What You Should Know:
- Function has created a new category in preventive health—one that shifts how people think about longevity, early detection, and everyday decision-making. The company’s mission is simple but ambitious: empower people to live 100 healthy years. It began by redefining routine testing through its bi-annual, 100+ biomarker lab panel, giving individuals an expansive, longitudinal view of their changing biology.
- The acquisition of Ezra accelerated
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Arbiter Emerges from Stealth with $52M Funding to End Healthcare Fragmentation with AI
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- Arbiter, a new AI-powered care orchestration platform, has launched from stealth with $52M in funding, led by TriEdge Investments and MFO Ventures, to unite payers, providers, and patients and rebuild the operating spine of U.S. healthcare.
- The company is built and funded by leaders overseeing over $25B in annual healthcare payments and millions of patient lives. Its team combines executive leadership from major health systems and payers (Cigna,
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Philips and Cortechs.ai Expand Partnership to Embed AI Neuroimaging Analytics in MR System
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- Philips and Cortechs.ai are strengthening their collaboration to integrate AI-enabled quantitative neuroimaging analytics directly into Philips’ MR systems.
The integration provides clinicians with faster, more objective, and reproducible insights into brain health.
Addressing Rising Demand with AI-Powered Neuro Diagnostics
The field of neuroimaging is facing immense pressure: up to 25% of all MR procedures are brain scans of all MR procedures are brain
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Doctors Can Now Search RWE on Microsoft Teams: Atropos Health Integrates Evidence™ Agent with Microsoft Teams
What You Should Know:
- Atropos Health, a pioneer in translating clinical data into personalized Real-World Evidence (RWE) and insights, has launched the Atropos Evidence™ Agent.
- The expert agent is designed to integrate directly with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 to revolutionize how personalized evidence is delivered to the point of need.
- The integration allows multidisciplinary care team members, such as those participating in Tumor Boards or care coordination
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Caregiver AI Challenge: HHS Launches $2M Prize Competition to Support 1 in 4 American Caregivers
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- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a $2M Caregiver Artificial Intelligence Prize Competition through the Administration for Community Living (ACL), aiming to mobilize AI innovation to support family and professional caregivers.
- The prize competition builds on existing efforts by HHS and ACL to support family caregivers and direct care workers, including the National Family Caregiver Support Program, the RAISE Family
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Distalmotion Closes $150M to Accelerate US Adoption of DEXTER® Robotic Surgery System
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- Distalmotion, a MedTech company with a mission to empower access to the benefits of robotic surgery secures $150M in Series G financing round led by Revival Healthcare Capital.
- The new funding will primarily be used to accelerate the U.S. commercial adoption of its soft tissue robotic surgery system, DEXTER. A major focus of the U.S. expansion is the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) market, recognized as one of the fastest-growing segments in surgical care
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NVIDIA, Sheba, and Mount Sinai Partner to Decode 98% of Human Genome with LLM
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- ARC Innovation at Sheba Medical Center and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (part of the Mount Sinai Health System) have announced a major three-year collaboration with NVIDIA. The initiative focuses on applying Large Language Model (LLM) technology to genomic research.
- The primary objective is to pioneer the decoding of the majority (98%) of the human genome that remains poorly understood. By deciphering this area—once labeled "junk DNA"—researchers
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VahatiCor Secures $23M to Combat Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction (CMD)
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- VahatiCor, a medtech company focused on transforming cardiac care secures $23M in Series B funding led by S3 Ventures, with support from Intuitive Ventures and a strategic investor.
- The capital infusion will be used to advance VahatiCor’s SERRA-I early feasibility study (30 subjects across six sites), accelerate engineering development, and prepare the company for crucial pivotal trials.
The Urgent Need: Inadequate Treatment for CMD
The need for new
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Microsoft Partners with Qure.ai to Accelerate AI Lung Cancer Detection
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- Qure.ai, a TIME100 most influential company and global leader in digital healthcare, today announced its collaboration with Microsoft. Qure.ai will onboard its end-to-end lung cancer detection, measurement and management suite of AI-powered solutions onto the Precision Imaging Network.
- This will streamline deployment of Qure.ai solutions to hospitals and health systems across the USA, driving digital healthcare transformation, improved tech integrations and
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TytoCare Integrates With Teladoc Health to Augment Virtual Primary and Urgent Care
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- TytoCare, the company leading in-home, clinical-grade physical exams, today announced a strategic collaboration with Teladoc Health. The collaboration will integrate TytoCare’s Home Smart Clinic with Teladoc Health’s 24/7 Care and Primary360 primary care programs.
- This integration, set to begin rolling out to select customers during 2026, aims to elevate home-based care by providing Teladoc Health care teams with essential diagnostic insights collected directly at
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