Click Therapeutics Secures $50M to Commercialize Schizophrenia Digital Therapeutic
Click Therapeutics announced a $50 million Series D strategic investment from Boehringer Ingelheim, alongside a restructuring that gives Click full commercial and marketing rights to its schizophrenia digital therapeutic, CT‑155. The device, which earned FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in 2024, targets the unmet need of negative symptoms in schizophrenia. In the Phase III CONVOKE trial, CT‑155 delivered a 6.8‑point (62%) improvement in negative symptom severity over 16 weeks, with fewer adverse events than the control app. The funding will accelerate commercialization and market entry.
Talkiatry Launches Talkiatry Connect for Cloud-Based EMR Psychiatric Referrals
Talkiatry, the largest private employer of psychiatrists in the United States, has introduced Talkiatry Connect, a browser‑based overlay that integrates directly with more than 30 cloud‑based EMR systems. The tool places a small icon in the clinician’s workflow; when clicked,...
The Invisible Implementation: Why Healthcare IT Needs to Shift From Vendors to Partners
The article urges healthcare IT leaders to treat implementations as partnerships rather than vendor transactions. It stresses that successful rollouts begin weeks before the kickoff with detailed mapping of services, requirements, and dependencies. By using transparent roadmaps, parallel workstreams, and...
EClinicalWorks Launches Production Support for CMS ‘Kill the Clipboard’ Initiative
eClinicalWorks announced production support for the CMS “Kill the Clipboard” initiative, enabling paper‑less patient intake through QR‑code scanning with its eClinicalMobile app. When patients arrive, a secure QR code pulls verified medical records from interoperability networks and populates the EHR...
Mount Sinai Unveils Real-Time Intraocular Pressure Monitoring in Glaucoma Surgery
Mount Sinai researchers unveiled miDOC, a micro‑interventional device that continuously measures intraocular pressure, flow, outflow facility and ocular compliance during glaucoma surgery. In the first 20 first‑in‑human cases, surgeons accessed real‑time biometric feedback and could adjust their technique on the...
M&A: LivTech Acquires Alora Healthcare Systems to Expand Post-Acute Care Platform
LivTech, a long‑term post‑acute care technology provider, announced the acquisition of Alora Healthcare Systems, a cloud‑based, AI‑enhanced home‑health software developer. The deal, backed by growth‑equity firm PSG, adds Alora’s mobile‑ready EMR and automation tools to LivTech’s existing LTPAC platform. By...
Rune Labs Launches StrivePD Guardian, an AI Companion for Parkinson’s Disease Powered by Claude
Rune Labs has introduced StrivePD Guardian, an AI‑powered companion for Parkinson’s disease that operates as an agentic system. The app, built on Anthropic’s Claude model, routes patient queries to specialized sub‑agents such as a Medication Assistant and PD Coach, while...
Voice Scams: When AI Calls Your Patients, Who’s Responsible?
In 2025, 38% of Americans reported receiving scam calls where fraudsters impersonated their healthcare providers, a surge driven by AI‑generated deepfake voices. Multi‑modal campaigns—combining texts, calls, and emails—have amplified the threat, exemplified by the Kettering Health outage that disrupted patient...
M&A: ESO Acquires D2i to Build End-to-End Emergency Intelligence Platform
ESO Solutions, a data services firm for fire departments, EMS and hospitals, has acquired healthcare analytics company d2i. The deal creates the first seamless data pipeline that links 911 dispatch information to post‑acute hospital outcomes. d2i’s platform already processes over...
Houston Methodist to Deploy Midstream Health’s Agentic AI Financial Action Platform Across Enterprise
Houston Methodist has partnered with Midstream Health to roll out its Agentic AI Financial Action Platform across the health system, beginning with supply‑chain operations. The AI agents ingest both structured ERP data and unstructured contract PDFs to automatically detect pricing...
Sovato Appoints Former Intuitive Chief Digital Officer Brian Miller as CEO
Sovato, a digital‑health platform specializing in remote patient monitoring, announced the appointment of Brian Miller as its new chief executive officer. Miller previously served as Chief Digital Officer at Intuitive Surgical, where he led the integration of AI and cloud...
SimpliFed Secures $10.8M to Expand Virtual Maternal Health Platform
SimpliFed announced a $10.8 million Series A round led by Morningside and Hesperia Capital to broaden its virtual maternal‑health platform beyond breastfeeding support. The capital will fund a proprietary Maternal Health Operating System that integrates with electronic medical records, enabling seamless data...
