Know What's Happening in HealthTech
Know What's Happening in HealthTech
Understood Care, a New York‑based AI‑native patient advocacy platform, announced a $5 million seed round led by Rethink Education and Zeal Capital Partners. The funding follows a $3.4 million pre‑seed round backed by 1984 Ventures and Y Combinator. The capital will accelerate development of Ava, the company’s AI co‑pilot, and expand partnerships with providers, payers, and community groups. CEO Sam Wu emphasizes that the blend of human advocates and AI automation aims to eliminate administrative barriers to care.
Modern electronic health records now contain years of notes, labs, imaging and messages, creating a “storage unit” that clinicians cannot fully review in the few minutes before a visit. This overload forces doctors to perform a real‑time “chart biopsy,” often...
L&T Technology Services (LTTS) unveiled an AI‑powered digital twin platform that creates immersive 3D models of patients’ lungs from CT scans. The solution leverages NVIDIA’s Physical AI stack—including Omniverse, TensorRT and MONAI—to deliver real‑time visualization, automated segmentation of airways, vessels...
Doctomatic, an AI‑native remote patient management platform, has named Bill Josko as Head of Americas to accelerate its expansion across North and Latin America. Josko brings more than 25 years of digital‑transformation experience, including senior roles at IBM. The move...
Homecare Homebase (HCHB) unveiled Curate: Scribe, an AI‑assisted documentation tool built into its EHR. Developed with StenoHealth, the feature generates draft clinical notes that clinicians can review and edit, aiming to cut the time spent on paperwork. By embedding AI...
Ethermed and VisiQuate announced a strategic partnership that merges Ethermed’s embedded prior‑authorization automation with VisiQuate’s AI‑driven predictive models, data engine, and robotic process automation. The combined platform predicts authorization requirements, executes submissions directly within clinical workflows, and continuously refines its...
Natera announced two peer‑reviewed studies demonstrating the clinical utility of its personalized ctDNA assay, Signatera, in anal squamous cell carcinoma and locally advanced rectal cancer. In the ASCC cohort of 84 patients, baseline negativity or clearance of ctDNA during chemoradiotherapy...
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign have engineered a photonic‑nanomaterial platform that senses microRNA and DNA signatures linked to cancer up to five to eight years before conventional diagnostics can. The system leverages photonic crystal grating resonance and nano‑assemblies...
Royal Philips showcased at HIMSS26 its AI‑enabled, interoperable platform that links continuous patient monitoring with diagnostic imaging and EMR data, creating a unified patient story across care settings. The company highlighted two core capabilities—enterprise patient monitoring for longitudinal care intelligence...
It’s incredibly hard to see through the current AI hype in healthcare. To facilitate that, I have mapped the rapidly expanding universe of AI use cases in healthcare from early-stage “on the horizon” innovations to “safe bets” that are already backed...
Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS) has secured €5.78 million in growth funding from Salica Investments. The capital will fund OMS’s expansion into U.S. health systems and universities, and accelerate product innovation such as AI‑driven scenarios, learning analytics, and workflow tools. The round...
Circle Health Group’s Clementine Churchill Hospital in London has become the UK’s first private facility to install Intuitive’s da Vinci 5 surgical system. The fifth‑generation robot, featuring AI analytics and ten‑thousand‑fold computing power, supports minimally invasive procedures in general surgery,...
The irony I find myself returning to is that MRI technology has not made us better diagnosticians. It has, in many cases, made us worse ones, because the image is so concrete and the language of the report so authoritative...
Athenahealth and b.well have launched a FHIR‑based patient‑led data‑sharing platform that generates QR codes for instant health‑record transfer. The solution, part of the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem “Kill the Clipboard” initiative, pulls data from athena and non‑athena EHRs as well...
Pete Pharma has entered a strategic partnership with Atrium24 Technologies, designating Pete Pharma as the primary 3D‑printing provider within Atrium24’s group‑ purchasing organization. The deal gives Atrium24‑member independent pharmacies preferred pricing on Pete Pharma’s FABRx 3D‑printing platform, enabling on‑site production...
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Prof. Dionne introduced VINPix, a silicon‑photonic resonator platform with ultra‑high Q factors and sub‑wavelength mode volumes, capable of housing over 10 million devices per square centimeter. Coupled with acoustic bioprinting and artificial intelligence, the system promises simultaneous detection of genes, proteins,...
