What You Should Know:
- voize, the AI company redefining nursing care, has secured $50M in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital.
- The investment will fuel its expansion into the U.S. and Europe, accelerating its mission to give nurses up to 30% of their time back from administrative work.
The Crisis Point: Administrative Burden and Nursing Shortage
Healthcare systems across the globe are facing a staffing crisis. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts a global deficit of
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Butterfly Network Launches Compass AI to Power Next-Gen POCUS Management
What You Should Know:
- Butterfly Network, Inc. ("Butterfly"), a digital health company specializing in whole-body ultrasound imaging, has launched Compass AI™.
- The challenge in POCUS has long been the reliance on traditional, radiology-style, order-based workflows, which often lead to undocumented, unreviewed, and unreimbursed exams. Traditional workflows often capture only about 15% of compliant studies, meaning up to 85% go unbilled.
- Compass AI replaces this
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Barbados to Establish $200M Life Sciences Hub for the Caribbean
What You Should Know:
- Export Barbados (BIDC) and the Dubai-headquartered EarlyHealth Group (EHG), a global pharmaceutical services and life sciences company, have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly establish EarlyHealth City Barbados.
- The $200M world-class pharmaceutical and life sciences cluster aims to attract international pharmaceutical partners, drive industrialisation through sustainable contract manufacturing, and expand laboratory and clinical research capacity in
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Lunit and Labcorp Collaborate to Transform AI-Powered Digital Pathology Research
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- Lunit, a provider of AI for cancer diagnostics and precision oncology, and Labcorp, a global leader in innovative and comprehensive laboratory services, today announced a strategic collaborative initiative. The partnership is designed to accelerate innovation in digital pathology (DP) and artificial intelligence (AI) for both oncology research and clinical care.
- The core of the collaboration is leveraging Labcorp’s extensive clinical and pathology expertise
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AI Risk Alert: Hospitals Underinvest in Governance Despite Looming 2026 Scrutiny
What You Should Know:
- Despite the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence across clinical and operational workflows, a new survey by Black Book Research of 182 U.S. hospital leaders reveals widespread underinvestment in AI governance, safety, and compliance.
- The survey reveals the median 2026 budget share for AI governance and safety is critically low, standing at just 4.2% of the combined IT and Quality/Safety budget.
The Quiet Risk: Widespread Underinvestment in AI
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AISAP Launches FDA-Cleared Platform in Ghana to Solve Cardiologist Shortage
What You Should Know:
- AISAP, an AI Point-of-Care Diagnostics company, announced a landmark field initiative in Ghana to deploy its FDA-cleared AI-powered cardiac diagnosis platform. This program directly addresses the profound challenge of healthcare access in Ghana, a country of approximately 35 million people served by fewer than 30 cardiologists.
- The initiative, in collaboration with the G-ACT Foundation, aims to establish a global model for bringing expert-level cardiac diagnostics
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InterSystems Launches: Generative AI AI Assistant for Faster Patient Record Access
What You Should Know:
- InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering over 1 billion health records worldwide, announced the launch of the InterSystems HealthShare AI Assistant.
- The new generative AI capability is designed to assist clinicians, case managers, and administrators in accessing and understanding patient information faster and more intuitively.
Generative AI: The New Conversational Interface for Health Records
Built on the trusted foundation
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AI Digital Stethoscope Detects Heart Failure with Near-Echo Precision in Ghana
What You Should Know:
- Researchers from the G-ACT Foundation and Eko Health have announced groundbreaking results from the DAMSUN-HF (Detection and Management of Heart Failure with SENSORA in Underserved Nations) study.
- The prospective validation study demonstrated that AI-enabled digital auscultation can effectively identify Heart Failure with reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF) in patients who lack access to traditional echocardiography.
AI-Enabled Auscultation Achieves
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Sentara Health Deploys Andor Health’s Agentic AI Across 12 Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- Andor Health, the AI company specializing in agentic AI software infrastructure for healthcare, and Sentara Health have announced an expanded agreement for an enterprise license of the ThinkAndor® platform. Sentara Health is one of the top 20 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the U.S., serving communities across Virginia, Northeastern North Carolina, and Florida through 12 hospitals and a robust health plan.
- Building on the early success of
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GE HealthCare and DeepHealth Expand AI Collaboration to Optimize Ultrasound and Breast Cancer Care
What You Should Know:
- GE HealthCare and DeepHealth, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of RadNet, Inc. and a global leader in AI-powered health informatics, have announced their intention to significantly expand their existing strategic collaboration.
- This next phase focuses on advancing the innovation, commercialization, and adoption of AI across multiple imaging modalities.
Collaboration Focus Areas
The original initiative, announced in 2024, successfully united DeepHealth’s
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