Yelp Partners with Zocdoc to Launch Real-Time Healthcare Appointment Booking
Yelp has teamed up with Zocdoc to embed real‑time medical appointment booking directly into doctor business pages on its iOS app, leveraging Zocdoc’s scheduling engine and the new AI‑driven Yelp Assistant chatbot. The feature displays in‑network availability and lets patients confirm slots without leaving Yelp. An Android and desktop rollout is slated for later this year, extending the capability across platforms. Providers can manage bookings through existing EHR or Zocdoc systems, eliminating extra administrative steps.
Amazon One Medical Launches Nationwide GLP-1 Management Program Integrated with Primary Care
Amazon One Medical has launched a nationwide GLP‑1 obesity management program that embeds weight‑loss drugs within a full primary‑care model. The service, linked to Amazon Pharmacy, offers insurance‑backed pricing as low as $25 a month and cash‑pay options starting at...
ConcertAI Launches Cadence Suite to Accelerate Patient Access to Life-Changing Therapies
ConcertAI has launched Cadence Suite, an AI-native platform for pharma commercial and field teams to proactively identify and resolve patient access barriers. The suite unifies specialty pharmacy, claims, and social determinants of health data into a single view, enabling real‑time...
ModMed Acquires Bonsai Health to Accelerate Agentic AI in Specialty Medicine
ModMed, the specialty‑specific EHR provider backed by Clearlake Capital, has acquired Bonsai Health, an agentic AI patient‑engagement platform, though the purchase price was not disclosed. Bonsai’s technology goes beyond passive chatbots by automatically detecting clinical care gaps, matching them with...
KLAS Releases 2026 Patient Financing Services Report Examining Recourse Vs. Nonrecourse Offerings
KLAS released its 2026 Patient Financing Services report, highlighting a pivotal shift from recourse to nonrecourse financing models. Recourse arrangements keep default risk on providers but feature lower fees, while nonrecourse solutions transfer risk to third‑party firms and guarantee predictable...
Automating Behavioral Health Utilization Review to Reduce Denials
A Johns Hopkins study found that 1 in 10 U.S. adults experienced a mental‑health crisis in 2025, underscoring soaring demand for behavioral health services. Most facilities still rely on manual utilization review (UR) using spreadsheets and shared inboxes, which creates...
Hippocratic AI Launches Safety-First Voice AI for Patients and Nurses
Healthcare AI startup Hippocratic AI unveiled two voice‑driven solutions: AI Front Door, a patient‑facing omni‑topic agent, and Nurse Co‑Pilot, a bedside assistant for inpatient nurses. AI Front Door consolidates scheduling, lab results, billing and care follow‑ups into a single, relationship‑based...
Why AMA Data Shows Physician Burnout Is No Longer a ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Crisis
New AMA data shows U.S. physician burnout continues to decline, reaching 41.9% in 2025, down from 48.2% in 2023. However, the improvement is uneven, with emergency medicine, urology and oncology still hovering near 50% burnout rates, while specialties like infectious...
Why Hospital Dashboards Tell the Future But Operations Remain Stuck in the Past
Over the past decade, hospitals have poured capital into data warehouses, interoperability and predictive dashboards, creating an abundance of real‑time intelligence. Yet most health systems still treat analytics as a reporting layer, with decisions anchored in historical precedent and negotiated...
Carrot Launches ‘Carrot Intelligence’ AI Platform for Global Fertility and Family Care
Carrot, a global fertility and family‑care platform, unveiled Carrot Intelligence, an AI engine built on a proprietary clinical dataset exceeding $1 billion in claims across 195 countries. The platform fuels a new Global Price Monitoring System that automatically spots billing anomalies,...
Worki Raises $2.75M to Build the AI Infrastructure for the Healthcare Workforce
Worki announced a $2.75 million pre‑seed round led by Redesign Health and Healthliant Ventures to build an AI‑native infrastructure for healthcare workforce management. The platform sits between existing HR systems—such as Workday, UKG, Oracle and ServiceNow—and creates a unified data layer...