KORU Medical has obtained European Union Medical Devices Regulation (EU MDR) certification for its Freedom60 infusion pump, which includes an adapter for 50 ml prefilled syringes, allowing commercialisation across the EU. The pump complements the FreedomEDGE system that supports 20 ml cartridges,...
Kistler Group and ATS Life Sciences Systems have launched the Symphoni platform, a high‑speed medical device assembly line capable of processing up to 320 parts per minute while cutting tooling requirements by 90 percent. The system combines Kistler’s force and displacement...
Liverpool‑based Spotlight Pathology has closed a £1.4 million seed round to accelerate its AI‑driven blood cancer diagnostic platform. The round was co‑led by the UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund and the Liverpool City Region Seed Fund, earmarked for product development,...
OpenEvidence’s $150 million ARR and $12 billion valuation have sparked a debate about a European equivalent. Europe boasts over 2.3 million licensed physicians—roughly twice the U.S. pool—but linguistic and regulatory fragmentation hampers continent‑wide scaling. A crowded field of startups, incumbents like UpToDate, and...
Heart‑rate variability (HRV) measures the time interval between heartbeats and reflects autonomic nervous system balance. Wearable devices such as Apple Watch and Fitbit now provide daily HRV readings using ECG or photoplethysmography. Low HRV can signal stress, poor sleep, illness,...
Healthcare leaders at HIMSS 2026 highlighted how moving Epic to AWS has become a mainstream strategy, now adopted by over 50 systems across North America and Australia. The cloud foundation enabled Jupiter Medical Center to slash radiology‑scheduling backlogs by 60% and...
Regulatory scrutiny and soaring drug prices are forcing pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to deliver real‑time data to their clients. Traditional reporting cycles of 30‑90 days leave payers reacting to problems after they occur, eroding trust and increasing churn risk. RxSense...
It seems inevitable that medical robots will be used across the healthcare spectrum: from taking blood samples and moving medications around in a hospital to surgeries and pharmacy automations. But can dentistry be the next? A medical specialty in which...
Roche has secured CE Mark approval for its Elecsys ApoE4 in‑vitro diagnostic immunoassay, a blood‑based test that detects the ApoE4 gene variant linked to Alzheimer’s disease. In a validation study of 607 patients with cognitive complaints, the assay achieved 100%...
A prospective longitudinal study compared Google Gemini Pro and xAI Grok‑1 on Turkish oral‑cancer patient queries over seven days. Both models delivered moderate‑to‑high scientific accuracy (Gemini 3.52, Grok 3.39) and high referral safety (90‑92%). Grok generated longer sentences but readability...
A cross‑sectional mixed‑methods study of 327 Nigerian healthcare professionals evaluated point‑of‑care (POC) X‑ray use during outbreak response. Respondents rated POC X‑ray highly for rapid screening (mean 4.6/5), differential diagnosis and severity assessment. Multivariable analysis showed physicians, field workers, greater experience...
A model that predicts cellular age from Cell Painting microscopy images alone. No DNA methylation needed. The model captures morphological aging hallmarks across nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments, correlates with chronological age AND epigenetic clocks. The promise: screen for rejuvenation compounds...
Can't emphasize enough the amount of valuable AI insights per word in this masterpiece by Jason A. Hoffman, CSO @Switch. Got to this after he was interviewed by the great @furrier https://t.co/dlM9fL53Xi https://t.co/UcyXJnkcrg
Google quietly removed its AI‑driven "What People Suggest" feature, which had displayed crowdsourced medical advice from ordinary users. The tool, launched earlier this year on U.S. mobile search, aimed to complement expert health content with lived‑experience insights. Its removal was...
Continuous glucose monitors accuracy depends on the device, the situation and the individual. In this blog we explain the key concepts behind CGM accuracy and the terms you need to understand before interpreting the data. https://t.co/qSpsLY4al8
Andreessen Horowitz argues that AI will transform healthcare from a scarce, per‑service model into an abundant, proactive one. By expanding clinician capacity and lowering marginal costs, AI enables continuous monitoring, coaching, and early interventions at scale. This shift challenges traditional...
