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Open source infrastructure giant The Linux Foundation has announced its intent to launch the Open Health Stack Software Foundation (OHS-SF) as a vendor-neutral, community-led home for interoperable digital health tools.First launched as a joint project with Google in 2023, Google will fully contribute the project's code and core underlying assets to the new Foundation, backed by a $3 million sustainability grant from Google.org.Built to eliminate fragmented international
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AccurKardia and Wellysis Form Multi-Year Strategic Partnership to Deliver End-to-End Cardiac Monitoring
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ECG-led diagnostics software pioneer AccurKardia and Samsung SDS spin-off Wellysis have executed a multi-year agreement in Seoul to launch a turnkey cardiac monitoring solution in the United States.The strategic alliance pairs Wellysis’ S-Patch wearable ECG monitor directly with AccurKardia’s cloud-based automated analytics to streamline Holter, extended Holter, and mobile cardiac telemetry (MCT) clinical workflows.All biometric telemetry captured by the wearable is
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Pearl Health Secures $110M to Scale AI-Driven Value-Based Care Platform for Medicare
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Value-Based Care (VBC) platform innovator Pearl Health has announced a $110M capital raise, combining a $50M Series B equity round led by Andreessen Horowitz with a $60M credit facility from Trinity Capital.Confronting a massive macroeconomic bottleneck where national Medicare expenditures exceed $1 trillion annually, the company helps providers successfully pivot from legacy fee-for-service models to outcomes-driven risk management.The company achieved a rare milestone
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Handspring Health Secures $19M to Scale AI-Powered Youth Mental Health Platform
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Youth virtual mental health innovator Handspring has announced a $19M Series B financing round led by RPS Ventures, with participation from Angelini Ventures and returning backers including Cobalt Ventures and NextView Ventures.The financing brings Handspring's total capital raised to $37M, driven by deepening payer and employer conviction in its clinically rigorous, full-acuity care model.Rejecting the traditional 1099 contractor marketplace model, Handspring employs its
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M&A: ResMed to Sell MatrixCare Business to Frazier Healthcare Partners for $450M
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Global health technology leader ResMed has announced a definitive agreement to sell its MatrixCare business to healthcare-exclusive private equity firm Frazier Healthcare Partners for $450M.The corporate divestiture explicitly aligns with ResMed’s 2030 strategy, allowing the company to narrow its focus and reallocate capital toward high-growth, scalable opportunities in sleep health, breathing health, and cloud-connected home care.MatrixCare represents a major post-acute
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Done Global Executives Sentenced to Prison in $90M Online Adderall Fraud Case
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Ruthia He, the founder and former CEO of digital mental health startup Done Global Inc., has been sentenced to six years in prison and a fine of $1M for orchestrating a massive telehealth prescription fraud scheme.Co-defendant David Brody, Done’s former clinical president, was separately sentenced to two years in prison and fined $1M after admitting he personally authorized over 394,000 Schedule II stimulant pills for patients he never evaluated.Driven by a
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What Produce Longevity Can Teach Us About Personalized Health Care
The lifespan of an avocado may seem worlds apart from the science of individual health, but both are shaped by the same principle: small environmental stresses compound into dramatically shorter lives. In grocery supply chains, a single hour at the wrong temperature can erase a full day of freshness. In human health, sustained exposure to poor sleep, inconsistent nutrition, and chronic stress quietly accelerates biological aging. As retailers adopt real-time monitoring to
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Hera Raises $27M to Scale AI-Powered Senior Care Coordination
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Senior care coordination pioneer Hera has announced a $27M Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, with continued backing from Accel, IA Ventures, and strategic angel investors including the CFO of Mount Sinai.The platform targets an intense family caregiving crisis, using human-centric AI to centralize scattered geriatric caregiving knowledge and streamline long-term care orchestration.Hera has introduced a specialized profession of care coordinators known
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Beyond Chatbots: Agentic AI as the Operating System Transforming Patient Services
Patient Services Are Digitized—but Not Delivered
Over the past decade, healthcare organizations and pharmaceutical companies have invested heavily in digital transformation. Chatbots, patient portals, CRM systems, and omnichannel engagement platforms promised a more responsive, always on patient experience. And to some extent, they delivered.
Yet reality on the ground tells a different story.
Studies indicate that nearly 30–40% of patients in specialty therapies experience
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ZS Impact Institute Releases 2026 Future of Health Report: AI and the Consumer-Led Care Revolution
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The ZS Impact Institute has published its inaugural 2026 Future of Health Report, surveying over 10,000 global healthcare consumers and licensed medical doctors across the U.S., Germany, and China.A structural shift in patient orientation is taking place: approximately 90% of individuals utilizing AI and digital interfaces trust the generated health insights nearly on par with their own physicians.Disengagement and fragmented scheduling infrastructure remain critical
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