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- RISA Labs, a company pioneering AI operating system for oncology, today announced the closing of an $11.1 million Series A funding round.
- The financing was co-led by Cencora Ventures and Optum Ventures, with participation from Oncology Ventures, Z21 Ventures, and John Simon (co-founder of General Catalyst).
RISA Labs Raises the Bar for AI-Driven Oncology Operations
Founded by RISA Labs co-founders Kshitij Jaggi and Kumar Shivang, RISA Labs is building
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EnableComp Acquires H/ROI, Creating the Industry’s Most Comprehensive Complex Revenue Platform
What You Should Know:
- EnableComp®, recognized for resolving the toughest challenges in Complex Revenue Cycle Management, announced its acquisition of Health Resources Optimization, Inc. (H/ROI), a premier clinical denials and revenue recovery firm serving top health systems in the Northeast.
- As hospitals face sustained margin pressure from denials and payer scrutiny, the acquisition expands the revenue EnableComp captures for its clients by resolving and
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Penguin Ai Launches Snowflake Native App to Automate HCC Risk Adjustment
What You Should Know
- Penguin Ai has announced the launch of its Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) Coding & Risk Adjustment solution as a Snowflake Native App.
- By bringing its risk-adjustment intelligence directly into a customer’s Snowflake environment, Penguin Ai enables Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and risk-bearing providers to automate diagnosis extraction and improve Risk-Adjustment Factor (RAF) accuracy without moving or exposing sensitive patient data.
The "Data
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Elation Health Cuts Chart Review Time 61% With Anthropic’s Claude AI
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- Elation Health, the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced that its Clinical Insights solution has moved to Claude Haiku 4.5 by Anthropic, the leading artificial intelligence research and development company with an emphasis on responsible AI.
- Clinical Insights delivers summaries of a patient's health story to clinicians at the point of care, using Claude’s speed and long-context reasoning for safe, accurate
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HealthEx and Anthropic Partner to Bring Personal Health Records Directly to Claude
What You Should Know
- HealthEx and Anthropic have launched a first-of-its-kind integration that allows Claude Pro and Max users to securely connect their medical records from over 50,000 provider organizations directly to the AI.
- The partnership leverages the federal TEFCA framework and a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) to provide personalized health summaries and lab interpretations while ensuring that sensitive patient data is never used for model training.
Bridging the
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DiMe Launches Initiative to Scale Trusted AI Care Navigation
What You Should Know
- The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) has launched a new multi-stakeholder initiative, "Scaling Trusted, High-Impact AI Care Navigation," to accelerate the responsible adoption of AI tools that help patients manage appointments, referrals, and insurance.
- Led by title sponsor Intel and a founding coalition of tech and healthcare leaders, the project will develop open-access resources to ensure AI-enabled care journeys are patient-centered, equitable, and
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The GPT-5 Era: OpenAI Launches ‘OpenAI for Healthcare’ and GPT-5.2 to Power the Modern Hospital
What You Should Know
- OpenAI has officially entered the medical market with OpenAI for Healthcare, a suite of products led by ChatGPT for Healthcare and the GPT-5.2-powered API.
- Already rolling out to eight leading institutions—including Stanford Medicine, HCA Healthcare, and UCSF—the platform provides a secure, HIPAA-compliant workspace for clinical reasoning, evidence retrieval with transparent citations, and the automation of administrative tasks like prior authorizations and
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The 40% Difference: Why AI Must Anchor Your RCM Modernization Strategy in 2026
The Crisis Facing Healthcare Financial Leaders
Healthcare financial leaders are navigating an environment of unprecedented complexity. Your organization is caught between escalating operational costs and a relentless denial rate fueled by increasingly sophisticated payer tactics. The truth is, if your Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is reliant on manual, legacy systems, you are accepting a permanent, self-inflicted fiscal vulnerability.
Industry data confirms this exposure: upwards of 10%
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The Automated OR: Apella Secures $80M to Scale Ambient Video Intelligence Across the Surgical Suite
What You Should Know
- Apella has announced an $80M Series B round to scale its ambient AI platform designed for the most complex environment in the hospital: the operating room (OR). The round was led by HighlandX, with returning investors Vensana Capital, Casdin Capital, PFM Health Sciences, Upside Partnership, and Operator Partners, and includes new investors K2 HealthVentures, OpAmp Capital, and Houston Methodist.
- By using computer vision to autonomously identify 14 surgical
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Canopy Secures $22M to Scale Healthcare Safety Platform
What You Should Know
- Canopy, the category leader in connected safety platforms, has closed a $22M Series B funding round led by 111° West Capital and ACME Capital.
- As workplace violence in healthcare has surged 63% over the last five years, Canopy has rapidly scaled its "Location ID" network to protect over 300,000 healthcare workers across 60 major U.S. systems, providing a unified infrastructure for both staff safety and operational intelligence.
The Safety-First Pivot:
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