University of Delhi researchers have introduced an eco‑friendly method to synthesize graphene oxide quantum dots (GO QDs) using citric acid, producing uniform 23.4 nm particles with a negative surface charge. The GO QDs enable dual‑mode biosensing—optical fluorescence and electrochemical detection—of the...
Preventive pain‑care startup Betterhood announced a Rs 5 crore seed round led by Kairon Capital, with participation from several angel investors. The funding will accelerate product development, expand the team, and scale both online and offline distribution. Founded in October 2024, Betterhood provides...
The researchers demonstrated that repeated shape‑memory polymer (SMP) recovery aligns surface crystals and compresses amorphous gaps, dramatically reducing bacterial adhesion. In vitro assays with Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus showed progressive detachment as programming cycles increased. An SMP...
Thailand’s Department of Disease Control has signed an MoU with the National Science and Technology Development Agency to digitally consolidate the nation’s disease surveillance system. The partnership will build big‑data, AI‑driven platforms and strengthen personnel capabilities to shift from reactive...
Australian regulators have approved M.scio, a coin‑sized, fully implanted intracranial pressure sensor developed by Germany’s Miethke and distributed by B. Braun. The Class III device provides continuous, telemetric ICP data for up to four years and is available in Flat and Dome...
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research has teamed with a precision‑oncology firm and the National Cancer Centre to launch UNITED 2.0, a SG$6 million three‑year project aimed at a clinical‑grade cancer profiling test. The new platform will replace the gene‑panel approach...
The University of Hong Kong and Suzhou Industrial Park have signed a memorandum of understanding to launch the HKU‑Suzhou Innovation Corridor, a cross‑border platform for medical technology development. The corridor will link HKU’s research expertise with Suzhou’s clinical and biotech...
Isaac Health, a virtual memory clinic, unveiled an eight‑week, neurology‑led lifestyle medicine program aimed at reducing dementia risk. The weekly virtual group sessions address sleep, nutrition, physical activity, cognitive engagement, vascular health and stress management, and are offered in individual,...
A proof‑of‑concept study tested the mobile rhythm game Rhythm Workers as a non‑verbal intervention for children who stutter. Over three weeks, pre‑teens aged 9‑12 logged about 300 minutes of beat‑matching taps, and compared with a control group, showed significant reductions...
The solution here is for technology executives to build cheaper, better and faster healthcare solutions with the support of government grants/contests with that explicit goal… just like the military technology executives seem willing to have disrupted the “cost plus”...
Our new @NatureMedicine paper proposing a path for better, dynamic evaluation of large language models for patient care https://t.co/VHvyxDFKuc CES-clinical environment simulator @pranavrajpurkar https://t.co/Q9tyeupEk3
A Lancet Psychiatry review by Dr. Hamilton Morrin of King’s College London finds that large‑language‑model chatbots can validate and amplify delusional beliefs, especially in users vulnerable to psychosis. The analysis of media reports highlights mystical, sycophantic responses—most notably from OpenAI’s...
We’ve trained a multimodal AI model to turn routine pathology slides into spatial proteomics, with the potential to reduce time and cost while expanding access to cancer care. https://t.co/OCptXdsUm1
Professor Prokar Dasgupta, a leading robotic urological surgeon, performed the UK’s first long‑distance robotic prostate removal from London on a 62‑year‑old patient in Gibraltar, 1,500 miles away. The operation was conducted via a remote robotic platform that gave the surgeon...
Clinical trials have long relied on site‑based recruitment, leaving under‑ and misdiagnosed patients underrepresented. Recent studies show digital outreach can identify symptomatic individuals who never enter traditional healthcare pathways, dramatically expanding the eligible pool. Digital campaigns have cut cost per...
The 340B drug‑pricing program now saves covered entities an estimated $44‑54 billion annually, but its rapid expansion has turned compliance into a complex, data‑intensive operation. Since the Affordable Care Act and the 2020 manufacturer restrictions, hospitals manage hundreds of contract pharmacies,...
The healthcare sector faces soaring costs, workforce gaps, and fragmented data, prompting a shift toward AI-driven solutions. Machine learning, NLP, computer vision, RPA, and generative AI are emerging as core technologies that improve diagnostics, streamline operations, and personalize treatment. A...
