Few today remember PayPal’s early competitors. And for good reason—PayPal was a pioneer of automation strategy, with innovations that enabled them to scale to eventually dominate their market. But that future wasn't always a given.
Shortly after surviving the dot‑com bubble burst, PayPal and its competitors were bleeding tens of millions of dollars each month to credit card fraud. With thousands of transactions flowing through these platforms every minute, the problem was far too vast for any
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Teladoc Health Launches AI Solution to Combat Growing Crisis of Hospital Workplace Violence
What You Should Know:
- Teladoc Health announced a new offering within its Clarity™ monitoring solution designed to help hospitals and health systems actively address workplace violence.
- The capability uses AI-enabled software, hardware, and services to empower care teams with early intervention resources, expanding beyond Clarity’s existing virtual sitting use cases.
The Growing Threat to Healthcare Workers
Workplace violence is a persistent and escalating challenge
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Northwell Health to Deploy Abridge’s Ambient AI Across 28 Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- Northwell Health, the largest not-for-profit health system in the Northeast, today announced a plan to deploy Abridge’s ambient artificial intelligence (AI) platform across its 28 hospitals as part of a system-wide digital transformation.
- The implementation aims to significantly improve clinical documentation of patient conversations and ease the substantial administrative burden on providers.
Ambient AI to Support Epic EHR Rollout
Northwell Health
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Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate Unveils New Cohort of AI Health Tech Startups
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate has announced its latest cohort of health tech startups, featuring national and international businesses poised to transform healthcare.
- These 11 companies will participate in an immersive, 30-week program, gaining unparalleled access to expert mentors, industry-leading technologies, and millions of de-identified, longitudinal clinical records to develop and validate their artificial intelligence (AI)-driven healthcare
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WellTheory Raises $14M to Scale Whole-Person Autoimmune Care for Employers
What You Should Know:
- WellTheory, a leading whole-person care platform for autoimmune disease secures $14M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst withparticipation from new and existing investors, including 7wire Ventures, Accel, and Box Group.
- With a total capital raised of $26.2M, the new funding will fuel WellTheory's commercial growth, accelerate AI development, and expand programs to meet the surging demand from employers and payors.
The Financial Urgency of
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OutcomesAI Secures $10M to Launch Scalable Nursing Model with AI Voice Agents
What You Should Know:
- OutcomesAI, a digital healthcare company pioneering a new model of scalable nursing secures $10M in seed financing led by Santé Ventures.
- The funding will accelerate the commercial rollout of its hybrid model, which combines AI voice agents with licensed nurses to dramatically extend nursing capacity, reduce operational costs, and provide patients with faster access to critical care.
The Global Nursing Capacity Crisis
Healthcare providers are currently
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Pear Suite Secures $7.6M to Scale AI-Powered Community Health Worker Network
What You Should Know:
- Pear Suite, a digital health company dedicated to empowering community health workers (CHWs), today announced it has closed a $7.6 million Series A funding round co-led by Rock Health Capital and Nexxus Holdings.
- The investment will accelerate the development of its AI-powered platform, fuel provider network growth, and expand its impact through new Medicaid and Medicare health plan contracts.
Building Sustainable Infrastructure for Community-Based
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UnityAI and Peregrine Health Launch ‘Emma’ to Scale Behavioral Care in Underserved Communities
What You Should Know:
- UnityAI, a leading agentic AI company, has announced an exclusive partnership with Peregrine Health, a tech-enabled behavioral health company serving underserved communities through Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).
- The collaboration has successfully delivered and deployed Emma, a virtual care navigator that leverages UnityAI’s technology to modernize and scale patient engagement across behavioral health services.
Emma: A Virtual Navigator
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Cleveland Clinic Deploys GenAI for Coding and CDI Across Enterprise Powered by AKASA
What You Should Know:
- Cleveland Clinic, one of the top academic medical centers in the U.S., has significantly expanded its partnership with AKASA, a leader in healthcare AI, to deploy an advanced Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) solution across all of its U.S. locations.
- The enterprise deployment follows a successful pilot and the system-wide adoption of AKASA’s AI coding tool, solidifying Cleveland Clinic’s position as a pioneer in applying generative AI (GenAI) to
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Agentic AI in Healthcare: Hype or Healthcare’s Best Co-Pilot?
“AI is going to replace doctors.”
It’s a provocative, yet increasingly common fear whispered in hospital corridors and debated in medical forums. For many clinicians, the idea that software could not only analyze data but in the case of Agentic AI, take action evokes a dystopian future of medical decision-making stripped of empathy, nuance and professional judgment.
But fear, in many cases, is a symptom of misunderstanding. And for Agentic AI,
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