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The Funding: beHuman, a preventive care platform, has raised a $4M seed round led by Santé Ventures.The Mission: Unlike many early detection startups targeting the affluent "worried well," beHuman focuses on underserved and rural populations who are insured but rarely screened due to access barriers or mistrust.The Tech: The platform uses "Agentic AI" to automate administrative friction (eligibility, scheduling, chart review), allowing physician-led teams to proactively
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MultiCare Health System to Deploy Ambience Healthcare for Enterprise AI Rollout
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The Win: After a year-long, head-to-head evaluation of three leading AI vendors, MultiCare Health System has selected Ambience Healthcare for an enterprise-wide deployment to 1,500 clinicians.The Data: The evaluation was massive (550 clinicians across 20 specialties). Ambience emerged as the clear favorite, scoring an NPS 63 points higher than the next best solution and reducing after-hours documentation ("pajama time") by 38%.The ROI: Beyond burnout, the system drove
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The “Agentic” Erasure of Admin Work: Synthpop Raises $15M to Automate Healthcare’s Back Office
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The Funding: Synthpop has raised a $15M Series A led by Ansa Capital, bringing its total funding to $23M. Strategic investors include former Humana CEO Bruce Broussard.The Tech: The company is building an "agentic" automation platform that combines document intelligence, voice agents, and payer-aware reasoning to handle complex tasks like prior authorizations and claims follow-ups.The ROI: Early customers report that workflows which historically took 40 minutes are now
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ConcertAI Bets “Agentic AI” Can Fix the Broken Clinical Trial Timeline
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The Launch: ConcertAI has released Accelerated Clinical Trials (ACT), an enterprise platform designed to automate the clinical trial lifecycle using "Agentic AI"—autonomous software that performs tasks rather than just generating text.The Promise: By integrating proprietary Real-World Data (RWD) with AI workflows, the platform claims it can shorten trial timelines by 10 to 20 months and reduce costly protocol amendments by 50%.The Tech: Built on the CARAai™
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AtlantiCare to Deploy Opmed.ai to Fix Surgical Scheduling Across Enterprise
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The Deal: AtlantiCare, a major New Jersey integrated delivery network, has selected Opmed.ai to optimize scheduling across 50+ operating rooms and procedural spaces.The Tech: The platform uses AI and network science to scrub the "buffer" out of surgical schedules. It claims to cut case length overestimation by 40% and predict daily schedules with 96% accuracy.The Integration: Opmed.ai will deploy directly on top of AtlantiCare’s Oracle Cerner EHR, functioning as an Oracle
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CB Insights Report: Digital Health Funding Hits $22.3B as 14 New Unicorns Emerge
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The Rebound: According to the new State of Digital Health 2025 report from CB Insights, digital health funding rose 19% YoY to $22.3B in 2025, driven by fewer, larger checks—average deal size jumped 29% to $20.3M.The Consolidation: M&A activity surged 33% to 210 deals, ending a three-year decline. The market saw massive exits like Thermo Fisher’s $9.4B acquisition of Clario and Waystar’s $1.3B purchase of Iodine Software.The AI Moat: Artificial Intelligence was the
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Oracle Launches AI Platform to End the “Data Silo” Era in Pharma
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The Launch: Oracle has unveiled the Oracle Life Sciences AI Data Platform, a generative AI solution designed to unify the fragmented data ecosystems of pharmaceutical and medical device companies.The Asset: The platform doesn't just process customer data; it comes pre-loaded with access to 129 million+ de-identified real-world data records from Oracle Health, providing a massive baseline for analysis.The Tech: Beyond standard LLMs, the platform uses "Agentic Reasoning."
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Homecare Homebase 2026 Report: Medicare Advantage and AI Adoption Drive New Operational Strategy
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The Crisis: Despite soaring demand from an aging population, home health referral conversion rates have dropped 13% since 2018, leaving 4.2 million patients without recommended care in 2024 due to capacity constraints.The Shift: With Medicare rates decreasing by ~1.3% and Medicare Advantage (MA) now covering 54% of beneficiaries, agencies can no longer rely on rate hikes. Margin protection must come from operational precision and automated "payer playbooks."The Solution:
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Why AI Fails in Fragmented Systems: A 2026 Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Healthcare organizations have spent the past decade layering on digital tools in the name of patient engagement. What began with portals and messaging systems has expanded to include scheduling, digital forms, reminders, and payments. But in many practices, these solutions were implemented one by one, often from different vendors and with little thought for how they work together. The result is a disconnected patient experience and an operational burden for staff.
Fragmentation shows up in
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HGP 2026 Market Review: Why Two Decades of Health IT Failed to Bend the Cost Curve
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The Reality Check: In HGP’s 20-year retrospective, the verdict is harsh: technology delivered on workflows but failed on economics. Since HGP's founding, U.S. healthcare spending has doubled to $5.3 trillion, proving that digitization alone does not equal efficiency.The Market Rebound: Despite the cynicism, the deal market is roaring back. Q3 2025 saw a record 136 M&A deals, and valuations have settled comfortably above pre-pandemic levels (approx. 5.1x revenue),
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