What You Should Know:
- Folia Health, the patient-driven health company and pioneer of home-reported outcomes (HROs), committed to transforming lived experiences into structured data insights to advance research and personalized care, today announced the close of a $10.5 million in Series A funding round led by S3 Ventures, alongside longtime partner Crosslink Capital and specialist fund Create Health Ventures.
- The investment will enable the company to double down on its mission to put
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How Voice-Driven AI is Rebuilding Trust Between Clinicians and Tech
While artificial intelligence promises to revolutionize patient care, a fundamental trust deficit between clinicians and technology threatens to undermine its potential. The solution may not lie in more sophisticated algorithms or faster processors, but in something far more intuitive: the human voice. Voice-driven AI is emerging as the bridge that could finally reconcile clinicians with healthcare technology, transforming both the practice of medicine and the patient experience
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Cancer AI Alliance Unveils World’s First Scalable Federated Learning Platform
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- The Cancer AI Alliance (CAIA)—a formidable collaboration of top U.S. cancer centers and technology giants—has successfully launched the first scalable platform using federated learning for cancer research.
- The platform directly addresses the decades-old bottleneck in medical research: the inability to share vast amounts of sensitive patient data across institutional lines due to technological, regulatory, and privacy constraints.
- The alliance is
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Sanofi Commits Additional $625M to Sanofi Ventures to Fuel Biotech and Digital Health Innovation
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- Sanofi Ventures has announced a significant $625M multi-year capital commitment from Sanofi, substantially increasing its total assets under management (AUM) to over $1.4B.
- The new capital injection into the evergreen venture fund reinforces Sanofi's strong belief that important medical breakthroughs often begin in early-stage companies.
Fueling Strategic Growth in Key Therapeutic Areas
The new funding commitment builds on more than a decade of
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MSK Innovation Hub Partners with ALIGNMT AI for Responsible Oncology AI Governance
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- ALIGNMT AI, a leading platform for AI governance and risk monitoring, announced today a collaboration through the MSK Innovation Hub (iHub) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), one of the world's leading cancer treatment and research institutions.
- The relationship will leverage ALIGNMT's Governance Platform to enhance operationalization of key aspects of MSK's responsible oncology AI governance processes.
ALIGNMT AI and MSK iHub Partner to Advance
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XRAIview Launches on Apple Vision Pro with Portable 3D DICOM Viewing
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- Medical imaging interpretation is entering a new dimension with the launch of XRAIview on Apple Vision Pro.
- XRAIview is pioneering the use of spatial computing in radiology, allowing raw DICOM image files to be loaded directly from the device or iCloud. This marks a first for medical imaging on the Apple Vision Pro and supports industry-standard DICOM and DICOMweb network protocols for a faster, more seamless experience.
Immersive 3D Visualization and
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Assort Health Secures $76M to Optmize Patient Access with Agentic AI
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- Assort Health, a comprehensive patient experience platform, has announced the close of a $76M in Series B funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from several investors including Felicis and First Round Capital. The funding brings the company's total capital raised to $102M to date.
- The funds will be used to expand Assort Health's team and accelerate the development of its comprehensive platform, Assort OS, which has already handled
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Wysa Acquires U.S. Physical Therapy Company Kins in “Reverse Acquisition” to Integrate AI and Physical Health
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- Wysa, a global leader in AI-driven mental health support, has announced its acquisition of Kins, a U.S. physical therapy services company. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- This move introduces a "reverse acquisition" strategy, where Wysa, instead of waiting for healthcare services to adopt AI at scale, is actively acquiring established healthcare services to rapidly integrate its technology. The goal is to address the reality that
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The AI Malpractice Paradox: Why Healthcare Organizations Bear Full Legal Responsibility for Patient Harm
Healthcare organizations are installing artificial intelligence tools across their operations — diagnostic algorithms, predictive models, patient monitoring systems — while avoiding a fundamental question: Who gets sued when these systems harm patients?
Healthcare organizations bear full legal responsibility for any patient harm caused by AI tools they choose to use. This is direct medical malpractice liability, whether the AI was built internally or bought from a vendor. Yet while executives
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Biograph and Caristo Partner to Study Novel AI-Based Cardiac Marker in US Patients
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- Biograph, a preventive health and diagnostics clinic, has announced a partnership with Caristo Diagnostics to become the first U.S. clinic to study a novel AI-based preventive cardiac marker in asymptomatic patients.
- The marker detects coronary artery inflammation using cardiac CT scans. This study will be available exclusively to Biograph’s Black Tier members who are clinically eligible.
Why Early Inflammation Detection is a
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