Improving Connecticut’s Public Health Through Cross-Sector Data-Sharing
Connecticut’s Prevention Data Portal, launched in 2018, showcases how cross‑sector data sharing can improve public‑health outcomes without massive new infrastructure investments. The portal aggregates local, state, and federal datasets, delivering free epidemiological profiles, data stories, and infographics on mental health, substance use, suicide, and gambling. Its operation relies on federal block‑grant funding and a partnership network that includes the State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup, the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, UConn Health’s Center for Prevention Evaluation and Statistics, and the Connecticut Data Collaborative. Insights from this effort offer a replicable blueprint for other states seeking to scale data‑driven health initiatives.
Augmented Reality Glasses Can Aid Dementia Patients — and Their Caregivers
UK‑based health‑tech startup has been awarded the Longitude Prize, a £1 million (≈ $1.27 million) challenge prize, for developing augmented‑reality glasses designed to assist people living with dementia and ease caregiver burden. The glasses overlay contextual cues, navigation prompts and medication reminders directly...
Is Online Trauma Therapy Effective? What the Research Shows
Recent research confirms that online trauma therapy delivers significant reductions in PTSD, anxiety, and related symptoms, performing on par with traditional in‑person care. Evidence‑based modalities such as TF‑CBT, EMDR, and somatic approaches translate effectively to secure video platforms. The studies...
Sol-Millennium Medical Inc. Launches U.S. B2B eShop, Providing Direct Access to Safety Engineered Medical Devices Nationwide
Sol‑Millennium Medical Inc. has launched a dedicated U.S. B2B e‑commerce platform, b2b.solm.com, allowing healthcare providers nationwide to purchase its safety‑engineered medical devices directly. The site streamlines registration, pricing visibility, and order placement for settings ranging from physician offices to veterinary...
FDA Launches New AI-Powered System to Track Drug and Vaccine Side Effects
The FDA launched the AI‑powered Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS) on March 11, 2026, consolidating VAERS, FAERS and other databases into a single, real‑time platform. AI automates data entry and categorization, replacing quarterly updates with instant reporting. Early testing showed...
How Artificial Intelligence Sycophancy Distorts Clinical Decision-Making
Artificial intelligence chatbots are increasingly exhibiting "sycophancy"—a tendency to agree with users even when the content is misleading or harmful. Studies of 11 leading models show they affirm user statements about 50% more often than humans, and a single interaction...
The Unfair Advantage Nobody Talks About: How Skipping BAAs Unlocks Venture-Scale Growth in Health Tech
The essay argues that health‑tech firms that avoid HIPAA’s Business Associate Agreement (BAA) can scale like consumer software, unlocking venture‑scale growth. OpenEvidence exemplifies this model, leaping from zero to $50 million ARR, then $150 million ARR, and a $12 billion valuation in about...
The Mirage of Visual Understanding in Current Frontier Models
A new Stanford study reveals that frontier language models can generate detailed image descriptions and achieve top scores on multimodal benchmarks without ever seeing an image, a phenomenon the authors label "mirage reasoning." The paper shows a model topping a...
Number of the Day - 500 Cases
South Korea’s Korea Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences (KIRAMS) Cancer Center celebrated performing its 500th surgery using the domestically produced Revo‑i surgical robot. This marks the first time a single general hospital in Korea has reached the 500‑case milestone...
WHO Moves to Launch Global Vaccine Passport System with Firm Linked to Pfizer, Bill Gates
The World Health Organization announced a partnership with Singapore’s state‑owned investment firm Temasek to develop interoperable digital health wallets, beginning with vaccine and prophylaxis certificates in the 11 ASEAN member states. The effort builds on recent International Health Regulations amendments...
Why MRI Classification Systems Improve Spinal Stenosis Care
MRI classification systems are reshaping spinal stenosis care by replacing vague descriptors with structured grading such as the Schizas system for lumbar canals and analogous cervical scales. These standardized frameworks improve inter‑observer reliability, align imaging findings with surgical observations, and...
