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Zifo and Maze Therapeutics have teamed up to launch an AI‑powered platform that manages, stores, and scales massive biobank datasets. The solution tackles the fragmentation of genetic, proteomic, and phenotypic data by providing a unified workflow that delivers summary statistics in under five seconds. Built for scalability, it can incorporate emerging data types such as UKBB‑Proteomics and AGD/NashBio, making the data AI‑ready for downstream drug target discovery. The partnership promises to accelerate target identification and validation across precision‑medicine programs.
The National Safety Council introduced the Organization Safety Gap Analysis Tool, a digital assessment that translates its evidence‑based SIF Prevention Model for clinical laboratories. The ten‑to‑fifteen‑minute, color‑coded questionnaire evaluates seven core safety elements, from leadership to continuous improvement. By highlighting...
Medical device maker Stryker has launched Synchfix EVT, a flexible syndesmotic fixation system designed to simplify ankle stabilization procedures. The all‑in‑one, single‑use device integrates suture tensioning handles and a low‑profile titanium medial implant, reducing procedural complexity for both adult and adolescent...
Labcorp announced an expanded partnership with PathAI to deploy the AISight Dx digital pathology platform across its U.S. anatomic pathology labs and hospital sites. The AI‑enabled software will allow pathologists to scan, annotate and diagnose slides digitally, aiming to cut turnaround...
The Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Hartree Centre has partnered with Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust to pilot an AI‑driven staff scheduling platform. The system automatically creates balanced on‑call rotas by factoring in leave, skills and working patterns, replacing...
Oxford‑spun AI medical‑imaging firm Brainomix announced a £18.8 million total Series C raise, including a £4.8 million tranche aimed at accelerating its US rollout. The capital will fund enhancements to its Brainomix 360 Stroke platform and the e‑Lung CT‑biomarker system for pulmonary fibrosis. CEO...
Gut Clinic, a gastro‑metabolic health platform founded in 2024, secured $1 million (≈₹9 crore) in a seed round backed by more than 15 investors. The capital will fund new outpatient centres, upgraded clinical systems, and expanded diagnostic services across India’s $197 billion preventive...
A new NHS England GP contract, backed by £485 million, will guarantee same‑day appointments for urgent patients. It mandates that online consultation platforms remain available throughout core hours and redirects £292 million to recruit roughly 1,600 additional full‑time‑equivalent GPs. The contract expands...
Oak HC/FT partner Vig Chandramouli highlighted four health‑tech trends that startups must address to win investor confidence. First, labor management for nurses and allied professionals—who comprise 70% of the workforce—is a largely untapped market. Second, investors are scrutinizing margins, finding...
A HIMSS fireside chat highlighted how voice AI is transitioning from pilot projects to production in hearing‑care clinics. PolyAI’s Alex Brown and Audibel’s Brianna Warner discussed using conversational agents to expand patient access while preserving trust and empathy. The session...
The HIMSS‑hosted session introduced agentic AI as a transformative operating system for healthcare, capable of ingesting the 99% of hospital data that remains invisible to traditional predictive models. Speakers from Philips, AWS, MIT, and Mass General explained how continuous AI...
NHS England has signed a three‑year, £33.6 million contract with London‑based TPXimpact to deliver digital services for maternity and child vaccinations. This agreement is the third digital‑prevention deal signed in the last six months, bringing the total spend on such services...
North York General Hospital has become the first Ontario facility to launch SmartER Zones, an AI‑driven system that reallocates patients to less crowded emergency‑department zones. Developed with Signal 1, the algorithm monitors wait times, triage data and zone capacity, then pushes...
Unity Health Toronto earned Stage 6 validation on both the HIMSS EMRAM and AMAM maturity models, marking the first time all three of its hospitals reached EMRAM Stage 6 and the first North American organization to achieve AMAM Stage 6 under the latest...
Manitoba's health ministry announced a provincewide rollout of the SAFE mobile app, extending its use from Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre to Brandon Regional Health Centre, St. Boniface, Victoria and upcoming sites in Thompson. The app provides emergency notifications, direct security...
Danaher announced a $9.9 billion acquisition of Masimo, a leader in pulse‑oximetry and AI‑enabled patient‑monitoring devices. The deal places Masimo as a standalone operating company within Danaher’s Diagnostics segment alongside Radiometer, Cepheid and Beckman Coulter. By adding non‑invasive sensor technology, Danaher...
Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre received two prefabricated modular buildings for its new MRI suite on Feb 18, after a 1,100‑km transport on a 130‑ft super‑load truck. The 1,650‑sq‑ft, magnet‑shielded facility, built off‑site by SDI Canada, is now positioned...
The Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA) launched the CPS Content Partner Program, offering API‑based access to its trusted Canadian drug and therapeutic database. The initiative allows EMR vendors, pharmacy management systems, clinical decision support tools, and AI‑enabled health apps to integrate...
VITALL Intelligence has launched the commercial availability of Medly®, a Health Canada‑approved digital therapeutic for heart failure developed at the University Health Network. The AI‑enhanced smartphone app, already used by more than 3,000 patients, has demonstrated a 50 % reduction in...
LifeStance Health reported 2021 revenue of $668 million, a 77% year‑over‑year increase, and generated $49 million in adjusted EBITDA. The company expanded its clinician base to 4,790, a 55% rise, and now operates in 32 states with over 500 centers. Telehealth accounted...
RxSight reported Q4 2025 revenue of $32.6 million, a 19% year‑over‑year decline driven by sharply lower Light Delivery Device placements. The Light Adjustable Lens accounted for an all‑time high 86% of sales, lifting gross margin to 77.5% despite overall losses. The...
Teladoc Health reported Q2 2025 revenue of $631.9 million, a modest 1.6% decline YoY, while adjusted EBITDA reached $69.3 million, hitting the high end of guidance. Integrated care drove growth, delivering $391.5 million in revenue and expanding U.S. membership to 102.4 million, surpassing 100 million members....
University of Queensland, backed by NIISQ funding, is developing a virtual reality programme to teach fall‑recovery skills to people with spinal cord injury. Building on seven years of research, the project aims to improve confidence, independence and long‑term outcomes by...
Epic announced nine significant updates in the past 30 days, ranging from new hospital go‑lives and record‑setting lab data‑exchange deployments to the rollout of its AI Charting tool. Major health systems such as UPMC and Northwell Health are deepening their...
Washington University researchers built a clinically informed AI system that can flag cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) up to 30 months before formal diagnosis. The team trained seven models on more than 2 million electronic health‑record entries, comparing large foundation models with...
A randomized trial in 16 rural communities across Kenya and Uganda paired digital tools with home‑based testing and provider training. Over two years, the intervention lowered HIV incidence from 22 to 7 cases among roughly 42,000 adults, a 70% reduction....
A new JAMA Network Open study by the Perelman School of Medicine analyzed over 160,000 visits across five University of Pennsylvania Health System hospitals and found telemedicine episodes cost an average of $96 compared with $509 for in‑person visits, a...
UCLA researchers engineered T cells with two fungal proteins that let them import and metabolize cellobiose, a sugar tumors cannot use. This protected fuel restores T‑cell viability, cytokine production, and tumor‑killing capacity in glucose‑deprived environments. In mouse models of lung,...
Neuroscientist Soha Farboud demonstrated that focused ultrasound can instantly alter activity in the human frontal eye fields, biasing participants to look left or right in a computer task. The non‑invasive method delivers inaudible sound waves through the skull, reaching deep visual...
A new multicenter CHAMBER trial published in JAMA Pediatrics shows that valved holding chambers (VHCs) used for inhaled salbutamol in children aged 0‑3 produce markedly different clinical outcomes. Children treated with a higher‑delivery VHC had a 20% hospital admission rate...
University of Houston researchers warn that implanted nerve electrode cuffs can be unintentionally activated during MRI scans. Simulations show fast‑switching gradient fields and RF‑induced heating lower activation thresholds, sometimes below peripheral nerve stimulation limits. The findings suggest existing MRI‑conditional guidelines...
AI-driven voice synthesis is giving people with motor neuron disease, like Yvonne Johnson, back their personal speech. Using deep‑learning models, the technology recreates the user’s original timbre, allowing real‑time conversation. The piece also touches on AI’s influence on memory‑chip pricing...
A University‑run telepsychiatry program in North Carolina screened 44,000 rural children, diagnosing 1,000 with anxiety or depression and connecting 300 to child psychiatrists. The initiative slashed typical six‑month referral waits to under a month by embedding master‑level clinicians in primary‑care...
The FDA Circulatory System Devices Panel rejected the V‑Wave interatrial shunt, citing a neutral primary endpoint in the RELIEVE‑HF trial despite promising subgroup results in HFrEF patients. The trial showed no overall reduction in mortality, hospitalizations, or quality‑of‑life measures, and...
CMS has issued a Request for Information to explore AI solutions that could transform Medicare’s digital and voice interactions. The agency aims to use predictive analytics, chatbots, virtual assistants, and AI‑driven call‑center tools to deliver personalized plan recommendations and 24/7...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
