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The Raise: Montreal-based Secai has closed a $6.2M Series A financing round to expand its footprint across Canada and the United States.The Tech: The company offers a two-pronged solution: Voxira (autonomous voice reception) and NoteGen (clinical documentation). Together, they aim to automate both patient access and the medical encounter itself.The Credibility: Secai has become the first and only voice AI to receive TGV certification from the Quebec Ministry of Health
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Medicomp Launches AI Validation Tools to Stop Clinical Hallucinations
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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 HIMSS26 conferences.The Problem: As healthcare rushes to adopt generative AI (like ambient scribes), there is a growing risk of "inaccurate, incomplete, or poorly structured data" entering the Electronic Health Record (EHR) without validation.The Tech: Medicomp is introducing a Model Context Protocol
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Anterior Secures $40M to Expand AI Deployments in Health Plans
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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 NEA, Sequoia Capital, FPV, and Kinnevik.The Model: Unlike point solutions that often stall at the pilot stage, Anterior uses a "Forward Deployed Clinician" model. This means they embed their own clinicians alongside health plan staff to optimize AI accuracy and drive adoption.The Results: This
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Ambience Healthcare Launches “Chart Awareness” to Automate Coding and Clinical Summaries
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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) rather than just transcribing the current conversation.The Features: The update includes Chart-Aware Patient Summaries, Diagnostics (auto-extracting lab trends), and Coding (substantiating complex codes like G2211 based on patient history).The Proof: In a head-to-head evaluation at MultiCare Health
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Ubie and Mayo Clinic to Launch “Smart Support” AI Triage Platform
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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 the "fragmented" digital front door by integrating chat and voice interfaces into a single access point. It uses AI to triage symptoms, route patients, and schedule appointments 24/7.The Future: Beyond scheduling, the partners plan to co-develop an add-on module for chronic disease management,
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How Open Source Collaboration Can Accelerate Medical AI Innovation and FDA Approval
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 and medical data, but as AI supercharges everything from diagnostic medicine to patient treatment and care, it’s time to change the paradigm. By embracing the principles of open source collaborations and finding a balance between protecting privacy and sharing knowledge, the industry can
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Wellumio Raises $7.28M to Bring MRI Scans Directly to the Bedside
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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 detection technology. The round also included participation from Icehouse Ventures, NZ Growth Capital Partners, Pacific Channel and the New Zealand Government’s Active Investor Plus (AIP) program.The Tech: The company’s flagship device, Axana, is a 50kg, battery-powered MRI scanner. Unlike traditional
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CalMHSA Deploys Eleos AI Statewide for California’s Mental Health Workers
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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 single deployment of AI technology to date, potentially reaching 27,000 clinicians across 27 counties.The Tech: Eleos’ AI-powered documentation tools will be embedded directly into Streamline’s SmartCare™ EHR. The system uses the new Polaris AI model (built with Google Cloud) to listen to sessions and
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Hillsboro Health to Deploy Oracle Health Foundation EHR and Clinical AI Agent
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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 operations across its network.The AI: The hospital is deploying the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, a generative AI voice tool that automatically drafts structured notes from patient-clinician conversations, drastically reducing "pajama time" for doctors.The Network: By implementing Oracle Health
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The “Agent” Dilemma: How Blockchain Could Save Patient Privacy in a $500B AI Market
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 monitoring, drug discovery, personalized medicine, administrative automation, and more.
Today, this market is already estimated at $40 billion, and projected to grow up to $500 billion by 2032, with hundreds of millions of operational AI agents.
However, while AI’s promise of unprecedented
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