HR1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, significantly revised eligibility and enrollment processes for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. With deadlines starting December 31, 2026, agencies must begin modernization efforts now to prevent costly
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In Part 1 of this series, we covered the foundation of an AI-ready healthcare organization: an organization-appropriate governance framework, regulatory awareness, and an AI inventory.
Now, let's
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Greatly Health raised a $4 million seed round co-led by Pear VC and Commonweal Ventures to bring integrative oncology to a broader patient population.The company's virtual
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Roon, an AI-native digital community, has officially launched as a dedicated platform for verified physicians to share medical expertise and emerging research.The platform aims
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WellSky has unveiled WellSky Ambient Documentation for Personal Care, an AI-powered solution purpose-built to automate assessment and care plan documentation.Powered by
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Nordic Global has released 2026 survey findings showing that 61% of healthcare IT leaders now view Application Managed Services (AMS) as a central, rather than supplemental,
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Boehringer Ingelheim and Eko Health have introduced Eko Vet+™ | CANINEBEAT® AI, a digital auscultation solution designed to detect, visualize, and grade heart murmurs in
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Aidoc has raised $150M in Series E funding, led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to over $500M. The round included participation from
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Precision medicine has transitioned from "one-off" testing to organized institutional programs at more than three-quarters of surveyed U.S. health systems, according to new
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CareDx has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Naveris, a precision oncology company specializing in blood-based monitoring for viral-mediated cancers.The deal
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Rad AI has appointed David Leonard as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Elizabeth Bergey, MD, as the company’s first Chief Clinical Officer (CCO).Leonard, previously Head of
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For the longest time, “personal finance” was anything but personal.
Consumers had very little insight into or control over important things like their savings and investing. Most of their financial
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Rula has published its 2026 report, "State of Mental Health Report," based on a national survey of over 2,037 U.S. adults.A widening "Awareness-Action Gap" persists: while 60%
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Weave Bio has expanded its AI-native regulatory platform to support New Drug Application (NDA) submissions, covering the full drug development lifecycle.Strategic partner
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Patients with metastatic breast cancer and non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC) treated in independent community oncology practices lived longer than national benchmarks.Median
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New York Cancer & Blood Specialists (NYCBS) has partnered with Talkiatry to provide integrated, high-quality psychiatric care to oncology and hematology patients.The
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How Online Education Scales the Primary Care Workforce
Flexible digital learning platforms are steadily breaking down long-standing barriers in medical education, opening the door for more
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Moderna has selected Salesforce’s Agentforce Life Sciences to serve as its unified, global platform for commercial operations and customer engagement.The platform will
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KLAS has released its 2026 Points of Light report, honoring 24 strategic partnerships that successfully improved data sharing, operational efficiency, and financial
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UChicago Medicine has signed an enterprise agreement to deploy Artisight’s Smart Hospital Platform, implementing more than 1,800 devices across its clinical enterprise.The
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The FDA has launched two proof-of-concept (PoC) real-time clinical trials (RTCT) that report endpoints and data signals to the agency as they occur.AstraZeneca is leading a
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Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) is expanding its partnership with Heidi to provide ambient AI scribing capabilities to all of its more than 6,000 providers.An initial 6-month
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The Investment: Koda Health secured a Series A strategic investment from UPMC Enterprises to aggressively scale its AI-enhanced Advance Care Planning (ACP) platform across
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Sage has launched Tasking, a solution that unifies planned care from EHRs with unplanned care alerts into a single, real-time mobile workflow.The solution initially launches
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With the advancements in traumatic wound care, the question is no longer whether we can close the wound — it's how well we can restore what was lost.
Key Takeaways:
Wound closure has long been
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It costs between $6,500 and $10,000 per bed to link health systems. That is just the start. Upkeep adds 15% more each year. Most hospitals run on margins below 3%. That gap hurts.
