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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted De Novo marketing authorization to Avulux, establishing a first-of-its-kind, FDA-recognized medical device classification for precision optical filters designed to manage migraine-associated light sensitivity.Decreases the impact of light sensitivity in patients diagnosed with episodic migraine aged 12 years and older, serving as an over-the-counter, non-invasive complement to usual care and pharmacological
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Four Digital Transformation Lessons for Successfully Deploying Healthcare Agentic AI
The success of agentic AI rollouts will depend on whether underlying workflows are designed to effectively support it. IT departments should play a central role here—but effective coordination with operations teams is key.
Agentic AI, like a host of other technologies that came before it, is poised to transform healthcare. A quick scan of recent stories in this very magazine illustrates the sheer breadth of—and investment in—its promise: from improving patient services and reducing
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Roche Receives FDA Clearance for Elecsys pTau217, First Single-Biomarker Alzheimer’s Blood Test for Primary and Specialty Care
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Roche’s Elecsys® Phospho-Tau (217P) Plasma (pTau217) blood test, developed in strategic collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company.It is the first and only FDA-cleared, single-biomarker blood test supporting both rule-in and rule-out assessment of amyloid pathology associated with Alzheimer’s disease using the exact same validated clinical cutoffs across both primary care and specialty neurology settings.The test is
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Arintra Secures $25M to Scale GenAI Autonomous Medical Coding
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Arintra, an autonomous medical coding startup headquartered in Austin, Texas, with engineering operations in Bengaluru, raised approximately $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Define Ventures.The syndicate includes new strategic backing from Yale New Haven Ventures and Endeavor Ventures, alongside participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Ten13 Capital, Counterpart Ventures, Spider Capital, and Peak XV Partners (which previously led Arintra’s $21
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PGxAI Announces Andromeda Precision Prescribing Platform Is Qualified on Mayo Clinic Platform
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PGxAI, an AI-native precision medicine company specializing in personalized prescribing and human drug-metabolism intelligence, announced that its Andromeda clinical decision-support platform is now a Qualified Solution on Mayo Clinic Platform.The qualification via Mayo Clinic Platform's Solutions Studio provides PGxAI with a structured framework for provider-led evaluation, algorithmic validation, clinical workflow integration, and deployment readiness across health
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Why Primary Care First Visits Must Function Like Follow-Ups
Of the roughly 30 million GP appointments recorded each month across England, most begin the same way: a patient describes what is wrong, the doctor listens, and the clinical picture gradually assembles itself over the first several minutes of a consultation that, on average, runs to under 11. Research published in the British Journal of General Practice has shown that the clinical tasks a GP is expected to complete in a standard appointment routinely take longer than the appointment allows. The
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Vexev Raises $6M to Scale Autonomous Robotic Vascular Ultrasound
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Australian medical robotics and computational imaging startup Vexev raised $6M in new funding, bringing its total capital raised to date to $19M.The capital will support FDA 510(k) regulatory clearance, domestic manufacturing scale-up, and commercial launch in the United States for VxWave, its autonomous robotic tomographic ultrasound platform.VxWave combines precision robotics, artificial intelligence, and proprietary ultrasound signal processing to automate upper-limb
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UNC Health Rebrands Rex Health Ventures to Launch UNC Health Ventures Strategic Investment Platform
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UNC Health officially announced the rebranding and expansion of Rex Health Ventures into UNC Health Ventures, establishing a unified, systemwide corporate venture capital (CVC) and strategic investment platform.The venture platform builds on more than a decade of strategic healthcare investing, having supported nearly 30 early-stage healthcare companies since its founding in 2012.UNC Health Ventures is directly funded through UNC Health’s broader investment portfolio,
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Rise of Cloud Conversational Voice AI in Healthcare
Healthcare providers are turning to cloud-based conversational AI to fix an access crisis that traditional staffing models can no longer solve, with intelligent voice networks now handling everything from appointment scheduling to insurance verification without a human on the line.
What began as a customer-service experiment is fast becoming core clinical infrastructure. Hospitals and clinics are routing scheduling, triage, billing and payer communication through AI systems that understand
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Cityblock Acquires Homeward and Secures $116M to Unify Urban-Rural Care
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Cityblock Health entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Homeward Health in an all-stock transaction, paired with a $116M Series E financing round led by General Catalyst.The combined entity now serves nearly 200,000 members nationwide across Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, and dual-eligible programs, generating $2.2B in annualized revenue (up 77% year-over-year and more than 4x its 2021 fundraise level).Homeward Health brings a dedicated rural-first Medicare
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