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The Launch: ARC (the innovation arm of Israel's Sheba Medical Center) has officially launched ARC Landing Boston in partnership with the administration of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey.The Mission: The accelerator serves as a "soft-landing" platform for global healthtech companies attempting to enter the notoriously complex U.S. market, providing direct access to clinical environments, regulatory support, and venture capital.The Inaugural Cohort: The accelerator is
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M&A: D2 Solutions Acquires ProModRx to Streamline Patient Journeys
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The Acquisition: D2 Solutions, a healthcare consulting and technology company focused on market access, has officially acquired ProModRx, a cloud-based technology platform designed to accelerate patient access to prescription medications. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The Core Problem: The prescription fulfillment pipeline is fundamentally broken. According to D2's internal research, 21% of adults delayed starting a prescribed medication because
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Why Abridge is Embedding NEJM and JAMA Directly into the EHR
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The Partnerships: Enterprise AI platform Abridge has secured multi-year content partnerships with the NEJM Group (publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine) and the American Medical Association (publisher of the JAMA Network).The Workflow Shift: The integration allows clinicians to ask complex clinical questions and receive evidence-based answers directly within their existing workflow. Historically, finding this literature required breaking focus, leaving the EHR,
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The Clinical Resolution Gap: Why AI Can’t Fix Broken MSK Care Platforms
For years, clinicians have complained about the same thing: they became doctors to care for patients, not to stare at screens.
The electronic health record inserted a keyboard into the most important relationship in medicine. Now, for the first time in decades, artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to remove it. Ambient listening technology is giving providers back the focused attention that documentation demands have quietly eroded. That is not a minor workflow improvement. It is a
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HHS Launches $4M EMPOWER Prize Challenge to Enhance Living Kidney Donation
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The Challenge: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched the 2026 KidneyX EMPOWER Prize Challenge, a $4M national competition to accelerate innovations supporting living kidney donors.The Core Problem: The math surrounding kidney disease is incredibly bleak. Over 100,000 Americans are waitlisted for a kidney, and more than a dozen die each day waiting. Despite being one of the most effective treatments, the number of living kidney donors has
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CMS Establishes New Billing Code for AI-Driven Calcium Analysis on CT Scans
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The Reimbursement Milestone: Effective April 1, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a new national billing code and payment pathway under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for the algorithmic analysis of coronary artery calcium (CAC) and aortic valve calcium (AVC) on chest CT scans.The FDA Clearance: In tandem with the CMS news, Bunkerhill Health received FDA clearance for Bunkerhill Contrast CAC and
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Wavelet Medical Secures $7M to Scale AI Fetal Brain Monitoring Globally with Aegis Ventures
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The Raise & Partnership: Wavelet Medical, an AI-powered fetal brain monitoring startup spun out of Yale, has raised $7M in seed funding and entered into a co-creation partnership with the venture studio Aegis Ventures.The Solution: Wavelet has developed the first non-invasive, AI-powered fetal electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring platform. Instead of looking at the heart, Wavelet measures the organ that directly reflects neurological status: the brain.The Tech
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WellSky and Google Cloud Partner to Modernize Post-Acute Care Transitions
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The Expansion: WellSky is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud to embed advanced generative AI capabilities directly into its CarePort solutions.The Tech Stack: The integration utilizes Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, Gemini models, and BigQuery to overhaul the underlying data infrastructure of post-acute provider networks.The Solution: The AI integration continuously updates this provider data in real time, validating changes without requiring post-acute staff to
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Finding the Right Five Percent: How Machine Learning Is Reshaping Care Management
Population Health Has a Precision Problem
Population health programs continue to rely on blunt tools. Many risk stratification approaches emphasize historical utilization—basic risk scores or vendor-generated models that explain who was expensive—rather than identifying emerging clinical risk. These methods struggle to detect deterioration early enough to influence outcomes.
At the same time, care management teams face persistent resource constraints. Organizations cannot provide intensive
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Ultralight Raises $9.3M to Launch AI-Native Operating System for Healthcare
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The Rebrand and Raise: Vibrant Practice has officially rebranded to Ultralight and announced a $9.3M funding round to build an AI-native operating system for modern medicine.The Backers: The round was led by The General Partnership, with participation from Wisdom Ventures, Anthemis Group, Emerson Collective, GSBackers, and notable angel investors, including former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
The DPC Tipping Point
Direct Primary Care (DPC) practices tripled among
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