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UNC Health officially announced the rebranding and expansion of Rex Health Ventures into UNC Health Ventures, establishing a unified, systemwide corporate venture capital (CVC) and strategic investment platform.The venture platform builds on more than a decade of strategic healthcare investing, having supported nearly 30 early-stage healthcare companies since its founding in 2012.UNC Health Ventures is directly funded through UNC Health’s broader investment portfolio,
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Rise of Cloud Conversational Voice AI in Healthcare
Healthcare providers are turning to cloud-based conversational AI to fix an access crisis that traditional staffing models can no longer solve, with intelligent voice networks now handling everything from appointment scheduling to insurance verification without a human on the line.
What began as a customer-service experiment is fast becoming core clinical infrastructure. Hospitals and clinics are routing scheduling, triage, billing and payer communication through AI systems that understand
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Radial Acquires Mindful Health Solutions MSO to Scale 27-Clinic Brain Medicine Network
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Radial has acquired the Management Services Organization (MSO) supporting Mindful Health Solutions, creating the nation’s largest clinical management network dedicated to advanced brain medicine and interventional psychiatry.The combined management platform supports 27 outpatient clinics across California, Texas, Washington, and New York, encompassing over 100 clinicians and serving hundreds of thousands of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), PTSD, OCD, tardive
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Why Healthcare AI Demands an Owned Intelligence Layer
Healthcare is one of the few industries where AI errors do not just cost money. They can compromise patient trust, expose sensitive data, create compliance risk, and undermine the clinicians and operators responsible for care.
Yet much of the AI tooling entering healthcare was built for speed, not accountability. The tools that can generate a demo in a day were not designed for clinical workflows, fragmented patient data, audit trails, compliance policies, or the accuracy requirements
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XiFin Names Chris Martin Chief Product Officer Amid Rapid AI-Enabled Empower Platform Growth
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XiFin, Inc. appointed Chris Martin as Chief Product Officer (CPO) to lead product strategy, drive solution modularity, and expand adoption of the company's AI-enabled XiFin Empower revenue cycle management (RCM) platform.Martin's appointment follows the February 2026 hiring of Chief Technology Officer Sanjay Kumar, forming a technical leadership pairing focused on translating AI innovation into measurable customer value across new healthcare segments.XiFin reported a
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WellSky Unveils AI Summarization and Post-Acute Tracking Across 120,000 Providers
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WellSky announced two new capabilities within its WellSky CarePort® care transition suite: CareBrief (AI-driven clinical summarization) and Patient Visibility Pro (longitudinal post-discharge tracking).Integrated into WellSky CarePort Transition and Care Management workflows, the tools address clinical data fragmentation and lack of visibility after hospital discharge.CareBrief synthesizes external clinical, social, and post-acute data from outside the hospital EHR into
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Impact Primary Care Network Deploys Innovaccer for Autonomous Population Health
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Impact Primary Care Network (IPCN), a physician-led, clinically integrated network in Western North Carolina, has partnered with Innovaccer to establish an operational foundation for its care management and population health initiatives.Over nearly two years of deployment, IPCN utilized Innovaccer’s care management solution and population health dashboards to automate patient prioritization, care gap identification, and protocol tracking.The deployment has strengthened
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The Real Reason Investors Are Backing Maternal Health
There’s a reason investors are pouring money into maternal health right now, and it’s not just because it’s the “right thing to do.” It’s because maternal health sits at the intersection of some of the biggest challenges in healthcare today: cost, access, workforce shortages, chronic disease, behavioral health, health equity, and long-term outcomes.
And the numbers are becoming impossible to ignore.
Despite spending more on healthcare than any other developed nation, the United States
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VA Expands Oracle Health EHR Modernization Contract Ceiling to Nearly $27B
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposed a major contract modification to its Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) agreement with Oracle Health, raising the contract ceiling by nearly $17B from almost $10B to approximately $27B, according to FedScoop.The contract modification documents cite "unanticipated complexities" and extensive site-specific customizations that depleted the initial contract ceiling ahead of schedule, with remaining funds projected to
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M&A: Francisco Partners to Acquire Weave in $650M Take-Private Deal
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Weave Communications, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by global technology investment firm Francisco Partners in an all-cash take-private transaction valued at an aggregate equity valuation of approximately $650M.Weave stockholders will receive $7.40 per share in cash, representing an approximate 34% premium over the company’s unaffected closing stock price on August 17, 2026.Upon completion of the transaction, expected in the fourth quarter of
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