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The Deal: Harbor Health, an integrated care and coverage provider (a "payvider"), has acquired Rippl, a specialized dementia care platform.The Strategy: The move integrates Rippl’s dementia expertise into Harbor’s "condition-focused care pathways." By combining primary care with specialized dementia management, the goal is to prevent the behavioral crises that often send seniors to the ER.The Scale: The acquisition follows Harbor’s 2025 purchase of 32 VillageMD clinics.
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Atlas Oncology Raises $28M to Take “Full Risk” on Patient Costs
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The Raise: Atlas Oncology Partners has closed a $28M Series A financing round led by Flare Capital Partners, with significant backing from Rubicon Founders.The Model: Atlas isn't just a software vendor; it is a value-based care platform that assumes full medical cost risk. This means they are financially responsible for the total cost of a patient's cancer journey, aligning their incentives with payers and patients.The Strategy: The company embeds interdisciplinary care
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HealthMark Group Acquires Cloud Imaging Provider Purview to Expand Clinical Data Exchange
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The Deal: HealthMark Group, a leader in clinical information exchange, has acquired Purview, an Annapolis-based cloud medical imaging company.The Problem: Despite massive digital transformation in healthcare, an estimated two-thirds of radiological images are still shared via physical discs (CDs). This "sneaker-net" approach delays care and frustrates patients.The Solution: By integrating Purview’s cloud platform, HealthMark aims to provide a "complete clinical picture,"
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Should Healthcare Organizations Transition to Biometric Security?
As digital transformation accelerates across healthcare, biometric security — the use of unique physical or behavioral traits, such as fingerprints, facial features or iris patterns, to verify identity — is emerging as a compelling alternative to traditional password‑based systems.
Healthcare professionals evaluating this shift must understand the current landscape of biometric adoption as well as the advantages, drawbacks and the careful steps required for a successful transition to
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Medicomp Launches AI Validation Tools to Stop Clinical Hallucinations
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The Launch: Medicomp Systems has unveiled a new suite of intelligence tools designed to "ground" AI in clinical reality. The announcement comes ahead of the ViVE 2026 and HIMSS26 conferences.The Problem: As healthcare rushes to adopt generative AI (like ambient scribes), there is a growing risk of "inaccurate, incomplete, or poorly structured data" entering the Electronic Health Record (EHR) without validation.The Tech: Medicomp is introducing a Model Context Protocol
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The “Full-Stack” Psychiatrist: Talkiatry Raises $210M to Scale Leading Telepsychiatry Practice
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The Raise: Talkiatry has secured $210M Series D financing round led by Perceptive Advisors, with participation from Sofina and prior lead investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), blisce/, and Left Lane Capital, alongside a debt facility from Banc of California, bringing total raise to date to over $400M.The Scale: Talkiatry is now the nation's largest private employer of psychiatrists, with over 800 full-time W2 physicians (not contractors) and 3 million patient visits
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Anterior Secures $40M to Expand AI Deployments in Health Plans
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The Funding: Anterior, a clinician-led AI platform for health plans, has raised a $40M funding round, bringing its total capital to $64M. The round included participation from NEA, Sequoia Capital, FPV, and Kinnevik.The Model: Unlike point solutions that often stall at the pilot stage, Anterior uses a "Forward Deployed Clinician" model. This means they embed their own clinicians alongside health plan staff to optimize AI accuracy and drive adoption.The Results: This
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Keragon AI Transforms Healthcare Operations with HIPAA-Compliant Conversational Interface
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Keragon has unveiled an AI-powered healthcare automation platform that connects 300+ healthcare applications and enables HIPAA-compliant workflows through simple conversational prompts—no coding required.Healthcare’s tech stack has grown 73% in less than a decade, yet siloed systems, IT bottlenecks, and manual configuration continue to drive inefficiency and administrative overload.Early adopters report fuller schedules and double-digit reductions in administrative time,
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Ambience Healthcare Launches “Chart Awareness” to Automate Coding and Clinical Summaries
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The Leap: Ambience Healthcare has launched "Chart Awareness," a capability that allows its AI to interpret a patient’s full longitudinal record (labs, imaging, prior notes) rather than just transcribing the current conversation.The Features: The update includes Chart-Aware Patient Summaries, Diagnostics (auto-extracting lab trends), and Coding (substantiating complex codes like G2211 based on patient history).The Proof: In a head-to-head evaluation at MultiCare Health
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Ubie and Mayo Clinic to Launch “Smart Support” AI Triage Platform
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The Deal: Ubie, a Google-backed AI healthcare platform, has announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to co-develop "Ubie Smart Support."The Tech: The platform aims to unify the "fragmented" digital front door by integrating chat and voice interfaces into a single access point. It uses AI to triage symptoms, route patients, and schedule appointments 24/7.The Future: Beyond scheduling, the partners plan to co-develop an add-on module for chronic disease management,
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