WellSky Launches CareQueue Feature to Embed Proactive AI Triage Inside Long-Term Care EHRs
WellSky has launched CareQueue, an AI‑powered triage and workflow prioritization module built directly into its Long‑Term Care EHR. The feature converts fragmented resident data into real‑time acuity scores, surfacing high‑priority clinical actions for nurses and care coordinators. Designed with a clinician‑in‑the‑loop framework, it preserves final decision authority while cutting duplicate documentation and supporting compliance. A future roadmap promises AI‑driven care‑plan recommendations and automated problem‑list suggestions.
b.well Connected Health Partners with myTomorrows to Launch AI-Driven Clinical Trial Matching Stack
b.well Connected Health has teamed with myTomorrows to launch an AI‑driven clinical‑trial matching stack. The partnership layers myTomorrows’ pre‑screening engine onto b.well’s FHIR‑based data network, which aggregates records from roughly 2.4 million providers, 330 health plans and multiple state HIEs. By...
Turning AI Into Real Support for Skilled Nursing Teams
Artificial intelligence is transitioning from concept to daily workflow in skilled‑nursing facilities, but its impact hinges on data interoperability and seamless integration into existing clinical processes. Leaders must first resolve fragmented resident information to feed reliable predictive models, then embed...
Beyond Burnout: Headspace Report Exposes the Hidden Cognitive Tax of Always-On Work Cultures
Headspace’s eighth annual Workforce State of Mind report reveals a pervasive "chronic strain" crisis, with 92% of employees experiencing mental or cognitive pressure and 37% saying it has worsened over the past year. The rapid rollout of AI tools is...
Wolters Kluwer Launches Clinical AI Framework to Audit Bedside AI for Hospital Governance Committees
Wolters Kluwer Health unveiled a Clinical AI Validation Framework to help hospital governance committees audit generative AI tools at the bedside. The model assesses three dimensions—clinical intent, knowledge integrity, and clinical impact—moving beyond simple benchmark tests. In stress testing, its...
When Rural Maternity Care Fails: Why Bipartisan Policy Must Stabilize Obstetric Infrastructure
More than one‑third of U.S. counties are now classified as maternity‑care deserts, contributing to a national maternal mortality rate of 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births and 50.3 for Black women. Rural hospitals struggle to keep labor‑and‑delivery units open because...
The Path Raises $14.3M to Scale Clinically Guided AI Therapy Platform Across Mobile Ecosystems
The Path, formerly known as Mental, announced its emergence from stealth with a $14.3 million seed round led by Prime Movers Lab and backed by Tony Robbins, Apolo Anton Ohno, Deontay Wilder and Designer Fund. The AI‑driven therapy platform uses multiple specialized...
Twin Health Launches AI-Native GLP-1 Stewardship Model to Slash Cardiometabolic Spending for Employers
Twin Health unveiled its AI‑native GLP‑1 Stewardship Model, a clinically validated framework designed to taper patients off expensive weight‑loss drugs while preserving weight loss. In a randomized trial published in NEJM Catalyst, 85% of participants stopped GLP‑1 therapy and lost...
Moffitt Cancer Center Expands Reimagine Care’s AI-Enabled Virtual Oncology Model
Moffitt Cancer Center is expanding its hybrid virtual oncology program with Reimagine Care, adding the AI conversational assistant Remi and a dedicated virtual clinical team across more sites. In an initial rollout of nearly 7,000 digital interactions, 97% of encounters...
Innovaccer Acquires CaduceusHealth to Build Autonomous AI Revenue Cycle Platform for 4,000 Providers
Innovaccer Inc. has completed the asset acquisition of CaduceusHealth, expanding its Flow suite into a full‑stack, AI‑native revenue cycle management platform for ambulatory care. The combined solution will serve roughly 4,000 providers that collectively manage about $5 billion in gross patient...
Beyond Compliance: What KLAS’ Brief Reveals About the Real ROI of Legacy Data Decommissioning
KLAS’s May 2026 Data Archiving brief surveyed 36 deep‑adopter health systems to gauge how archives are used beyond compliance. The study found that 60% of participants have no interest in leveraging archived records for AI or research, and only two organizations...
Cedars-Sinai Deploys OpenEvidence Enterprise Platform to Drive Precision Clinical Decision Support
Cedars‑Sinai has rolled out the OpenEvidence enterprise platform across its entire network, embedding an AI‑driven clinical reference tool directly into the electronic health record. The system surfaces patient‑specific, peer‑reviewed medical literature at the point of care, while also allowing the...
