Coral Banks $12.5M Seed Round
Coral, a health‑care automation startup, secured a $12.5 million seed round led by Lightspeed and Z47. The company’s platform plugs into existing electronic health record systems, fax lines and payer portals to automate end‑to‑end administrative workflows for specialty providers such as durable medical equipment suppliers and infusion centers. It handles intake, prior authorization, fax processing and patient communications without requiring providers to alter their current processes. The new capital will fund product enhancements and accelerate market rollout.
Senseonics Rolls Out Eversense 365, First One‑Year CGM, Across Europe
Senseonics Holdings launched the Eversense 365 continuous glucose monitor in Europe, beginning with Sweden. The implantable sensor offers a 12‑month lifespan—double the previous six‑month model—and reduces calibration to once a week, promising a new standard for long‑term diabetes management.
VA’s $10 Billion Cerner EHR Rollout Stalls, Exposing Enterprise Migration Risks
Eight years after a $10 billion no‑bid contract was awarded, the Veterans Affairs department has installed Oracle‑Cerner’s electronic health‑record system at just 10 of its 1,400 hospitals. The stalled rollout has triggered patient‑safety alerts, a wave of clinician resignations, and bipartisan...
AI Advances in Necrotizing Enterocolitis: Challenges Ahead
Artificial intelligence is being explored to predict and manage necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a rare but lethal condition in pre‑term infants. Researchers report that limited case numbers and heterogeneous data cause overfitting, while most models lack multicenter external validation. Low positive...
New AI Chatbot Uses Medical Protocols to Guide Patient Care Decisions.
UC San Diego researchers unveiled a multi‑agent AI chatbot that uses American Medical Association flowcharts to guide self‑triage. The system matches patient symptoms to protocol‑based questions, translating clinical language into lay terms. In over 30,000 simulated dialogues it chose the...
Study Shows Implicity’s New Agnostic Cloud-Based AI Algorithm Further Reduces False Alerts Even After Manufacturer AI Filtering in Modern Devices
Implicity announced that its new manufacturer‑agnostic, cloud‑based AI algorithm reduced false‑positive alerts in AI‑equipped implantable loop recorders by 61.6% while preserving 98.3% sensitivity. The findings, presented at the Heart Rhythm Society 2026 meeting, stem from an analysis of 483 episodes...
'Eventually, It Becomes You': Inventors of New 'Living' Knee Replacement Describe Why This Tech Is Desperately Needed and How It...
Columbia University and the University of Missouri are developing NOVAKnee, a 3D‑printed, biodegradable knee implant seeded with stem‑cell‑derived bone and cartilage. The scaffold is designed to dissolve as new tissue forms, potentially offering a longer‑lasting solution than metal‑plastic prostheses that...
Battery‑free Textile Powers Real‑time Blood Pressure Monitoring
A new battery-free textile enables continuous, real-time monitoring of systolic blood pressure by wirelessly connecting ultra-thin epidermal sensors to a smartphone, eliminating the need for bulky batteries in wearable health technology. wearabletech
Access Real-Time Health Data via Flexpa API
we’re building @flexpa so this is possible for health data. with flexpa your current, up to date clinical and claims data (insurance) is all available by API. free for patients. try it yourself: https://t.co/X1yvkf1vpS and/or download our AI-powered app: https://t.co/HBzTO6BwPz
Battery-Free Textile Turns Clothing Into a Real-Time Blood Pressure Monitor
Researchers from the National University of Singapore, the University of Arizona and Tsinghua University unveiled a battery‑free wearable system that uses a metamaterial textile to wirelessly power epidermal sensors from a smartphone. The dual‑mode fabric separates power (13.56 MHz) and data...
Facial Age Acceleration Predicts Earlier Death, Varies by Job
Face photo-based age acceleration predicts all-cause mortality and differs among occupations "We found that face photo-based age predicts all-cause mortality for middle-aged and older individuals meaning that those age faster based on their face photo die sooner." https://t.co/QUUzK4fe9G
Unified AI Healthcare Regulation Accelerates Patient Access
"50 competing standards cannot be the answer for a technology this consequential... many assume that regulation slows down transformative technology, but history suggests otherwise." Great piece by @HashemZikry calling for consistent regulatory guidance to **improve**, not impede, the solving of...
