Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly moving from the lab to the administrative suite, promising to revolutionize efficiency in healthcare by automating clinical documentation, streamlining scheduling, and accelerating claim processing. For an industry buckling under administrative overhead, the immediate value proposition is immense.
However, beneath this promise lies a fundamental vulnerability that threatens to undermine the entire AI revolution in medicine: the quality, diversity, and
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Commure Autonomous Coding Scales to 200+ Sites with OBHG: Clinicians Reduce Charge Time by 83%
What You Should Know:
- Commure, a healthcare technology company, and Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG), the nation's largest provider of OB/GYNs, have formed a strategic partnership to deploy Commure’s Autonomous Coding solution across nearly 2,000 clinicians and over 200 care sites.
- Early results are compelling: within three months, clinicians reduced the time spent entering charges by an impressive 83%, with AI now coding over 85% of all charges. This deployment strengthens
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Artera Hits $100M ARR and Secures $65M in Funding to Lead Agentic AI Adoption in Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Artera, a leader in AI-powered patient communications secures $65M in growth investment led by Lead Edge Capital, following the milestone of reaching $100M in Contracted Annual Recurring Revenue (CARR) by the end of 2025.
- The funding accelerates the adoption of its Agentic AI solutions, which have already engaged over 200 million patients and demonstrated the ability to complete 94% of conversations without staff intervention. The company's decade of deep
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Sober Sidekick’s Empathy Algorithm Achieves 88% Accuracy in Identifying High-Cost Risk, Attracts $7.6M Funding
What You Should Know:
- Empathy Health Technologies, the maker of the Sober Sidekick platform, has secured $7.6M in new growth funding, bringing its total to $11.4M.
- The investment will fuel the expansion of its value-based care partnerships with U.S. payers, leveraging its proprietary Empathy Algorithm to measure and prevent relapse in real-time.
- By analyzing behavioral signals, the platform achieves 86-88% accuracy in identifying individuals likely to experience
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URMC and GE HealthCare Announce 7-Year Care Alliance to Deploy AI Imaging and Theranostics Center of Excellence
What You Should Know:
- The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and GE HealthCare have established a seven-year Care Alliance to enhance system-wide efficiencies and patient access.
- The partnership will deploy new, AI-enabled imaging solutions, including one of the first Aurora SPECT/CTs in the U.S., and standardize patient monitoring with the Carescape™ platform. Crucially, URMC is working to acquire an on-site cyclotron to enable in-house production of radioisotopes for
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Circulate Health Secures Strategic Investment from Scrum Ventures to Scale TPE and Microplastics Removal Technology
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- Circulate Health, a pioneer in Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE) technologies, has secured a seven-figure strategic investment from Scrum Ventures.
- The funding will accelerate the company's growth as it works to position TPE as a scalable, patient-centered solution for longevity care. Circulate's platform leverages TPE to remove microplastics, environmental toxins, and inflammatory markers from the bloodstream, addressing the growing consumer demand
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Sleep Cycle Launches Luma, a Proprietary AI-Powered Sleep Coach
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- Sleep Cycle, a leading sleep technology company, today announced the launch of Luma, a proprietary AI-powered sleep coach designed to revolutionize how users understand and improve their sleep.
- Built on Sleep Cycle’s proprietary machine learning and audio analysis technology, Luma now takes the app’s data visualization one step further by providing context, clear explanations, and step-by-step recommendations that evolve with each
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Curative Health Raises $150M, Reaches $1.275B Valuation to Disrupt Employer Health Insurance with AI and $0 Deductibles
What You Should Know:
- Curative Health Insurance Company, a health plan designed to replace the traditional insurance model, has raised over $150M in Series B funding, pushing its valuation to $1.275B and securing its unicorn status.
- The investment validates Curative's core offering: a $0-out-of-pocket plan that eliminates deductibles and copays for members who complete an annual preventative visit, driving a reported 30% reduction in hospitalizations.
- The capital
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Mount Sinai Deploys AI-Enhanced Fetal Ultrasounds, Achieves Near-Perfect Detection Rates for Congenital Heart Defects
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai-affiliated doctors in New York City have become the first in the region to integrate a validated AI software tool, BrightHeart, into large-scale clinical practice to enhance fetal ultrasounds.
- A recent study led by Mount Sinai West physicians showed that AI assistance improved the detection of suspicious findings for major congenital heart defects to over 97 percent, while simultaneously reducing reading time by 18 percent. This adoption promises
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Aidoc Partners with NVIDIA MONAI to Scale Open-Source Clinical AI
What You Should Know:
- Aidoc, a leader in clinical AI, has expanded its aiOS™ (AI Operating System) through a collaboration with NVIDIA MONAI and a new partnership with Quibim to solve the "last mile" deployment challenge for imaging AI.
- The ecosystem expansion allows health systems to rapidly and reliably deploy internally developed and open-source models built on MONAI directly into routine clinical workflows at scale. The move validates the need for a unified operating system
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