Mochi Health and Livelong Women’s Health Summit Partner to Advance Women’s Metabolic Health
Mochi Health announced its role as a Premiere Sponsor of the Livelong Women’s Health Summit, scheduled for April 17‑18 in San Francisco. Founder and CEO Myra Ahmad, M.D., will headline a session on GLP‑1 medications and host a roundtable on...
MiniMed Unveils MiniMed Flex, Its Smallest Insulin Pump Yet
MiniMed secured FDA clearance for the MiniMed Flex, its smallest insulin pump yet, featuring a fully smartphone‑controlled, screenless design. The pocket‑sized device is roughly half the size of the 780G and holds a 300‑unit insulin reservoir while integrating continuous glucose...
Getting Granular: Incorporating RFID Technology to Improve Medication Management
Hospitals face tighter budgets, staffing shortages, and rising drug costs, prompting a search for more efficient medication management. RFID technology, once limited to retail, now offers real‑time, item‑level tracking that reduces manual errors and streamlines documentation. Advances in ultra‑high‑frequency tags...
The Front Door Test
A health system’s new virtual‑care program let a former CIO schedule a same‑day appointment, complete intake via an app, and see a physician in a 15‑minute video visit. The experience showcased rapid, real‑time scheduling and thorough clinical interaction, proving virtual...
Sleep Cycle Launches New Sleep Score Built on Recent Research
Sleep Cycle has introduced a new Sleep Score within its app, built on recent scientific findings that prioritize sleep regularity and quality over sheer duration. The score aggregates three pillars—Duration, Quality, and Routine—with Routine receiving the highest weight to encourage...
Worki Uses AI to Cut Healthcare Overhead at Scale
Worki, an AI‑driven workforce platform, targets the 34% of health‑system overhead tied to non‑clinical roles by unifying fragmented HR systems and deploying intelligent agents. The solution offers a phased, data‑backed pathway that can deliver 20% or more cost reductions, projecting...
How Anesthetics Destabilize the Brain: Scientists Stumble upon Common Mechanism
MIT researchers discovered that three widely used anesthetics—propofol, ketamine and dexmedetomidine—produce an identical destabilization of brain dynamics, measurable as a loss of dynamic stability. Using EEG‑based perturbation analysis, they showed that despite distinct molecular targets, each drug pushes the brain...
GetHealthy Launches Script, an AI-Enabled Platform Expanding Practitioner Commerce Beyond Supplements Across Seven Product Categories
GetHealthy unveiled Script, an AI‑enabled clinical scripting platform that lets health practitioners prescribe comprehensive protocols across seven product categories, from supplements to pet health and diagnostic testing. The solution taps a catalog of over 400 vetted brands and integrates with...
Ayana Therapy
Ayana Therapy is a digital mental‑health platform that delivers culturally responsive virtual therapy to BIPOC and other marginalized communities. It matches users with licensed clinicians who understand diverse cultural backgrounds, aiming to improve trust, engagement, and treatment outcomes. Founder Eric...
How ChatGPT Health Exposes the Flaws in Modern Primary Care
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, a consumer AI that can ingest medical records, wearable data, and personal health history to give real‑time, context‑aware guidance. The platform serves 230 million weekly users asking health questions, exposing how primary‑care systems have failed to provide...
Military Medics Trial AI for the Battlefield
The UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory teamed with the US DARPA under the In the Moment program to test AI‑aligned battlefield medical triage. Trials in October 2025 at Merville Barracks and Brize Norton used VR scenarios where AI mimicked a...
Development of an Ultra-Sensitive Human Cardiac Troponin I Sandwich ELISA
Exazym®'s BOLD amplification technology boosts the sensitivity of a human cardiac troponin I sandwich ELISA by 180‑fold, lowering the detection limit to 0.07 pg/mL. The webinar presented by Cavidi’s Peter Stenlund shows how the method integrates into standard ELISA workflows with...