Australian Trial Launches Digital Tool to Boost Early‑Childhood Flourishing
Researchers from Australian and U.S. institutions have begun a randomized feasibility trial of a digital Flourishing Intervention for parents of toddlers. The study will enroll 600 families, testing a new online questionnaire and resource directory to see if the tool...
Science Restores Hearing, a Miraculous Breakthrough
The miracle of science and tech is profoundly real when seeing first expressions of people regaining ability to hear https://t.co/RGHEUomBDT
Doctors Won't Be Replaced: Embrace Blended Intelligence
“Will AI replace doctors?” I hear this question a lot, but I think the answer is no. AI is amazing at pattern recognition. But medicine is also about judgment, context, human connection. That’s on us. The future is "Blended Intelligence,"...
FDA Clears Regeneron's Otarmeni, First Gene Therapy to Restore Hearing
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals received FDA approval for Otarmeni, the first gene therapy targeting inherited hearing loss caused by OTOF mutations. The one‑time treatment restored hearing in 16 of 20 pediatric trial participants and will be offered free of charge to eligible...
Noora Health's Team Saves 75,000 Lives, Visits Community
Edith and Shahed from Noora Health came to visit. They've saved over 75,000 lives so far. A small city of people. https://t.co/k9S2vtMUTE
The Stanford Professor Behind an FDA-Cleared Cardiac AI Wants $1 Billion for His Next Company
Stanford associate professor James Zou is reportedly raising about $100 million at a $1 billion target valuation for his new startup Human Intelligence, which will apply AI across the entire biomedical discovery pipeline. Zou’s portfolio includes the FDA‑cleared cardiac‑AI EchoNet, a Nature‑published...
Wearables Create Lifelong Health Baselines for Future Goals
Wearables aren’t just for tracking you in real time They’re building your personal baseline The numbers you see today become the targets you’ll aim to return to decades from now https://t.co/S44Yk812Gp
Advanced Biotech Diagnostics Enable Precise Disease Detection
Accurate Disease Detection with Advanced Biotech Diagnostics by @antgrasso #MedTech #Healthcare #HealthTech #Tech #TechForGood https://t.co/nQIkC2nuzM
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[Video] AI in Healthcare: Five Healthcare AI Stories You Need to Know This Week - April 24, 2026
The weekly AI‑in‑Healthcare briefing highlighted five pivotal developments. UnitedHealth announced a $1.5 billion investment to embed AI across its payer and provider services. Merck unveiled a new AI‑driven commercial strategy aimed at deepening engagement with physicians, while Hartford HealthCare showcased a...
From Patchwork to Platform: How Blue Cross Blue Shield Meets the Modernization Challenge
Blue Cross Blue Shield plans are confronting legacy technology debt and fragmented data silos, prompting a shift toward modular, cloud‑ready architectures. A HIMSS session outlined practical strategies—multicloud adoption, data unification, and robust governance—to boost agility and member experience. Speakers from...
A New Interoperability Strategy in the Age of Analytics and AI
A HIMSS webinar revealed that 86% of healthcare leaders view interoperability without data preparation as offering limited value for AI and analytics. The discussion urges providers to move beyond simple connectivity and embed data readiness into their interoperability strategies. InterSystems...
InterSystems Automates Bi-Directional Data Exchange Between Epic Payer Platform and Health Plan Workflows
InterSystems announced its Payer Connector, a bidirectional integration hub that links Epic Payer Platform with health‑plan IT systems. The solution transforms and routes data securely, reducing the need for point‑to‑point interfaces and speeding up deployment. It is now available through the Epic...
Secure Medical Image Cryptanalysis with Quantum Neural Networks for IoT-Enabled Cloud Storage
The paper introduces a unified security framework for IoT‑enabled medical imaging that blends hybrid post‑quantum encryption, a quantum neural network for cryptanalysis, federated deep learning, and secure cloud storage. The hybrid scheme merges post‑quantum cryptography, chaos‑based diffusion, and AES‑GCM, while...
