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The Funding: Translucent, an AI-native healthcare finance startup, has closed a $27M Series A funding round led by GV (Google Ventures), with continued participation from NEA, Virtue, and FPV Ventures. This oversubscribed round comes just months after a $7 million seed round in August 2025.The Macro Crisis: Despite U.S. healthcare spending soaring past $5.6 trillion, provider margins are collapsing. Last year, delayed financial visibility and manual reconciliation
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HIMSS Survey: 60% of Health Systems Can’t Protect Unmanaged Medical Devices
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The Report: Elisity has co-published a new research report with HIMSS Market Insights titled The Implementation Paradox: Healthcare Leaders Want Microsegmentation-Level Security Without Disruption.The Vulnerability: The attack surface is expanding rapidly due to connected medical devices. 62% of respondents flagged an inability to protect unpatchable or agentless devices (IoMT) as a critical or significant limitation, followed closely by poor visibility into device
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HIMSS26: Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent Expands Note Generation to Inpatient and Emergency Settings
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The Expansion: Oracle Health has officially launched its Clinical AI Agent note generation for inpatient and emergency department (ED) settings across the U.S.The Acute Care Challenge: Unlike standard outpatient visits, the ED and inpatient wards are highly dynamic environments requiring longitudinal data synthesis. Oracle's agent tackles this by natively pulling triage notes, prior days' documentation, lab results, and imaging directly from the Oracle Health Foundation
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HIMSS26: WVU Medicine Expands Abridge Ambient AI Platform Across 25 Hospitals
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The Expansion: WVU Medicine (the West Virginia University Health System) is expanding the deployment of Abridge’s enterprise-grade AI platform to more than 2,800 clinicians across its 25-hospital network.The Strategic Driver: As the state's largest health system and private employer serving 2.5 million patients annually, WVU Medicine is utilizing ambient AI to combat severe physician burnout and protect patient access in largely rural, underserved communities.The Hard
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HIMSS26: CharmHealth Launches CharmCopilot, an Embedded Multi-Agent AI Assistant for EHR Workflows
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The Launch: CharmHealth has officially launched CharmCopilot, a multi-agent AI assistant embedded directly within its electronic health record (EHR) platform.The Pricing Disruption: In a major strategic move, CharmHealth is making the core capabilities of CharmCopilot available to existing customers at no additional cost.The Architecture: Unlike standalone ambient scribes, CharmCopilot utilizes a "multi-agent" architecture. It deploys specialized AI agents to handle
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Stamford Health Selects Ensemble Health Partners for End-to-End RCM Operations
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The Partnership: Stamford Health, a 305-bed independent health system in Connecticut, has selected Ensemble Health Partners to manage its end-to-end revenue cycle operations.The Clinical Pedigree: Stamford Health is recognized as the #1 Hospital in Fairfield County by U.S. News & World Report, holds Magnet Status for nursing excellence, and is Planetree Gold-Certified for person-centered care.The RCM Tech Stack: Ensemble will deploy its integrated operating model,
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HIMSS26: Imprivata Introduces Agentic Identity Management to Secure and Govern AI Agents
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The Launch: At HIMSS26, Imprivata, a global leader in healthcare access management, announced the launch of Agentic Identity Management, a new platform capability designed specifically to secure and govern AI agents across healthcare environments.The Core Problem: As health systems deploy agentic AI to autonomously handle clinical documentation, prior authorizations, and triage, they introduce massive new attack vectors. Unmanaged AI agents are vulnerable to prompt
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How Healthcare Interoperability Supports Cancer Research Collaboration
Collaboration has always been a key component of cancer research. To comprehend the intricate biology of cancer and develop new strategies for treatment, researchers, clinicians, analysts, and pharmaceutical researchers must work in unison. Healthcare interoperability has grown immensely in the past few years, along with research collaboration. Interoperability fuels research quality and discovery by offering new avenues for the collaboration of disparate healthcare systems and research
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HIMSS26: Epic EHR Unveils ‘Agent Factory’ and Custom Foundation Models
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The Milestone: At HIMSS26, Epic announces that more than 85% of Epic’s customer base is now actively utilizing its suite of artificial intelligence tools.Clinical ROI (Art): Epic's clinician-facing AI, Art, is generating massive clinical and operational leverage. The ambient listening tool, Chart with Art, is now expanding into bedside nursing (live at Houston Methodist) and home care. Beyond charting, Art is actively driving clinical outcomes—such as boosting early lung
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The End of the LLM Era: Why Nabla is Betting on AMI’s $1.03B ‘World Models’ for Agentic Healthcare AI
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The Funding News: Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs), an AI startup founded by Turing Award laureate Yann LeCun and Nabla founder Alex LeBrun, has officially closed a massive $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation.The Nabla Connection: Clinical AI company Nabla holds an exclusive strategic partnership with AMI to get first access to these new AI models. As part of this transition, Nabla's Alex LeBrun is stepping in as CEO of AMI Labs while
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