Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the life sciences industry, influencing everything from early-stage drug discovery to clinical operations, manufacturing, and patient engagement. While enthusiasm for AI remains strong, many organizations continue to struggle with moving from
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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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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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For multi-location health systems, keeping patient communication consistent is an everyday operational challenge. Information appears across screens, websites, front desks, portals, and provider
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The Benefit: A new survey from Tebra reveals that 3 in 5 healthcare employees report ChatGPT has reduced burnout by streamlining documentation and communication. In private
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The Deal: Accenture Federal Services (AFS) has won a pivotal 4.5-year contract to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM)
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AI is no longer a concept of the future and has become a practical tool helping hospitals and health systems extend care, ease workforce pressures and improve patient engagement. From virtual nursing
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Today’s nurse education programs are facing mounting, unprecedented challenges: underprepared students, faculty shortages, and the growing pressures of accelerated programs. To bridge these gaps and
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The Collaboration: Vivos Therapeutics, a leader in sleep breathing treatments, has partnered with SoundHealth to distribute AI-enabled wearables across its network of 2,000+
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The Partnership: Opentrons Labworks, the company behind the ubiquitous pipette robots found in labs worldwide, is partnering with NVIDIA to accelerate the development of
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The Launch: Sword Intelligence has officially launched in the UK and Europe. Born from the global digital health unicorn Sword Health, this new entity focuses on applying AI to
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Healthcare outsourcing to the Philippines has evolved from a cost-reduction tactic into a strategic operating capability—but only when supplier selection is executed with
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The Launch: President Trump has officially launched TrumpRx.gov, a consumer-facing digital portal that allows patients to access "Most-Favored-Nation" (MFN) pricing on
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The Launch: Epic has officially released AI Charting, a native feature that listens to patient visits and automatically drafts notes and orders. This is part of a broader suite
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The Launch: Optum is rolling out a dual-sided AI strategy to modernize prior authorization: Digital Auth Complete for providers (powered by Humata Health) and InterQual® Auth
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The Failure: Lirio, in partnership with healthcare consultancy Sage Growth Partners, released "From Mass Messaging to N-of-1," a survey of 75 life sciences executives. The
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As AI continues to permeate the healthcare industry, 2026 will be a time of push and pull: well-designed and well-implemented AI scripts will pull the industry
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As healthcare costs continue to increase and patients demand more from their insurance coverage, there’s rising pressure to provide higher-quality care more efficiently than ever before. The
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The Report: Humana’s newly released Value-Based Care By the Numbers Report, reveals that Medicare Advantage members in value-based care (VBC) arrangements are seeing
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The Funding: Lotus Health AI has raised a $35M Series A (totaling $41M) co-led by venture giants Kleiner Perkins and CRV, with backing from Joe Montana and the former U.S. CTO
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The Breakthrough: A new study published in the European Heart Journal - Digital Health reveals that an AI-enabled digital stethoscope is twice as effective as a traditional
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The Partnership: BrightHeart, an AI-driven prenatal ultrasound company, has launched its B-Right AI Platform on GE HealthCare’s Voluson™ Solution Store, the leading digital
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Good AI is not good enough.
Healthcare leaders have largely moved past the belief that fully autonomous AI can solve their hardest problems. With an estimated 95% of generative-AI initiatives never
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The Report: Today, KLAS Research released its 2026 Best in KLAS reports, and the message from the data is clear: The market rewards vendors that use technology to restore the
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The Comeback: James Park and Eric Friedman, the duo who revolutionized personal health with Fitbit, have launched a new company called Luffu ("loo-foo").The Mission: Moving
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The Funding: beHuman, a preventive care platform, has raised a $4M seed round led by Santé Ventures.The Mission: Unlike many early detection startups targeting the affluent
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The Launch: HHS Secretary Kennedy has announced nine nationwide pilot programs across 9 states to test new data standards that bridge the gap between physical and behavioral
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Vulnerability threat management (VTM) in the healthcare space is too important to be conducted haphazardly. It’s critical to find software tools that let you prioritize vulnerabilities, spot trends
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The Funding: Salvo Health has raised an $8.5M Series A led by ManchesterStory, City Light Capital, and Threshold Ventures, following a breakout year where revenue grew by
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The Milestone: Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi has successfully performed the UAE’s first robotic-assisted stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) procedures, a major leap forward from
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The Milestone: Midi Health has raised a $100M Series D, propelling its valuation over $1 billion. This "unicorn" status marks a pivotal moment for the women's health sector,
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The Funding: Alaffia Health has raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital, bringing its total funding to over $73M.The Tech: The company uses "Agentic AI"—autonomous
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Anyone who has worked in healthcare IT for any amount of time knows this: we’re all carrying more applications than we can reasonably manage. Some of these systems are critical. Some are helpful. And
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