More than one-third of U.S. counties are now considered maternity care deserts. In 2023, the national maternal mortality rate hit 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births. For Black women, that climbs to 50.3 deaths per 100,000, more than double the national average.
What we're missing is policy alignment, sustainable funding, and important culture changes that align maternal care teams beyond the current boundaries of what high quality and reliable maternal care looks like. And we can’t
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Amazon Pharmacy Partners with Eli Lilly to Offer Foundayo GLP-1 with Same-Day Delivery
What You Should Know
The Drug: Amazon Pharmacy is now dispensing Foundayo™, Eli Lilly's recently approved, once-daily oral GLP-1 medication indicated for adults with obesity or overweight with weight-related medical problems.The Pricing: Amazon is utilizing radical price transparency and automatic couponing. With insurance, the drug costs $25 per month ($1 per day). For cash-pay customers, it is aggressively priced at $149 per month ($5 per day).
How Amazon Pharmacy's Same-Day GLP-1
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M&A: LivTech Acquires Alora Healthcare Systems to Expand Post-Acute Care Platform
What You Should Know
The Acquisition: LivTech, a comprehensive healthcare tech provider for long-term post-acute care (LTPAC), has acquired Alora Healthcare Systems, a premier developer of cloud-based, AI-enhanced home health software. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The Financial Backer: The acquisition is backed by PSG, a leading growth equity firm that partners with middle-market software companies, signaling strong private equity interest in the care-at-home
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myStoria Secures $1.6M to Launch AI-Powered Reproductive Health Platform
What You Should Know
The Funding: Kitchener, Ontario-based health-tech startup myStoria has closed a $1.625M seed funding round led by Graphite Ventures, with participation from Conexus Venture Capital and others.The Solution: myStoria is a mobile-first (iOS/Android) platform that acts as an intelligent "Context Engine." It organizes a user’s messy health history (documents, audio, photos, symptoms) into a structured format optimized for AI comprehension, ensuring nothing is missed during a
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Clinical AI Platform Avo Secures $10M, Announces EBSCO DynaMed Partnership
What You Should Know
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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Dimer Health Secures $13.5M to Expand AI-Powered Transitional Care Platform
What You Should Know
The Funding: Dimer Health, an AI-native Transitional Care Medicine company, has secured $13.5M in Series A financing led by Team8 and Bill Ackman's Table Management. This brings their total funding to nearly $20M.The Clinical Problem: The first 14 days after a patient is discharged from the hospital are highly vulnerable, accounting for nearly half of all hospital readmissions. This breakdown in care transitions costs the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $52 to $62
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Beyond Email: Why Communication Failures are Driving the Nursing Crisis
What You Should Know
- New research from Firstup reveals that 81% of hospital nurses attribute patient care issues directly to organizational miscommunication.
- With traditional channels like email failing a "deskless" workforce, communication gaps are now a primary driver of clinician burnout and a "retention tax" costing hospitals an average of $61,110 per lost RN.
Firstup 2026 State of Nursing Communication Report
As hospitals nationwide navigate margin pressure and a
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Arbiter Emerges from Stealth with $52M Funding to End Healthcare Fragmentation with AI
What You Should Know:
- Arbiter, a new AI-powered care orchestration platform, has launched from stealth with $52M in funding, led by TriEdge Investments and MFO Ventures, to unite payers, providers, and patients and rebuild the operating spine of U.S. healthcare.
- The company is built and funded by leaders overseeing over $25B in annual healthcare payments and millions of patient lives. Its team combines executive leadership from major health systems and payers (Cigna,
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Cityblock Health and Mercy Health Partner to Transform Medicaid Care in Ohio
What You Should Know:
- Cityblock Health, a value-based provider specializing in the complex needs of the Medicaid population, and Mercy Health, part of the Bon Secours Mercy Health system, announced a strategic collaboration in the greater Cincinnati and Toledo areas of Ohio.
- Cityblock will provide care extension services to complement the primary care services already delivered by Mercy Health’s existing provider network.
Wrap-Around Care Coordination
This wrap-around care
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How AI Frees Nurses and Clinicians to Focus on Care and Quality
It is no secret that clinical staff, particularly nurses, are under constant demand to do more with less. While AI has generated plenty of headlines for its promise to revolutionize care delivery, its true value will be measured by how it supports those on the front lines.
For nurse abstractors, whose work is essential for quality reporting, registry submission, and clinical decision-making, AI can offer something truly impactful. Time.
As more hospitals and health systems deploy AI-driven
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