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 medically appropriate care, submit claims, and then watch a meaningful portion of those claims get
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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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Within the expanding landscape of regulatory peptides and growth factor biology, Follistatin-344 occupies a distinctive conceptual position. Rather than functioning as a classical signaling hormone,
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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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Kanvas Biosciences has raised $48M in Series A funding co-led by DCVC and Lions Capital LLC, bringing total funding to $78M.The capital will fund clinical trials for KAN-001,
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Fathom, a leader in autonomous medical coding, has announced a strategic investment from CVS Health Ventures.The funding follows a period where revenue cycle management (RCM)
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Carlyle has acquired a majority stake in Knack RCM and EqualizeRCM, merging them to create a global, multi-specialty, AI-native revenue cycle management (RCM)
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Enterprise data teams spend a great deal of time discussing infrastructure. Conversations often revolve around cloud warehouses, lakehouses, AI platforms, and the newest analytics tools. Organizations
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UnitedHealthcare (UHC) will eliminate an additional 30% of prior authorization requirements by the end of 2026, targeting outpatient surgeries, diagnostic tests (like
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The American Nurses Association (ANA) has released a historic consensus report defining the guardrails for AI in nursing, following a specialized Think Tank held in April
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Med Tech Solutions (MTS) has acquired Avarion (formerly Huntzinger Management Group), a two-time Best in KLAS healthcare IT advisory firm.The acquisition allows MTS to support
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XCaliber Health (XCaliber) has raised $6.5M in seed funding led by ManchesterStory, with participation from Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) and Arka Venture Labs.The platform is
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Premier, Inc. has appointed Emad Rizk, M.D., as its new Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairman of the Board.Dr. Rizk brings over 30 years of experience, having
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Village has raised $9.5M in funding led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from Bling Capital, GTMFund, and Perceptive Ventures.The platform features Vera, an in-house AI
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In 2026, we live in an era of seamless predictive intelligence. For example: My shopping app often anticipates what I’ll need before I’ve even thought about it. My navigation app quietly diverts me
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Impact Advisors has acquired Canopii Collaborative, a high-growth consulting firm specializing in the Epic payer platform (Tapestry), revenue cycle, and managed services.
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Sage Growth Partners has released its Q1 2026 report, "The Medicaid Maternity Cliff," identifying a looming crisis in maternal and infant healthcare access.52% of
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Perplexity has partnered with VisualDx to integrate clinician-validated medical images directly into its AI-powered health answers.VisualDx joins The New England Journal of
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BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) and Wellstar Health System have announced a strategic partnership to integrate AI-powered medication management across Wellstar's
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RevSpring has released a national survey of 2,024 U.S. adults revealing that 94% of consumers agree healthcare needs to be made easier to navigate.Friction begins at the point
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You govern every asset you own. Except one.
Walk into any family office and you will find a CFO managing the cash, a wealth advisor managing the capital, an estate attorney managing the transition,
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Digital channels continue to expand communication between health systems and patients, but the phone remains a critical point of contact across the entire patient journey.
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Technology and efficiency are moving at a faster pace than ever before, and in healthcare IT, that means an emerging need for IT teams to be at the forefront of system assessment and
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Spring Health has successfully closed its acquisition of Alma, a membership platform for independent clinicians.The combined organization now supports more than 170 million
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GoodRx has launched access to self-pay pricing for Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic® pill (oral semaglutide) for patients with type 2 diabetes.Eligible patients can obtain the medication
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Dr. Eric Rosenberg of SightMD became the first surgeon to perform a cataract surgery using the Apple Vision Pro in October 2025.The procedure utilized ScopeXR, a custom-built
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ECRI, a nonprofit patient safety organization, submitted formal recommendations to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health in April 2026.The organization warns
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Medisolv, Inc. has acquired Health Elements AI, a specialist in AI-first software that automates the capture and structuring of clinical data from medical records. Financial
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Parexel has acquired Vitrana, a provider of an AI-enabled, end-to-end pharmacovigilance (PV) technology platform.The acquisition allows Parexel to provide a fully integrated
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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
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Axoft has raised an oversubscribed $55M Series A led by C.P. Group Innovation, bringing its total funding to over $60M.The capital will be used to expand global clinical
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Photon has secured $16 million in Series A funding led by Healthier Capital, with participation from Notation, Flare Capital, and Evidenced.The platform addresses the
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AiZtech Labs has officially launched iSelfie BioSignals in the U.S., a smartphone-based platform that detects digital biomarkers using a standard selfie-camera interaction.The
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Viz.ai has partnered with the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) through its Rural Hospital & Clinic Partnership Program to help rural leaders implement AI-powered
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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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