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Almanac Health has raised $10M in a seed round led by F-Prime, with participation from General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing total funding to nearly $12M.The platform was founded by Cyril Zakka, MD, a physician-researcher at Stanford who developed the first retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system for clinical medicine.Unlike many "black box" solutions, Almanac is grounded in peer-reviewed evidence and is currently undergoing rigorous clinical
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Backed by Redesign Health, Gravity Rail Launches with $2.75M to Provide No-Code AI Operating System for Healthcare
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Gravity Rail has officially launched with a $2.75M seed investment led by Redesign Health.The platform functions as a model-agnostic operating system, allowing healthcare teams to build and manage AI engagement workflows across voice, SMS, email, and web without writing code.Unlike outsourced "black box" solutions, Gravity Rail enables operations teams to translate Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) into live AI infrastructure using natural language.Early deployments
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From Governance to Enablement: How Healthcare CIOs Can Stop Killing AI Innovation
AI governance in healthcare has a branding problem. The word "governance" alone is enough to make half the room shut down. I've seen it happen. You put that word on a meeting invite, and suddenly everyone assumes this is the conversation where someone tells them what they can't do. That framing kills innovation before it starts.
I spent nearly a decade leading data and analytics teams at the largest healthcare system in Indiana, and we eventually stopped calling it governance altogether. We
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Amperos Health Raises $16M for Agentic AI Denial Management and Revenue Recovery Platform
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The Funding: Amperos Health has closed a $16M Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Uncork Capital and Neo. This follows a $4.2M seed round in June 2025.The Core Technology: Amperos has launched the industry’s first AI-native, end-to-end denial management platform. Unlike fragmented tools that only draft appeal letters or offer predictive scoring, Amperos uses agentic AI (state-of-the-art LLMs with computer and voice
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Real-Time Enrollment: Covered California Scales Google Cloud AI to Transform CalHEERS
Real-Time Verification: How Covered California is Using Google's Document AI to Fix Health Insurance Enrollment
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The Partnership: Covered California is expanding its partnership with Google Public Sector and Deloitte to overhaul CalHEERS, the state’s integrated health insurance eligibility and enrollment platform.The Technology: The system utilizes Google Cloud’s Document AI (DocAI) to automate the complex document verification process required for millions of residents
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Treehub Launches Stanford-Adjacent AI Health Residency for Early-Stage Academic Founders
Treehub Launches as Premier Academic Residency to Bridge the Gap Between Breakthrough Labs and Billion-Dollar Healthcare Ventures
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Treehub is a first-of-its-kind boutique residency program located in Los Altos, specifically designed to scout and fund early-stage founders emerging from university ecosystems.The program is backed by the AI Health Fund, which serves as the venture arm and provides the "first check" commitment to every Treehub company, often prior to formal
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Lumeris Launches Native Audio for Tom Platform to Address US Primary Care Physician Shortage
Lumeris Integrates Google Gemini Native Audio into Tom Platform to Revolutionize Patient-Provider Interactions
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Lumeris has officially launched Native Audio for Tom, introducing real-time, speech-to-speech AI capabilities to its Primary Care as a Service (PCaaS) platform.The technology is built on Google Cloud’s Gemini native audio infrastructure, allowing for empathetic, low-latency dialogue that understands urgency and emotional nuance in a patient’s voice.The rollout
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Eleos Debuts Agentic AI Suite for Community-Based Care
Eleos Debuts Agentic AI Suite for Community-Based Care
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The Launch: Eleos, a technology platform built for community-based care, has expanded its suite by launching new agentic AI tools across Clinical Insights, Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), and Compliance. The technology is debuting at NatCon 2026.The "Shadow IT" Crisis: Currently, 57% of providers admit to using unauthorized AI tools, risking massive HIPAA violations and PHI exposure. Eleos combats this by embedding
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Why UT Austin is Building an ‘AI-Native’ Hospital from Scratch
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The Launch: The University of Texas at Austin has announced the UT Dell Medical Center, a comprehensive, "tech-native" academic medical center slated to open in 2030.The MD Anderson Integration: Central to the facility's clinical strategy is a unique collaboration with UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, which will be fully integrated into the Austin campus to deliver elite, coordinated care for complex conditions.The "Greenfield" Tech Stack: Because the hospital is being built
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The Casino Model: Why Medtech VCs Are Betting Billions on Unproven AI
Last week I ended up at a fancy venue hired by a hopeful medtech company trying to impress potential investors with delicious food and an emotional story about their life-saving device. Pitching has become performance art. Founders deliver sharp decks, polished demos, bold promises of “AI-powered transformation,” impressive market sizes, and superior outcomes. What all these startups usually have in common is a near-fanatical belief in the importance, capabilities, and value of their product -
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