Maven Clinic Partners with Wellthy to Offer Integrated Family Care Benefits for Employers
Maven Clinic has teamed up with caregiving platform Wellthy to deliver an integrated family‑care benefit for employers. The joint solution merges Maven’s virtual women’s and family health services with Wellthy’s care‑coordination and backup‑care logistics, targeting the “sandwich generation” of workers...
Samsung Introduces Android Enterprise and Knox Manage to Galaxy XR for Healthcare Deployments
Samsung upgraded its Galaxy XR headset with Android Enterprise support and Samsung Knox Manage integration, aiming at healthcare deployments. The enhancements let hospital IT departments manage the headsets like smartphones, applying data policies, network configurations, and remote lock or wipe functions....
The $4B Bifurcation: Why Digital Health Funding Is Consolidating Around the Mega-Deal
U.S. digital health funding surged to $4.0 billion in Q1 2025, spread across 110 deals with an average size of $36.7 million, the highest since late 2021. Nearly 60% of that capital was captured by just 12 companies securing $100 million‑plus mega deals, including Whoop’s...
Yuzu Health Raises $35M to Modernize Health Insurance TPA Infrastructure
Yuzu Health announced a $35 million Series A round, bringing its total capital to $40 million, to modernize third‑party administrator (TPA) infrastructure for health insurance. The funding, co‑led by General Catalyst and Chemistry, adds General Catalyst’s Alex Tran to the board. Yuzu’s white‑labeled...
Practice Margin: Why Pre-Visit Workflow Is the Ultimate Revenue Protector
Ambulatory practices lose margin not only through clinical inefficiency but also through fragmented pre‑visit processes. Matthew Order of Yosi Health argues that moving intake, insurance verification, and high‑volume phone tasks upstream creates a measurable revenue safeguard. He outlines three structural...
Ambient Clinical Analytics Raises $5M, Appoints Brian Tufts as CEO
Ambient Clinical Analytics closed a $5 million strategic funding round backed by Mairs & Power Venture Capital and an unnamed Fortune 500 MedTech partner. The company appointed industry veteran Brian Tufts as chief executive officer, while founder Al Berning shifts to executive...
FDB Launches MedProof MCP to Ground AI Agents in Clinical Drug Knowledge
First Databank (FDB) has released MedProof MCP, the first Model Context Protocol server designed to embed AI agents with its clinical‑grade drug database. The open‑source MCP standard lets large language models query trusted medication intelligence in real time, cutting integration...
Public Health: ARPA-H Announces $144M STOMP Program to Measure and Remove Microplastics
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA‑H) has unveiled a $144 million STOMP (Systematic Targeting Of MicroPlastics) initiative to tackle micro‑ and nanoplastic contamination in humans. Phase 1 will develop gold‑standard clinical assays and a risk‑stratification framework, with the CDC acting...
KLAS Research Releases 2026 First Look Report on Abridge Ambient AI for Nursing
KLAS Research gave Abridge Ambient AI for Nursing a 94.3/100 score in its 2026 First Look report, based on early data from nine nurses across six health systems. The AI transcribes spoken observations into EHR flowsheets and links each entry...
Commure Launches AI-Powered Speech-to-Cursor Dictation Tool for Clinical Workflows
Commure has unveiled Commure Dictation, an AI‑powered speech‑to‑cursor extension that turns the company’s Ambient mobile app into a wireless microphone for clinicians. The tool eliminates the need for costly, dedicated dictation hardware and enables physicians to dictate notes, messages, and referrals...
GE HealthCare Receives FDA Clearance for True Definition DL CT Image Reconstruction Technology
GE HealthCare has obtained FDA 510(k) clearance for its True Definition DL CT image reconstruction technology. The AI‑driven tool enhances spatial resolution in high‑contrast regions such as lungs, musculoskeletal tissue, and the inner ear, delivering ultra‑high‑resolution images in under one...
Corti Launches Symphony for Medical Coding API, Outperforming OpenAI and Anthropic in Clinical Accuracy ‘Claims’
Clinical AI startup Corti has introduced Symphony, an agentic AI model delivered via API to automate medical coding. The company asserts that Symphony exceeds the clinical accuracy of major large language models—including those from OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Oracle, and Google—by...
JAMA Study: AI Scribes Deliver Modest EHR Time Savings Across 5 Major Health Systems
Researchers published a JAMA study analyzing 8,581 ambulatory clinicians across five academic health systems, including 1,809 AI‑scribe adopters. AI scribes reduced total EHR time by 13.4 minutes and documentation time by 16 minutes per eight‑hour shift, yielding a modest 0.49‑visit...
