MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System), a Medicare program that rewards clinicians for delivering high-quality, cost-efficient care, is by nature an evolving entity.
Much the way healthcare continually changes as new knowledge, treatments, and technologies modify past practices, MIPS
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As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services moves forward with the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), hospitals are taking on financial accountability for Medicare’s most
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The Deal: Hims & Hers Health, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Eucalyptus , an international digital health company, in a transaction valued at up to
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The Finding: An analysis using the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation’s (PCCI) Community Vulnerability Compass (CVC) reveals that four out of five rural Texans live in
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The Tech: CharmHealth has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Originally championed by companies like Anthropic, MCP is an open standard that allows AI models to
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The Lawsuits: Several startup founders, including PatchAi's Alessandro Monterosso and RedCrow's Jerry Harrison (of the Talking Heads), are suing Alira Health and CEO Gabriele
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The Launch: Alphabet's Verily is lowering the barrier to entry for biomedical research by launching a free, self-serve "Standard tier" for its Pre precision health platform.The
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The Upgrade: Elsevier has significantly expanded its ClinicalKey AI platform, adding full-text access to over 130 premium medical journals (including NEJM and The Lancet) and
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The Raise: Frist Cressey Ventures (FCV) has closed an oversubscribed $425M Fund IV, bringing its total assets under management to nearly $1 billion.The Strategy: The new fund
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The Deal: Sensei Biotherapeutics has acquired Faeth Therapeutics in a stock-for-stock transaction. Concurrently, Sensei raised a massive $200M in private placement financing to
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The Raise: Rainfall Health, an AI-driven compliance platform, has closed a $15M Series A funding round led by Two Bear Capital, along with support from other notable
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The Deal: Merck and Mayo Clinic have signed a strategic research agreement to apply AI and multimodal data to drug discovery. This is Mayo Clinic's first collaboration of this
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The Launch: Imprivata, the digital identity company, has officially launched its Patient Access solution within Epic Toolbox. This means it is now a native, vetted integration
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The Raise: Synchrony Medical, a respiratory care technology company, has closed an oversubscribed $5M funding round led by Edge Medical Ventures.The Tech: The company's
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The Launch: Flatiron Health has expanded its Panoramic platform to include prostate cancer datasets from the UK and Germany, creating a unified, global standard for Real-World
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Most clinical communication business cases fail at the board level.
Not because the technology doesn't work. Not because the clinical need isn't real. The problem is simpler: the financial framing
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Healthcare runs on data. Every patient visit, lab result, prescription, and claim depends on systems that must work without pause. When those systems fail, the damage spreads fast. Many leaders focus
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The Deal: Innovative Consulting Group (ICG), a portfolio company of SV Health Investors, has acquired Pivot Point Consulting. Pivot Point was divested from Highspring to
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Feeding is one of the most frequently performed high-risk workflows in the NICU, yet it remains among the least consistently protected by end-to-end safety controls. Medically fragile patients are
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The Rollout: Houston Methodist, one of the nation's leading academic medical centers, is deploying Ambience Healthcare's AI platform enterprise-wide. This isn't just a pilot;
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The Deal: GE HealthCare has secured a $35M expansion to its contract with BARDA (part of HHS). The funding is a cost-share arrangement to accelerate the development of
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Twenty-seven million Americans are uninsured. And nearly one in four who are covered skip or delay care because of cost. As of January 1, more than 20 million ACA
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The Launch: McLaren Health Care has launched a first-of-its-kind cardiovascular screening program in Michigan, partnering with Bunkerhill Health.The Tech: The program uses the
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The Launch: SpendRule has officially launched its AI-powered contract intelligence platform, backed by investors like Abundant Venture Partners and MemorialCare Innovation
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the life sciences industry, influencing everything from early-stage drug discovery to clinical operations, manufacturing, and patient engagement. While
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Cash flow instability is one of the most persistent operational pressures facing medical clinics today. Between delayed reimbursements, rising labor costs, and increasing technology investments,
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The Deal: Harbor Health, an integrated care and coverage provider (a "payvider"), has acquired Rippl, a specialized dementia care platform.The Strategy: The move integrates
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The Raise: Atlas Oncology Partners has closed a $28M Series A financing round led by Flare Capital Partners, with significant backing from Rubicon Founders.The Model: Atlas
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The Raise: Montreal-based Secai has closed a $6.2M Series A financing round to expand its footprint across Canada and the United States.The Tech: The company offers a
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The Deal: HealthMark Group, a leader in clinical information exchange, has acquired Purview, an Annapolis-based cloud medical imaging company.The Problem: Despite massive
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As digital transformation accelerates across healthcare, biometric security — the use of unique physical or behavioral traits, such as fingerprints, facial features or iris patterns, to verify
