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All-in-one healthcare delivery firm Included Health has signed a definitive agreement to acquire clinically integrated health plan and advanced primary care provider Firefly Health, with closure targeted for Q3 2026.The combined entity pairs Included Health’s AI-native navigation platform with Firefly’s NCQA-accredited advanced primary care model, dynamic benefit design, and a nationwide network of 2,300+ in-person, in-home, and specialty partners.Across its full
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Healing Without Drugs: A Promising Future for Alzheimer’s Patients
Of the medical diagnoses that cause anxiety, sorrow, and despair for patients and their loved ones, Alzheimer’s is near the top of the list. An incurable condition that slowly robs people of memory, identity, and independence, Alzheimer’s puts immense financial and emotional burdens on families.
That may be changing for more than 7 million Americans living with the disease, and the hundreds of thousands more who are newly diagnosed each year. A new wave of scientific and technological
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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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SoundHealth Raises $12.25M to Expand Non-Invasive Medical Wearables
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Medical technology firm SoundHealth has closed an oversubscribed Series A round led by Shangbay Capital, bringing its total venture funding to $12.25M.Flagship FDA-cleared wearable device, Sonu, has delivered over 500,000 acoustic resonance treatment sessions for patients ages 12+, becoming a leading non-drug alternative to corticosteroid nasal sprays for allergic and non-allergic rhinitis.Leverages smartphone facial scanning algorithms to construct custom digital sinus
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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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Procode Secures $10M to Scale AI-Powered Surgical Revenue Cycle Management
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AI-powered medical billing firm Procode Inc. announced a $10M Series A funding round led by Health Velocity Capital, bringing total venture funding to $14M.Funds two upcoming acquisitions of private practice billing agencies, mirroring its rollout following the acquisition of The Auctus Group (serving over 350 plastic surgery and dermatology providers).Combines Procode (automated CPT/ICD coding copilot), Procollect (billing team OS for AR acceleration), and the Auctus
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The Silent Signals of Burnout: What Workplaces Miss About Employee Mental Health
The Federal Aviation Administration restricts how long commercial pilots can be in the air, mandates minimum rest between flights, and caps hours flown per month and per year. The science of fatigue played a large role in the development of these rules to protect pilots.
Fatigue isn’t the only factor in a pilot’s mental well-being. Imagine if, just before a long flight, they learned their best friend died. That kind of news could raise a person’s stress response in a measurable way.
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Aurenar Raises $5.7M to Scale Wireless V-Link Neuromodulation
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St. Louis-based Aurenar has closed an oversubscribed $5.7M seed financing co-led by the Go Red for Women Venture Fund™ (part of American Heart Association Ventures™) and Solas BioVentures, with participation from BJC Health and Kaleida Capital.Funds the clinical advancement of V-Link™, a non-invasive, single-use transauricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) platform engineered to curtail life-threatening inflammatory responses in ICU patients.WashU clinical trials
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