Ambience Healthcare Launches Chart Chat for Nursing with Cleveland Clinic Pilot
Ambience Healthcare has introduced Chart Chat for Nursing, an EHR‑integrated conversational AI that lets inpatient nurses retrieve patient information with plain‑language queries. The tool debuted in a pilot with Cleveland Clinic, the first health system to test the technology after a...
University of Toledo Health to Deploy Nabla’s Ambient AI Documentation in Epic EHR
University of Toledo Health is rolling out Nabla’s ambient AI clinical assistant to hundreds of physicians and advanced practice providers, embedding the technology directly into Epic’s electronic health record. The AI listens to doctor‑patient conversations and auto‑generates structured notes, cutting...
The Role of Ethical Oversight and Algorithmic Bias in Automated Pharmacovigilance
Pharmacovigilance is rapidly adopting machine learning, natural language processing, and automation to ingest, categorize, and prioritize adverse event reports, dramatically shrinking backlogs and accelerating signal detection. While these technologies deliver speed and scale, they also inherit reporting biases and can...
Ensemble and Cohere Partner to Build First RCM-Native Large Language Model for Healthcare
Ensemble, a leading revenue cycle management provider, and Cohere are expanding their partnership to create the healthcare industry’s first RCM‑native large language model. Unlike generic LLMs that rely on heavy prompt engineering, the new model is fine‑tuned from scratch on...
Jimini Health Secures $17M to Scale Clinician-Supervised Behavioral Health AI
Jimini Health, a New York‑based behavioral health startup, announced a $17 million seed round, bringing its total capital to more than $25 million. The funding, led by M13, Town Hall Ventures and Zetta Venture Partners with backing from former CMS Acting Administrator...
Clinical AI Platform Avo Secures $10M, Announces EBSCO DynaMed Partnership
Avo, a clinical AI platform that overlays major EHRs, closed a $10 million Series A led by Noro‑Moseley Partners and backed by AlleyCorp. The company announced a strategic partnership with EBSCO’s DynaMed to embed evidence‑based guidelines directly into its AI copilots. Avo’s...
IKS Health Acquihires AI Startup ThinkDTM to Transform Patient Access Solutions
IKS Health, a global care‑enablement leader, has acquihired AI‑native startup ThinkDTM, bringing its entire engineering team into the firm. Founder Tij Bedi will join IKS as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Patient Access and Innovation. The new unit...
Atlantic Health to Deploy Artera’s AI Agents for Colonoscopy Patient Outreach
Atlantic Health, a nonprofit system serving New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, has partnered with AI firm Artera to launch outbound AI agents that call patients scheduled for colonoscopies. The agents initiate a multilingual, interactive phone conversation a week before...
Butterfly Network Receives FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Gestational Age Ultrasound Tool
Butterfly Network has secured FDA clearance for an AI‑driven Gestational Age tool that operates via a blind‑sweep on its handheld ultrasound devices. The software, trained on over 21 million images, delivers gestational age estimates comparable to expert sonographers for pregnancies between...
Abbott Integrates Precision Oncology Portfolio Into Flatiron Health’s OncoEMR to Streamline Cancer Care
Abbott has partnered with Flatiron Health to embed its Precision Oncology testing suite directly into Flatiron’s cloud‑based OncoEMR platform. The integration lets oncologists order tests such as Oncotype DX, OncoExTra, Oncodetect and Riskguard from within the patient chart, with results automatically...
How Small Medical Practices Can Build HIPAA-Aligned DevSecOps Without Enterprise Budgets
Small medical practices handle protected health information but often lack the security resources of large hospitals. The article outlines how adopting a HIPAA‑aligned DevSecOps approach—using AWS native tools, strict access controls, secret management, and automated CI/CD pipelines—can close common gaps...
DAS Health Appoints Lee Horner as Chief Executive Officer
DAS Health announced the appointment of Lee Horner as its new chief executive officer, marking a strategic leadership shift aimed at accelerating growth. Horner brings more than two decades of executive experience in healthcare software and services, having led high‑growth...
Vida Health Launches Metabolic Control Framework to Manage Obesity, Diabetes, and MASH
Vida Health has introduced a Metabolic Control Framework that shifts from isolated disease programs to a population‑level strategy for obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, MASH, OSA and COPD. The framework relies on a proprietary Metabolic Control Index, which aggregates clinical, biometric...