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Healthcare costs, claims accuracy, payer relationships, and revenue integrity are all intersecting now more than ever. Healthcare organizations are realizing they’re no longer judged only on clinical
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The Launch: Medicomp Systems has unveiled a new suite of intelligence tools designed to "ground" AI in clinical reality. The announcement comes ahead of the ViVE 2026 and
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Restoring mobility after significant injury, illness, or limb loss is a profoundly personal journey. For individuals facing complex mobility challenges, evaluating specialized care standards can be
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A child’s ability to move through their world shapes play and learning, yet many families still face long waits and uneven access to the right equipment. Assistive mobility tools are now more
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The Raise: Talkiatry has secured $210M Series D financing round led by Perceptive Advisors, with participation from Sofina and prior lead investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z),
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The Funding: Anterior, a clinician-led AI platform for health plans, has raised a $40M funding round, bringing its total capital to $64M. The round included participation from
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The Partnership: Maven Clinic, the unicorn virtual clinic for women’s health, has partnered with Color Health, the leader in virtual cancer care, to launch a specialized
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In 2020, the FDA cleared the first video game as a medical treatment. EndeavorRx, developed by neuroscientists at UC San Francisco, was proven in five clinical trials to improve attention in children
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Keragon has unveiled an AI-powered healthcare automation platform that connects 300+ healthcare applications and enables HIPAA-compliant workflows through simple
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The Leap: Ambience Healthcare has launched "Chart Awareness," a capability that allows its AI to interpret a patient’s full longitudinal record (labs, imaging, prior notes)
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The Deal: Ubie, a Google-backed AI healthcare platform, has announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to co-develop "Ubie Smart Support."The Tech: The platform aims to unify
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The Installation: The University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) has become the first institution in Florida (and third in the
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The Win: Andor Health, the leader in "agentic AI" solutions, has been awarded three separate national agreements with Premier Inc.The Categories: The agreements cover Virtual
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Mayo Clinic Platform Standardizes Cancer Data to Speed Up Trials
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The Upgrade: Mayo Clinic Platform_Orchestrate has launched new capabilities that allow researchers to access
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Big medicine, medical startups, and much of medical academia have historically been steeped in secrecy and proprietary research. This is a direct result of the privacy in patient
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The Raise: New Zealand-based Wellumio has raised $7.28M in the first close of its pre-Series A round, led by Nuance Connected Capital, to fast-track its portable stroke
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The Funding: Wisdom, a smart home startup for older adults, has raised a total of $1.3M, including a new $315k social-impact investment from the Richard King Mellon
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The Deal: The California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) has selected Eleos Health as its official AI partner. This is the behavioral health industry’s largest
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The Switch: Hillsboro Health, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Illinois, is transitioning from legacy systems to the Oracle Health Foundation EHR to standardize clinical
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The Deal: Solace Health has raised a $130M Series C led by IVP with participation from Menlo Ventures, SignalFire, propelling the company to a valuation of over $1 billion.
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The Funding: Garner Health has raised $118M in Series D funding led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Redpoint Ventures, Maverick Ventures, and Kaiser Permanente
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Artificial intelligence is continuing its march into most facets of our lives, and the healthcare sector is no exception. Here, the technology is being leveraged in areas like diagnostics, patient
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The Integration: Mira, the leader in at-home lab-grade hormone testing, has launched a direct integration with ŌURA, the maker of the popular smart ring.The Data Flow: Users
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The Deal: Midstream Health, a platform backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), has secured a strategic partnership with CommonSpirit Health. The health system isn't just a
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Patients aren’t just experimenting with AI for health advice anymore – they’re relying on it.
A recent survey found that more than 57% of participants had a predominantly favorable view of AI in
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The Partnership: Canary Speech, a leader in vocal biomarker technology, has partnered with Intermountain Ventures (the innovation arm of Intermountain Health) to launch a
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The Study: In a paper published today in The Lancet Digital Health [10.1016/j.landig.2025.100949], researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai analyzed over one
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The Trend: According to the new 2026 KLAS Research report, ambulatory organizations are increasingly favoring comprehensive suites (all-in-one EHR and Practice Management) over
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The Launch: athenahealth and b.well Connected Health have unveiled a new point-of-care workflow that allows patients to share health info via QR code, eliminating paper forms
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Most life sciences companies may know more about their healthcare professionals (HCPs) than they realize, but too often they can’t use that data when it matters. For example, an HCP may have just
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