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Glooko has received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for EndoTool IV Cloud, making it the first cloud-based, patient-specific insulin dosing platform cleared for hospital use.The system is the cloud-native evolution of EndoTool IV, a clinical decision support solution used to manage intravenous (IV) insulin therapy for hospitalized patients.The cloud architecture is designed to reduce on-premise infrastructure requirements, streamline maintenance, and support centralized updates
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KLAS 2026 EHR Market Share Report: Epic Gains as Oracle Health Faces Third Year of Losses
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The number of hospitals impacted by EHR purchase decisions dropped 40% compared to 2024 and nearly 50% compared to 2023, according to a new KLAS 2026 EMR Market Share report.Shift to AI: Health systems redirected capital toward technologies with immediate financial returns, specifically AI and operational efficiency solutions, rather than core EHR upgrades.Epic Dominance: Epic was the only vendor selected by large health systems (>10 hospitals) in 2025 and added 77
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Signant Health Acquires Ametris to Combine Wearable Data and eCOA Technology
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Signant Health has acquired Ametris (formerly known as ActiGraph) to combine electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) technology with wearable-based digital measurements. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The deal addresses a primary industry bottleneck by replacing multiple disconnected vendors with a single platform for both subjective patient feedback and objective sensor data.The integrated system is designed to support decentralized
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Shyld AI Secures $13.4M to Scale Agentic AI and Autonomous Disinfection Across U.S. Health Systems
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Shyld AI has closed a $13.4M seed round led by Aulis Capital, marking one of the largest early-stage rounds in the healthcare AI sector.The company is moving beyond "passive" ambient AI to Active Intelligence, deploying Agentic AI systems that take real-time action inside physical hospital environments.Flagship Technology: The system combines AI with UV-C light technology to autonomously disinfect rooms; a Stanford University study found it reduced contamination by more
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IKS Health Acquires ARAI Solutions to Build Full Agentic AI Stack for Healthcare
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IKS Health has acquired ARAI Solutions, a provider of specialized artificial intelligence, to accelerate the development of a full agentic AI technology stack.The acquisition allows IKS Health to create its own efficient small language models (SLMs), reducing dependency on third-party AI infrastructure.ARAI’s contribution centers on a clinical knowledge infrastructure consisting of interconnected biomedical knowledge graphs based on peer-reviewed research.The integrated
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Chromie Health Raises $2M to Automate Hospital Operations via AI Agent “Dispatch”
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Chromie Health, a provider of AI-powered hospital management tools, has closed a $2M pre-seed round led by AIX Ventures.The company has launched Chromie Dispatch, an SMS-native AI agent that fills internal nursing shift gaps in under five minutes—a process that typically takes five hours manually.There is currently a waitlist of 750 hospitals seeking to implement the platform.Chronic nursing shortages and turnover are estimated to cost the U.S. healthcare system more than
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2026 Locum Tenens Physician Report Reveals 41% of Physicians Now Have Locums Experience
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Physicians across the U.S. are increasingly rethinking how they practice medicine as career pressures mount at every stage, according to the 2026 Locum Tenens Physicians Report released this week by Weatherby Healthcare.Market Growth: The percentage of physicians currently working locum tenens has nearly tripled in a decade, rising from 5% to 14%.Mainstream Adoption: Nearly half of all physicians (41%) now have locums experience, doubling the rate from 2016.Burnout
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Anomaly Insights Secures $17M to Scale AI Payer Intelligence for Health Systems
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Anomaly Insights has announced $17M in new funding led by Sound Ventures, bringing its total raised to $34M. Alumni Ventures also joined the round, alongside existing investors Link Ventures, Redesign Health, and RRE Ventures.The company provides an AI-powered payer intelligence platform designed to combat revenue loss from denials, underpayments, and adjudication deviations.The platform analyzes billions of real-time healthcare transactions to surface patterns in payer
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From Trial-and-Error to Data-Driven Oncology Decision Making: AI-Enabled Functional Precision Medicine Is Rewriting the Future of Cancer Treatment
When cancer treatment fails, physicians face one of the hardest questions in medicine: what should come next?
Having recently cared for a young patient whose cancer had returned despite multiple lines of therapy, it was found that although standard protocols offered several options, none could determine which drug was most likely to work against that child’s specific tumor. That is a reality oncologists face every day: two patients with the same diagnosis can respond very differently to the
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Harmony Healthcare IT Appoints Brian Liddell as CEO Succeeding Founder Tom Liddell
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Harmony Healthcare IT has appointed Brian Liddell as Chief Executive Officer, effective April 30, 2026.Brian Liddell succeeds founder Tom Liddell, who will transition to Chairman of the Board after leading the company for more than two decades.Brian Liddell previously served as President and Chief Financial Officer, playing a central role in the company's growth and operational strategy.Industry Leadership: Under Tom Liddell, the organization served over 550 healthcare
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