Exa Capital Acquires Health Care Workforce Platform StaffReady
Exa Capital has acquired StaffReady, a SaaS platform that manages clinical workforces across hospitals, labs, and pharmaceutical testing firms. The platform streamlines staff scheduling, compliance, and inspection readiness, helping health‑care organizations reduce operational bottlenecks. StaffReady will remain independent with its current leadership, while leveraging Exa’s capital and expertise to scale. The acquisition expands Exa’s health‑tech portfolio and positions it to accelerate digital workforce management in the sector.
At HIMSS26, eClinicalWorks Will Introduce New AI API Tool for EHRs
At HIMSS26, eClinicalWorks will launch the AI API Workbench, a platform that lets developers create custom autonomous AI agents for electronic health records. The company is positioning AI as an active participant in daily operations, with tools like healow Genie...
Altais Cuts Prior Authorization Review Time by 45% and Reduces Manual Errors by 54% with Autonomize AI
Altais Health Solutions and Autonomize AI announced a clinician‑led partnership that leverages AI to automate prior‑authorization workflows. The deployment cut case‑review time by 45% and reduced manual errors by 54%, while half of routine requests now process automatically. Clinicians still...
3 Lessons Learned From Developing a Novel Neurotechnology Device
QuantalX Neuroscience’s Delphi‑MD, a hybrid TMS‑EEG platform powered by AI, received FDA de novo classification in November 2025 and entered commercial launch in February 2026. The device delivers real‑time, age‑adjusted brain‑function assessments by comparing patient data to a cleared normative database. CEO Dr....
Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise Extends Partnerships with 14 Hospital Systems
Altera Digital Health announced that 14 hospital systems have extended multi‑year contracts for its Sunrise electronic health record platform. The renewals follow the launch of Sunrise 25.1, which introduced roughly 700 system enhancements and a focus on streamlined navigation. Altera...
New €34m Research-Led HealthTech Hub Launched at University of Galway
The Irish government and the EU have injected €34.3 million into a new ARC Hub for HealthTech, officially launched at the University of Galway. The hub, part of Research Ireland’s Accelerating Research to Commercialisation programme, brings together University of Galway, Atlantic...
X-On Health Launches Omni Consult to Transform Primary Care Triage and Patient Access
X‑on Health has launched Omni Consult, an upgrade to its Surgery Connect platform that unifies patient request channels into a single, structured workflow. The solution lets patients submit requests via voice agents, web forms or staff entry, consolidating them for GP...
Engineers Demonstrate Lightweight 'Exoskeleton' That Helps Stroke Survivors Walk
Engineers at the University of Utah unveiled a 5.5‑pound portable hip exoskeleton that reduces the metabolic cost of walking for stroke survivors with hemiparesis by roughly 18%. The device delivers side‑specific motor assistance synchronized in real time, allowing users to...
Will AI Solve Immunology’s Debate Over “Self Vs. Non-Self?”
The article revisits the long‑standing self‑versus‑non‑self paradigm in immunology, highlighting fetal immune tolerance as a natural exception. It explains how maternal‑fetal microchimerism and epigenetic plasticity challenge traditional dogma and could unlock new treatments for auto‑immune disease, cancer, and age‑related inflammation....
Collaboration at a Crossroads: 5 Ways Clinicians and IT Teams Can Work Better with Vendors
The article outlines five practical steps for clinicians and IT teams to improve collaboration with healthcare vendors, from early stakeholder involvement to shared success metrics, clear roadmaps, dedicated onboarding managers, and comprehensive training. It stresses the growing role of IT...
The Free Lunch Is Over, Except Now It’s Not: What Near-Zero Software Costs Mean for Every Player in Healthcare
AI‑driven coding assistants are slashing healthcare software development costs by 80‑90%, turning what was once a multi‑year, eight‑figure project into a matter of weeks or days. This cost collapse erodes the traditional moat of EHR and point‑solution vendors, enabling hospitals,...
NAM’s AI Code of Conduct: What It Means for Behavioral Health
In May 2025 the National Academy of Medicine released an Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine, outlining ten principles to guide trustworthy, human‑centered AI across health care. The framework is especially relevant for behavioral health, where AI...
