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The number of hospitals impacted by EHR purchase decisions dropped 40% compared to 2024 and nearly 50% compared to 2023, according to a new KLAS 2026 EMR Market Share report.Shift to AI: Health systems redirected capital toward technologies with immediate financial returns,
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As healthcare systems across the U.S. face unprecedented staffing shortages, overworked healthcare professionals are struggling to meet the needs of an ever-growing patient population. The pressure is
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Shyld AI has closed a $13.4M seed round led by Aulis Capital, marking one of the largest early-stage rounds in the healthcare AI sector.The company is moving beyond "passive"
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Urologic Health Inc. has closed an $11M seed financing round led by an undisclosed strategic investor, with participation from Edge Medical Ventures, SHD Partners, and
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IKS Health has acquired ARAI Solutions, a provider of specialized artificial intelligence, to accelerate the development of a full agentic AI technology stack.The acquisition
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Carrot Fertility has expanded Sprints, its AI-native metabolic health program, to support women from perimenopause through post-menopause.The program addresses the metabolic
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Chromie Health, a provider of AI-powered hospital management tools, has closed a $2M pre-seed round led by AIX Ventures.The company has launched Chromie Dispatch, an SMS-native
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9amHealth has secured $26M in Series B funding led by Define Ventures, bringing new participation from SemperVirens, Catalio Capital Management, and NewHealth Ventures.The
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Physicians across the U.S. are increasingly rethinking how they practice medicine as career pressures mount at every stage, according to the 2026 Locum Tenens Physicians Report
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Anomaly Insights has announced $17M in new funding led by Sound Ventures, bringing its total raised to $34M. Alumni Ventures also joined the round, alongside existing investors
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When cancer treatment fails, physicians face one of the hardest questions in medicine: what should come next?
Having recently cared for a young patient whose cancer had returned despite multiple
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Harmony Healthcare IT has appointed Brian Liddell as Chief Executive Officer, effective April 30, 2026.Brian Liddell succeeds founder Tom Liddell, who will transition to
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Labcorp and Epic have announced an expanded collaboration to make Labcorp’s full diagnostic test menu available through Epic’s Aura platform.The integration allows clinicians
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Included Health has launched Provider Connect, a healthcare experience that combines real-time member context with quality and cost data to guide members toward high-quality,
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Medbridge has launched Medbridge Outcomes, an offering within its One Care platform designed to collect, measure, and submit patient-reported outcomes (PROs).The system aligns
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Evolution Devices has secured its first multi-location clinical sale of EvoWalk, a next-generation mobility solution, to the Sheltering Arms Institute.The EvoWalk system is a
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1upHealth has become the first interoperability solution provider to deploy all four APIs required by the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F)
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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
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Basata, an AI company focused on healthcare operations, has announced a $21M Series A funding round led by Basis Set Ventures.The platform uses specialty-specific AI agents to
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Healthcare revenue cycle management is bending under the strain of evolving payer policies, complex documentation, and higher demands for accuracy and cost control. Exacerbating these challenges are
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Lucent Diagnostics (a brand of Quanterix) and Tempus AI have announced a strategic collaboration to integrate Alzheimer’s blood-based biomarker testing into routine clinical
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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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