More than one-third of U.S. counties are now considered maternity care deserts. In 2023, the national maternal mortality rate hit 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births. For Black women, that climbs to 50.3 deaths per 100,000, more than double the national average.
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Digital Twin Care Platform pioneer Twin Health has officially launched its proprietary GLP-1 Stewardship Model, establishing a clear clinical framework to reduce long-term
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Moffitt Cancer Center has announced the expansion of its hybrid virtual oncology care program with Reimagine Care, deploying the conversational AI-powered assistant Remi
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Building Bridges: Academic-Practice Partnerships as the Future of New Graduate Nurse Preparedness
The nursing workforce is at an inflection point. As experienced nurses retire or leave the
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Kin Health has closed an oversubscribed $9M seed financing round led by Maveron, featuring participation from Town Hall Ventures, Flex Capital, and the co-founders of
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KLAS latest report, Data Archiving 2026, interviewed 36 vendor-identified deep adopters between September 2025 and March 2026 to evaluate how health organizations utilize
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Global laboratory services leader Labcorp has officially launched MyLabcorp™, a secure, AI-powered mobile patient application available on both the Apple App Store and Google
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Los Angeles-based health system Cedars-Sinai has deployed OpenEvidence systemwide, giving its entire enterprise care team access to an AI-enabled clinical reference tool
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Most verification and validation (V&V) frameworks in medical devices were built on a foundational assumption: the device you ship is the device that gets used. A fixed product, a fixed software
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Surescripts has expanded its Prior Authorization Automation solution, increasing the number of enabled clinicians by 50% since December 2025 to reach 68,000 prescribers across
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Healthcare operations company UnityAI has launched a strategic partnership with national substance use disorder (SUD) treatment provider Spero Health to automate inbound
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Consumer identity and health data platform HealthEx has partnered with 23andMe to allow users to securely link their comprehensive electronic medical records directly to their
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Nourish—the country’s largest dietitian-led virtual metabolic clinic—disclosed a $100M Series C funding round led by Menlo Ventures, accelerating its total capital raised to
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Commure, an AI platform for healthcare operations, secured a $70M financing round at a $7 billion post-money valuation led by General Catalyst, with participation from Sequoia
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Century Health has closed an oversubscribed $5M seed financing round led by Origin Ventures, bringing its total funding to an industry-accelerated position.The platform's
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Five years into caring for a patient, a primary care physician saw her again shortly after she delivered her first child. The visit was scheduled as a routine six-week newborn evaluation. As is common
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The Cyber Threat Surge: In its newly released report, The State of Healthcare Credential Exposure in 2026, Threat Exposure Management leader Flare documented a 33%
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Precision women's health pioneer Evvy has launched EvvyAI—an AI advisor designed to translate complex vaginal microbiome science into personalized, real-time guidance for every
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Health AI technology company Briya finalized a strategic partnership with InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering more than one billion health records
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Strategic Collaboration: Wheel and b.well Connected Health have announced a strategic partnership to create a turnkey infrastructure for AI-native and consumer-driven
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In their newly released whitepaper, Medical Devices in the AI Era, Aegis Ventures outlines how the medical device sector has historically underperformed in venture portfolios,
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Atropos Health and Guidehouse have launched a jointly developed clinical decision support (CDS) solution designed to operationalize real-world evidence (RWE) directly within
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Parexel has introduced ParexelAI™, a proprietary suite of human-led AI services designed to accelerate clinical development operations.Quantified Efficiencies: The suite is
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Qualtrics has officially completed its acquisition of healthcare experience leader Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75B, marking the largest technology acquisition in Utah
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For years, the debate around AI in radiology has been framed in the biggest possible terms. Will it replace radiologists? Will it outperform specialists? Will it make diagnostic imaging faster,
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Viz.ai has introduced the Viz Pulmonary™ Suite, an integrated AI solution designed to manage acute and chronic pulmonary conditions in a single platform.The suite targets three
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AI adoption is rapidly growing in healthcare across everything from clinical documentation to diagnostic imaging, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement. As per the 2023-24 American Hospital
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Glooko has received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for EndoTool IV Cloud, making it the first cloud-based, patient-specific insulin dosing platform cleared for hospital use.The
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The number of hospitals impacted by EHR purchase decisions dropped 40% compared to 2024 and nearly 50% compared to 2023, according to a new KLAS 2026 EMR Market Share
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Nearly 80% of health plan executives now plan to buy or co-develop AI capabilities with vendors, a sharp reversal from late 2024 when 78% were attempting to build internally,
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Optura, an enterprise healthcare platform, has announced a $17.5M Series A funding round led by Salesforce Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $25M.The platform
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Signant Health has acquired Ametris (formerly known as ActiGraph) to combine electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) technology with wearable-based digital measurements.
