Every health tech marketing leader I've talked to in the last two years has said some version of the same thing: "We know where we want to be. We just can't seem to get there."
They have a goal. They have a budget. They have a team. What they don't have is a map.
"Grow ARR 30% this year." "Increase brand awareness in the mid-market." "Become the go-to platform for patient engagement." These are not strategies. They are wishes with a deadline attached. And in health tech, where sales cycles
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Pearl Health Secures $110M to Scale AI-Driven Value-Based Care Platform for Medicare
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Value-Based Care (VBC) platform innovator Pearl Health has announced a $110M capital raise, combining a $50M Series B equity round led by Andreessen Horowitz with a $60M credit facility from Trinity Capital.Confronting a massive macroeconomic bottleneck where national Medicare expenditures exceed $1 trillion annually, the company helps providers successfully pivot from legacy fee-for-service models to outcomes-driven risk management.The company achieved a rare milestone
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KLAS Releases Global Hospital EHR Market Share 2026 Report: Purchasing Decisions Hit 5-Year Low
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The KLAS Healthcare IT Insights division has published its flagship Global Hospital EHR Market Share 2026 report, revealing that total global EHR purchasing decisions plummeted to an almost five-year marketplace low.A strict capital tightening is reshaping international margins; the volume of impacted healthcare facilities (447 hospitals) and active clinical beds (81,261) represented the lowest deployment volume tracked by KLAS in at least a decade.Monolithic
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Follistatin-344: Myostatin Signaling, Tissue Plasticity, and Molecular Modulation Research
Within the expanding landscape of regulatory peptides and growth factor biology, Follistatin-344 occupies a distinctive conceptual position. Rather than functioning as a classical signaling hormone, Follistatin-344 represents a precursor isoform of a broader follistatin protein family studied for binding and neutralizing members of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) superfamily. Research indicates that follistatin isoforms participate in finely tuned molecular coordination across
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M&A: ResMed to Sell MatrixCare Business to Frazier Healthcare Partners for $450M
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Global health technology leader ResMed has announced a definitive agreement to sell its MatrixCare business to healthcare-exclusive private equity firm Frazier Healthcare Partners for $450M.The corporate divestiture explicitly aligns with ResMed’s 2030 strategy, allowing the company to narrow its focus and reallocate capital toward high-growth, scalable opportunities in sleep health, breathing health, and cloud-connected home care.MatrixCare represents a major post-acute
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IT Teams are the New Drivers of Healthcare Efficiency and Value
For years, every hospital department leader was the master of their own domain. The CNO drove staffing ratios and documentation time. The COO oversaw operating room throughput and bed turns. The CFO guarded denials and days in accounts receivable. Revenue cycle, scheduling, imaging, and labs each measured success against individual goals and metrics. But soon, those silos will break down, and healthcare IT is holding the sledgehammer.
Healthcare IT has long been a critical supporting pillar
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What Produce Longevity Can Teach Us About Personalized Health Care
The lifespan of an avocado may seem worlds apart from the science of individual health, but both are shaped by the same principle: small environmental stresses compound into dramatically shorter lives. In grocery supply chains, a single hour at the wrong temperature can erase a full day of freshness. In human health, sustained exposure to poor sleep, inconsistent nutrition, and chronic stress quietly accelerates biological aging. As retailers adopt real-time monitoring to
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KLAS Arch Collaborative Releases Clinician EHR Experience 2026 Impact Report
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The KLAS Arch Collaborative has released its Clinician EHR Experience 2026: State of the Industry impact report, tracking EHR satisfaction benchmarks across 92 healthcare organizations and over 121,000 clinicians.A major clinical sentiment gap persists between disciplines: while 22% of physicians report an "Elite" (Level 6) EHR experience, only 12% of nurses achieve the same tier, with nurses far more likely to remain stuck in "Basic" or "Struggling"
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Hera Raises $27M to Scale AI-Powered Senior Care Coordination
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Senior care coordination pioneer Hera has announced a $27M Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, with continued backing from Accel, IA Ventures, and strategic angel investors including the CFO of Mount Sinai.The platform targets an intense family caregiving crisis, using human-centric AI to centralize scattered geriatric caregiving knowledge and streamline long-term care orchestration.Hera has introduced a specialized profession of care coordinators known
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Beyond Chatbots: Agentic AI as the Operating System Transforming Patient Services
Patient Services Are Digitized—but Not Delivered
Over the past decade, healthcare organizations and pharmaceutical companies have invested heavily in digital transformation. Chatbots, patient portals, CRM systems, and omnichannel engagement platforms promised a more responsive, always on patient experience. And to some extent, they delivered.
Yet reality on the ground tells a different story.
Studies indicate that nearly 30–40% of patients in specialty therapies experience
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