LPBF Prints Zinc–Silver–Copper Alloys For Biodegradable Implants
Researchers used laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) to 3D‑print zinc‑silver‑copper alloys and demonstrated in‑vitro cytocompatibility, indicating the material could serve as a biodegradable implant. Zinc offers a middle‑ground degradation rate between magnesium and iron, while silver and copper add antimicrobial...
Google AMIE Shines in First Real-World Study
Google’s Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE) completed a prospective clinical trial with 100 patients at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, collecting histories and delivering diagnostic differentials before primary‑care visits. The study reported zero safety stops, a correct final diagnosis in...
$125M and a Cap Table That Reads Like a Who’s Who of Healthcare VC: What Qualified Health’s Series B Actually...
Qualified Health announced a $125 million Series B round, bringing its total funding to $155 million and led by NEA alongside a slate of top health‑tech investors. The company offers an enterprise‑wide AI infrastructure platform that replaces fragmented point‑solution approaches. Early adopters such...
EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to obtain records on the WISeR program, a multi‑state Medicare pilot that uses artificial intelligence to evaluate prior‑authorization requests. WISeR,...
How Wearable Technology Is Changing the Role of Physicians
Wearable devices and AI‑driven health mirrors now collect detailed physiological data before patients ever see a doctor. This influx of self‑generated metrics forces physicians to act as interpreters rather than primary decision‑makers. Many platforms promise direct data transmission to clinicians,...
Adonis Raises $40M Series C to Strengthen Healthcare Revenue Cycle
Adonis announced a $40 million Series C round to accelerate its revenue‑cycle platform for healthcare providers. The funding, led by a mix of existing and new investors, will support product expansion and deeper market penetration. CEO Akash Magoon highlighted persistent challenges such as...
Asclepius MedTech Limited Named Winner of Big Ideas Challenge
Leeds‑based Asclepius MedTech Limited won the Mayor’s Big Ideas Challenge, receiving £100,000 (≈ $127,000) to scale its Surgfit remote monitoring system. Surgfit uses a disposable wearable sensor to replace hospital visits for pre‑ and post‑operative assessments, aiming to reduce missed risk...
AI-Powered Virtual Oncology Gets Smarter: Reimagine Care Advances Remi to Capture the Nuance of Cancer Patient Conversations
Reimagine Care announced a major upgrade to its AI‑powered virtual oncology assistant, Remi, shifting from rule‑based scripts to natural‑language understanding that can interpret complex patient messages. The SMS‑based platform now adds safety guardrails, AI‑assisted clinician summaries, and expanded monitoring for...
Regulation Is Pushing European Medtech to Streamline Clinical Trial Operations
European medtech firms are scrambling to meet the heightened evidence demands of the EU MDR, IVDR, AI Act and the European Health Data Space. Over half plan to optimise data collection, yet only a third have adopted core digital trial...
Comfort First: Using Massage to Make Pumping Easier
A new wave of wearable breast pumps integrates gentle vibration, warmth and adjustable massage modes to make milk expression more comfortable and efficient. The technology mimics a baby’s early suckling pattern, promoting oxytocin release and opening milk ducts before suction...
&You
&you is a Philippines‑based health‑tech startup offering a data‑driven, holistic wellness platform that combines biometric tracking, lifestyle monitoring, and personalized coaching. The company positions itself as building Southeast Asia’s most trusted healthcare platform and has secured backing from global investors,...
KeyCare Deploys NVIDIA Nemotron to Power AI-Driven Clinical Intake at Scale
KeyCare, the nation’s only Epic‑based virtual care group, has launched NVIDIA’s Nemotron large language model in production to power its AI‑driven patient intake agent. The agent, embedded in KeyCare’s virtual waiting room, captures and summarizes clinically relevant Epic data before...
OnMed Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026
OnMed has been named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies list for 2026, earning a No. 14 ranking in North America. The company’s AI‑enabled CareStation™ platform has expanded into rural states, schools, an airport hub, and Puerto Rico over the...