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As healthcare systems across the U.S. face unprecedented staffing shortages, overworked healthcare professionals are struggling to meet the needs of an ever-growing patient population. The pressure is
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Shyld AI has closed a $13.4M seed round led by Aulis Capital, marking one of the largest early-stage rounds in the healthcare AI sector.The company is moving beyond "passive"
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Urologic Health Inc. has closed an $11M seed financing round led by an undisclosed strategic investor, with participation from Edge Medical Ventures, SHD Partners, and
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IKS Health has acquired ARAI Solutions, a provider of specialized artificial intelligence, to accelerate the development of a full agentic AI technology stack.The acquisition
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Carrot Fertility has expanded Sprints, its AI-native metabolic health program, to support women from perimenopause through post-menopause.The program addresses the metabolic
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Chromie Health, a provider of AI-powered hospital management tools, has closed a $2M pre-seed round led by AIX Ventures.The company has launched Chromie Dispatch, an SMS-native
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9amHealth has secured $26M in Series B funding led by Define Ventures, bringing new participation from SemperVirens, Catalio Capital Management, and NewHealth Ventures.The
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Physicians across the U.S. are increasingly rethinking how they practice medicine as career pressures mount at every stage, according to the 2026 Locum Tenens Physicians Report
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Anomaly Insights has announced $17M in new funding led by Sound Ventures, bringing its total raised to $34M. Alumni Ventures also joined the round, alongside existing investors
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When cancer treatment fails, physicians face one of the hardest questions in medicine: what should come next?
Having recently cared for a young patient whose cancer had returned despite multiple
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Harmony Healthcare IT has appointed Brian Liddell as Chief Executive Officer, effective April 30, 2026.Brian Liddell succeeds founder Tom Liddell, who will transition to
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Labcorp and Epic have announced an expanded collaboration to make Labcorp’s full diagnostic test menu available through Epic’s Aura platform.The integration allows clinicians
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UC Berkeley spinout Knit Health has officially launched out of stealth with $11.6M in seed funding co-led by Uncork Capital and Frist Cressey Ventures.The platform introduces a
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Included Health has launched Provider Connect, a healthcare experience that combines real-time member context with quality and cost data to guide members toward high-quality,
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Medbridge has launched Medbridge Outcomes, an offering within its One Care platform designed to collect, measure, and submit patient-reported outcomes (PROs).The system aligns
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Evolution Devices has secured its first multi-location clinical sale of EvoWalk, a next-generation mobility solution, to the Sheltering Arms Institute.The EvoWalk system is a
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1upHealth has become the first interoperability solution provider to deploy all four APIs required by the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F)
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I want to be direct about something: the denial problem in U.S. healthcare is not complicated to understand. It is complicated to fix, but the basic dynamic is straightforward. Hospitals deliver
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Basata, an AI company focused on healthcare operations, has announced a $21M Series A funding round led by Basis Set Ventures.The platform uses specialty-specific AI agents to
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Healthcare revenue cycle management is bending under the strain of evolving payer policies, complex documentation, and higher demands for accuracy and cost control. Exacerbating these challenges are
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Lucent Diagnostics (a brand of Quanterix) and Tempus AI have announced a strategic collaboration to integrate Alzheimer’s blood-based biomarker testing into routine clinical
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New Withings report, The Menopause Transition 2026 analyzes real-world data from 2.5 million women across 11 countries to identify physiological shifts during the
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Healthcare cybersecurity is no longer just a technical discipline handled by IT teams. That view has changed. Cybersecurity in healthcare has grown. It now sits at the intersection of operations,
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MedTech Breakthrough has announced the winners of its 10th annual awards program, recognizing excellence in digital health and medical technology across more than 20
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Health systems can deliver appropriate, high-quality care and still see financial and quality outcomes that do not reflect that care. Downgrades, understated acuity, and misaligned quality metrics
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Wisdom Ventures has closed its $77.7M Fund II, a significant increase from its $10 million Fund I.The fund is backed by prominent technology leaders, including Reid Hoffman
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Eko Health has appointed Steven R. Steinhubl, MD, a prominent cardiologist and digital medicine pioneer, as its Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and executive leadership team
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Artera is the first agentic healthcare company to adopt an AI Services Model, moving away from traditional "homogeneous SaaS" to deliver bespoke, clinic-specific solutions.The
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Elation Health has licensed the American Heart Association (AHA) PREVENT™ risk equations, integrating them directly into its Clinical Insights AI tool.The PREVENT-ASCVD tool
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