For healthcare payers offering Medicare Advantage and Dual Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs), the translation of member-facing materials is a costly, complex and high-stakes process. Translation requirements place an enormous burden on payers and, yet, it is critical for a positive member experience and accessibility in the U.S., where nearly 68 million people speak a language other than English at home.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) mandates that materials such as Annual
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MCG Health and Avo Launch AI Assistant to Reduce Hospital Length of Stay
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- MCG Health, a part of the Hearst Health network, and Avo, a clinician-created AI platform, have launched a new AI assistant designed to tackle the challenge of hospital length of stay (LOS).
- The partnership integrates recovery milestones from MCG's proprietary guidelines directly into electronic health record (EHR) workflows using Avo's new assistant. This tool gives hospitalists and case managers a real-time picture of each patient’s readiness to go
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SoundHound AI Partners with Primary Health Solutions to Deploy AI Patient Engagement Platform
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- SoundHound AI, Inc., a global leader in voice and conversational AI, has partnered with Primary Health Solutions (PHS) to deploy a new AI-powered patient engagement platform.
- The initiative makes PHS one of the first Federally Qualified Healthcare Centers in the U.S. to use AI Agents to create a more seamless and engaging patient experience.
Denise: Conversational AI Platform
The new conversational AI platform, named "Denise" in honor of a PHS
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Ketryx Raises $39M to Accelerate AI-Powered Compliance in Life Sciences
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- Ketryx, the AI-powered compliance platform helping life sciences companies ship safer products faster, today announced a $39 million Series B led by Transformation Capital, with participation from existing investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, MIT’s E14 Fund, Ubiquity Ventures, and 53 Stations.
- This latest round brings the company’s total funding to over $55 million, and Vinay Shah, Partner and Founding Team Member at Transformation
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AI and RCM Leader XiFin Receives New Investment, Appoints Jeff Margolis to Board
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- XiFin, a leader in revenue cycle management (RCM) and billing solutions enhanced with embedded artificial intelligence (AI), today announced a new growth capital investment, as well as the addition of health IT innovator and futurist Jeff Margolis to its Board of Directors.
- The funding round builds on XiFin’s 19% year-over-year growth, driven by client adoption of its flagship next-gen platform, XiFin® Empower, and successful execution of compelling business
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Joint Ai Secures $315K to Expand AI-Powered Triage Platform for Knee and Hip Arthritis
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- Joint Ai, an AI-powered triage platform for patients with knee and hip arthritis, has received a $315,000 investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
- The funding will accelerate technology development, deepen strategic partnerships, and broaden nationwide access to orthopaedic surgeons.
Funding from Richard King Mellon Foundation to Enhance Technology, Partnerships, and Access to Orthopaedic Care
Arthritis represents a growing challenge for the U.S.
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Epic Launches Comet: A New AI Platform to Predict Patient Health Journeys
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- Today, Epic announced the launch of a new form of healthcare intelligence, named Comet, developed to help clinicians, health systems, and patients make more informed decisions.
- Built on Epic Cosmos, a secure data platform, Comet is designed to predict what is likely to happen next in a patient’s journey by estimating disease risk, length of stay, and treatment outcomes. The platform has learned from more than 100 billion patient medical events to
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NewDays Secures $7M to Expand AI-Powered Cognitive Health Program to Texas
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- NewDays, a company offering a science-backed cognitive health treatment program, has announced an oversubscribed $7M seed funding round from General Catalyst and Madrona.
- The company is also expanding its services to Texas, following a successful pilot phase in California, Washington, and Florida. The expansion aims to address the significant challenge of cognitive impairment in the U.S., where 1 in 3 people over the age of 65 have a serious cognitive
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ArcaScience Raises $7M to Advance AI-Powered Drug Benefit-Risk Evaluation
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- ArcaScience, a Paris, France-based AI Healthtech startup, has announced a $7M seed funding round led by The Moon Venture, with participation from Pléiade Venture, Plug&Play Ventures, Bpifrance, and AKKA Technologies. This marks the company's first institutional funding round, following a €1.3 million pre-seed raise.
- The new funds will be used to expand operations in the U.S. and U.K., launch the company’s first patient-facing solution, and strategically
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Medable Launches Agent Studio, the First Agentic AI Platform for Life Sciences
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- Medable, a technology provider for clinical development, has launched Agent Studio, which it calls the industry's first agentic AI platform purpose-built for life sciences.
- Agent Studio is a no-code agent-builder that allows clinical teams to quickly custom-configure AI agents. Medable also introduced CRA Agent, a pre-built agent designed for clinical trial monitoring that runs on the Agent Studio platform. Both Agent Studio and CRA Agent are intended
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