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The Funding: New York-based Jimini Health has secured a massive $17M in seed funding (bringing its total raised to over $25M). The round includes heavyweights like M13, Town Hall Ventures, and Zetta Venture Partners, and features backing from former CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt.The Team: Jimini brings serious enterprise pedigree. CEO Luis Voloch previously co-founded Immunai (valued at $1B+), and the executive suite includes former leadership from Talkspace,
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Samsung Galaxy Watch8 Series Launches Blood Pressure Tracking in the U.S.
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The Launch: Starting today, select Galaxy users in the U.S. can monitor systolic and diastolic blood pressure directly from their Galaxy Watch8 or Galaxy Watch8 Classic via the Samsung Health Monitor App.The Technology: The watch uses internal heart rate monitoring sensors to estimate blood pressure changes against calibrated values. Later this year, Samsung plans to introduce passive monitoring to track long-term trends automatically.
Beyond the Cuff: How It
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myStoria Secures $1.6M to Launch AI-Powered Reproductive Health Platform
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The Funding: Kitchener, Ontario-based health-tech startup myStoria has closed a $1.625M seed funding round led by Graphite Ventures, with participation from Conexus Venture Capital and others.The Solution: myStoria is a mobile-first (iOS/Android) platform that acts as an intelligent "Context Engine." It organizes a user’s messy health history (documents, audio, photos, symptoms) into a structured format optimized for AI comprehension, ensuring nothing is missed during a
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Clinical AI Platform Avo Secures $10M, Announces EBSCO DynaMed Partnership
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The Funding: Clinical AI platform Avo has raised a $10M Series A financing round. The round was led by Noro-Moseley Partners, with participation from AlleyCorp and other strategic investors.The Solution: Avo acts as an intelligent overlay within major EHRs like Epic, athenahealth, and MEDITECH. Using AI copilots (like Chart Assist and Ask Avo), it synthesizes patient data, drafts documentation, and pulls external guidelines directly into the physician's immediate
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Atlantic Health to Deploy Artera’s AI Agents for Colonoscopy Patient Outreach
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The Partnership: Atlantic Health, a not-for-profit health system spanning NJ, PA, and NY, has partnered with Artera to deploy outbound AI Agents for patient communication.Impact: This initiative marks Atlantic Health's first use of an AI Agent for outbound communication to patients, designed to deliver an enhanced consumer experience and help patients better prepare for timely preventative care.
The Agentic Phone Call
Colorectal cancer has a 90%+ survival rate if
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Butterfly Network Receives FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Gestational Age Ultrasound Tool
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The Milestone: Butterfly Network has received FDA clearance for a fully automated Gestational Age (GA) Tool integrated directly into its handheld, semiconductor-based ultrasound devices. It is the first FDA-cleared "blind-sweep" ultrasound AI tool for estimating gestational age.The Efficacy & Scale: The tool is proven to deliver results equivalent to a trained sonographer for patients between 16 and 37 weeks. Backed by the Gates Foundation, the tool is already
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Abbott Integrates Precision Oncology Portfolio into Flatiron Health’s OncoEMR to Streamline Cancer Care
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Integration: Abbott has partnered with Flatiron Health to natively integrate its Precision Oncology testing portfolio directly into OncoEMR®, Flatiron’s cloud-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform.
Impact: This integration allows oncology providers to order Abbott's specialized cancer tests and view the results without ever leaving their primary clinical workflow.
The Technology Integration
Instead of logging into separate portals or dealing
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Vida Health Launches Metabolic Control Framework to Manage Obesity, Diabetes, and MASH
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The Launch: Vida Health, a major virtual cardiometabolic provider, has officially launched its Metabolic Control Framework, moving away from single-condition point solutions toward a unified, population-level approach.The Clinical Scope: Rather than treating diseases in isolation, the framework manages interconnected metabolic conditions simultaneously. This includes obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and increasingly critical cost-drivers like MASH (liver
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Leaders in Lab Automation: Diagnostic Companies Setting the Standard for Efficiency
The pressure to deliver faster, accurate results has become a universal challenge. Efficiency and quality must go hand in hand, so as testing volumes rise and workflows grow complex, labs are implementing automation as a primary strategy. Here is how modern diagnostics companies are setting efficiency standards.
How Do the Leading Clinical Laboratory Automation Vendors Compare on Pre-Analytic and Post-Analytic Capabilities?
Selecting the right automation partner is consequential for life
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Blossom Health Secures $20M to Scale AI Psychiatry Platform
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The Funding: New York-based telepsychiatry startup Blossom Health has secured $20 million across Seed and Series A funding rounds. The Series A was led by Headline, with participation from a massive syndicate of investors including Village Global, TA Ventures, Operator Partners, and founders from General Catalyst, Flatiron Health, and Sword Health.The Roadmap: The $20M injection will be used to expand geographic coverage into more states, secure new national and regional
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