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The Funding: Garner Health has raised $118M in Series D funding led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Redpoint Ventures, Maverick Ventures, and Kaiser Permanente Ventures., bringing its total capital to approximately $200M.The Mechanism: Unlike passive transparency tools, Garner acts as a financial overlay on existing health plans. If an employee visits a "Top Provider" identified by Garner's data, the employer covers their out-of-pocket costs
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The “Agent” Dilemma: How Blockchain Could Save Patient Privacy in a $500B AI Market
Artificial intelligence is continuing its march into most facets of our lives, and the healthcare sector is no exception. Here, the technology is being leveraged in areas like diagnostics, patient monitoring, drug discovery, personalized medicine, administrative automation, and more.
Today, this market is already estimated at $40 billion, and projected to grow up to $500 billion by 2032, with hundreds of millions of operational AI agents.
However, while AI’s promise of unprecedented
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Mira Announces Integration with Oura Ring to Combine Hormone Data with Sleep and Temperature Trends
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The Integration: Mira, the leader in at-home lab-grade hormone testing, has launched a direct integration with ŌURA, the maker of the popular smart ring.The Data Flow: Users can now view Oura’s biometric data—specifically sleep, readiness, and temperature trends—directly inside the Mira app, alongside their hormone concentrations.The Goal: The partnership aims to provide "context" to women's health data. By correlating a drop in sleep quality with a specific hormonal
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Canary Speech Partners with Intermountain Health to Study Vocal Biomarkers for Multiple Sclerosis
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The Partnership: Canary Speech, a leader in vocal biomarker technology, has partnered with Intermountain Ventures (the innovation arm of Intermountain Health) to launch a groundbreaking study.The Goal: The study aims to identify Multiple Sclerosis (MS) using vocal biomarkers. It is the first IRB-approved study of its kind to explore whether subtle vocal patterns analyzed by AI can reveal early indicators of the disease.The Impact: Current MS diagnosis is invasive and
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Mount Sinai Study: LLMs Susceptible to Medical Misinformation in Clinical Notes
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The Study: In a paper published today in The Lancet Digital Health [10.1016/j.landig.2025.100949], researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai analyzed over one million prompts across nine leading Large Language Models (LLMs) to test their susceptibility to medical misinformation.The Vulnerability: The study found that AI models frequently repeat false medical claims—such as advising patients with bleeding to "drink cold milk"—if the lie is embedded in
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Tebra Report: 3 in 5 Staff Say ChatGPT Cuts Burnout—But 14% Admit They Can’t Function Emotionally Without It
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The Benefit: A new survey from Tebra reveals that 3 in 5 healthcare employees report ChatGPT has reduced burnout by streamlining documentation and communication. In private practices, 44% of staff now use AI daily.The Dependency: The efficiency comes with a psychological cost. 14% of respondents admit to feeling "emotionally dependent" on AI (checking it impulsively or feeling anxiety without it), and 47% have used it for emotional processing.The Risk: AI is now
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AI Adoption in Healthcare Doubles, But Cybersecurity Risks Loom Large
AI is no longer a concept of the future and has become a practical tool helping hospitals and health systems extend care, ease workforce pressures and improve patient engagement. From virtual nursing models that extend clinical capacity to AI-driven automation in call centers and back-office functions, healthcare organizations are finding new ways to manage workloads, reduce costs and improve patient experiences.
Despite its promise, AI in healthcare is not risk-free and the stakes are
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Vivos Therapeutics to Distribute SoundHealth’s FDA-Cleared Sonu and Spatial Sleep Bands
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The Collaboration: Vivos Therapeutics, a leader in sleep breathing treatments, has partnered with SoundHealth to distribute AI-enabled wearables across its network of 2,000+ providers.The Tech: The partnership focuses on two devices: the Sonu Band (FDA-cleared for nasal congestion/rhinitis) and the Spatial Sleep™ band. Both use "vibro-acoustic neuromodulation"—vibrations derived from a personalized 3D anatomical model—to open airways and induce sleep.The Innovation:
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Opentrons and NVIDIA Partner to Develop Physical AI for Laboratory Robotics
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The Partnership: Opentrons Labworks, the company behind the ubiquitous pipette robots found in labs worldwide, is partnering with NVIDIA to accelerate the development of "Physical AI."The Integration: By combining NVIDIA's Isaac and Cosmos platforms with Opentrons' fleet of 10,000+ robots, the companies aim to create a "closed loop" where AI doesn't just predict drug targets (via NVIDIA BioNeMo) but physically validates them in the wet lab.The Goal: The collaboration
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Sword Intelligence Launches in UK and Europe with AI-Led Care Operations Platform
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The Launch: Sword Intelligence has officially launched in the UK and Europe. Born from the global digital health unicorn Sword Health, this new entity focuses on applying AI to operational bottlenecks like triage, scheduling, and care coordination.The Scale: The company is already deploying one of Europe’s first AI-powered healthcare "front doors" in Greece, aiming to manage triage and coordination for a national population of 10 million citizens.The Pedigree: Backed by
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