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AI-powered primary care platform Prosper Medical has raised $16M in financing led by FUSE, with participation from Aurum Partners, Better.vc, Cal Innovation Fund, Fluent, Latitude Capital, Knoll Ventures, and WTI.Founded by Ryan McQuaid (CEO) and James Wantuck, MD (CMO), the former founders of PlushCare, which they built and sold to Accolade for $450 million.Prosper shifts away from "transactional" telehealth toward continuous, proactive concierge care by using AI to
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Relatient Launches Clinical Request Automation Capability for Dash Voice AI Platform
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Relatient has expanded its Dash Voice AI platform with a new clinical request automation capability designed to handle non-scheduling patient phone inquiries.Approximately 35% of all inbound calls received by healthcare organizations represent clinical requests, including questions for nursing staff, medication and prescription inquiries, and billing details.The agentic voice system captures caller intent in real time, leverages appointment context and electronic health
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Assured Raises $19M to Replace Manual Credentialing with Autonomous AI Agents
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Provider operations platform Assured has raised $19 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners, with continued participation from First Round Capital and Kindred Ventures.Assured serves more than 100 healthcare organizations—spanning health systems like Houston Methodist to digital health providers like Tono Health, Blossom Health, and Birches Health.The platform replaces manual provider credentialing and payer enrollment workflows with autonomous AI agents that
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KLAS Research Releases 2026 RCM Suites Report: Waystar Leads Market in Overall Satisfaction
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The 2026 KLAS Revenue Cycle Management Suites Report focuses on healthcare organizations using at least three distinct RCM modules (e.g., claims, eligibility, denials, insurance discovery) from a single vendor.KLAS highlights that while consolidation is accelerating, it has yet to validate a single vendor offering a fully mature, end-to-end RCM platform without functional trade-offs.Waystar earned an overall "A" grade—the highest in the report—driven by strong strategic
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Healthcare Growth Partners Releases July 2026 Health IT Market Review: Key Valuations and M&A Benchmarks
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U.S. Health IT M&A and buyout volume rebounded in Q2 2026 to 121 announced transactions after averaging 101 transactions across Q4 2025 and Q1 2026, according to Healthcare Growth Partners’ July 2026 Health IT Market Review report. The HGP Health IT Revenue Multiple recovered to 4.7x revenue by the end of Q2 2026 after dropping from 5.3x down to 3.7x in April.Health IT demonstrated strong resilience during the "SaaSpocalypse," outperforming broader Enterprise
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Capability vs. Aspiration: The New Litmus Test for AI in Healthcare
Walk the floor of any healthcare conference today, and the energy around artificial intelligence is palpable. The potential of the technology is genuinely transformative, and hospital boards will always be (understandably) eager to modernize their workflows. But as the market floods with new solutions, navigating the sheer volume of vendor promises has become an increasingly complex task for healthcare leaders.
Look under the surface of many recent tech announcements, and an acute observer
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M&A: Focus to Acquire Managed Services Provider GuideIT
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Healthcare managed IT platform Focus has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Plano, Texas-based GuideIT. Post-closing, the entity will operate as GuideIT, A Focus Company.The transaction is designed to replace the fragmented model of multi-vendor IT management—where health systems juggle separate providers for cloud, cybersecurity, and EHR support—with a single, accountable operating partner.GuideIT brings over twenty years of operational delivery, spanning managed
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M&A: SpinSci Acquires Dialog Health to Expand AI-Powered Patient Access Platform Across Voice and Text
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Dallas-based agentic AI leader SpinSci has formally acquired Franklin, Tenn.-based patient and staff engagement provider Dialog Health.The deal bridges SpinSci’s proprietary, AI-driven voice access and contact center automation tools with Dialog Health’s two-way SMS, Rich Communication Services (RCS), and automated outreach platform.Dialog Health brings a proven track record to the platform, including an 82% reduction in 90-day readmissions, a 92% decrease in
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The Golden Record: How Health Plan Leaders Can Navigate the Future of Agentic, Actionable Navigation
Connecting consumers with in-network, clinically-appropriate, and high-value care providers via AI-ready architecture
As health plans work to meet rising consumer demands and deliver a more personalized care experience, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more embedded in the consumer digital experience from the call center to the authenticated portal. However, in the context of care access the promise of AI can't be realized without addressing challenges with inaccurate and inconsistent
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Philips Earns FDA 510(k) Clearance for Next-Generation Reusable SpO₂ Clip Sensor
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Philips has officially secured U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for its next-generation reusable SpO₂ clip sensor.In controlled desaturation studies, the enhanced sensor achieved an Accuracy Root Mean Square (ARMS) value of 1.6%—nearly twice as accurate as the 3% threshold recommended by ISO guidelines and recognized by the FDA.Addressing industry-wide pulse oximetry disparities, the sensor demonstrated consistent clinical performance across a broad spectrum of skin tones, with
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