The Compliance Bottleneck in Connected Health: Why Cloud-Based Medical Devices Need a Different V&V Approach
Traditional verification and validation (V&V) frameworks assume a static medical device, but cloud‑based platforms continuously evolve, creating a compliance bottleneck. The FDA’s emerging guidance—such as the Pre‑Determined Change Control Plan—offers a pathway for iterative updates but adds significant upfront documentation....
Surescripts Expands Prior Authorization Automation: Slashing Prescription Approval Times as New CMS Interoperability Rules Loom
Surescripts has broadened its Prior Authorization Automation platform, adding 68,000 prescribers across 42 health systems—a 50% increase since December 2025. The automated workflow now delivers a median approval time of just 18 seconds, eliminating manual forms, faxes, and calls. Real‑time...
Commure Secures $70M to Drive 85% Autonomous Revenue Cycle Execution
Commure, an AI platform for healthcare operations, closed a $70 million financing round at a $7 billion post‑money valuation, led by General Catalyst with participation from Sequoia, Morgan Stanley and Kirkland & Ellis. The company’s agentic AI infrastructure targets the $1 trillion annual...
Century Health Raises $5M for CHARM AI Platform to Accelerate Life Sciences Research
Century Health announced an oversubscribed $5 million seed round led by Origin Ventures, bringing its total funding to a strategic level. The company’s CHARM AI platform automates extraction of unstructured electronic health record data with a validated 97% accuracy rate. Over...
Vocal Biomarkers: Helping Clinicians Detect What Patients Hesitate to Share
Canary Speech, led by CEO Henry O’Connell, is deploying AI‑driven vocal biomarker analysis to screen patients for mental health and neurological conditions in real time. In a recent case, the system identified severe postpartum depression in a new mother who...
3 in 4 Compromised Healthcare Devices Expose Patient Records, Flare Report Reveals
Flare’s 2026 State of Healthcare Credential Exposure report documents a 33% year‑over‑year surge in compromised healthcare credentials, with nearly three‑quarters of infected devices leaking EHR/EMR logins. The United States accounts for 48% of all healthcare‑related credential logs surfaced on underground...
Evvy Launches AI Advisor to Decode Vaginal Dysbiosis and Biomarkers
Evvy, a precision women’s health pioneer, launched EvvyAI, an AI advisor that translates vaginal microbiome data into personalized, real‑time guidance. The tool is trained on the company’s proprietary dataset of more than 100,000 metagenomic vaginal tests, directly tackling the data...
Wheel and b.well Connected Health to Launch AI-First Virtual Care Infrastructure
Wheel and b.well Connected Health announced a strategic partnership to deliver an AI‑first virtual‑care infrastructure that merges b.well’s consumer health data platform with Wheel’s Horizon clinical delivery network. The joint solution tackles the industry’s "action gap" by turning longitudinal health...
Reimagining Medical Devices in the AI Era: The 3 Structural Shifts Driving Venture-Scale Growth
Aegis Ventures released a whitepaper that spotlights three AI‑driven structural shifts reshaping the medical‑device sector. Historically, medtech has captured only 2‑3% of U.S. healthcare venture capital despite a $200 billion annual market, reflecting long development cycles and limited exit paths. The...
Atropos Health and Guidehouse Launch Point-of-Care Clinical Decision Support Solution
Atropos Health and consulting firm Guidehouse have launched a joint clinical decision support (CDS) platform that embeds predictive AI models directly into electronic health records. The solution uses aggregated claims and EHR data to stratify patients and deliver real‑time alerts...
The Next AI Use Case in Radiology Isn’t Diagnosis. It’s Patient Understanding
Peter Nemeth argues that the first scalable AI use case in radiology is not autonomous diagnosis but patient‑focused explanation of imaging results. The 21st Century Cures Act now forces health portals to release reports instantly, leaving most patients confused by...
Viz.ai Launches Viz Pulmonary™ Suite: AI-Powered Workflows for COPD, Lung Nodules, and PE
Viz.ai unveiled the Viz Pulmonary™ Suite, an AI‑powered platform that unifies workflows for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung nodules, and pulmonary embolism. The suite embeds real‑time alerts into existing EHRs, aiming to close the coordination gap that often leads to...
Healthcare AI Evaluation Frameworks: Moving Beyond Accuracy to Safety and Fairness
Healthcare AI is now embedded in 71% of US hospitals, yet many deployments fall short of promised gains. Most evaluations rely on accuracy metrics such as AUROC, ignoring safety, fairness, calibration, and workflow compatibility. Studies show over 95% of AI...
