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Healthcare AI infrastructure company Bunkerhill Health has closed its Series B funding round led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its total funding to $55M across its Seed, Series A, and Series B rounds.The company's core platform, Carebricks, empowers health systems to build and deploy their own AI agents across clinical, operational, and administrative domains without relying on fragmented vendor-built tools.Operating at institutional scale at the University of Texas
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Catholic Health Inks $500M Care Alliance with GE HealthCare to Automate Outpatient Triage
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Long Island-based integrated health system Catholic Health and GE HealthCare have finalized a landmark 10-year strategic partnership valued at approximately $500M.The deal will inject more than 1,300 pieces of advanced medical technology across Catholic Health’s six acute care hospitals and 36 ambulatory sites, prioritizing cardiology, oncology, neurology, and women’s health lines.Disrupting typical multi-year implementation delays, approximately 50% of all new imaging
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Novant Health Partners with K Health to Launch AI-Enabled 24/7 Virtual Primary Care
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Integrated delivery network Novant Health has announced a major expansion of its primary care ecosystem, launching 24/7 hybrid and virtual-first options for patients across North and South Carolina.The expanded clinical model is anchored by a strategic technology partnership with clinical AI pioneer K Health, embedding automated screening and predictive tools directly into Novant's native patient architecture.The collaboration introduces PatientGPT, a highly secure
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KLAS Global HIT Trends 2026 Report: Artificial Intelligence Becomes the Top Investment Priority
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KLAS Research Global HIT Trends 2026 Report, reveals for the first time in history, artificial intelligence has emerged as the number-one healthcare IT investment priority across every single global region tracked outside the United States.While execution pressure is mounting, the market remains in an introductory phase, with 37% of organizations prioritizing high-level AI strategy, governance frameworks, and readiness assessments.Dictating 57% of emerging
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The Hidden Risk in CMS Compliance: Why Health Plans Can’t Treat Prior Authorization APIs and Claims Attachments as Separate Projects
Most health plans approach regulatory deadlines in a sequential order. They establish separate implementation strategies and initiatives, prioritizing each program based on the looming compliance date. While this methodology is understandable, it also introduces inherent risks for rules that share workflow, data, governance and vendor dependencies. The uncertainty is not technical incompatibility, but rather organizational separation.
This concern is top of mind for healthcare organizations
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UCSF Health Partners with Kleiner Perkins and Doerr Capital to Launch AI Accelerator
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Academic medical center UCSF Health, venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins, and Doerr Capital have announced the launch of UCSF Health Converge, a dedicated health AI accelerator built directly inside a top-ranked academic health network.Rejecting the isolated development models of traditional tech hubs, the accelerator centers on an "inside-out" approach, placing a small number of selected startups alongside UCSF Health clinicians, IT infrastructure teams, and
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Heidi Health Releases Pressure Points 2026 Report on Global Clinical AI Adoption
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Grassroots AI Adoption: A global study of 1,823 clinicians across 25 countries reveals that 83% began using artificial intelligence in their daily practice before their employers established formal governance frameworks or recommended specific tools.The Documentation Crisis: Administrative overhead remains a critical issue, with 88% of surveyed clinicians identifying documentation as their heaviest operational burden, regardless of geography, career stage, or medical
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XRHealth Acquires Swing Therapeutics to Create Largest Extended Reality Chronic Pain Platform
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Extended reality (XR) clinical innovator XRHealth has announced the formal acquisition of digital therapeutics pioneer Swing Therapeutics, making it the largest multi-device XR digital health platform for chronic conditions.The transaction absorbs Swing’s flagship Stanza program, the first FDA De Novo–authorized prescription digital behavioral therapeutic indicated for the treatment of fibromyalgia symptoms, which impact 10 million Americans.Validated by a Phase 3
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Thyme Care Appoints Dr. Brad Diephuis as CEO, Co-Founder Robin Shah Appointed Executive Chairman
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Value-based oncology leader Thyme Care has announced a comprehensive executive succession matrix: co-founder Robin Shah will transition to executive chairman, while current president and COO Brad Diephuis, M.D., will step into the CEO role, effective September 1, 2026.Dr. Diephuis, a primary care physician and cancer survivor, brings deep value-based policy expertise to the chief executive seat, having previously served as a senior advisor at the Center for Medicare and
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M&A: Lyric Acquires Concert to Scale AI-Powered Healthcare Decision Intelligence
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Healthcare decision intelligence leader Lyric has announced the acquisition of Concert, a precision health payment accuracy innovator specializing in translating machine-readable clinical policies into real-time claims workflows.The transaction embeds Concert’s proprietary policy intelligence directly within Lyric42, Lyric’s AI-powered Healthcare Decision Intelligence Platform, expanding its scale amid a surge in advanced genetic testing and precision therapies.The
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