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- Verana Health®, a digital health company dedicated to revolutionizing patient care and clinical research through real-world data (RWD), has announced the merger with COTA Healthcare®.
- The merger expands the company’s therapeutic offerings in data and software solutions for real-world insights that accelerate clinical research, expedite treatment options, and improve patient care. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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Oasys Raises $4.6M to Build the First AI-Native OS for Behavioral Health
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- Oasys Health ("Oasys"), the first AI-native operating system for behavioral health, today announces $4.6M in funding, including a $4M seed round led by Pathlight Ventures, with participation from Twine Ventures and Better Ventures, and $600K in pre-seed funding from 1984 Ventures.
- As demand for mental health support surges, Oasys will use new capital to enhance its AI-powered platform, deepen integrations with leading wearables and health apps, grow its
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OpenAI Debuts ChatGPT Health: A ‘Digital Front Door’ That Connects Medical Records to Agentic AI
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- OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a dedicated, secure environment that allows users to connect their medical records and wellness apps (e.g., Apple Health, MyFitnessPal) directly to ChatGPT’s intelligence.
- Built in collaboration with over 260 physicians and utilizing a new clinical evaluation framework called HealthBench, the platform aims to synthesize scattered health data into actionable insights for the 230 million people who already ask health
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Function and OpenAI Unveil Lab Integration for ChatGPT Health
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- Function has announced a strategic integration within the newly launched ChatGPT Health ecosystem, allowing its members to securely ground AI conversations in high-level summaries of their lab results.
- By unifying Function’s dataset of over 50 million lab tests with OpenAI’s agentic intelligence, the partnership aims to move personal health navigation from generic advice to data-driven, metabolic guidance.
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Women’s Health Crisis Revealed: 68% Don’t Trust Their OB/GYN, Report Finds
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- O Positiv Health has released its 2026 State of the Vagina Report, a survey of over 3,000 women that exposes profound deficits in health literacy and provider trust. The data reveals that 96% of women cannot identify the phases of their menstrual cycle, while a startling 68% explicitly lack trust in their OB/GYNs, leading many to skip annual appointments entirely.
- The report underscores how deep-seated stigma and educational gaps are driving dangerous hygiene
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Teal Health Expands Nationwide – Bringing FDA Authorized At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening to All 50 States
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- Teal Health, a virtual women’s health company on a mission to eliminate cervical cancer in the U.S., today announced the national availability of its comprehensive telehealth platform and its FDA-authorized self-collection device for at-home cervical cancer screening, the Teal Wand™. Cervical cancer screening, often referred to as the pap smear, is a recommended screening for all women ages 25-65.
- In May 2025, Teal received FDA-authorization, and now just seven
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Rewriting the Front Door: How AI-Assisted Intake Solves the 2026 Mental Health Crisis
For all the hype about AI “replacing therapists,” the more immediate and profound shift is happening somewhere far less glamorous: the intake process.
Across health systems, primary care physicians, insurers, and community providers are still funnelling patients into behavioural health through faxed referrals, phone tag, and unstructured web forms. Patients finally find the courage to ask for help, then hit voicemail, long waits, and confusing eligibility rules. In many organisations, no one
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Who Made Your Medicine? How to Use ProPublica’s Rx Inspector to Audit Your Generics
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- ProPublica has released Rx Inspector, a first-of-its-kind database that allows Americans to identify the exact facility where their generic prescriptions were manufactured.
- By connecting disparate FDA databases and suing for factory location data, ProPublica has mapped more than 80% of generic products to their originating plants, revealing safety violations that the FDA has historically kept hidden from consumers.
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The Agentic Era: Why Glen Tullman is Killing the Healthcare Chatbot in 2026
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- Transcarent has officially launched WayFinding 2.0, marking a strategic shift from the "chat assistant era" to the "agentic action era" in healthcare.
- By integrating autonomous AI agents that can schedule appointments, triage symptoms, and manage follow-ups via a proprietary Total Recall Memory Engine, the platform aims to eliminate the chronic administrative friction that currently defines the American healthcare experience.
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The Standard of Care Shift: Heartflow Secures Nationwide Aetna Coverage for AI Plaque Analysis
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- Heartflow has achieved a major milestone as Aetna updates its policies to cover AI-driven Heartflow Plaque Analysis across all lines of business, effective December 23, 2025.
- This move, combined with the new Category I CPT code 75577, provides a clear reimbursement pathway for the first time, establishing 4.00 total RVUs for the service and ensuring that AI-enabled plaque quantification is no longer a "pilot" technology but a standard of care.
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