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Zócalo Health has closed a $15 million Series A funding round led by EO Ventures, bringing its total capital raised to $22.75M.The company specializes in serving high-need members with complex medical, behavioral, and social needs, a segment that drives a disproportionate share of total healthcare costs.Its "promotoras de salud" (community health workers) model achieved 4x year-over-year revenue growth and expanded from two health plan partnerships in 2024 to more than a
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Ambience Healthcare Appoints Dr. Michael Han as CMO to Lead Clinical AI Strategy
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Ambience Healthcare has appointed Dr. Michael Han, MD, MBA, as its first Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to lead clinical strategy and platform expansion.Dr. Han previously served as Enterprise Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at MultiCare Health System and held surgical leadership roles at Providence and Pacific Medical Centers.Dr. Han is board certified in both urology and clinical informatics, bringing over two decades of experience in health IT and large-scale EHR
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Kipu Health Acquires Team Recovery Technologies to Unify the Entire Behavioral Health Patient Journey
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Kipu Health has officially acquired Team Recovery Technologies, a specialist in mobile-app-based patient engagement and alumni connectivity. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition extends Kipu’s platform beyond clinical treatment and billing into referral growth and long-term recovery support.Team Recovery Technologies currently serves over 150 treatment centers across the U.S., focusing on reducing relapse rates and supporting
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Infinitus Systems Launches “Studio”: The First No-Code AI Agent Builder Purpose-Built for Healthcare Complexity
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Infinitus Studio allows healthcare teams to design and deploy AI agents using a natural-language interface, requiring zero coding knowledge.The platform delivers significant performance gains, including 90% faster deployment and 40% higher accuracy compared to manually built agents.A core feature called Agent Response Control (ARC) provides patent-pending safety guardrails that automatically detect sensitive topics, ensuring 100% compliance in agent behavior.Early
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How to Scale a Private Medical or Dental Practice from One to 100 Locations
For many private practitioners, getting one brick-and-mortar medical or dental office up and running is hard enough. The thought of going from zero to one location — let alone scaling your practice from one to 100 — is hard to fathom. Yet the path from one to 100 isn’t as arduous as it might seem.
Well-run practices that have the personnel and ability to scale might not do so simply because they lack important knowledge — and leave millions of dollars on the table as a result. The
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Strata 2026 Healthcare Financial Outlook Report: Medicaid Cuts and Labor Costs Top CFO Concerns
Strata 2026 Report: U.S. Healthcare Finance Leaders Pivot from Volatile Recovery to Strict Operational Discipline
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Government funding and Medicaid cuts have surged to the top of the executive agenda, cited by 66% of healthcare finance leaders as their primary concern for 2026. While 43% of leaders expect margin increases, the dominant theme for the year is margin protection, with 25% anticipating declines and 22% projecting flat performance.According to the 2026
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The AI Therapy Crisis: Why the AMA is Urging Congress to Regulate Mental Health Chatbots
Why the AMA Says Mental Health Chatbots Need Crisis Detection
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The Legislative Push: In letters to the Congressional AI Caucus, the Congressional Digital Health Caucus, and the Senate AI Caucus, the American Medical Association (AMA) officially urged federal lawmakers to establish strict guardrails for mental health AI chatbots.The Core Risks: While acknowledging that AI can expand access to resources, the AMA warned that unregulated chatbots present serious risks,
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From Governance to Enablement: How Healthcare CIOs Can Stop Killing AI Innovation
AI governance in healthcare has a branding problem. The word "governance" alone is enough to make half the room shut down. I've seen it happen. You put that word on a meeting invite, and suddenly everyone assumes this is the conversation where someone tells them what they can't do. That framing kills innovation before it starts.
I spent nearly a decade leading data and analytics teams at the largest healthcare system in Indiana, and we eventually stopped calling it governance altogether. We
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Amperos Health Raises $16M for Agentic AI Denial Management and Revenue Recovery Platform
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The Funding: Amperos Health has closed a $16M Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Uncork Capital and Neo. This follows a $4.2M seed round in June 2025.The Core Technology: Amperos has launched the industry’s first AI-native, end-to-end denial management platform. Unlike fragmented tools that only draft appeal letters or offer predictive scoring, Amperos uses agentic AI (state-of-the-art LLMs with computer and voice
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Real-Time Enrollment: Covered California Scales Google Cloud AI to Transform CalHEERS
Real-Time Verification: How Covered California is Using Google's Document AI to Fix Health Insurance Enrollment
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The Partnership: Covered California is expanding its partnership with Google Public Sector and Deloitte to overhaul CalHEERS, the state’s integrated health insurance eligibility and enrollment platform.The Technology: The system utilizes Google Cloud’s Document AI (DocAI) to automate the complex document verification process required for millions of residents
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