Hospital foodservice might not immediately spring to mind when you think of the patient experience. Yet, for patients, meals are one of the few opportunities to exercise choice— something that matters deeply in a setting where most decisions are made for them. Three times a day, the people who deliver those meals offer something rare in healthcare—a reason to smile.
For hospital foodservice teams, the daily demands are relentless, and expectations remain high. Unfortunately, many teams
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White House Event Unveils CMS Health Tech Ecosystem Initiative
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced significant progress towards building a smarter, more secure, and more personalized healthcare experience, driven by a new partnership with innovative private sector companies.
- During a White House “Make Health Tech Great Again” event hosted with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Administration secured commitments from major healthcare and information technology
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C8 Health Raises $12M to Expand Best Practices Implementation Platform for Clinical Teams
What You Should Know:
- C8 Health, a best practices implementation platform for healthcare, today announced a $12M Series A funding round led by Team8, with participation from 10D and Vertex Ventures Israel. The latest round brings C8’s total funding to $18M.
- The investment aims to bridge the significant gap between evidence and practice in healthcare, providing clinicians with instant, contextual access to vetted, site-specific knowledge.
New Standard for Best Practices
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Healthcare Investment Shifts in 1H 2025: AI Remains a Bright Spot Amidst Fundraising Decline
What You Should Know:
- After a strong start to the year, the digital health sector experienced a significant pullback in Q2 2025, with deal volume declining to its lowest quarterly activity level in the last five years, according to the latest report from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).
- The report, Mid-Year Healthcare Investment and Exits Report reveals growing investor selectivity and capital concentration in fewer, high-conviction bets amidst ongoing global economic
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LCP Health Analytics and COTA Partner to Advance Real-World Data Use in Cross-Border Oncology HTAs
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What You Should Know:
– LCP Health Analytics is partnering with COTA to explore how US real-world data (RWD) can support health technology assessments (HTA) in the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU).
– With growing recognition that European patients may be underserved by delays in accessing new health technologies, this initiative explores whether deidentified US multiple myeloma patient data can be leveraged to inform
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Ambience Healthcare Raises $243M to Expand Clinical Ambient AI Platform
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- Ambience Healthcare, an ambient AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical documentation integrity (CDI), today announced a $243M Series C funding round.
- Co-led by Oak HC/FT and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the round saw participation from existing investors including the OpenAI Startup Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and Optum Ventures.
- New investors include Frist Cressey Ventures, Town Hall Ventures, Smash Capital, Georgian, and Founders
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Ledger Lines to Neural Nets: Re-engineering Medical Coding for the GPU Age
In 1971, a small team at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital, led by Dr. Howard Bleich and Dr. Warner Slack, booted up the hospital’s first Center for Clinical Computing. Their PDP-11 minicomputer stored lab results and a few hundred ICD-8 codes on nine-track tape. Each evening, residents lined up to run charge‐slip reports and marvel at the glow of the terminal. Fifty years later, we still tabulate charges, but the code set has grown from those few hundred entries to nearly 70,000 in ICD-10-CM,
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Arbital Health Secures $31M to Accelerate Value-Based Care Contracting
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- Arbital Health, a healthcare technology company providing critical infrastructure for providers and payers to successfully manage risk-based contracts secures $31M in Series B funding round led by Valtruis, with participation from existing investors Transformation Capital, Shaper Capital, and Healthy Ventures.
- The investment will expand Arbital Health’s payer and provider facing capabilities, accelerate value-based care contract performance monitoring,
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JotPsych Raises $5M to Build First Fully Agentic EHR for Behavioral Health
What You Should Know:
- JotPsych, creator of the leading AI-powered scribe for behavioral health, today announced it has raised $5M in seed funding led by Base10 Partners.
- The investment positions JotPsych to rapidly transform from a best-in-class AI scribe into the first fully agentic Electronic Health Record (EHR), aiming to fundamentally eliminate administrative tasks for behavioral health clinicians.
From AI Scribe to Agentic EHR: Accelerating Transformation
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Innovaccer Launches Comet™: AI-Powered Access Center Transforms Healthcare’s Digital Front Door
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare AI company, today announced the launch of Comet™, an AI-powered Access Center solution that transforms the traditional call center into an intelligent, always-on digital front door for care.
- Built to address long-standing operational inefficiencies in patient access, Comet™ integrates 24/7 omnichannel AI agents, intelligent bidirectional EMR connectivity, and real-time AI copilots to streamline scheduling, reduce hold
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