Innovaccer 2026 Payer AI Report: Nearly 80% of Insurers to Buy or Co-Develop AI Capabilities
Innovaccer’s 2026 Payer AI Report finds nearly 80% of health‑plan executives now prefer buying or co‑developing AI solutions, a stark reversal from 2024’s internal‑build focus. About three‑quarters of payers plan to allocate more than $10 million to AI‑driven payment and outcome...
Signant Health Acquires Ametris to Combine Wearable Data and eCOA Technology
Signant Health announced the acquisition of Ametris, a leader in wearable‑based digital outcome measurement, to fuse its electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) platform with sensor data. Financial terms were not disclosed. The combined solution replaces fragmented vendor stacks, enabling sponsors...
Shyld AI Secures $13.4M to Scale Agentic AI and Autonomous Disinfection Across U.S. Health Systems
Shyld AI announced a $13.4 million seed round, the largest early‑stage raise in healthcare AI, led by Aulis Capital. The startup is shifting from passive ambient AI to Agentic AI that can act autonomously inside hospitals, notably with an edge‑native UV‑C...
IKS Health Acquires ARAI Solutions to Build Full Agentic AI Stack for Healthcare
IKS Health announced the acquisition of ARAI Solutions to complete a five‑layer, agentic AI stack for healthcare. The deal gives IKS ownership of specialized biomedical knowledge graphs and the ability to build proprietary small language models, reducing reliance on external...
How Remote Patient Monitoring Can Alleviate Staffing Strain and Improve Healthcare Delivery
Hospitals facing staffing shortages turn to remote patient monitoring (RPM) to extend care capacity. RPM integrates with major EHRs, delivering real‑time vitals and automating admin tasks so clinicians can focus on high‑need patients. Evidence from UPMC shows Medicare participants were...
Anomaly Insights Secures $17M to Scale AI Payer Intelligence for Health Systems
Anomaly Insights announced a $17 million Series B led by Sound Ventures, bringing its total capital to $34 million. The AI‑driven payer intelligence platform helps health systems detect and reverse claim denials, underpayments, and adjudication errors. Deployed across more than 20 health systems,...
From Trial-and-Error to Data-Driven Oncology Decision Making: AI-Enabled Functional Precision Medicine Is Rewriting the Future of Cancer Treatment
AI‑enabled functional precision medicine (FPM) platforms combine patient‑derived tumor testing, multi‑omic profiling, robotics and machine learning to recommend therapies tailored to an individual’s cancer. Traditional genomics‑driven precision oncology benefits only a small fraction of patients—about 8% are eligible for genome‑driven...
Harmony Healthcare IT Appoints Brian Liddell as CEO Succeeding Founder Tom Liddell
Harmony Healthcare IT announced that Brian Liddell will assume the role of chief executive officer on April 30, 2026, succeeding founder Tom Liddell, who will become chairman of the board. Brian previously served as president and chief financial officer, overseeing...
Labcorp Integrates Full Diagnostic Menu Into Epic Aura: Streamlining Lab Workflows for U.S. Health Systems
Labcorp and Epic have expanded their partnership to embed Labcorp’s full diagnostic test menu into Epic’s Aura platform. The integration lets clinicians order tests and receive discrete results directly within Epic, removing the need for separate lab‑EHR interfaces. Building on...
Included Health Launches Provider Connect AI Assistant for High-Quality Physician Matching
Included Health introduced Provider Connect, an AI‑driven physician‑matching tool embedded in its Dot assistant. The platform leverages 45 billion clinical and cost data points from 140 million patients and over 300 specialty quality measures to surface high‑quality, in‑network doctors. It highlights preferences...
Medbridge Launches Outcomes Offering: Connecting Patient Care to Clinical Efficacy and Payment
Medbridge has introduced Medbridge Outcomes, a new module within its One Care platform that captures patient‑reported outcomes (PROs) for rehabilitation and physical‑therapy providers. The tool embeds data collection into clinicians’ daily workflow and aligns with CMS MIPS and quality‑reporting requirements,...
Evolution Devices Announces First Multi-Site Clinical Sale of EvoWalk to Sheltering Arms Institute
Evolution Devices announced its first multi‑site clinical sale of the EvoWalk mobility system to the Sheltering Arms Institute. EvoWalk is a below‑knee wearable that delivers multi‑muscle functional electrical stimulation and captures AI‑driven metrics such as step count, gait speed, and...
