For decades, life insurance and healthcare operated in parallel but separate worlds — one focused on managing financial risk, the other on improving physical health. But in an era defined by digital transformation, that boundary is fading fast. Advances in health data, wearable technology, and artificial intelligence are bringing the two industries together in ways that could fundamentally reshape how people understand protection, prevention, and long-term wellness.
This convergence isn’t
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House Rx Raises $55M to Scale In-Clinic Specialty Pharmacy Model
What You Should Know:
- House Rx, a health tech company focused on making specialty medications more accessible and affordable for patients, today announced it has raised $55 million in Series B equity and debt to expand its in-clinic specialty pharmacy model.
- The financing was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Town Hall Ventures and included participation from LRVHealth, First Round Capital, Bessemer Venture
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Reinventing Value-Based Care Program Administration with AI
Implementing a new VBC program in healthcare requires cross-functional support and overcoming numerous challenges. Simplification opportunities exist to address pain points for program administrators such as rigorous research, ROI assessment, and stakeholder engagement. Manual processes, including participant recruitment, financial modeling, program integrity management, and technical assistance can benefit from technology to streamline and automate tasks, allowing skilled resources to focus on
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Luma Health Acquires Tonic Health, Expanding AI-Native Platform for Patient Intake and EHR Integration
What You Should Know:
- Luma Health, a leader in healthcare technology and services, has announced the acquisition of Tonic Health from R1. Tonic Health is a prominent provider specializing in dynamic intake, e-consents, and patient-reported outcomes. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The strategic acquisition significantly advances Luma’s mission to automate administrative tasks, reduce staff burden, and simplify patient access to care using its
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Sentara Health Deploys Andor Health’s Agentic AI Across 12 Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- Andor Health, the AI company specializing in agentic AI software infrastructure for healthcare, and Sentara Health have announced an expanded agreement for an enterprise license of the ThinkAndor® platform. Sentara Health is one of the top 20 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the U.S., serving communities across Virginia, Northeastern North Carolina, and Florida through 12 hospitals and a robust health plan.
- Building on the early success of
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GE HealthCare and DeepHealth Expand AI Collaboration to Optimize Ultrasound and Breast Cancer Care
What You Should Know:
- GE HealthCare and DeepHealth, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of RadNet, Inc. and a global leader in AI-powered health informatics, have announced their intention to significantly expand their existing strategic collaboration.
- This next phase focuses on advancing the innovation, commercialization, and adoption of AI across multiple imaging modalities.
Collaboration Focus Areas
The original initiative, announced in 2024, successfully united DeepHealth’s
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Why the Healthcare Contact Center is a Strategic Asset, Not a Cost Center
Healthcare leaders face an increasingly complex equation: higher patient demand, rising costs, and growing expectations for access and experience. Balancing these pressures has only become more difficult since the pandemic. Yet within this challenge lies a powerful but often underutilized lever for improvement: the contact center.
Traditionally seen as a back-office function, contact centers now sit at the heart of the care experience. They represent the new front door of healthcare. Long
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Longitude Rx to Deploy Innovaccer’s Gravity Platform to Unify Data and Boost Patient Access
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare AI company, and Longitude Rx, the specialty pharmacy company built by and for health systems, have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate specialty pharmacy innovation and improve patient outcomes.
- The collaboration addresses the significant complexity inherent in specialty pharmacy, which includes challenges across prior authorization, 340B compliance, and patient engagement.
- Through the partnership, Longitude Rx will
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Natera Integrates Oncology Testing into Flatiron’s OncoEMR® to Streamline Cancer Care
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- Natera, Inc., a global leader in cell-free DNA and precision medicine, and Flatiron Health, a healthtech company focused on oncology solutions, have announced the integration of Natera’s oncology testing portfolio into OncoEMR®, Flatiron’s cloud-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform.
- The two-way integration allows for seamless electronic ordering and results delivery of Natera's oncology tests, including the molecular residual disease (MRD) test
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AI Company Matic Extends Automation to Medical Coding and Billing
What You Should Know:
- Matic, the physician-founded AI company formerly known as Scribematic, today announced the launch of Codematic, extending its healthcare automation platform beyond documentation into medical coding and revenue cycle management.
- Built by physicians who understand the downstream impact of disconnected data, Matic transforms documentation into the foundation for clinical accuracy, operational efficiency, and financial integrity. The launch marks a major milestone
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