MRNA Nanobodies Show Promise in Colorectal Cancer
A preclinical study published in eGastroenterology demonstrates that lipid‑nanoparticle delivery of nucleoside‑modified mRNA encoding anti‑PD‑L1 nanobodies suppresses tumor growth in mouse models of both sporadic and colitis‑associated colorectal cancer. Researchers engineered monomeric and quadruple nanobody formats; the quadruple construct showed...
Your Watch Will One Day Track Blood Pressure
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin demonstrated a non‑contact method for measuring blood pressure by reflecting near‑field radio waves off the wrist. They built a wearable prototype using a patch antenna, circulator and a custom 2.4 GHz integrated circuit...
HIMSS26 Speaker Imagines Healthcare in 2035
General Catalyst’s Dr. Stephen Klasko will headline HIMSS26’s Smart Health Transformation Forum, delivering a keynote that imagines a personalized‑care landscape by 2035. Drawing inspiration from Taylor Swift’s storytelling, he will link today’s AI, genomics, and data‑exchange advances to future patient‑centric models....
Patients Are Using AI For Medical Advice. Here’s How To Do It Safely.
A Gallup poll shows 16 % of U.S. adults now rely on consumer AI chatbots for medical advice, highlighting a shift in patient behavior. These tools can simplify medical language and help patients prepare for visits, but they lack HIPAA compliance...
How AI Is Transforming Detection of Congenital Heart Defects
AI‑enabled ultrasound is emerging as a tool to improve prenatal detection of congenital heart defects (CHDs), which affect about 1 % of U.S. births and are frequently missed. FDA‑cleared AI platforms can analyze cardiac images in real time, flagging abnormal views...
Big Tech Accelerates Into Healthcare With Partnerships
Big tech companies like Amazon, Google/Alphabet, Apple, NVIDIA and Microsoft are taking their move into healthcare and medicine seriously. They are developing new, health-related features on their platforms. They are also teaming up with research institutions and developers to create new...
FDA Picks Radiologist to Fill Key AI-Related Role
The FDA has appointed Dr. Jeffrey Abramson, a veteran radiologist with extensive AI and health‑policy experience, to a senior role within its Digital Health Center of Excellence. The move comes as the agency shifts toward a more hands‑off regulatory stance...
Medi-Globe Launches mAI Companion AI Assistant for Pancreatic EUS
Medical device maker Medi‑Globe has launched mAI Companion, a CE‑marked real‑time AI assistant for pancreatic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). Developed with IHU Strasbourg, the system analyses the pancreas during procedures to highlight solid and cystic lesions, acting as a second set...
Medical AI Is Already In Hospitals. Who Is Watching Its Safety?
The FDA has opened public comment on a citizen petition that would shift oversight of adaptive radiology AI tools from repeated pre‑market reviews to continuous post‑market monitoring. As AI algorithms are updated to improve performance or expand indications, the traditional...
How Camunda’s Skyflow Connector Helps Regulated Organizations Orchestrate Sensitive Data Safely
Camunda introduced a Skyflow connector that tokenizes and de‑identifies PII/PHI within BPMN workflows. The connector forwards selected fields to Skyflow’s vault, replaces them with tokens, and permits controlled re‑identification only at approved steps. This approach shrinks the cleartext data footprint...
Oura Thinks Its New AI Can Do What ChatGPT Can’t for Women’s Health
Oura announced its first proprietary large language model, a clinician‑vetted AI built specifically for women’s health, embedded in the Oura Advisor feature. The model draws on users' sleep, activity, stress and menstrual cycle data to deliver personalized guidance, moving beyond...
Successful Readout of Prospective Phase 2 SINERGY Trial Supports SignateraTM MRD-Guided Treatment in Head and Neck Cancer
Natera reported Phase 2 SINERGY trial results showing a 63% objective response rate in recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma when treatment was adapted using Signatera circulating tumor DNA monitoring. Seventy‑four percent of the 27 patients were de‑escalated...
Oxford University Hospitals Shares Evaluation of Ambient Voice Pilots
Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust completed a pilot of ambient voice technology (AVT) across inpatient and outpatient settings, testing four vendors – Accurx Scribe, Tortus, Heidi and Lyrebird. Almost 90% of clinicians reported reduced documentation time, with 88%...
