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The latest CB Insights report, Q2 2026 State of Digital Health reveals global digital health deal activity reached a decade-low of 228 deals in Q2 2026, marking a 36% decline quarter-over-quarter and a two-thirds drop from the Q2 2022 peak of 688 deals. Total equity funding fell 24% quarter-over-quarter to $5.7 billion, with capital concentration escalating as a small handful of mega-rounds anchored overall venture volume.Isomorphic Labs’ $2.1B Series B
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Mount Sinai Medical Center Extends Epic’s Ambient AI to Inpatient Nursing
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Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach has launched "Chart with Art," Epic's ambient AI documentation tool, for its inpatient nursing staff.The deployment makes Mount Sinai the first health system in Florida and the fourth nationwide to extend Epic's ambient listening technology to bedside nurses.The platform operates in both English and Spanish, accommodating a primary care community where over 30 percent of patients speak Spanish as their primary language.Inpatient
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M&A: Tempus AI to Acquire Personalis for $1.5B to Expand Precision Oncology and MRD Monitoring
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Tempus AI, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Personalis, Inc. for $16.25 per share, valuing the company at $1.5 billion net of Tempus’ existing ownership stake.The transaction integrates Personalis’ ultrasensitive NeXT Personal® tumor-informed minimal residual disease (MRD) liquid biopsy test into Tempus’ AI-enabled multimodal clinical data engine.Addresses a total addressable market estimated at $20 billion, serving an expected 2.1 million newly
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Catholic Health Inks $500M Care Alliance with GE HealthCare to Automate Outpatient Triage
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Long Island-based integrated health system Catholic Health and GE HealthCare have finalized a landmark 10-year strategic partnership valued at approximately $500M.The deal will inject more than 1,300 pieces of advanced medical technology across Catholic Health’s six acute care hospitals and 36 ambulatory sites, prioritizing cardiology, oncology, neurology, and women’s health lines.Disrupting typical multi-year implementation delays, approximately 50% of all new imaging
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KLAS Global HIT Trends 2026 Report: Artificial Intelligence Becomes the Top Investment Priority
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KLAS Research Global HIT Trends 2026 Report, reveals for the first time in history, artificial intelligence has emerged as the number-one healthcare IT investment priority across every single global region tracked outside the United States.While execution pressure is mounting, the market remains in an introductory phase, with 37% of organizations prioritizing high-level AI strategy, governance frameworks, and readiness assessments.Dictating 57% of emerging
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Brain Health’s Infrastructure Era: Proving Clinical Outcomes with Integrated Neuromotor Tracking
The senior living operator runs brain health programming for hundreds of residents and still can't say, with confidence, which ones are genuinely improving. The rehabilitation provider clears a patient to return to activity based on symptoms, not on whether the underlying deficit is actually resolved. The sports organization has to decide, in real time, whether an athlete is truly ready to perform under pressure, often with little more than instinct and a stopwatch. The pharmaceutical company
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Rock Health H1 2026 Digital Health Funding Recap: Startups Hit $7.4B in Venture Rebound
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Rock Health Capital H1 2026 Digital Health Funding Report, U.S. digital health funding reached $7.4B across 244 deals in H1 2026, outposing H1 2025 by $1B and establishing a clear multi-year recovery from the post-pandemic market resets of 2023 and 2024.Mega deals ($100M+) absorbed a staggering 45% of all deployed capital in H1 2026, consolidating nearly half of the market's total funding into just 8% of finalized transactions.Mental health secured its position as the
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Optum Partners with Anthropic to Deploy Claude Across Healthcare Claims and Revenue Workflows
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Optum, the sprawling health services subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, has announced a landmark strategic partnership with Anthropic to deploy its frontier model, Claude, across everyday healthcare operations.The enterprise collaboration sits inside a massive $3 billion AI capitalization program slated for 2026 and 2027, aimed at completely automating the transactional core of UnitedHealth’s commercial and public businesses.Led by Optum Insight CEO Sandeep Dadlani, the
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M&A: ResMed to Sell MatrixCare Business to Frazier Healthcare Partners for $450M
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Global health technology leader ResMed has announced a definitive agreement to sell its MatrixCare business to healthcare-exclusive private equity firm Frazier Healthcare Partners for $450M.The corporate divestiture explicitly aligns with ResMed’s 2030 strategy, allowing the company to narrow its focus and reallocate capital toward high-growth, scalable opportunities in sleep health, breathing health, and cloud-connected home care.MatrixCare represents a major post-acute
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Clinical Data Fidelity: The Real Blindspot in Healthcare AI Strategy
The healthcare industry has reached something it rarely achieves: near-total agreement. Surveys show 97 percent of healthcare professionals believe AI should support clinical expertise rather than replace it. Human review and validation rank as the top driver of trust in AI outputs. The governance question — who stays at the helm, who holds accountability — has been settled faster than most predicted.
But consensus on governance doesn't mean the harder problem is solved. Nearly 75% of
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