Could Data From 100 Million Species Help Cure Disease? One Startup Is Betting on It
Basecamp Research announced the launch of its Trillion Gene Atlas, a project to collect and model genomic data from over 100 million species, expanding known genetic diversity a hundred‑fold. Backed by $85 million in venture funding, the initiative partners with Anthropic, Ultima Genomics, PacBio and Nvidia to build AI‑trained models that can spot patterns across the trillion‑gene dataset. The effort is framed as a modern analogue to the Human Genome Project, aiming to accelerate drug discovery and other biomedical breakthroughs. Basecamp also introduced a royalty‑tracking system to compensate source communities for their genetic data.
Where AI Can Make the Biggest Impact in Healthcare
Intel’s latest discussion highlights AI‑powered care navigation as a solution to fragmented patient journeys, especially for complex diagnoses. The conversation, featuring Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack and Intel’s Alex Flores, underscores how legacy IT systems and data silos impede...
Perplexity and b.well Connected Health Partner for AI-Powered Medical Records Search
Perplexity AI has partnered with b.well Connected Health to let users securely link their electronic health records to the search engine. b.well’s extensive FHIR‑based network spans over 2.4 million providers and 350+ health plans, providing cleaned, standardized data through its 13‑step...
Large Specialty Practice Uses Agentic AI to Strengthen Patient Engagement
Dermatology Partners, a large physician‑owned dermatology group, deployed EliseAI's agentic voice AI to handle its 2,000‑4,000 daily inbound calls. The system integrates with AdvancedMD and Modernizing Medicine EHR, allowing the AI to schedule appointments and capture simple clinical tasks. Early...
How Biometrics and QR Codes Will 'Kill the Clipboard'
CMS is piloting a new patient‑centric data exchange model that uses biometric authentication to unlock electronic health records and QR codes to transmit them securely. Amy Gleason, administrator at U.S. DOGE Service and CMS strategic advisor, outlined how the approach...
Building the Military Health System’s AI Ecosystem
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) has launched a five‑year data strategy to create a secure, interoperable AI ecosystem for the Military Health System. Partnering with Red Hat, DHA is building cloud‑native infrastructure, data lakes, and governance frameworks that can safely scale...
Direct Nervous System Link Promises More Natural Leg Prostheses
Researchers at Chalmers University decoded leg movement intentions directly from peripheral nerves of above‑knee amputees using ultrathin neural implants and a spiking neural network AI. The system accurately identified knee, ankle and toe motions and provided bidirectional sensory feedback through...
A Neuroadaptive VR System for the Treatment of Arachnophobia
Researchers at Graz University of Technology unveiled VRSpi, a neuroadaptive virtual‑reality system that reads EEG and heart‑rate signals to automatically adjust spider exposure intensity. The prototype uses frontal alpha asymmetry to gauge real‑time anxiety, ensuring stimuli are neither too weak...
A New Front Line: How AI And Other Innovations Are Transforming The Fight Against TB
AI-powered handheld X‑ray devices and molecular diagnostics are rapidly reshaping tuberculosis detection in low‑resource settings. The Global Fund now backs AI‑driven screening in more than 22 countries, while Indonesia has moved treatment initiation to over 460 primary health centers, reducing...
Nia Therapeutics’ Smart Neurostimulation System Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation to Treat Memory Loss
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Breakthrough Device Designation to Nia Therapeutics’ Smart Neurostimulation System (SNS) for treating episodic memory loss in adults with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. The fully implantable, closed‑loop system records neural activity from...
Morning Workouts Tied to Lower Cardiometabolic Risk in Fitbit Study of 14,000
Researchers analyzing Fitbit heart‑rate data from 14,489 participants in the All of Us study found that people who regularly exercised between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. had significantly lower odds of cardiometabolic diseases. Morning exercisers were 31% less likely to have coronary...
Mave Health Nets $2.1 Mn To Launch Its Mental Health-Focused Wearables
Mave Health, a 2023 health‑tech startup, secured $2.1 million in seed funding led by Blume Ventures to commercialize its mental‑health wearable headset. The device uses low‑intensity transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to improve focus, mood and stress regulation, and is now...
