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Healthcare conversational and agentic access platform Parakeet Health announced an oversubscribed $10M Series A financing round led by Canvas Ventures, with participation from Blank Space Ventures, StoryHouse Ventures, and HMC INQ, bringing cumulative funding to $13M.The
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For years, autism therapy has forced healthcare purchasers into a false choice: expand access or control costs.
But as diagnoses in the U.S. have climbed to one in every 31 children, demand for
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Workflow automation company EliseAI announced that it has raised $350M in new financing at a $4B valuation to deepen its operational automation platform across the housing and
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Middle-market investment banking firm Capstone Partners (a subsidiary of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated) released its September 2026 Healthcare Information Technology (IT)
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Advanced wound care solutions enterprise Venture Medical, LLC announced the acquisition of Medipyxis, Inc., developer of a purpose-built electronic medical record (EMR) and
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The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) released its 2026 State of Digital Health Purchasing survey report surveying 321 digital health purchasing decision-makers
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Weight Watchers announced a strategic enterprise collaboration with Google Health Enterprise, integrating wearable biometric tracking and AI-driven insights directly into
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Basalt Health, an AI-driven platform automating patient transitions and admissions into post-acute care facilities, raises $20M Series A financing round, bringing its
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Precision oncology and cancer risk intelligence platform CancerIQ announced a major architectural upgrade to its Epic Systems integrations, introducing a redesigned patient
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Diagnostics and virtual care platform Everlywell announced the strategic expansion of its enterprise executive leadership team, appointing Charles Cuzzell as Chief Commercial
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Oracle Health and digital identity network ID.me announced a strategic enterprise partnership at the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit in Orlando, Florida, natively
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Digital health and direct-to-consumer healthcare leader Hims & Hers Health, Inc. announced the rollout of its AI-native care platform to Hims weight loss members, expanding
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Healthcare market intelligence and analytics firm Trilliant Health announced the commercial launch of the premium version of Oria, an enterprise AI Strategist engineered to
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End-to-end revenue cycle management leader Ensemble Health Partners announced at its Healthcare Leadership Exchange, a strategic enterprise partnership with Penelope Health
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For years, America has talked about the aging population as a problem we will need to solve somewhere down the road. That framing is outdated. The crisis is already here.
The population of older
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UltraSight™, a pioneer in AI-guided cardiac ultrasound workflows, announced it raised $24M in Series B2 financing.Alive HealthTech Growth Fund led the funding round, with
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Cloud communications provider Vonage, a subsidiary of Ericsson, announced the deployment of its Branded Calling technology natively within Epic Systems’ Hello World
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Neuromodulation digital therapeutics pioneer Theranica announced the publication of a landmark, peer-reviewed clinical validation study in Neurology® Open Access evaluating
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Provider data infrastructure company CertifyOS launches its National Shared Credentialing Program, establishing a unified, multi-payer verification network designed to
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At the Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit, Oracle Health announced a major portfolio-wide expansion of embedded artificial intelligence capabilities across its Revenue
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Ashok Benial is right. His argument in these pages last week — that most hospitals are buying AI faster than they can govern it, that "the tools go live while the guardrails are still on a slide deck"
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Global clinical AI platform Heidi raises $340M in total new capital, comprising a $100M Series C equity round at a $900M valuation and a $240M growth investment from General
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The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) released its comprehensive report, the 2026 State Healthcare Policy Review: Tracking Private Equity Oversight and Reform,
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The forward deployed engineer model, embraced across enterprise technology, is built on a seductive assumption: that the gap between a technology's potential and its adoption is primarily a technical
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Abridge, the AI-native clinician intelligence platform deployed across more than 300 U.S. health systems, announced it was selected through a distribution partner to provide
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Healthcare access infrastructure leader Zocdoc launches an enterprise platform expansion that syndicates provider availability beyond its native marketplace (Zocdoc.com and
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Patient access and navigation leader DexCare, Inc. announced the acquisition of Mila Health, an AI-driven care coordination company whose conversational agents autonomously
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Healthcare and education technology provider Ascend Learning announced the acquisition of M7 Health, an AI-powered clinical scheduling and workforce management platform
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A commissioned Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting in August 2026 revealed that Experian Health’s Patient Access Curator™ protected $50.4M in
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Global strategic advisory firm PwC published a market analysis titled “Unlocking the Women’s Health Opportunity: A New Era in Fertility and Reproductive Health,” projecting the
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Healthcare executives are being asked to approve AI investments through dashboards that emphasize activity: messages drafted, calls summarized, records reviewed and minutes saved. Those numbers show