Neurava Secures $4M NIH Blueprint Award to Build First SUDEP Risk Algorithm
Neurava Inc., a Baltimore‑based medtech startup, was granted a $4 million NIH Blueprint MedTech Optimizer award to create a quantitative algorithm that predicts Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP). The four‑year funding will fund algorithm development, validation and integration with Neurava’s...
Gravitas Medical Begins Multicenter NICU Trial of Smart Feeding Tube to Cut Misplacement Rates
Gravitas Medical announced the launch of a prospective, multicenter study enrolling up to 100 newborns to evaluate its Entarik smart feeding tube system. The trial will measure placement accuracy, time to feeding, X‑ray usage and feeding tolerance, aiming to reduce...
Four Major U.S. Insurers Commit to Uniform Electronic Prior Authorization Standards
Aetna, Cigna, Elevance and UnitedHealth announced a coordinated effort to create uniform electronic prior‑authorization standards across commercial, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid plans. UnitedHealthcare targets over 70% of its review volume by end‑2026, while Aetna already standardizes 88% of its volume,...
Rise Nano Optics Lands First U.S. Lab Partner to Launch SPECTRAGUARD™ Nanophotonic Lenses
Rise Nano Optics Ltd. has signed its first U.S. laboratory partnership with Sierra Optical Lab in Reno, Nevada, to bring its FDA‑registered Class I SPECTRAGUARD™ nanophotonic lens treatment to market. The deal gives the Canadian nanotech firm a foothold in...
One in Four Americans Use AI for Health Advice
25% of Americans have used an AI tool or chatbot for health information or advice, mainly as a supplemental tool for their care. https://t.co/6ca7WhHm49 https://t.co/f5Yv8ub4ff
HOPPR Launches Vision-Language Model to Convert Chest X‑Rays Into Structured Reports
HOPPR rolled out its MC CXR Narrative Model, a vision-language AI that turns chest X‑ray images into descriptive, structured text. The launch targets developers building radiology reporting tools and underscores the company’s push for adaptable, traceable AI infrastructure.
UC Irvine Nanotech Exosome Therapy Reverses MS Symptoms in Mice
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have demonstrated that bone‑marrow‑derived exosomes can deliver anti‑inflammatory cargo across the blood‑spinal cord barrier, fully reversing motor deficits and nerve damage in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis. The pre‑clinical results, published in...
Hippocratic AI Expands Footprint, Partners with Leading Health Systems to Improve Patient Outcomes
Hippocratic AI announced new collaborations with Cincinnati Children’s, UNC Health and the Gift of Life Marrow Registry, extending its safety‑first generative AI tools across pediatrics, primary‑care scheduling and donor outreach. The company’s AI Front Door and Nurse Co‑Pilot are now...
Utah Medical Board’s Call To Halt AI Drug Pilot Triggers Med Practice Showdown
Utah’s medical board has ordered an immediate pause on the state’s pioneering AI‑driven prescription renewal pilot, the first of its kind in the nation. The pilot, launched by a consortium of health systems and a tech vendor, used machine‑learning algorithms...
AI‑empowered Patients Demand Smarter Clinician Collaboration
Patients are empowered by AI in a way they've never been before. This raises the bar for clinicians everywhere. I'm hearing from clinicians that their patients now come to clinic having done tremendous amounts of research on themselves and their conditions...
CMS Proposes Electronic Prior Authorization for Drugs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule to extend electronic prior authorization (e‑PA) to pharmaceuticals covered under both medical and pharmacy benefits. The rule mandates the use of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) APIs...
Why Cardiac Monitoring Belongs at the Foundation of Your Service Line Strategy: A Conversation with Amanda Maples, RN, BSN, MHA
Amanda Maples, senior manager of customer experience at iRhythm, explains how continuous cardiac monitoring can serve as a foundational tool for cardiovascular service lines. She highlights the technology’s role in shortening diagnostic timelines, especially for women’s heart disease and frequent‑flyer arrhythmia...
