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The Leap: Ambience Healthcare has launched "Chart Awareness," a capability that allows its AI to interpret a patient’s full longitudinal record (labs, imaging, prior notes) rather than just transcribing the current conversation.The Features: The update includes Chart-Aware Patient Summaries, Diagnostics (auto-extracting lab trends), and Coding (substantiating complex codes like G2211 based on patient history).The Proof: In a head-to-head evaluation at MultiCare Health
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Ubie and Mayo Clinic to Launch “Smart Support” AI Triage Platform
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The Deal: Ubie, a Google-backed AI healthcare platform, has announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to co-develop "Ubie Smart Support."The Tech: The platform aims to unify the "fragmented" digital front door by integrating chat and voice interfaces into a single access point. It uses AI to triage symptoms, route patients, and schedule appointments 24/7.The Future: Beyond scheduling, the partners plan to co-develop an add-on module for chronic disease management,
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GE HealthCare Installs Allia Moveo at USF Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation
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The Installation: The University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) has become the first institution in Florida (and third in the world) to install GE HealthCare’s Allia Moveo.The Tech: Allia Moveo is a next-generation image-guided therapy (IGT) solution featuring a compact, cable-free C-arm. Its lateral wide-bore design allows for Cone Beam CT (CBCT) imaging even with patients' arms down, accommodating a wider range of body
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Andor Health Scores Three Premier Contracts to Automate Virtual Care
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The Win: Andor Health, the leader in "agentic AI" solutions, has been awarded three separate national agreements with Premier Inc.The Categories: The agreements cover Virtual Care (effective Dec 1, 2025), Clinical Communications & Collaboration (Feb 1, 2026), and Remote Patient Monitoring (March 1, 2026).The Tech: ThinkAndor®, the company's AI-powered infrastructure, uses "agentic intelligence" to optimize workflows and reduce administrative burdens. Premier members
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Mayo Clinic Platform Standardizes Cancer Data to Speed Up Trials
Mayo Clinic Platform Standardizes Cancer Data to Speed Up Trials
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The Upgrade: Mayo Clinic Platform_Orchestrate has launched new capabilities that allow researchers to access standardized, "research-ready" cancer data.The Standard: The platform now utilizes the OMOP Oncology framework, which structures complex, messy data (like pathology reports and tumor staging) into a consistent format that algorithms can easily analyze.The Future: Later this year, Mayo will
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How Open Source Collaboration Can Accelerate Medical AI Innovation and FDA Approval
Big medicine, medical startups, and much of medical academia have historically been steeped in secrecy and proprietary research. This is a direct result of the privacy in patient and medical data, but as AI supercharges everything from diagnostic medicine to patient treatment and care, it’s time to change the paradigm. By embracing the principles of open source collaborations and finding a balance between protecting privacy and sharing knowledge, the industry can
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Wellumio Raises $7.28M to Bring MRI Scans Directly to the Bedside
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The Raise: New Zealand-based Wellumio has raised $7.28M in the first close of its pre-Series A round, led by Nuance Connected Capital, to fast-track its portable stroke detection technology. The round also included participation from Icehouse Ventures, NZ Growth Capital Partners, Pacific Channel and the New Zealand Government’s Active Investor Plus (AIP) program.The Tech: The company’s flagship device, Axana, is a 50kg, battery-powered MRI scanner. Unlike traditional
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The “Smart Home” for the Caregiver Crisis: Wisdom Raises $1.3M to Automate Aging in Place
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The Funding: Wisdom, a smart home startup for older adults, has raised a total of $1.3M, including a new $315k social-impact investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.The Tech: Unlike traditional medical alerts that require a button push, Wisdom uses ambient sensing and edge AI to detect falls and activity changes automatically. It processes data locally on a "Home Hub" to protect privacy, avoiding the need for invasive cameras or wearables.The Mission: The
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CalMHSA Deploys Eleos AI Statewide for California’s Mental Health Workers
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The Deal: The California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) has selected Eleos Health as its official AI partner. This is the behavioral health industry’s largest single deployment of AI technology to date, potentially reaching 27,000 clinicians across 27 counties.The Tech: Eleos’ AI-powered documentation tools will be embedded directly into Streamline’s SmartCare™ EHR. The system uses the new Polaris AI model (built with Google Cloud) to listen to sessions and
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Hillsboro Health to Deploy Oracle Health Foundation EHR and Clinical AI Agent
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The Switch: Hillsboro Health, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Illinois, is transitioning from legacy systems to the Oracle Health Foundation EHR to standardize clinical operations across its network.The AI: The hospital is deploying the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, a generative AI voice tool that automatically drafts structured notes from patient-clinician conversations, drastically reducing "pajama time" for doctors.The Network: By implementing Oracle Health
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