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Open-source healthcare data infrastructure company Metriport secured $26M in new funding led by TJ Parker, General Partner at Matrix, with participation from ARTIS Ventures and Y Combinator, bringing its total capital raised to $28.4M.The platform eliminates point-of-care blind spots and weeks-long manual chart chasing across hospitals, pharmacies, and outpatient clinics by unifying and deduplicating medical records into a standardized, searchable data model. Replaces
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Intermountain Medical Center Deploys GE HealthCare’s AI-Powered SIGNA Sprint Elite MRI
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Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, is the first hospital in Utah—and only the second in the United States—to deploy GE HealthCare’s SIGNA Sprint Elite MRI system.GE HealthCare’s SIGNA Sprint Elite MRI system utilizes embedded artificial intelligence reconstruction software and advanced high-performance gradient hardware to reduce scan acquisition times and enhance diagnostic clarity for complex cardiovascular and oncologic conditions.
AI-Driven Clarity and
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Onos Health Raises $17M to Transform Unstructured Behavioral Clinical Intelligence for Health Plans
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Onos Health, a behavioral health clinical intelligence platform engineered for health plans and payers, secured a $17 million Series A financing round led by Costanoa.The syndicate features strategic investment from CVS Health Ventures alongside continued participation from Flare Capital Partners.Directly targets structural blind spots in behavioral healthcare—a category affecting over 23% of U.S. adults annually and generating more than $140 billion in direct medical
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Abbott Receives FDA Authorization for Libre Duo 10 Day, World’s First Dual Glucose-Ketone Sensing System
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted De Novo marketing authorization to Abbott for its Libre Duo 10 Day system, establishing the new integrated continuous glucose and ketone monitoring (iCGK) regulatory benchmark alongside standard iCGM status.Libre Duo monitors glucose and continuously tracks rising ketones in the background to prevent diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a critical emergency for which U.S. hospital admissions have increased by 55% over the
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ECRI Calls on Health Systems to Report Clinical AI Errors and Malfunctions
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Global patient safety nonprofit ECRI expanded its Problem Reporting Network to explicitly capture, investigate, and triage errors, malfunctions, and near misses involving artificial intelligence (AI) tools and AI-enabled medical devices used in patient care.Addresses a critical clinical oversight deficit: while AI is deployed across diagnostic imaging, clinical decision support, and ambient scribes, the industry lacks a centralized, healthcare-specific mechanism to track
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Therapeutic VR Is Reaching Clinical Care. It Needs a Safety Ledger
As of 2026, Medical Extended Reality (MXR) has transitioned from experimental pilot phases to an integrated component of the regulated medical device landscape. It is already part of the regulated medical device landscape in the United States, and the FDA now maintains a public list of AR and VR devices authorized for marketing. Some of those products are procedural or surgical, but others are clearly therapeutic, which means immersive care has moved beyond theory and into real clinical
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Fitbit Founders Unveil Luffu Link, Wearable for Family Health, Safety and Connection
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Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman have officially unveiled Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety wearable designed specifically for family caregiving and aging in place.Luffu Link marks the first hardware device in a broader ecosystem spanning the Luffu smartphone app (introduced in February 2026 and currently in public beta), the wristband, and an upcoming dedicated in-home display device slated for later this year.Addresses the
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OmicsBank Secures $2.25M from Redesign Health to Scale Global Multi-Omics Data Infrastructure
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OmicsBank, a clinical data infrastructure company connecting fragmented hospital archives for biopharma and frontier AI developers, raised $2.25M in seed funding from global venture capital and applied technology firm Redesign Health.Founded in 2025 by serial entrepreneurs Sumit Sinha (CEO) and Vijay Goel, the company has deployed its infrastructure inside 90+ hospitals and diagnostic laboratories across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.The data network
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M&A: Switchboard Health Acquires Livara Health and Secures $5M to Power In-EHR Virtual MSK Delivery
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Switchboard Health, a digital health platform connecting patients with high-value specialty care, has acquired Livara Health (formerly SpineZone), a virtual-first orthopedics and musculoskeletal (MSK) management company.In conjunction with the acquisition, Switchboard Health closed an oversubscribed $5M+ equity funding round backed by First Trust Capital Partners, LLC, Route 66 Ventures, A1 Health Ventures, Allumia Ventures, and Martin Ventures.The transaction marks
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Radiology Partners to Acquire Everlight Radiology, Creating a Global Leader in Teleradiology
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Radiology Partners, Inc. (RP) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Everlight Radiology, a major international teleradiology provider serving hospitals and imaging centers across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.The transaction unifies Everlight’s global network with RP Clinical Services’ vRad (Virtual Radiologic) division—the largest teleradiology practice in the United States—forming an international clinical teleradiology
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