What You Should Know:
- Brook.ai is making remote care an integral part of U.S. healthcare, extending continuity of care outside the traditional practice setting and delivering measurable improvements in patient outcomes.
- The company’s success has prompted new investment led by UMass Memorial Health and Morningside, accelerating Brook’s national expansion through a $28M Series B to further its equitable, accessible care
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Counsel Health Raises $25M to Launch Physician-Supervised AI Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Counsel Health today announced the launch of its next-generation AI care platform, built to serve as the responsible front door to healthcare.
- Backed by a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and GV. Counsel combines the immediacy of AI with the oversight of licensed physicians to deliver care that is faster, safer, and more cost-effective at scale. This follows the company’s $11M Seed raise, led by a16z in October 2024, underscoring the need for a
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Sutter Health Expands Access to AI-Enhanced Mammography with Mobile Breast Cancer Screening
What You Should Know:
- Sutter Health, a large integrated, not-for-profit health system in California, is pioneering a game-changing initiative that brings advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to mammograms.
- In collaboration with AI governance partner Ferrum Health, Sutter is enhancing early breast cancer detection and increasing access to care for patients, particularly through its state-of-the-art mobile mammography services.
AI-Enhanced Mobile Care for
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Amazon One Medical Launches Pay-Per-Visit Telehealth for Kids at $29
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- Parents and guardians will now have quick access to certified family care providers for their children’s health care needs though Amazon One Medical Pay-per-visit.
- The telehealth service can help treat pink eye, lice, and over ten common skin-related issues like eczema, bug bites, contact dermatitis, fungal rashes, and more for children ages 2 to 11. This service will also cover EpiPen and
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IKS Health Launches Agentic AI Platform on Google Cloud to Transform Prior Authorization
What You Should Know:
- IKS Health, a global leader in care enablement solutions, today announced the launch of its new agentic AI platform built on Google Cloud technologies, including the Gemini family of models.
- The platform is a generative AI-based, multi-agent system designed to drive clinical, administrative, and financial efficiencies across the patient journey, with a primary focus on automating complex workflows like prior authorization.
Leading the Agentic
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Microsoft Unveils Expanded Dragon Copilot: AI Transformation for Nursing and Revenue Cycle
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- Microsoft unveiled significant AI innovations for its leading clinical assistant, Dragon Copilot, leveraging ambient and generative technologies to enhance the patient journey, reduce workflow burden, and strengthen the financial integrity of healthcare provider organizations.
- The advancements include the industry’s first generally available commercial ambient experience tailored for nursing workflows and new extensibility capabilities that allow
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Caravel Bio Wins $7.8M NSF Grant to Pioneer Next-Generation Protein Engineering
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- Caravel Bio, the first joint platform for protein discovery and delivery that enables new applications of synthetic biology, today announces its selection for a $7.8M award from the U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (NSF TIP).
- The award assembles a team of world-class engineers to create tools for building proteins with novel chemistries, train more advanced machine learning models on the resulting datasets,
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AVIA Acquires Panda Health to Create Nation’s Largest Digital Health Marketplace
What You Should Know:
- AVIA announced the strategic acquisition of Panda Health, a move that significantly expands the reach and capabilities of its AVIA Marketplace platform. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The combination of the two entities creates a community that encompasses over 75% of the nation’s health systems and connects them with over 7,000 solution companies.
Unifying Intelligence and Community
The core value of the combined platform is
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UpToDate Connect: New API Embeds Clinical Content Directly into Digital Health Platforms
What You Should Know:
- Digital health tech companies can now seamlessly embed trusted health content into their clinical applications and platforms with UpToDate ® Connect, a powerful API solution from Wolters Kluwer Health.
- With UpToDate Connect, market leading clinical decision content can be accessed through digital health applications and platforms to empower clinical users with fast, reliable answers at the point of care—helping to minimize burnout and streamline
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The Robot vs. Mech-Suit Strategy: Deploying AI Wisely in Healthcare
Few today remember PayPal’s early competitors. And for good reason—PayPal was a pioneer of automation strategy, with innovations that enabled them to scale to eventually dominate their market. But that future wasn't always a given.
Shortly after surviving the dot‑com bubble burst, PayPal and its competitors were bleeding tens of millions of dollars each month to credit card fraud. With thousands of transactions flowing through these platforms every minute, the problem was far too vast for any
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