A Liquid Biopsy Blood Test May Improve Children's Survival of Cancer in Africa
Researchers from Oxford and Tanzania have validated a liquid‑biopsy blood test that identifies EBV‑positive Burkitt lymphoma with 98% accuracy. The assay cut the diagnostic timeline by an average of 40 days, allowing most patients to start therapy within a week of...
How Health Systems Reduce Administrative Waste Without Sacrificing Care
Health systems are tackling the pervasive problem of administrative waste by focusing on four key strategies: strengthening payment oversight with payment‑integrity technology to catch billing errors early; aligning new digital tools with actual clinical workflows to avoid added complexity; fostering...
Root Canal Treatment with Modern Technology: Why It’s Faster and Safer
Modern dental technologies are reshaping root canal treatment, making it faster, safer, and more predictable. Three‑dimensional CBCT imaging delivers precise diagnoses, while dental microscopes reveal hidden canals with unprecedented clarity. Nickel‑titanium rotary instruments and ultrasonic irrigation streamline cleaning and disinfection,...
Philips-Nvidia Team-Up Strives to Create a ‘Self-Driving MRI’ Machine
Philips and Nvidia have unveiled an AI‑driven preview that generates a synthetic MRI image before the scan begins, using Philips' MR foundation model combined with Nvidia's NV‑Segment, NV‑Generate, and NV‑Reason tools. The preview ingests patient data and protocol settings to...
FDA Pushes Back Its Review of New PET Imaging Agent From Lantheus
The U.S. FDA has extended its review of Lanteus’ PET imaging agent LNTH‑2501 by three months, moving the PDUFA target date to June 29. LNTH‑2501, a Ga‑68 edotreotide kit for detecting neuroendocrine tumors in adults and children, remains unapproved and...
Parallel Raises $20M to Scale AI Solutions for Hospital Administration
Paris‑based Parallel has closed a $20 million Series A round led by Index Ventures, following a $3.5 million seed less than a year ago. The startup’s AI agents sit on top of legacy hospital systems to automate administrative workflows, starting with medical coding...
TRIMEDX-AIQ Adds Supply Chain Automation, Advanced Predictive Failure Intelligence
TRIMEDX unveiled an upgraded AI‑native platform, TRIMEDX‑AIQ, that adds automated parts ordering, purchase‑order automation, and predictive failure forecasting to its clinical supply chain suite. Leveraging a dataset of over 6.1 million device records spanning 25 years, the system anticipates equipment degradation and...
Hospital Opens New $3M Interventional Radiology Suite, the First in Its Region
Rapids Regional Medical Center in Alexandria inaugurated a $3 million interventional radiology (IR) suite, the first of its kind in central Louisiana. The state‑of‑the‑art facility supports image‑guided procedures such as biopsies, embolizations, ablations and on‑table CT‑guided radiation therapy. Hospital leadership highlighted...
Singapore: Digital and AI Powering Smart Healthcare Innovation
Singapore is accelerating digital and AI‑driven healthcare innovation to address its rapidly ageing population and rising chronic disease burden. The government pledged SG$37 billion under the Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2030 plan to fund high‑impact research, digital platforms, and AI adoption. Events...
De-Risking Medical Device Development with VA Technology Transfer
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) leverages its century‑old research engine through a technology‑transfer program that offers patent licenses and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) to medical‑device companies. By tapping VA‑originated inventions—from the first cardiac pacemaker to modern...
Prodeon Medical FDA 510(k) Approved for the Urocross Expander System, a Non-Permanent Retrievable Implant for Treating Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Prodeon Medical received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Urocross Expander System, a non‑permanent, retrievable implant designed to treat lower urinary tract symptoms caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia. Clinical data from the Expander‑2 randomized trial showed a 48.1% mean improvement in...
GE HealthCare, Springbok Analytics Team Up on MRI-Based Muscle Analysis for Sports Medicine, Human Performance Applications
GE HealthCare and Springbok Analytics have signed a development agreement to fuse Springbok’s AI‑driven muscle‑analysis platform with GE’s advanced MRI scanners. The collaboration will enable rapid, full‑body MRI exams to be transformed into detailed 3‑D maps that quantify up to...
HIMSS26: Optimize Hybrid Infrastructure To Accelerate Healthcare Innovation
At HIMSS26, HealthTech highlighted the critical role of hybrid infrastructure in scaling AI initiatives across healthcare. On‑prem data centers deliver low‑latency inferencing, while the cloud supplies on‑demand compute power for flexible workloads. Leaders emphasized workload placement decisions that prioritize patient...