The $262B “Acceptance”: Why It’s Time to Stop Treating Denials as an Unavoidable Cost
Dr. Wael Khouli warns that the $262 billion in denied hospital claims is not an inevitable cost. About 15% of claims are rejected, yet 70% of appealed ones could be overturned, while hospitals waste $19.7 billion on manual denial management. He attributes...
Transforming Medical Coding Operations Through Hybrid Intelligence Design
Healthcare revenue cycle management faces rising coding volumes, evolving payer policies, and workforce shortages. AI improves efficiency for low‑complexity encounters but struggles with complex, multi‑specialty cases. A hybrid intelligence model blends AI‑driven coding with human‑in‑the‑loop review, routing high‑confidence cases to...
Withings Report Reveals Why Menopause Is a Critical Cardiovascular Window
Withings' 2026 Menopause Transition report, based on data from 2.5 million women in 11 countries, shows menopause is a pivotal cardiovascular window. Atrial fibrillation prevalence jumps fourfold globally and 3.8 times in the U.S. between early reproductive years and late post‑menopause. Heart‑rate...
Healthcare Cybersecurity Has Become an Operational Risk, Not Just a Security Function
Healthcare cybersecurity has moved from a back‑office IT issue to a core operational risk that directly affects patient care, revenue, and regulatory compliance. Ransomware and other attacks now disrupt electronic health records, scheduling, imaging and connected devices, forcing hospitals into...
Follistatin-344: Myostatin Signaling, Tissue Plasticity, and Molecular Modulation Research
Follistatin-344, a 344‑amino‑acid precursor of the follistatin family, binds and neutralizes key TGF‑β ligands such as myostatin and activins. Structural studies show it wraps these ligands, preventing receptor engagement and downstream SMAD signaling. In pre‑clinical models, overexpressing Follistatin‑344 or its...
Mid-Cycle Revenue Integrity: Leveraging Clinician-Governed AI to Reduce Denials and Understated Acuity
Health systems are confronting hidden revenue loss caused by gaps between bedside care and the administrative record. At the mid‑cycle—where documentation, clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and coding converge—denial rates are nearing 10% and under‑documented acuity can cost a hospital up...
Wisdom Ventures Closes $77.7M Fund II to Invest in AI-Native Wellbeing Startups
Wisdom Ventures announced the close of its $77.7 million Fund II, a ten‑fold jump from its $10 million Fund I. The round is backed by Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Reid Hoffman, Evan Sharp and Stewart Butterfield, and adds former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy...
Eko Health Appoints Dr. Steven Steinhubl as CMO to Drive Cardiac AI and Global Clinical Strategy
Eko Health has named Dr. Steven R. Steinhubl, a leading cardiologist and digital‑medicine pioneer, as its chief medical officer. In his new role, Steinhubl will direct clinical strategy, research programs, and global partnerships to expand the adoption of Eko’s AI‑enabled...
Artera Launches AI Services Model and Agentic AI Squads for Specialty Care and FQHCs
Artera, formerly WELL Health, has introduced an AI Services Model that replaces generic SaaS with clinic‑specific, agentic solutions. The company deploys AI Service Squads—small teams of AI builders who work alongside providers—to deliver bespoke tools for scheduling, prior authorizations, referral...
Kanvas Biosciences Raises $48M to Advance Spatial Biology Platform and Immuno-Oncology Trials
Kanvas Biosciences announced a $48 million Series A round, bringing its total capital to $78 million. The funding will primarily support clinical trials of KAN-001, a live biotherapeutic aimed at patients who do not respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors. Kanvas...
Fathom Secures Strategic Investment From CVS Health Ventures to Scale Autonomous Medical Coding
Fathom, a leader in autonomous medical coding, secured a strategic investment from CVS Health Ventures to accelerate its platform that automates over 90% of coding tasks across multiple specialties. The company, recently named the #1 solution for Reducing the Cost...
Carlyle Acquires Knack RCM and EqualizeRCM to Build Global AI-Native Healthcare RCM Platform
Carlyle has taken a majority stake in Knack RCM and EqualizeRCM, merging them into a single AI‑native revenue cycle management platform. The combined entity leverages Equalize’s Bill Smart denial‑prediction AI and Knack’s global delivery footprint of 8,000 staff and its...
ANA Releases Landmark Consensus Report on Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Practice
The American Nurses Association unveiled a landmark consensus report that sets guardrails for artificial intelligence in nursing practice. The document highlights automation bias and erosion of professional judgment as primary safety risks, insisting that AI must support—not replace—nurse decision‑making. It...