Agent as a service (AaaS) goes beyond SaaS to offer greater automation, fewer errors, and to perform more tasks in real time while requiring less effort from humans. For specific healthcare use cases, it can be very effective. This article explores the basics of Agentic AI and the ways in which it is more capable than a typical SaaS-based architecture.
Agentic AI basics
Agents are essentially autonomous or semi-autonomous codebases that perform three key sub-tasks:
Accessing
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Define Ventures Report Reveals Pharma Accelerates AI Investment for Enterprise-Scale Deployment
What You Should Know:
- Define Ventures, one of the largest venture capital firms focused on early-stage health tech companies, today released a report revealing how Big Pharma is accelerating investment in AI to counter rising cost pressure, regulatory shifts, and growing competitive urgency.
- The report is based on in-depth surveys and interviews with over 40 executives, including leaders from 16 of the top 20 pharma companies and major players like Amazon Web Services,
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Advocate Health to Deploy Aidoc’s FDA-cleared AI Algorithms With It’s Clinical Imaging Workflows
What You Should Know:
- Advocate Health, the nation’s third-largest nonprofit integrated health system, has announced an agreement with Aidoc to expand the use of its AI platform. Following a successful pilot study, this expansion aims to support faster diagnosis, earlier intervention, and more connected delivery of care for patients across its network.
- Advocate Health will leverage Aidoc’s aiOS™ platform to embed FDA-cleared AI algorithms into its clinical imaging workflows,
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HOPPR Launches New Chest Radiography Model with API Access
What You Should Know:
- HOPPR, a secure AI development platform for medical imaging announced the commercial release of its HOPPR Marie Curie Chest Radiography Foundation Model and fine-tuning API for binary classification, alongside inference API access and a new usage billing portal.
- The launch makes it easier for developers to customize and deploy AI solutions for medical imaging, promising to reduce costs and accelerate innovation in the field.
DeepHealth Pioneers
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Century Health Brings AI Curated Datasets to Life Sciences Companies Through Datavant Connect and AWS Clean Rooms
What You Should Know:
- Century Health has announced a strategic partnership with Datavant Connect—powered by AWS Clean Rooms—to bring AI-curated, disease-specific datasets directly to pharmaceutical and life sciences companies through a secure, no-data-movement platform.
- By joining Datavant’s Lighthouse Partner Program, Century Health enables researchers to discover and assess high-quality, longitudinal clinical data in minutes—not months—without accessing or transferring sensitive
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ShiftMed Unveils AI Suite to Optimize Healthcare Workforce Management
What You Should Know:
- ShiftMed, a provider of healthcare workforce technology, today announced the launch of its Workforce AI Suite, a set of intelligent tools designed to automate shift fulfillment and optimize workforce management.
- By embedding AI throughout the staffing process, the suite empowers health systems to efficiently manage labor operations and improve scheduling coordination across internal teams and on-demand clinicians.
Key Components of the Workforce AI
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OpenEvidence Secures $210M, Launches Free AI Agent for Clinicians
What You Should Know:
- OpenEvidence, the most widely used medical search and AI application among verified U.S. clinicians raises $210M in Series B funding round, valuing the company at $3.5 billion. The round was co-led by Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, with follow-on investment from Series A leader Sequoia Capital, and additional participation from Coatue, Conviction, and Thrive. OpenEvidence has now raised over $300M since its founding.
- OpenEvidence is rapidly
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Sheba Medical, Hippocratic AI Partner to Deploy Generative AI Agents
What You Should Know:
- Hippocratic AI, a global leader in generative AI healthcare agents announced a strategic partnership with Sheba Medical Center, a global beacon of medical innovation and research.
- As part of this partnership, Hippocratic AI will also join the ARC ecosystem, a global network comprising leading hospitals, researchers, and innovation organizations, opening doors to new pathways for meaningful impact within the network.
Advancing a Shared Vision for
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New Opportunities for Healthcare AI: Decoding the 2026 Medicare Advantage Rate Hike
Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2026 Medicare Advantage (MA) Rate Announcement, projecting a 5.06% average increase in payments to MA plans. That’s a notable jump from the 3.70% increase we saw in 2025. More than just a financial adjustment, this signals growing confidence in the Medicare Advantage model—and with it, growing expectations.
What does this mean simply? Insurance companies offering these plans will receive more government funding,
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What Are Healthcare’s Most Pressing Revenue Integrity Issues in The Remote-Work Era?
With more and more organizations merging for scale and sustainability, revenue cycle teams are being centralized, taking these critical personnel further away from physicians at the bedside. Remote teams are finding it harder than ever to collaborate with clinicians on critical functions.
Simultaneously, more revenue cycle functions are being automated as robotic process automation and generative AI evolves. With fewer administrative personnel in general — and even fewer
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