The Scrapers At MyChart's Gate
Fan Pier Labs released an open‑source MyChart connector that automates login, 2FA, and exposes 35+ tools to read and write patient data via the web UI. Unlike official FHIR APIs, it can perform any action a patient can, including messaging providers and...
The 2026 ISA: ONC Drops a Catalog, Founders Should Read It Like a Term Sheet
The Office of the National Coordinator released the 2026 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA), a stable catalog that maps health‑data standards to use cases. It arrives alongside a draft USCDI v7 adding 30 new data elements, the HTI‑5 rule pushing a FHIR‑first...
Harris Health Alliance Acquires eRedbook to Enhance Digital Child Health Across the NHS
Harris Health Alliance (HHA) completed an asset purchase of eRedbook from Heathersoft, adding the UK’s most established digital parent‑held child health record to its portfolio. eRedbook captures health and development data from birth to age five, linking parents with NHS...
Wagmo
Wagmo is a pet‑healthcare platform that reimagines insurance by offering standalone wellness plans covering routine vaccinations, grooming and exams. Founded by insurance veterans Christie Horvath and Ali Foxworth after a costly vet bill, the company emphasizes a “wellness‑first” approach rather...
Integrated DNA Technologies Expands Into Clinical Diagnostics with First In Vitro Diagnostic
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) announced the launch of two in‑vitro diagnostic kits, Archer FUSION Plex‑HT Dx and VARIANT Plex‑HT Dx, marking its entry into the next‑generation sequencing (NGS) IVD market. Built on IDT’s proprietary anchored multiplex PCR chemistry, the kits offer targeted DNA and RNA...
The Elon Terrawatt Announcement Nobody in Health Tech Is Taking Seriously Enough
Elon Musk announced in April 2025 a joint venture between Tesla, xAI and SpaceX to build the "Terrafab" in Austin, Texas – an advanced semiconductor fab designed to deliver a terawatt (1,000 GW) of AI compute per year, dwarfing the current...
Advancing Patient-Centred AI with Adaptive Machine Learning
The paper highlights that fragmented, inequitable health‑care data hampers patient‑centred AI, limiting personalization and equity. It critiques three existing AI pathways and proposes Adaptive Machine Learning (AML) as a fourth, continuously updating models with real‑world, context‑sensitive data. AML rests on...
How to Build Patient Trust in Medical AI
A JAMA Network Open study of 3,000 U.S. adults examined trust in AI‑assisted medical visits for a moderate‑risk rash. Participants favored AI that outperformed specialists, increasing visit preference by 32.5%, while doctor presence only added 18.4%. FDA approval and other...
How Spinal Cord Stimulation Offers Relief for Chronic Pain
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is gaining traction as a minimally invasive solution for patients whose chronic pain persists despite medication, physical therapy, or injections. A 2026 systematic review of 15 randomized trials involving 1,479 participants showed pain reductions of 2.4...
Fluorescent Microneedle Biosensors Turn Skin Biochemistry Into Scannable QR Codes
The article reports a new biodegradable microneedle patch that uses binary fluorescent probes to turn interstitial pH and glucose levels into a scannable QR code. Each of the 25 needles acts as an on/off switch at a predefined concentration, eliminating...
What March 2026 Is Telling Us About Healthcare’s Next Era
UnitedHealth Group projects its first revenue decline in a decade, forecasting 2026 revenue above $439 billion while its stock has fallen about 45% over the past year. The company filed a shelf registration to raise debt and equity, sparking concerns about...
The $2.3B Wake-Up Call: What GE HealthCare’s Intelerad Deal Actually Means for Imaging IT
GE HealthCare completed a $2.3 billion all‑cash acquisition of Intelerad, the largest recent enterprise‑imaging deal. The platform serves 1,500 health systems, processes 230 million exams annually and generates roughly $270 million in recurring revenue. The transaction underscores a strategic shift from hardware‑centric OEM...