AI Software for Smart Glasses Wins £1m Prize for Technology to Help People with Dementia
CrossSense Ltd’s AI‑powered smart glasses, featuring the Wispy conversational assistant, have won the £1 million Longitude prize for dementia technology. The glasses combine a camera, microphone and speakers to deliver real‑time verbal cues and floating text that help wearers complete daily...
MiniMed Gets FDA Nod for Smaller Insulin Pump
MiniMed, the diabetes‑tech spin‑out of Medtronic, received FDA clearance for its MiniMed Flex insulin pump, a device roughly half the size of the 780G model and operable via smartphone. The pump, featuring a 300‑unit reservoir, targets Type 1 patients aged 7+ and...
New Real-World Evidence Supports the Use of AI in Lung Cancer Screening
A prospective trial of 911 asymptomatic patients undergoing low‑dose chest CT showed that AI‑assisted nodule detection modestly increased interpretation time by about 15 seconds but significantly boosted the identification of Lung‑RADS‑positive nodules. Radiologists using the AI tool reported roughly double...
Elevate Podcast: Dr. Brian Haas, National Medical Director, Ascend Hospice, and Creator, Hospice Intelligence
In the latest Elevate Podcast, Hospice News interviews Dr. Brian Haas, national medical director of Ascend Hospice and CEO of Wellspring Healthcare. Haas explains how artificial intelligence can both help and hinder clinical documentation in hospice and palliative care. He...
OCHIN, C3 Partner to Expand ACO Offerings for FQHCs
OCHIN and Community Care Cooperative (C3) have launched a joint accountable care organization (ACO) offering tailored for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). OCHIN will supply its Epic EHR platform and analytics, while C3 brings a suite of Medicare ACO services,...
Ibex Medical Analytics Unveils Ibex 4, the Next-Generation AI Platform Setting a New Standard in Comprehensive Cancer Diagnostics and Patient...
Ibex Medical Analytics unveiled Ibex 4, a next‑generation AI platform designed to modernize pathology diagnostics. The solution delivers an end‑to‑end breast workflow, featuring automated H&E analysis and “zero‑click” IHC quantification for HER2, ER, PR and Ki67. It also adds prioritized...
FDA Approves JenaValve TAVR System for Aortic Regurgitation
JenaValve received FDA clearance for its Trilogy Transcatheter Heart Valve System, marking the first TAVR device expressly approved to treat symptomatic, severe aortic regurgitation (AR). The approval follows the ALIGN‑AR trial, which demonstrated the valve’s safety and efficacy in a...
Can AI Help Healthcare Systems Make Sense of Their Data?
At DevSparks 2026, Partex.AI unveiled a sovereign healthcare foundation model that combines federated learning, knowledge graphs, and agentic AI to analyze fragmented medical data without moving patient records. The architecture keeps data on‑site, sharing only encrypted model updates, while knowledge...
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Launches Interactive Wellness Hub
Mass General Brigham Health Plan partnered with mPulse to launch an interactive wellness hub for commercial, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and dual‑eligible members. The platform uses predictive analytics to deliver personalized nutrition, activity, sleep and stress‑management tools through audio, visual and...
STAT+: A Huntington’s Researcher on the UniQure-FDA Fray
UniQure’s experimental gene‑therapy for Huntington’s disease, which previously reported a 75% slowdown in disease progression, has received a third consecutive rejection from the FDA. The trial’s lead investigator, Ed Wild of University College London, praised the early data but warned...
Health Lean Analytics Secures over €2.1M to Automate Hospital Data and Optimise Surgical Workflows
Health Lean Analytics (HLA) secured €2.1 million in seed funding, including a €1.4 million round from family offices and a loan from Spain’s ENISA. The Barcelona startup automates real‑time data capture in surgical suites using IoT, AI and advanced analytics, integrating seamlessly...
Epic Secures a £222m Federated EPR Contract Across Somerset and Dorset
In early March 2026 four NHS trusts in Somerset and Dorset signed a £222 million federated contract with US‑based Epic to replace a patchwork of legacy electronic patient record (EPR) and patient‑administration systems. The deal unifies Epic’s platform across Somerset NHS...
