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Washington, D.C.-based digital infrastructure startup Wrapped Health announced the closing of a $2.1M pre-seed financing round co-led by Lightbank and Arteria Capital, the specialized healthcare AI venture fund established by former Headspace CEO Russell Glass.The company will deploy the new capital to expand its core product and engineering teams, scale integrations across major electronic health record (EHR) platforms, and deepen commercial distribution with hospital
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From Automation to Agency: Rethinking the Future of Healthcare
For years, healthcare provider organizations have pursued automation to improve revenue cycle efficiency. Rules-based workflows, robotic process automation, predictive analytics, and machine learning have each helped reduce manual intervention and accelerate the completion of repetitive tasks.
But reimbursement for specialty healthcare services, such as laboratory, radiology, pathology, and specialty pharmacy, is becoming too complex for efficiency alone to solve.
The challenge facing
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M&A: Equiti Acquires Lexi AI to Pair Autonomous Language Models with Martti’s 250+ Human Interpreter Network
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Healthcare language access and technology leader Equiti officially announced the acquisition of Lexi AI, an award-winning healthcare artificial intelligence language interpretation company.The transaction unifies Lexi’s on-demand artificial intelligence interpretation with Equiti’s established Martti platform, creating an integrated hybrid language access architecture across clinical and administrative workflows.Equiti introduces its proprietary Modality Matters™
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Clinical Validation Audits Are Putting Hospital Reimbursement at Risk
When was the last time your team won an appeal on a clinical validation downgrade? If you have to stop and think about it, you are not alone.
Payer behavior has made this harder than it used to be. Clinical validation audits are driving a marked rise in Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) downgrades, forcing hospitals to defend diagnoses that, for years, were accepted on the strength of a physician's documentation alone. As audits grow more frequent and the criteria keep shifting, traditional
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Re-Engineering Workflows to Bridge Healthcare’s AI ROI Gap
Artificial intelligence (AI) has now reached a crucial tipping point in the way U.S. healthcare plans carry out their operations. A study by Everest Group, supported by Sagility, found that 70% of health plans have introduced AI tools to streamline both administrative and clinical activities. Nevertheless, 84% of payer executives say that they have seen limited benefits from these implementations and just 10% have noticed measurable improvements in operations.
The fact that these systems are
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The Biggest Vendor Risk in Healthcare Isn’t in the Operating Room
Over the past two years, healthcare leaders have been forced to rethink what operational resilience really means.
The cyberattack on Change Healthcare demonstrated how dependent providers had become on a single third-party platform for everything from claims processing to cash flow. The attack on Ascension showed how quickly disruptions to technology can spill over into clinical operations, delaying care, forcing clinicians back to paper documentation, and disrupting the day-to-day
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Patient CRM Modernization: Four Decisions Technology Can’t Make for You
Consider a daughter who signs up for disease information on behalf of her father. Weeks later, he enrolls in copay assistance and asks another website for updates. To the family, this is one patient's experience. To fragmented systems, it can look like three unrelated records, and one of them belongs to a different person.
The difference matters more than it first appears. A duplicate email is an annoyance. Treating a caregiver as the patient, or carrying a permission from one program into
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The Missing Line Item in Healthcare AI ROI Is Exception Handling
Healthcare executives often evaluate artificial intelligence with a familiar checklist: model accuracy, integration effort, implementation time, and license cost. That list omits the expense that determines whether an administrative AI project creates capacity or creates another system to supervise. The missing line item is exception handling.
The demand is real. In its 2026 Physician Survey on Augmented Intelligence, the American Medical Association reported that 81 percent of respondents
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Vera Health Raises $28.5M for Clinical AI Search Engine: Surpasses 800,000 Global Physician Users
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Clinical artificial intelligence search platform Vera Health announced the closing of a $28.5 million Series A funding round led by Threshold Ventures.The financing included participation from Mantis VC and SV Angel, with existing institutional backers Y Combinator and Gradient tripling down on their initial investments, bringing total capitalization to $32M.Operates at high capital and workforce efficiency: with an engineering and clinical team of only 12 employees, the
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AI Won’t Break Healthcare Payments. Poor Infrastructure Will
Every executive discussion about AI eventually arrives at risk. Will AI make the wrong decision? Will it create new security vulnerabilities? Will it introduce compliance challenges that organizations aren't prepared to manage?
Those are important questions. But when it comes to payments, they're often not the first questions organizations should be asking. The bigger issue is that many organizations are layering AI on top of payment infrastructures that were never designed for the speed,
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