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Structural biology and AI drug design pioneer Chai Discovery has announced a $400M Series C funding round, valuing the company at $3.8 billion just two years after its 2024 founding.The heavily oversubscribed round was led by Index Ventures, alongside Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Dimension, with strategic backing from existing investors OpenAI and Thrive Capital.Moving past legacy computational screening methods, Chai’s generative platform engineers entirely de
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Rock Health H1 2026 Digital Health Funding Recap: Startups Hit $7.4B in Venture Rebound
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Rock Health Capital H1 2026 Digital Health Funding Report, U.S. digital health funding reached $7.4B across 244 deals in H1 2026, outposing H1 2025 by $1B and establishing a clear multi-year recovery from the post-pandemic market resets of 2023 and 2024.Mega deals ($100M+) absorbed a staggering 45% of all deployed capital in H1 2026, consolidating nearly half of the market's total funding into just 8% of finalized transactions.Mental health secured its position as the
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OpenEvidence Launches EvidenceGrade to Bring Real-Time Source Quality Grading to Clinical AI
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Medical AI leader OpenEvidence has announced the commercial launch of EvidenceGrade, a new system capability that scores and visualizes the clinical certainty of cited medical literature in real time.The feature directly targets a dangerous AI limitation: standard models tend to gloss over differences in source quality, treating small, observational studies with the same weight as randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled trials.Built by a cross-functional team of
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Securing Generative AI in Healthcare: What CISOs Must Get Right
Healthcare remained one of the most targeted sectors for ransomware in 2025, accounting for 22% of disclosed attacks in one widely cited industry analysis. More broadly, 93% of healthcare organizations reported at least one cyberattack in the past 12 months. As of the end of 2025, at least 642 large healthcare breaches had been reported, affecting nearly 57 million individuals.
But the implications for the healthcare industry extends beyond traditional cybersecurity and data
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Scaling Enterprise Imaging: IT Lessons from Digital Pathology
Health IT leaders looking to scale enterprise imaging programs should take note of digital pathology.Whole slide images, often two to ten times the size of a radiology study, have forced pathology to confront the challenges that most imaging modalities eventually face, but at an order of magnitude that’s particularly instructive. Here are the lessons learned about what works at scale and where implementations fall short.
At Scale, Infrastructure and Workflow Are the Same ProblemIt’s
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Hera Raises $27M to Scale AI-Powered Senior Care Coordination
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Senior care coordination pioneer Hera has announced a $27M Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, with continued backing from Accel, IA Ventures, and strategic angel investors including the CFO of Mount Sinai.The platform targets an intense family caregiving crisis, using human-centric AI to centralize scattered geriatric caregiving knowledge and streamline long-term care orchestration.Hera has introduced a specialized profession of care coordinators known
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Houston Methodist Partners with HealthLeap to Launch AI-Driven Clinical Screening Platform
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Clinical AI startup HealthLeap has announced the systemwide deployment of its AI-driven clinical screening platform across Houston Methodist.The rollout addresses a pervasive, invisible clinical liability: while up to 50% of hospitalized patients are at risk for inadequate nutrition, fewer than 9% are formally diagnosed nationwide due to static screening tools.Moving past rigid admission-day questionnaires, HealthLeap continuously analyzes 100% of adult inpatient charts
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Assort Health Raises $120M at a $1.2B Valuation to Scale Patient Access AI Agents
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Patient access automation leader Assort Health has announced a $120M Series C funding round led by Menlo Ventures, valuing the company at $1.2B.The financing brings Assort's total capital raised to more than $222M, solidifying its position as an institutional standard for AI-driven ambulatory operations.Moving past isolated voice bots, the platform leverages Patient Journey Memory to connect scheduling, intake, real-time eligibility, medication refills, and payments into
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Cadence Secures $100M, Partners with Duke Health to Scale Chronic Care AI
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Clinical AI leader Cadence has announced a $100 million Series C funding round led by Spark Capital, with heavy participation from Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Coatue, and major health system venture arms.The company has simultaneously finalized new clinical affiliations with Duke Health and Texas Health Resources, expanding its national footprint to over 20 prominent health systems.Cadence now treats more than 100,000 active older adults diagnosed with chronic
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Oracle Health Partners with Theator to Deliver AI-Native Surgical Video Analytics and Automated EHR Documentation
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Enterprise cloud and EHR giant Oracle Health has formalized a strategic U.S. partnership with surgical computer vision pioneer Theator to deliver AI-powered surgical intelligence directly to hospital networks.The platform addresses a critical documentation deficit: traditional operative reports written from a surgeon’s memory hours or days post-procedure achieve a mere 72.8% accuracy rate, according to peer-reviewed research in the Journal of the American College of
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