their own platforms.
- This move allows health systems and longevity companies to turn underutilized lifestyle signals—like photos and wearable data—into structured, metabolic insights at scale.
The "Context Gap": Why Lifestyle Data Often
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Abbott Debuts GenAI ‘Libre Assist’ to Tackle Mealtime Decision Fatigue
What You Should Know:
- Launched at CES 2026, Abbott’s Libre Assist,is a generative AI feature within the Libre app that predicts glucose impact before consumption.
- Using a color-coded rating (Green/Yellow/Orange), it acts as a "digital twin" for nutrition. The system then "closes the loop" by reconciling its prediction against real-world data from the Libre 3 Plus sensor, providing a medically validated feedback loop.
The Technical Architecture
Libre Assist can be
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The $149 Disruptor: GoodRx WeightWatchers, LifeMD Aggressively Scale Access to FDA-Approved Wegovy Pill
What You Should Know:
- The healthcare landscape is witnessing a seismic shift in obesity care as GoodRx, WeightWatchers LifeMD launch the newly FDA-approved Wegovy pill (oral semaglutide) with a transparent cash-pay price of $149 per month.
- By combining 16.6% mean weight loss efficacy with a vast retail and telehealth infrastructure, this rollout effectively removes the twin barriers of injection hesitancy and opaque "middleman" pricing.
Breaking the Injection Barrier: The
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b.well Launches First Health AI SDK to Power Actionable Healthcare Assistants
What You Should Know:
- b.well Connected Health has released the first Software Development Kit (SDK) specifically designed to power healthcare AI agents with clean, real-time data from over 2.2 million providers and 300+ health plans.
- The SDK features a proprietary "13-step Data Refinery" that standardizes fragmented records, reducing the token usage for Large Language Models (LLMs) by up to 10x. This infrastructure allows organizations to build AI assistants that can safely take
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Teal Health Partners with Thatch to Offer At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening Benefits
What You Should Know
- Teal Health, the creator of the first FDA-authorized self-collection device for cervical cancer screening, has launched its services on the Thatch Marketplace. This partnership allows employees to use tax-free healthcare dollars (via ICHRA) to purchase at-home screening kits, bypassing the traditional clinic visit.
- The move targets the "working age" gap in cancer prevention, where 1 in 3 U.S. women are currently overdue for screening due to time constraints or
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Vitalis Ventures Invests $15M in Drive Health to Scale Google-Powered AI Agent ‘Avery’
What You Should Know:
- Vitalis Ventures, an investment platform focused on AI-enabled care delivery has invested $15M in Drive Health to scale "Avery," a Google-powered agentic AI platform designed to automate clinical workflows rather than just generate text.
- Unlike standard chatbots, Avery operates as a "clinical workflow engine," handling defined tasks like discharge coordination and symptom monitoring under strict human oversight.
- The funding brings Drive Health’s
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