Liquid Metal Nanoparticles Freeze Into Spikes that Kill Drug-Resistant Cancer
Researchers have engineered bismuth‑doped gallium liquid‑metal nanoparticles that become spiky during freezing, puncturing cancer cells and killing drug‑resistant lung, colorectal and ovarian tumor organoids. The alloy reduces supercooling, raising the fraction of deformable particles from 2% to roughly 10% and...
Utilizing Wearable Technology to Characterize and Predict Post-Exertional Malaise Crashes Across Post-COVID Syndrome and Chronic Inflammatory Conditions: Study Protocol of...
A prospective observational study called U‑WaTCH will enroll 300 adults—100 with post‑COVID syndrome, 100 with inflammatory rheumatic diseases, and 100 healthy volunteers—to wear Apple Watch SE or compatible devices for up to 180 days. Continuous streams of heart‑rate variability, activity, sleep, environmental...
First Phase of VA EHR Rollout Successful, Deputy Secretary Says
The Department of Veterans Affairs completed the first wave of its electronic health records (EHR) modernization in Michigan, activating systems at Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Saginaw and Detroit in April. Deputy Secretary Paul Lawrence said the rollout revives a program...
Healthcare AI Policy Must Keep Humans at the Center
Florida Senator Gayle Harrell, recipient of the HIMSS26 Policy Influencer Changemaker Award, called for AI regulations that keep clinicians in the decision loop. She warned that unchecked AI could erode clinician authority and patient safety. The remarks came amid rapid...
UB and Roswell Park Launch MIRACLE AI Tool to Predict Lung Cancer Surgery Complications
Researchers at the University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center have unveiled MIRACLE, an AI-driven risk‑assessment tool that combines clinical data, CT scans and large‑language‑model explanations to predict postoperative complications in lung cancer surgery. The system, the first...
The Hidden Cost of Waiting: 5 Stats On What Gets Lost By Delaying Mobile Refresh
Home health agencies spend an average of $288 per caregiver on mobile devices, yet many postpone refresh cycles to save costs. Delaying upgrades drives higher replacement frequency, unplanned purchases, excess data usage, and forfeits residual device value. The practice also...
Rutgers‑Newark Engineers First Self‑Assembling RNA Nanostructures Inside Living Cells
Rutgers University–Newark researchers have created a self‑assembling RNA nanotechnology that can be programmed inside living human cells, a breakthrough published in Nature Communications and poised to reshape cancer treatment strategies. The interdisciplinary team, led by Professors Fei Zhang and Jean‑Pierre...
Intuitive Surgical Hits 20 Million Da Vinci Surgeries, Boosts Outlook
Intuitive Surgical announced that more than 20 million operations have been performed using its da Vinci surgical robots, prompting a 7%‑8% jump in its stock and an upgraded full‑year procedure growth outlook. The milestone reflects a 15% rise in installed systems...
Covered California and Deloitte Tap Google AI to Put the Human Touch Back Into Public Health
Covered California, the nation’s largest state health exchange, has partnered with Deloitte and Google to embed Google Document AI into its eligibility and enrollment platform. The AI-driven solution slashed document verification times from up to 72 hours to under five...
AI Learns to Predict Breast Cancer Risk From How Single Cells Respond to Pressure
Researchers at City of Hope and UC Berkeley unveiled a microfluidic platform, mechano‑NPS, that squeezes individual breast epithelial cells to gauge their mechanical response. By training a machine‑learning classifier called MechanoAge, they derived a "mechanical age" metric that correlates with...
Nanodrum Beats Identify Bacterial Infections by Sound
Researchers report that bacterial infections could be diagnosed with sound, using a nanoscale drum kit. Different bacteria play different rhythms on the drum. https://spectrum.ieee.org/soundcell-nanodrums-identify-bacteria-sound
WHOOP Should Go All‑in on AI Integration
Random thoughts: @WHOOP should go all in on AI. The in app chat/agent is actually really powerful—it even set up reminders for me based on my conversation around things like drinking water and other habits, and sends push notifications. This...
Proven Imaging AI Ignored, Unproven LLMs Adopted
Superhuman interpretation AI for medical images, such as mammography and endoscopy, has been proven to improve diagnostic accuracy in multiple randomized trials but mostly not implemented. But LLMs for clinical decision support have little real world medicine proof, but are...