Some Patients Listed as “Charlie Kirk” Or Dead After Major NZ Health App MediMap Hacked
New Zealand health‑tech firm MediMap was forced offline after an unauthorized intrusion altered patient records, including changing names to “Charlie Kirk” and marking individuals as deceased. The breach affected dozens of providers in aged‑care, disability, hospice and community settings, prompting the...
€1m Digital Mental Health Strategy for Ireland
Ireland has unveiled a €1 million digital mental health strategy that outlines a national roadmap for digital tools, shared records and technology‑enabled services. The plan builds on the 2020‑2030 "Sharing the Vision" policy and prioritises the HSE Health App, a national...
Canary Speech, JubileeTV Partner on AI Voice Biomarkers for At-Home Care
Canary Speech has partnered with JubileeTV to embed its AI‑driven vocal‑biomarker technology into consumer video calls, marking the first deployment outside clinical settings. The system analyzes 40 seconds of natural conversation, extracting thousands of acoustic features to generate nondiagnostic scores...
TigerConnect Aims to Use AI to Modernize Hospital Operator, Management Systems
TigerConnect unveiled a cloud‑native operator console aimed at replacing decades‑old hospital switchboards. The platform unifies call routing, code activations, and alarm management into a single dashboard while integrating with EHRs, telephony and scheduling tools. AI‑driven automation and intelligent search streamline...
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At a recent round‑table, a speaker outlined how the NHS 10‑year plan can be accelerated by applying platform‑centric principles drawn from the Platformland framework. The presentation highlighted four pillars: digital ways of working, platform‑based clinical functions, converting the public into...
Switching to Syai CGM for Easier Glucose Monitoring
I just started testing a new continuous glucose monitor (CGM) device from Syai. I tried Abbott Freestyle Libre 2 and Sibionics before, but the need for the reader with Libre was a pain in the process, and the Sibionics app is...
Kyndryl and University of Liverpool to Spearhead Health Innovation with Agentic AI
Kyndryl and the University of Liverpool’s Civic Health Innovation Labs have launched a partnership to apply Kyndryl’s Agentic AI Framework to co‑develop blueprints for next‑generation healthcare technologies. The first phase will generate conceptual AI projects, emphasizing conversational agents that help...
MiraDx Launches New PROSTOX Genetic Test for Prostate Cancer Patients
MiraDx has launched PROSTOX Standard, a clinically validated genetic test that predicts long‑term urinary toxicity for prostate cancer patients receiving conventional or moderately hypofractionated radiation therapy. The test uses a cheek swab and returns results in five to seven days,...
FDA Grants Breakthrough Designation to Orthonika’s Synthetic Total Meniscus Implant
Orthonika, an Imperial College London spin‑out, received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its synthetic Total Meniscus Replacement (TMR) implant and an invitation to the Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program. The designation promises prioritized regulatory engagement, speeding the path to...
Swallowable Robots Promise Safer, Remote Diagnostics
The future of medicine might be something you swallow. When I first read about PillBot, I paused. A tiny ingestible robot camera that replaces traditional endoscopies? That is not incremental innovation. That is a shift. Instead of invasive tubes and hospital procedures,...
Stop Revenue Leaks: Tighten RCM Processes Now
Every org struggles with RCM—but not every org fixes what’s leaking revenue. This look at denials, claim errors, and today’s patient-pay realities makes the case for tightening processes now. https://t.co/lWo3nK666k #RCMFix #HITsm #HITSM #TempDev
Epredia and Mindpeak Announce EU Distribution Agreement for AI-Powered Image Recognition in Cancer Diagnostics
Epredia and Mindpeak have signed a distribution agreement to bring Mindpeak’s AI‑driven image‑recognition software to Epredia’s European digital pathology customers. The AI modules deliver pixel‑level analysis for breast, lung, gastrointestinal cancers and biomarker quantification, operating without cloud connectivity to preserve...
Leaders Optimistic on AI-Driven Clinical Innovation, Wary of Costs
This survey of leaders from #healthcare plans, health systems, and innovative solution providers reflects optimism about clinical innovation and emerging #AI use, balanced against concerns over costs, payment models, and politics: https://t.co/xFXpbqfhbY via @TTCapPartners https://t.co/tG3a2CGn90
AI Will Replace Most Knowledge Workers; Healthcare Stays Last
SaaS may be in its bloodbath moment but as @Bob_Wachter says: When AI replaces doctors it means we are all out of jobs. Doctors, writers, lawyers, consultants, knowledge workers, etc. Healthcare is highest regulation, liability, risk. It’ll be one of the...