When systems
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Covera Health and Medmo have officially merged into a single organization, creating a unified platform that manages diagnostic imaging for nearly 6 million Americans.The
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Availity has launched the 2026 Abrasion Index, a dual-sided research report quantifying administrative friction between U.S. health plans and healthcare providers.Denials
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Hospital leaders are navigating one of the most transformative periods in modern healthcare as organizations invest heavily in artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and digital
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TytoCare has received FDA De Novo classification for its Tyto Insights™ for ENT Suite, creating a first-of-its-kind regulatory category for "ear, nose, and throat image
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The FDA has cleared Tandem’s Control-IQ+ technology for use in pregnancies complicated by type 1 diabetes, making it the first and only commercially available AID system with
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St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is collaborating with Auxira Health to integrate virtually-embedded teams into its Heart & Vascular network.The model provides
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No Barrier’s AI-powered medical interpretation platform was tested in an independent study at Mass General Brigham, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
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Accenture Ventures has made a strategic investment in Iridius, an enterprise AI infrastructure company specializing in compliant-by-design solutions for highly regulated
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eClinicalWorks has introduced the healow CCM Specialist Service, a "specialist-as-a-service" model that embeds certified clinicians directly into ambulatory practice
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The healthcare industry spent an estimated $3.7 billion on artificial intelligence solutions in 2025, according to Statista. Executives cite clinical decision support, revenue cycle
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ChatGPT for Clinicians is a new, free version of ChatGPT designed specifically for verified physicians, NPs, PAs, and pharmacists in the U.S. to support documentation,
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IKS Health will acquire TruBridge for $26.25 per share (up to $565M) in an all-cash transaction, with the deal expected to close in the third calendar quarter of 2026.The
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Almanac Health has raised $10M in a seed round led by F-Prime, with participation from General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing total funding to nearly
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Gravity Rail has officially launched with a $2.75M seed investment led by Redesign Health.The platform functions as a model-agnostic operating system, allowing healthcare teams
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Zócalo Health has closed a $15 million Series A funding round led by EO Ventures, bringing its total capital raised to $22.75M.The company specializes in serving high-need
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Ambience Healthcare has appointed Dr. Michael Han, MD, MBA, as its first Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to lead clinical strategy and platform expansion.Dr. Han previously served
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Kipu Health has officially acquired Team Recovery Technologies, a specialist in mobile-app-based patient engagement and alumni connectivity. Financial details of the
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ŌURA has officially acquired Galen AI, a startup founded by Stanford graduates that specializes in unifying fragmented health data from over ten thousand healthcare systems.
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Infinitus Studio allows healthcare teams to design and deploy AI agents using a natural-language interface, requiring zero coding knowledge.The platform delivers significant
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For many private practitioners, getting one brick-and-mortar medical or dental office up and running is hard enough. The thought of going from zero to one location — let alone scaling your practice
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Strata 2026 Report: U.S. Healthcare Finance Leaders Pivot from Volatile Recovery to Strict Operational Discipline
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Government funding and Medicaid cuts have surged to the top
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Why the AMA Says Mental Health Chatbots Need Crisis Detection
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The Legislative Push: In letters to the Congressional AI Caucus, the Congressional Digital Health Caucus, and
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The Biopharma Bottleneck: Why Courier Health Raised $50M to Fix Fragmented Patient Journeys
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The Funding: New York-based Courier Health has closed a $50 million Series B
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AI governance in healthcare has a branding problem. The word "governance" alone is enough to make half the room shut down. I've seen it happen. You put that word on a meeting invite, and suddenly
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The Funding: Amperos Health has closed a $16M Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Uncork Capital and Neo. This follows a
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Real-Time Verification: How Covered California is Using Google's Document AI to Fix Health Insurance Enrollment
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The Partnership: Covered California is expanding its
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Treehub Launches as Premier Academic Residency to Bridge the Gap Between Breakthrough Labs and Billion-Dollar Healthcare Ventures
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Treehub is a first-of-its-kind boutique
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Lumeris Integrates Google Gemini Native Audio into Tom Platform to Revolutionize Patient-Provider Interactions
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Lumeris has officially launched Native Audio for Tom,
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Eleos Debuts Agentic AI Suite for Community-Based Care
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The Launch: Eleos, a technology platform built for community-based care, has expanded its suite by launching new
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Within the evolving landscape of regulatory peptides, Semax occupies a distinctive conceptual niche. Originally derived as a short synthetic fragment inspired by adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH),
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The Launch: The University of Texas at Austin has announced the UT Dell Medical Center, a comprehensive, "tech-native" academic medical center slated to open in 2030.The MD
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Last week I ended up at a fancy venue hired by a hopeful medtech company trying to impress potential investors with delicious food and an emotional story about their life-saving device. Pitching has
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The Funding: AcuityMD has secured an $80M Series C led by StepStone Group, with participation from Benchmark, Redpoint Ventures, ICONIQ, and Atreides Management. The company
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The Partnership: Zocdoc has officially partnered with Yelp to allow patients to book medical appointments directly from a doctor's Yelp business page.The Tech Integration: The
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The Launch: Amazon One Medical has rolled out a nationwide GLP-1 management program that explicitly integrates obesity treatment with comprehensive primary care.The Clinical
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