Myriad Genetics Receives the US FDA Approval for MyChoice CDx Test as a Companion Diagnostic for GSK’s Zejula
Myriad Genetics announced FDA approval of its MyChoice CDx test as a companion diagnostic for GSK’s Zejula (niraparib) in advanced ovarian cancer. The clearance follows the PRIMA trial, which showed that patients identified as HRD‑positive derived significant benefit from Zejula...
Rollout of Ambient Voice Technology Across UHL-UHN to Speed up Care and Improve Communication for Patients
The University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) and University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) have become the first NHS trusts to jointly deploy AI‑powered Ambient Voice Technology (AVT) through Accurx Scribe. The rollout will equip more than 10,000 clinicians with voice‑captured scribing...
OXOS Medical’s MC2 Secures Clearance for Paediatric Imaging
OXOS Medical announced FDA clearance for its MC2 portable X‑ray system designed specifically for paediatric imaging. The lightweight, wireless device enables bedside scans, allowing children to stay with caregivers while receiving low‑dose, high‑definition images. Hands‑free operation via a wireless foot...
START and Trialing Collaborate on Oncology Clinical Trials
START Center for Cancer Research has partnered with Trialing to broaden access to early‑phase oncology clinical trials throughout Europe. The exclusive agreement lets START distribute curated trial information and real‑time enrollment updates via Trialing’s platform, directly notifying oncologists when slots...
Maker of Device To Treat Addiction Withdrawal Seeks Counties’ Opioid Settlement Cash
Kentucky counties are using opioid settlement money to purchase the NET device, a FDA‑cleared neuromodulation tool that eases withdrawal symptoms, at roughly $5,500 per patient. The company behind NET, NET Recovery, has secured about $1.2 million in contracts across more than...
Extracting Non-Taxonomic and Ternary Relations From Patient-Generated Texts for Semantic Interoperability
A new knowledge‑infused neural framework extracts non‑taxonomic and ternary relations from patient‑generated texts, addressing gaps left by taxonomic‑only approaches. Using a four‑layer architecture, delayed fusion, rule‑based dictionaries, and BioBERT validation, the system processes 38,115 anxiety and depression documents. It achieves...
Longitudinal Quantification of Parkinsonian Gait Using Apple HealthKit: A Single-Subject Digital Phenotyping Study
Researchers used Apple HealthKit to continuously monitor gait in a 77‑year‑old man with Parkinson’s disease from January 2024 through December 2025. The study found a 14.3 % reduction in walking speed and a 31 % decrease in step length over the year, with step...
Nigeria Bets on High-End Fiagnostics as Siemens–AMCE Deal Targets Medical Tourism Drain
Siemens Healthineers has teamed up with the African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE) to bring advanced imaging, precision diagnostics and integrated cancer‑care solutions to Nigeria. The $300 million, Afreximbank‑backed hospital aims to become a regional hub for oncology, cardiology and haematology,...
Adult Social Care Providers Are Not Using Care Technologies
A Department of Health and Social Care survey shows 27% of adult social care providers in England still use no care technologies, while 73% have adopted at least one tool. Monitoring sensors are the most common (43%), followed by personal...
Virtual ED Helps Reduce Waits for some Patients
Sault Area Hospital’s virtual ER waiting room, launched last August, has halved the time patients wait to see a clinician for low‑acuity issues. The same tool also reduced overall emergency department stay by 50% for eligible users. Patients enroll via...
Interoperability Standard Proposed for Senior Living
The Digital Governance Standards Institute (DGSI) has launched exploratory work on a National Standard of Canada called Elder Living Open Architecture (ELOA) to enable interoperability among senior‑living operational technologies. The multi‑part specification will define data models for the resident lifecycle,...
7T MRI at Sunnybrook Used in Parkinson’s Care
Sunnybrook’s Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program and the Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation are leveraging a new 7‑Tesla MRI to enhance deep brain stimulation (DBS) for advanced Parkinson’s disease. The ultra‑high‑field scanner delivers unprecedented anatomical detail, allowing surgeons to place electrodes with...
AI Tool Reduces Time to Prepare Discharge Summaries
Fraser Health has deployed an artificial‑intelligence tool within its Meditech Expanse platform to automate discharge summary creation. The pilot, involving roughly 60 clinicians, cut average drafting time from 12.5 minutes to 5.5 minutes per patient. Users report the draft‑and‑review workflow...