What You Should Know:
- A new survey from Inlightened reveals that 61% of vetted healthcare professionals are deeply concerned about the rise of online medical misinformation, with 79% warning that it leads patients to accept harmful, unproven treatments.
- Despite this, many experts are hesitant to engage on social media due to safety concerns and a lack of support, with nearly half citing that the risks outweigh the rewards. The report highlights an urgent need for more
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Accenture Invests in Ryght AI to Accelerate Clinical Trials with Agentic AI and Digital Twins
What You Should Know:
- Accenture has made a strategic investment in Ryght AI through its venture capital arm, aiming to modernize the sluggish clinical trial process. Ryght AI utilizes "agentic AI" and its proprietary AI Site Twin platform to create dynamic digital replicas of research sites, allowing pharmaceutical companies to optimize site selection and patient enrollment.
- The strategic collaboration seeks to remove the manual bottlenecks that delay life-saving therapies,
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Included Health Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Personalized AI Chatbot
What You Should Know:
- Included Health has launched "Dot," a new intelligent AI assistant designed to move beyond generic medical advice by leveraging deep integrations with member claims, benefits, and clinical data.
- Refined on over ten billion AI tokens, the platform utilizes a "clinician-in-the-loop" model, ensuring that automated guidance is backed by real-time oversight from medical experts. The "AI+EQ" approach aims to proactively nudge patients toward preventive care
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Joy Parenting Club Acquires Heba Care to Scale the First Comprehensive, AI-Powered Parenting Platform
What You Should Know:
- Joy Parenting Club, the platform aiming to revolutionize the parenting experience, has announced its acquisition of Heba Care, a technology platform that supports families navigating complex health and developmental needs.
- This acquisition marks Joy's latest step in building the most comprehensive support ecosystem for parents.
Integration Brings Clinically Validated Tools and New Tracker to Deliver 24/7 Guidance
Simultaneously, Joy unveiled a new
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CliniComp SVP Talks New Era EHR: How AI-Driven, Interoperable Platforms Are Replacing Legacy Health IT Systems
With 97% of health data currently going unused and clinician burnout at crisis levels, the healthcare industry is facing a critical inflection point: the transition from legacy "systems of record" to dynamic "systems of intelligence." In this deep-dive interview, Sandra Johnson, Senior Vice President of Client Services at CliniComp, outlines the architecture of the "New Era EHR"—a platform defined not by static documentation, but by agility, true interoperability, and embedded AI.
Johnson
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Tether Launches QVAC Health: A Privacy-First, Local AI Platform to Unify Fragmented Wellness Data
What You Should Know:
- Tether has launched QVAC Health, a new personal wellness platform designed to aggregate data from disparate fitness trackers and apps into a single, encrypted, and offline-capable environment.
- By utilizing local, on-device AI rather than cloud processing, the platform aims to break down the "walled gardens" of Big Tech, allowing users to analyze correlations between different biometrics—like sleep rings and running watches—without surrendering their
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Atalan and Bon Secours Mercy Health Partner to Bridge Clinician Retention and Patient Experience with AI
What You Should Know:
- Atalan, the creator of the first Clinical Retention Intelligence (CRI) platform, has formed a strategic partnership with Accrete Health Partners, the venture arm of Bon Secours Mercy Health, to launch a new AI module called Atalan PX.
- The strategic collaboration aims to solve the critical disconnect between workforce stability and patient satisfaction by unifying fragmented data streams into a single platform for actionable insights. Following a successful
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athenahealth Partners with Microsoft to Embed Dragon Copilot in athenaOne EHR
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth, a leading provider of network-enabled software and services for healthcare practices and systems nationwide, today announced a partnership with Microsoft.
- Microsoft Dragon Copilot is joining athenahealth’s Ambient Notes, a fully-integrated AI-driven ambient solution that simplifies documentation for ambulatory clinicians.
A new chapter in ambient clinical documentation
Since its founding in 1997, athenahealth has focused on reducing complexity
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PGxAI and Lean Business Services Partner to Scale AI Pharmacogenomics in Saudi Arabia
What You Should Know:
- PGxAI has entered a strategic partnership with Lean Business Services and Najashi Holding to deploy AI-driven pharmacogenomics across Saudi Arabia, supporting the Kingdom's Vision 2030 Health Sector Transformation Program.
- The initiative aims to localize data infrastructure and expertise, ensuring that genomic insights are generated, secured, and applied within the country to reduce adverse drug reactions at a population scale. By focusing on data
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AngelEye Health Raises $9M Series C to Bring AI-Driven Insights to the NICU
What You Should Know:
- AngelEye Health secures $9M Series C funding round led by Mountain Group Partners, with strategic investment from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a new debt facility from Live Oak Bank.
- The capital will fuel the commercial launch of AIVision, an AI-driven monitoring tool designed to provide earlier safety insights for neonatal care teams. Currently serving over 350 hospitals and 20% of NICU families in the U.S., AngelEye is pivoting from family
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