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Health AI technology company Briya finalized a strategic partnership with InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering more than one billion health records globally.The collaboration integrates Briya’s end-to-end AI research platform, Briya AIRE™, directly over InterSystems’ data infrastructure and IRIS platform, allowing researchers to query complex, longitudinal datasets using simple natural language.To adhere strictly to rigorous GDPR and HIPAA
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Wheel and b.well Connected Health to Launch AI-First Virtual Care Infrastructure
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Strategic Collaboration: Wheel and b.well Connected Health have announced a strategic partnership to create a turnkey infrastructure for AI-native and consumer-driven healthcare experiences.Platform Integration: The collaboration integrates b.well’s consumer health data and access infrastructure with Wheel’s Horizon™ platform, which handles clinical delivery and nationwide clinician operations.Overcoming the Action Wall: The combined offering addresses the operational
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Reimagining Medical Devices in the AI Era: The 3 Structural Shifts Driving Venture-Scale Growth
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In their newly released whitepaper, Medical Devices in the AI Era, Aegis Ventures outlines how the medical device sector has historically underperformed in venture portfolios, remaining completely flat at just 2% to 3% of overall healthcare venture capital since 2018, despite representing a $200 billion annual market.The Software Evolution: The axis of competition is moving from physical hardware ("atoms") to intelligent software ("algorithms"), opening the door to
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Atropos Health and Guidehouse Launch Point-of-Care Clinical Decision Support Solution
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Atropos Health and Guidehouse have launched a jointly developed clinical decision support (CDS) solution designed to operationalize real-world evidence (RWE) directly within clinical workflows.The Combined Offering: The solution pairs Atropos Health’s predictive modeling and evidence generation with Guidehouse’s commercialization, medical strategy, and market access expertise.EHR Integration: Built on predictive algorithms using real-world data, the platform embeds
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M&A: Qualtrics Completes $6.75B Acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta
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Qualtrics has officially completed its acquisition of healthcare experience leader Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75B, marking the largest technology acquisition in Utah history.Category Expansion: The deal fuses Qualtrics’ experience management (XM) AI and data platform with Press Ganey Forsta's massive clinical, operational, and regulatory benchmarking footprint.The "Experience Gap" Mandate: Driven by consumer expectations permanently altered by AI, modern patients no longer
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Viz.ai Launches Viz Pulmonary™ Suite: AI-Powered Workflows for COPD, Lung Nodules, and PE
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Viz.ai has introduced the Viz Pulmonary™ Suite, an integrated AI solution designed to manage acute and chronic pulmonary conditions in a single platform.The suite targets three major pulmonary challenges: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), lung nodules, and pulmonary embolism (PE).Clinical Impact: In a single-center study, the integrated Viz PE tool reduced time to treatment from 1.75 days to 0.56 days and lowered in-hospital mortality among high-risk
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Healthcare AI Evaluation Frameworks: Moving Beyond Accuracy to Safety and Fairness
AI adoption is rapidly growing in healthcare across everything from clinical documentation to diagnostic imaging, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement. As per the 2023-24 American Hospital Association Information Technology Supplement, predictive AI integrated with EHR systems were already used in 71% of hospitals; this has increased rapidly with the advent of generative AI.
However, many AI deployments tend to fail in the real world, and do not deliver the expected improvements
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FDA Grants 510(k) Clearance for Glooko’s EndoTool IV Cloud Insulin Dosing Platform
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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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