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The Funding: Clinical AI platform Avo has raised a $10M Series A financing round. The round was led by Noro-Moseley Partners, with participation from AlleyCorp and other strategic investors.The Solution: Avo acts as an intelligent overlay within major EHRs like Epic, athenahealth, and MEDITECH. Using AI copilots (like Chart Assist and Ask Avo), it synthesizes patient data, drafts documentation, and pulls external guidelines directly into the physician's immediate
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IKS Health Acquihires AI Startup ThinkDTM to Transform Patient Access Solutions
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The Deal: Global care enablement leader IKS Health has executed a strategic "acquihire" of ThinkDTM, an AI-native product and digital services company.The Leadership Shuffle: ThinkDTM Founder Tij Bedi is joining the IKS Health C-suite as the new Executive Vice President and General Manager of Patient Access and Innovation. His entire team of AI engineers is coming with him.
Leadership Appointment
Tij Bedi, the Founder of ThinkDTM, is joining IKS Health as the
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Atlantic Health to Deploy Artera’s AI Agents for Colonoscopy Patient Outreach
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The Partnership: Atlantic Health, a not-for-profit health system spanning NJ, PA, and NY, has partnered with Artera to deploy outbound AI Agents for patient communication.Impact: This initiative marks Atlantic Health's first use of an AI Agent for outbound communication to patients, designed to deliver an enhanced consumer experience and help patients better prepare for timely preventative care.
The Agentic Phone Call
Colorectal cancer has a 90%+ survival rate if
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Butterfly Network Receives FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Gestational Age Ultrasound Tool
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The Milestone: Butterfly Network has received FDA clearance for a fully automated Gestational Age (GA) Tool integrated directly into its handheld, semiconductor-based ultrasound devices. It is the first FDA-cleared "blind-sweep" ultrasound AI tool for estimating gestational age.The Efficacy & Scale: The tool is proven to deliver results equivalent to a trained sonographer for patients between 16 and 37 weeks. Backed by the Gates Foundation, the tool is already
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Building an ‘AI-Ready’ Healthcare Enterprise Using NIST and ISO Frameworks
Technology leaders across diagnostic organizations, radiology practices, pharmacies, and specialty pharmacies are hearing a consistent message from technology providers: “Adopt AI or fall behind.”
The problem is that “adopt AI” is not a strategy. It’s an activity, and too often, it turns into a series of pilots that never become fully integrated enterprise capabilities.
That failure is well-documented. According to a 2025 “State of AI in Business” report on enterprise AI implementation by
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Collectly Acquires AI Automation Startup Pledge Health to Streamline Pre-Service Workflows
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The Acquisition: Collectly, a dominant AI-powered patient financial experience platform that has processed over $1 billion in payments across 3,000+ facilities, has acquired Y Combinator-backed Pledge Health.The Missing Piece: Collectly has historically owned the post-visit patient billing and engagement experience. Pledge Health brings powerful, upstream pre-service automation (coverage verification, upfront cost estimates, prior auth readiness).The Tech Upgrade: Pledge
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Adonis Secures $40M for AI‑Driven Revenue Cycle Operations Platform
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The Funding: New York-based Adonis, an AI orchestration platform for Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), has raised $40M in Series C funding. The round was led by Quadrille Capital, bringing the company's total funding to over $95M since its founding in 2022.The Financial Velocity: Adonis is scaling rapidly. The company reported achieving more than 4x revenue growth in 2025 and an impressive net retention rate above 130%.The Market Crisis: The healthcare reimbursement
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Beyond the AI Arms Race: Why Collaborative Intelligence Is the Only Path Forward for Utilization Management
Healthcare's utilization management crisis didn't start with artificial intelligence — but AI threatens to make it exponentially worse if we don't change course now.
A recent peer-reviewed study from Stanford University, published in the January 2026 issue of Health Affairs, evaluated 21 predictive and/or generative AI tools currently deployed across the utilization review landscape. The findings should serve as a wake-up call: we're
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Cityblock Health CEO Dr. Toyin Ajayi Releases Blueprint for AI in Medicaid
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The Manifesto: Dr. Toyin Ajayi, CEO of Cityblock Health, has published a comprehensive report, “Medicaid + AI: A New Standard for Innovation,” arguing that the nation's most vulnerable patient population must be the proving ground for generative AI.The Investment Disconnect: Currently, roughly 60% of healthcare AI investment is directed toward revenue cycle management, billing optimization, and risk adjustment. Conversely, less than 20% of health plans use AI to develop
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The C-Suite Squeeze: Why Hospital IT Budgets Are Shrinking While AI Spending Soars
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The Data Source: Sage Growth Partners released its "Health IT Purchasing Forecast 2026-2027: Where C-Suites are Investing Amid Declining Capital Budgets" report, based on a benchmark survey of 101 hospital and health system C-suite executives.The Budget Squeeze: A significant 41% of C-suite leaders anticipate their capital investments will be reduced over the next two years. Only 5% expect an increase of 20% or more, representing a notable decline from prior years.The
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