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Angle Health, an AI-native healthcare benefits platform designed for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), announced a $600M equity financing transaction at a $2.7 billion
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Healthcare AI has reached an inflection point. AI is rapidly moving from isolated demonstrations to production systems embedded in clinical, operational, and research workflows. A new generation of AI
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The 2026 Healthcare Workforce Barometer, conducted online by The Harris Poll on behalf of Strategic Education, Inc. and its subsidiary Workforce Edge, surveyed 1,514 full-time
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Arizona-based nonprofit health system HonorHealth (operating nine acute-care hospitals, an extensive medical group, and outpatient networks across Greater Phoenix) has expanded
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For years, healthcare leaders have asked if artificial intelligence can predict what will happen next, such as who might be readmitted, which patients could get worse, where resources are needed, and
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LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced that its Identity Proofing for MyChart solution is now officially available within the Epic Toolbox Program under the Identity Verification
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Ferry Health emerged from stealth, securing $9M in seed funding to deploy an autonomous, agentic AI personal assistant that handles complex healthcare logistics for
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Healthcare data collaboration platform Datavant announced that investment funds managed by Neuberger Capital Solutions, Neuberger Private Markets, and KKR have agreed to
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Kairon Health, the AI-native execution layer for value-based care (VBC) that it has raised $5M in venture funding to automate day-to-day operations for risk-bearing provider
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ATA Action—the advocacy arm of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA)—launched the Cross-State Care Coalition, uniting health systems, digital health platforms, and
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Smart ring and wearable health technology company Ultrahuman announced the rollout of the HealthEx PowerPlug, integrating personal electronic medical records with continuous
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Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center (SMRMC) in McComb, Mississippi—the flagship hub of Southwest Health—announced on September 17, 2026, that it has completed the
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Most teams building AI systems treat confidence as a solved problem. The model produces a probability, the interface displays it, and the reliability requirement gets checked off. Within weeks, the
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Sword, the $4B AI health company, signed a definitive agreement to acquire digital mental health and mindfulness leader Headspace in an all-cash transaction valued at up to
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Ask most people to describe a biohacker, and you'll likely hear about a man in his thirties with a cold plunge, a spreadsheet, and a strong opinion about seed oils. Ask a fifty-year-old woman whether
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Healthcare revenue cycle management leader R1 announced the launch of Phare Utilization Management (Phare UM), an AI-enabled solution moving hospital utilization management
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Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in cybersecurity over the past decade. Yet many of the assumptions those programs were built upon—how quickly threats emerge, where risks originate, and
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Healthcare clinical data management leader MRO announced it acquired Vyne Medical, a specialist in healthcare data intake and intelligent document processing (IDP) serving more
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Cognita Imaging, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Mosaic Clinical Technologies, Inc., operating within the broader Radiology Partners ecosystem) was awarded a $1.29 million
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A national research study conducted by Wakefield Research for Cedar Gate Technologies (an IQVIA business) surveyed 100 senior U.S. health plan executives (VP level and above)
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Rutgers University and RWJBarnabas Health—New Jersey’s largest academic health system spanning 14 hospitals and over 5 million annual patients—have partnered with Amazon Web
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Healthcare IT leader MEDITECH has completed the enterprise deployment of its Expanse electronic health record (EHR) platform across 34 acute care hospitals in HCA Healthcare’s
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Thatch, the healthcare benefits platform transitioning employers from traditional group coverage to consumer-directed health budgets, raised $108 million in new funding at a $1
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Healthcare access management and identity security leader Imprivata released national research conducted by independent research firm Vanson Bourne, surveying 250 U.S.
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Amazon One Medical has expanded its weight management and GLP-1 clinical care infrastructure across 48 states and Washington, D.C., updating its national delivery framework on
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Hello Patient (Austin, TX) announced that it has acquired Converse Health, an AI workflow automation company built for independent outpatient medical practices.Founded in 2023
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More is not always better when it comes to digital engagement. While healthcare executives have prioritized investments in digital front doors in recent years, patient experience remains
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Medallion, the AI-assisted healthcare credentialing and payer enrollment platform, announced on September 15, 2026, that it has acquired Andros, an NCQA-certified credentials
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Healthcare navigation platform Quantum Health (Dublin, OH) announced on September 15, 2026, the appointment of Dr. Susan Mani as its new Chief Medical Officer (CMO).Dr. Mani
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GE HealthCare announced on September 15, 2026, the launch of CareIntellect™ for Operations, a cloud-native, AI-enabled Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application engineered to
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