Health Management Associates (HMA) Acquires HealthTech Solutions to Expand Government IT Capabilities
Health Management Associates (HMA) announced the acquisition of HealthTech Solutions, a Medicaid‑focused technology and analytics firm. HealthTech brings a modular cloud platform and a workforce of over 300 specialists in state agency systems modernization and compliance. The deal lets HMA...
Leaders in Lab Automation: Diagnostic Companies Setting the Standard for Efficiency
Laboratory automation is becoming essential as testing volumes surge and workflows grow more complex. Leading diagnostic vendors—Danaher, Siemens Healthineers, and Abbott—offer end‑to‑end platforms that integrate pre‑analytic sorting, AI‑driven error detection, and post‑analytic data management. Danaher’s DxA 5000 claims up to an...
Collectly Acquires AI Automation Startup Pledge Health to Streamline Pre-Service Workflows
Collectly, an AI‑driven patient financial platform that has processed over $1 billion for more than 3,000 facilities, announced the acquisition of Y Combinator‑backed Pledge Health. The deal adds upstream pre‑service automation—coverage verification, cost estimates, and prior‑auth readiness—to Collectly’s existing post‑visit billing suite....
Blossom Health Secures $20M to Scale AI Psychiatry Platform
Blossom Health, a New York‑based telepsychiatry startup, raised $20 million in Seed and Series A financing led by Headline and a broad investor syndicate. The capital will fund geographic expansion, new payer contracts, clinician onboarding, and accelerated AI research. Blossom’s platform combines...
Mayo Clinic Study Uses Wearables and Machine Learning to Predict COPD Rehab Participation
Mayo Clinic researchers published a study in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health showing that wearable‑derived sleep metrics can forecast patient participation in remote COPD pulmonary rehabilitation. Participants wore wrist activity monitors for a week before a 12‑week home‑based program, generating...
Jona and Everlywell Partner to Launch AI-Powered Gut Microbiome Test
Jona, an AI‑driven gut microbiome startup, has teamed up with Everlywell to bring a high‑resolution microbiome test to the U.S. consumer market. The test employs deep shotgun metagenomic sequencing, delivering strain‑level data on bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites. Jona’s proprietary...
What’s Next for Emergency Response Data in 2026?
In 2026 emergency response agencies will pivot from reactive tactics to data‑driven operations, leveraging predictive analytics, seamless interoperability, and community‑care models. Real‑time analytics will forecast demand spikes, enabling pre‑positioning of resources and faster response times. Integrated platforms will allow instant...
Thesis Care (Formerly Trovo Health) Secures $45M to Scale AI-Powered Clinical Care Teams
Thesis Care, formerly Trovo Health, closed a $45 million Series A round led by Oak HC/FT, bringing total funding to $60 million. Founded in 2024 by ex‑Cedar executives, the startup uses AI agents backed by clinicians‑in‑the‑loop to automate end‑to‑end clinical workflows. By delivering...
Cerebral Acquires Cognitive Behavioral Therapy App Inflow to Expand ADHD Treatment
Cerebral, a large integrated mental‑health provider, has acquired Inflow, a CBT‑based digital therapeutic app for adult ADHD, though financial terms were not disclosed. Inflow delivers short, science‑backed daily modules and is supported by an eight‑week randomized controlled trial showing significant...
ImmuneBridge Secures $7.7M to Open Cell Therapy Manufacturing Platform to Biotech Partners
ImmuneBridge announced a $7.7 million second seed round, bringing its total seed capital to roughly $20 million, to commercialize its proprietary cell‑therapy screening and manufacturing platform for external partners. The platform combines machine‑learning‑driven donor selection with a unique small‑molecule that preserves stem‑cell...
Viz.ai and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Partner to Launch AI Care Pathway for Cardiac Amyloidosis
Viz.ai and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals have teamed up to launch an AI‑driven care pathway targeting cardiac amyloidosis, a frequently underdiagnosed heart disease. The solution embeds the FDA‑cleared Us2.ai echocardiography algorithm and generative AI into hospital IT systems to automatically detect subtle...
Flourish Care Secures $5.7M to Scale Reimbursed Doula Network Nationwide
Flourish Care, a maternal‑health platform that matches credentialed doulas with families, closed a $5.7 million oversubscribed seed round led by Zeal Capital Partners. The funding arrives as 46 U.S. states move to reimburse doula services through Medicaid and commercial insurers, expanding...
