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The Mega-Round: Nitra, an AI-native operating platform for healthcare practices secures $187M in new financing. This includes $72M in new equity (across a $50M Series B and a previously unannounced $22M Series A), $20Min venture debt, and a $95M warehouse facility.The Growth
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The Launch: Microsoft has officially opened the waitlist for Copilot Health, a dedicated, secure ecosystem within Copilot designed to aggregate and make sense of personal
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Massive Adoption Spike: According to an American Medical Association (AMA) survey, Over 80% of physicians now use AI professionally, a stark increase from 38% in 2023. The
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The Launch: Verily has officially moved its consumer health app, Verily Me, out of beta and into general availability on the Apple App Store and Google Play.The AI Brain: The
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The Funding: Malama Health, a maternal health company, has closed an oversubscribed $9.2M seed round led by Acumen America with participation from Wisdom Ventures, Capital F,
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The Mandate: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) mandates the use of
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The Deployment: Brainomix has officially rolled out its AI imaging platform, Brainomix 360 Stroke, across all 25 sites of the West Virginia University (WVU) Health System.The
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The Deal: Academic publishing giant Wiley is licensing a massive portfolio of its scientific and medical content to OpenEvidence, the clinical AI platform used by more than 40%
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Wednesday at HIMSS26 brought a necessary, pragmatic reality check to the AI fervor. As the initial hype of massive product launches settles, Day 3 conversations pivoted heavily toward the hard
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The Launch: Amazon is rolling out Health AI, an agentic health assistant, to the broader public via Amazon.com and the Amazon app, following a successful pilot exclusively
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The Funding: Translucent, an AI-native healthcare finance startup, has closed a $27M Series A funding round led by GV (Google Ventures), with continued participation from NEA,
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The Launch: Maven Clinic, previously known for its massive enterprise footprint, has opened the beta waitlist for its new direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform, making its virtual
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The Report: Elisity has co-published a new research report with HIMSS Market Insights titled The Implementation Paradox: Healthcare Leaders Want Microsegmentation-Level
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The Expansion: Oracle Health has officially launched its Clinical AI Agent note generation for inpatient and emergency department (ED) settings across the U.S.The Acute Care
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The Expansion: WVU Medicine (the West Virginia University Health System) is expanding the deployment of Abridge’s enterprise-grade AI platform to more than 2,800 clinicians
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The Launch: CharmHealth has officially launched CharmCopilot, a multi-agent AI assistant embedded directly within its electronic health record (EHR) platform.The Pricing
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The Partnership: Stamford Health, a 305-bed independent health system in Connecticut, has selected Ensemble Health Partners to manage its end-to-end revenue cycle
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The Launch: At HIMSS26, Imprivata, a global leader in healthcare access management, announced the launch of Agentic Identity Management, a new platform capability designed
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Collaboration has always been a key component of cancer research. To comprehend the intricate biology of cancer and develop new strategies for treatment, researchers, clinicians, analysts, and
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The main exhibition floor at the Venetian Convention & Expo Center officially opened its doors today, shifting the HIMSS26 energy from high-level preconference strategy directly into live,
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The Milestone: At HIMSS26, Epic announces that more than 85% of Epic’s customer base is now actively utilizing its suite of artificial intelligence tools.Clinical ROI (Art):
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The Funding News: Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs), an AI startup founded by Turing Award laureate Yann LeCun and Nabla founder Alex LeBrun, has officially closed a
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The Deal: Middle-market private equity firm BV Investment Partners has made a majority investment in Moxe Health, an EHR-neutral clinical data exchange platform. Piper Sandler
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The Milestone: Snowflake and Hakkoda have released "The Future of AI + Interoperability in Healthcare" report, surveying 183 senior healthcare leaders. The central finding is
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Copilot Health Report: Microsoft published new data exploring the ways people use the consumer version of Copilot for health-related topics, having analyzed over 500,000
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The Launch: At the HIMSS26 conference, Zoom announced a massive wave of healthcare-focused innovations aimed at deeply embedding its tools into clinical and operational
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The Launch: At the HIMSS26 conference, MEDITECH announced a major expansion of its Expanse AI portfolio, signaling a shift toward natively embedded artificial
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The Launch: Greenway Health has officially launched Novare, an integrated clinical and revenue cycle platform built specifically for ambulatory care and powered by "agentic
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The Launch: b.well Connected Health and Samsung Electronics have launched an end-to-end integration that turns Samsung Galaxy smartphones into a centralized hub for patient
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The Integration: Atropos Health has officially integrated its Atropos Evidence Agent with Microsoft Dragon Copilot, bringing personalized real-world evidence (RWE) directly
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Healthcare technology is increasingly shaped by private capital, not just clinical demand or regulatory pressure. Over the past few years, private equity and institutional investors have poured record
