What You Should Know:
- Wysa, a global leader in AI-driven mental health support, has announced its acquisition of Kins, a U.S. physical therapy services company. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- This move introduces a "reverse acquisition" strategy, where Wysa, instead of waiting for healthcare services to adopt AI at scale, is actively acquiring established healthcare services to rapidly integrate its technology. The goal is to address the reality that
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The AI Malpractice Paradox: Why Healthcare Organizations Bear Full Legal Responsibility for Patient Harm
Healthcare organizations are installing artificial intelligence tools across their operations — diagnostic algorithms, predictive models, patient monitoring systems — while avoiding a fundamental question: Who gets sued when these systems harm patients?
Healthcare organizations bear full legal responsibility for any patient harm caused by AI tools they choose to use. This is direct medical malpractice liability, whether the AI was built internally or bought from a vendor. Yet while executives
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Biograph and Caristo Partner to Study Novel AI-Based Cardiac Marker in US Patients
What You Should Know:
- Biograph, a preventive health and diagnostics clinic, has announced a partnership with Caristo Diagnostics to become the first U.S. clinic to study a novel AI-based preventive cardiac marker in asymptomatic patients.
- The marker detects coronary artery inflammation using cardiac CT scans. This study will be available exclusively to Biograph’s Black Tier members who are clinically eligible.
Why Early Inflammation Detection is a
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Confido Health Raises $10M to Automate Patient Access with AI Voice Agents
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- Confido Health, a company specializing in AI-powered voice agents for healthcare secures $10M Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $13M.
- The round was led by Blume Ventures, with participation from Schema Ventures, Vicus Ventures, and existing investors such as Together Fund. The new capital will be used to expand its platform and meet the surging demand for automated solutions.
Solving the Phone Paradox in Healthcare
Even in
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Switchboard Health Acquires Conduce Health to Scale AI-Driven Specialty Care
What You Should Know:
- Switchboard Health, a creator of a digital health platform for connecting patients with high-value specialty care, has announced the acquisition of Conduce Health. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Conduce Health is an AI-driven solution specializing in personalized multispecialty care. This strategic acquisition will combine Switchboard's existing EMR-integrated software and virtual care network with Conduce's predictive
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Gelt Raises $13M to Expand AI-Powered Tax Solutions for Healthcare Practices and Physicians
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- Gelt, the first AI-native tax firm for high-earning professionals, has announced it has raised $13M in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $21.2M.
- The funding round was led by global investors, including Zvi Limon of the Rimon Group, Vintage Investment Partners, and TLV Partners. Concurrent with the launch, Yoram Tietz, former Managing Partner at EY, has been appointed Chairman of the Board.
Expanding Services for the Complex Healthcare
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Labcorp and Roche Partner to Advance Digital Pathology and AI Integration
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- Labcorp, a global leader in laboratory services, has announced a collaboration with Roche to implement the company's FDA-cleared VENTANA® DP 600 and DP 200 slide scanners.
- The investment is a major step in Labcorp's digital transformation initiative, enabling pathologists to diagnose patients using high-resolution digital images and supporting future integration of artificial intelligence (AI).
Addressing the Pathology Workforce Crisis
This
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Homecare Homebase Launches AI and Automation Tools to Transform Home-Based Care
What You Should Know:
- Homecare Homebase (HCHB), a leader in software for home-based care launches three new automation and AI-driven tools.
- The solutions are designed to create crucial workflow efficiencies in areas of home-based care that have historically been manual and time-consuming. The new products are part of the HCHB Intelligence Suite and are accessible directly through the Homecare Homebase EHR, ensuring a seamless user experience.
Streamlining Workflows
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Ambience Healthcare Launches Inpatient ICD-10 CDI Assistant to Elevate Hospital Documentation
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- Ambience Healthcare has announced the launch of the industry’s first Inpatient ICD-10 CDI Assistant.
- The new solution is designed to help hospitalists document precise, compliant diagnoses during the patient encounter, ensuring that clinical complexity is accurately captured and is audit-ready from the start.
Bridging the Gap Between Complexity and Compliance
Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) is the discipline of ensuring that the medical
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How Agentic AI Automates Healthcare Admin and Combats Burnout
Seventy minutes is enough time to complete a colonoscopy or a hernia repair; it's also the average time saved per patient visit when healthcare providers use fully automated administrative workflows that not just collect, but also act on data.
Clinicians are drowning in alerts, forms, and follow-ups, while $90 billion per year is spent on routine administrative tasks. Agentic AI brings a breakthrough, taking these informative alerts, and making decisions based on their context.
In
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