Every Cure and Computational Pharmacophenomics: A New Field of Medicine
The nonprofit Every Cure is launching computational pharmacophenomics, an AI‑driven approach that systematically evaluates all 4,000 FDA‑approved drugs for the 14,000 diseases lacking treatments. Its MATRIX platform integrates massive biomedical knowledge graphs, generates graph embeddings, and ranks 75 million drug‑disease pairs,...
AI-Driven Care Models Enhance Long-Term Cancer Survivors' Quality
As more patients live years—sometimes decades—beyond a cancer diagnosis, we need smarter, sustainable care models focused on improving quality of life. At @Oracle, we're use AI and real-world evidence to advance smarter, more equitable cancer care: https://t.co/h28j1sIrN3
GSMA Foundry and NUHS Singapore to Drive 5G and AI Innovations in Healthcare Through New Strategic Partnership
GSMA Foundry has signed a strategic partnership with Singapore’s National University Health System (NUHS) to accelerate 5G‑enabled, AI‑driven healthcare solutions. The collaboration will leverage private 5G networks, digital twins, XR, IoT and ambient AI to enable remote surgical assistance, immersive...
b.well Connected Health Unveils Bailey™
b.well Connected Health launched bailey™, a white‑label AI health assistant that can be embedded into an organization’s existing apps in weeks. Powered by b.well’s Health AI SDK and a 13‑step data refinery, bailey accesses a longitudinal health record compiled from...
Physicians Must Lead AI Governance in Healthcare
AI governance in health care: Why physicians must lead the design https://t.co/W2SZujkFXz #Physician #HealthIT via @kevinmd
InnoScot Issues Call for Early-Stage Innovations Around Patient Care, Efficiency, Workforce, and Transformation
InnoScot Health has launched a call for early‑stage innovators—including final‑year trainees, first‑year practitioners, SMEs and student entrepreneurs—to submit ideas that improve patient care, efficiency, workforce wellbeing, or enable data‑driven remote care. Successful applicants will receive a support package covering intellectual‑property...
FDA Approves Allurion’s PMA Application for Gastric Balloon System
Allurion received FDA clearance for its Gastric Balloon System featuring the Smart Capsule, a swallow‑able, endoscopy‑free obesity treatment. The capsule is placed during a 15‑minute office visit, inflates in the stomach for about four months, then exits naturally, with a...
Puresta Bags $3.7 Mn To Build AI-Powered Full-Stack Dermatology Platform
Puresta raised ₹34 Cr (≈$3.7 M) in a pre‑seed round led by Spring Marketing Capital to build an AI‑powered full‑stack dermatology platform. The startup acquired HealthQ Life Science, the parent of D2C skincare brand SKINQ, to integrate dermatologist‑formulated products into its technology...
Combining Soft and Hard Properties: Synergistic Innovation of Magnetic Hydrogel Microrobots in Precision Medicine
Magnetic hydrogel microrobots (MHMs) are emerging untethered soft robots that combine magnetic actuation with responsive hydrogel matrices. Recent research highlights dual design strategies that integrate material optimization and functional integration, enabling precise, spatiotemporal control. Innovations in bionic structures and multimodal...
CMS Updates MIPS for 2026: Administrative Claims, TEFCA Bonuses, and AI Safety Measures
CMS released its 2026 Merit‑based Incentive Payment System updates, adding administrative claims scoring, a TEFCA participation bonus, and a new AI safety measure. The changes affect quality, interoperability, improvement activities, and cost categories, with retroactive application to 2025 for large...
Tech Alone Won’t Save UK Healthcare – Finn Stevenson, Flok Health
Finn Stevenson, CEO of AI‑driven physiotherapy startup Flok Health, discussed on the UKTN Podcast how slow reform in the NHS hampers patient care, especially for back‑pain sufferers. He highlighted Flok's hybrid model that combines algorithmic triage with live physiotherapist sessions...