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The Launch: Aquila has officially emerged from stealth mode with active state and federal contracts already underway. The company is deploying a healthcare data integration
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If previous years at HIMSS were defined by the promise of generative AI, the overarching theme of HIMSS26 is the execution of autonomous operations. Health systems, crushed by workforce shortages and
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The Deal: Universal Health Services (UHS) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Talkspace for $5.25 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately
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The Report: ECRI, a globally recognized patient safety organization, has released its highly anticipated 2026 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns report.The #1 Threat: For the first
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The Partnership: Verily Life Sciences and Samsung Electronics America are collaborating to integrate the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 directly into Verily’s precision health
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The Launch: WellSpan Health has launched "Fresh Take Eatery," an AI-powered robotic dining system located at WellSpan York Hospital. It provides 24/7, on-demand food service
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The Launch: Walgreens has officially launched Walgreens Weight Management, expanding its Virtual Healthcare platform to offer personalized, clinician-guided weight loss support
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The Transition: Effective March 16, 2026, Ric Sinclair (formerly Chief Business Officer at Waystar) will take over as Chief Executive Officer of Cotiviti.The Legacy: Emad Rizk,
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The Clearance: GE HealthCare has officially received FDA 510(k) clearance for View, a fast, zero-footprint diagnostic viewer. This viewer serves as the core anchor of the
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The Launch: Amazon Pharmacy has officially expanded its weight management portfolio by adding Eli Lilly's Zepbound® KwikPen® to its digital shelves.The Hardware: Unlike
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The Launch: Innovaccer has launched Flow Capture, an autonomous medical coding solution designed to eliminate the manual bottleneck in the hospital revenue cycle.The Metric:
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The Deal: Swedish medical imaging and cybersecurity giant Sectra has entered into an agreement to acquire Oxipit, a Lithuanian startup specializing in AI-based radiology
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The Funding: Grow Therapy has secured a $150M Series D led by TCV and Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives with new participation from BCI and Menlo Ventures, the round
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The Launch: Elation Health, a clinical-first technology platform for primary care, has launched new AI-powered billing workflows featuring a "touchless fast lane" for
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The Announcement: Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate has officially welcomed its newest cohort, selecting 18 national and international healthcare technology companies to
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Pharma medical affairs teams have spent the last decade investing heavily in digital transformation. Virtual advisory boards, omnichannel platforms, CRM systems, and analytics dashboards are now
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The Integration: LexisNexis Risk Solutions is significantly expanding its footprint within the Epic Connection Hub, allowing U.S. hospitals using Epic to natively deploy a
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The Launch: Thyme Care, a leading value-based cancer care enabler, has officially launched its Integrated Social Support (ISS) model.The Paradigm Shift: Instead of waiting for
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The Deal: Guideway Care, a leader in evidence-based patient activation, has acquired and integrated Waypoint Healthcare Solutions. Waypoint's entire team, including founders
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The Launch: AWS has officially launched Amazon Connect Health, the company's first purpose-built, agentic AI solution designed specifically for healthcare providers and their
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The Evolution: At HIMSS 2026, Microsoft announced that Dragon Copilot is evolving from a standalone ambient documentation tool into a unified AI clinical assistant. It now
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The Paradigm Shift: At HIMSS 2026, Google Cloud officially signaled the end of the "point-and-click" software era in healthcare, ushering in the age of "agentic AI"—systems
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The Funding: Sage, an integrated care platform for senior living and skilled nursing, has raised a $65M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing
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The Acquisition: Health Recovery Solutions (HRS), a dominant player in remote patient monitoring (RPM) and enterprise remote care, has officially acquired Rimidi, an
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From my experience working with healthcare providers and payers, there’s one thing that stands out to me: the most important insights for compliance are almost never in the data fields you expect.
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The Funding: Greater Good Health has secured a $20.5M Series B led by Allumia Ventures, alongside up to $12.5M in venture debt from HSBC Innovation Banking.The Backers: The
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The Evolution: Sword Health is expanding its highly successful Bloom product from a condition-specific pelvic care solution into a comprehensive, life-stage-based women's
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· The Launch: Salesforce has officially launched 6 new Agentforce Health agents, deploying an autonomous digital workforce to alleviate the crushing administrative burden on
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The Deal: Eight Sleep has secured a $50M strategic investment led by Tether Investments, pushing the smart sleep technology company to a massive $1.5 billion valuation.The
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The Funding: UnityAI has closed an $8.5M in Series A funding round led by Third Prime, with participation from Nashville Capital Network, Whistler Capital Partners, and others,
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