What You Should Know:
- MBX Capital has secured over $100M in capital commitments to invest in early-stage biotech and health tech companies, specifically focusing on "deep health" solutions that address diseases linked to environmental toxins and synthetic exposures.
- Backed by institutional heavyweights like Industry Ventures and the State of New York, the firm plans to deploy checks ranging from $1 million to $4 million into startups that move beyond symptom management
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Mass General Brigham Spins Out AIwithCare: New AI Tool Doubles Clinical Trial Enrollment Rates
What You Should Know:
- Mass General Brigham is announcing the spinout of AIwithCare, a company founded by researchers from the health system who developed an artificial intelligence (AI) screening tool that significantly outperformed manual screening for determining a patient’s eligibility and enrolling them in a clinical trial.
- The tool, RECTIFIER (RAG-Enabled Clinical Trial Infrastructure for Inclusion Exclusion Review), was first developed and studied by
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Ritten Raises $35M to Scale AI-Powered Behavioral Health Platform
What You Should Know:
- Ritten, a leading AI-powered system of record for behavioral health providers, today announced a $35 million USD Series B funding round led by Five Elms Capital with participation from existing investors Threshold Ventures, 8VC, Bienville Capital, and others.
- This investment will support Ritten's expansion across mental health and addiction treatment providers spanning all levels of care.
A Unified Platform Purpose-Built for Behavioral Health
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OpenAI-Backed Chai Discovery Raises $130M to Tackle “Undruggable” Targets with Generative AI
What You Should Know:
- Chai Discovery has secured a $130M Series B financing round, propelling its valuation to $1.3 billion just months after emerging from stealth.
- Co-led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst, the funding validates Chai’s proprietary AI models, which can predict biochemical interactions and design drugs for targets previously considered "undruggable."
- With backing from industry heavyweights like OpenAI and Thrive Capital, Chai is positioning itself
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Moving Beyond the Worklist: Agentic AI and Radiology’s Next Efficiency Leap
After years of flat or falling payment rates, radiology providers are being asked to do more with less. Medicare cuts continue to squeeze margins, and inflation-driven cost hikes in labor and supplies further strain budgets. At the same time, workforce shortages have left many radiology departments shorthanded and clinicians overextended. Meanwhile, the traditional follow-up worklist-centric model—essentially a growing to-do list of patients needing outreach, navigation, and scheduling—is
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Auxira Health Raises $7.8M to Solve the Cardiology Shortage with Virtual Clinical Pods
What You Should Know:
- Auxira Health, a virtual cardiology company co-developed by MedStar Health, has secured $7.8M in seed funding to address the growing cardiologist shortage and clinician burnout crisis.
- Unlike standard telehealth platforms, Auxira embeds dedicated "clinical pods" of nurses and advanced practitioners directly into existing practice workflows, training them on-site to ensure seamless integration.
- The funding will fuel the company's expansion,
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Beyond Wearables: How Radar Technology is Revolutionizing Elderly Sleep Monitoring
Radar holds the potential to change the way we look after elderly people, with new radar-based sleep monitors offering a way to rethink the way elderly people are monitored both in elder care facilities and in their own homes. Traditional monitoring techniques have significant drawbacks when it comes to elder care: for example, cameras have significant privacy, security and compliance concerns, and wearables have practical issues both in elder care facilities and the home.
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Mount Sinai’s AI Tool “V2P” Predicts Disease Type from Genetic Mutations
What You Should Know:
- Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a new artificial intelligence tool called V2P (Variant to Phenotype) that identifies not only disease-causing genetic mutations but also predicts the specific diseases they may trigger.
- Published in Nature Communications, this machine learning model improves diagnostic speed and accuracy by linking genetic variants to phenotypic outcomes, moving beyond simple "harmful vs. benign"
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Noom Pivots to Longevity: New Program Combines Microdose GLP-1s with At-Home Biomarker Testing
What You Should Know:
- Noom has launched Proactive Health Microdose GLP-1Rx, a first-of-its-kind preventive health program designed to intervene before chronic disease takes root.
- Available to individuals with a BMI of 21 or higher, the offering combines personalized microdoses of GLP-1 medication with comprehensive at-home biomarker testing and Noom’s digital behavior modification platform.
- Priced at $149 per month, the program aims to shift the healthcare paradigm
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PHTI Report 2025: 5 Strategies for Employers to Manage GLP-1 Costs and Coverage
What You Should Know:
- The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) has released a critical purchasing guide for employers struggling to manage the skyrocketing costs of GLP-1 obesity medications.
- The report recommends a shift away from broad, unchecked coverage toward a managed approach focused on three phases: Initiation (strict eligibility), Maintenance (adherence support), and Supported Discontinuation (managing off-ramps).
- PHTI urges employers to demand
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