ARC Launches ‘ARC Landing Boston’ Healthtech Accelerator with Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey
ARC, the innovation arm of Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, has launched ARC Landing Boston, a soft‑landing healthtech accelerator partnered with Governor Maura Healey’s administration. The program offers global health‑technology firms direct access to Boston’s clinical sites, regulatory guidance, and venture...
Walmart Expands Better Care Services Platform with GLP-1 Weight Management Offerings
Retail giant Walmart is expanding its Better Care Services digital health platform to provide comprehensive weight‑management support for customers using GLP‑1 therapies. The rollout adds the newly FDA‑approved oral GLP‑1 pill Foundayo to its network of nearly 4,600 pharmacies, with...
Wegovy HD Now Available on GoodRx for $399 Per Month Self-Pay
GoodRx has launched a self‑pay option for Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy HD, a 7.2 mg semaglutide injection, priced at $399 per month and scaling to $798 for two months and $1,197 for three months. The higher‑dose formulation serves as an FDA‑approved step‑up...
M&A: D2 Solutions Acquires ProModRx to Streamline Patient Journeys
D2 Solutions, a market‑access consulting firm, has acquired cloud‑based platform ProModRx to accelerate patient access to prescription drugs. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition will embed ProModRx technology into D2’s UltraTouch® Verify and UltraTouch® Engage suites, automating benefit verification,...
Sonire Therapeutics Raises $18M to Transform Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
Sonire Therapeutics announced an $18 million Series A round led by Santé Ventures to advance its proprietary high‑intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) system for pancreatic cancer. The device, which earned FDA Breakthrough Device designation in 2024, delivers non‑invasive thermal ablation in about 20 minutes...
Osteoboost Health Raises $8M for FDA-Cleared Bone Density Device
Osteoboost Health closed an $8 million financing round led by Ambit Health Ventures, with participation from several health‑focused investors. The company’s FDA‑cleared wearable belt delivers low‑magnitude vibration therapy to the lumbar spine and hips, slowing bone‑density loss by 85% in the...
The Clinical Resolution Gap: Why AI Can’t Fix Broken MSK Care Platforms
AI is reshaping musculoskeletal (MSK) care by automating documentation and triage, yet it largely fixes workflow rather than patient outcomes. Digital platforms tout engagement metrics—logins, exercise completion, chat usage—while employers care about episode duration, surgery avoidance, and total cost of...
HHS Launches $4M EMPOWER Prize Challenge to Enhance Living Kidney Donation
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched the 2026 KidneyX EMPOWER Prize Challenge, a $4 million competition to spur innovations that remove barriers to living kidney donation. Over 100,000 Americans await a kidney transplant, yet living donor numbers...
CMS Establishes New Billing Code for AI-Driven Calcium Analysis on CT Scans
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new national billing code under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System, effective April 1, 2026, for AI-driven analysis of coronary artery calcium (CAC) and aortic valve calcium (AVC) on chest CT scans....
Wavelet Medical Secures $7M to Scale AI Fetal Brain Monitoring Globally with Aegis Ventures
Wavelet Medical, a Yale‑spun AI startup, secured $7 million in seed funding and a co‑creation partnership with venture studio Aegis Ventures. The company has built the first non‑invasive fetal electroencephalography platform that uses abdominal sensors and proprietary AI to reconstruct real‑time...
Finding the Right Five Percent: How Machine Learning Is Reshaping Care Management
Machine learning is being woven into population health programs to move risk stratification from blunt, utilization‑based scores to disease‑centered, predictive analytics. By aggregating claims, labs and medication data into unified clinical profiles, ML models capture nonlinear patterns that linear regressions...
Ultralight Raises $9.3M to Launch AI-Native Operating System for Healthcare
Ultralight, formerly Vibrant Practice, secured $9.3 million led by The General Partnership to develop an AI‑native operating system tailored for Direct Primary Care. The platform aims to replace fragmented legacy EHRs with a unified, “invisible” infrastructure that reduces clinician charting time....
The AI Arms Race: Why PHTI Warns Healthcare ‘Bot Wars’ Are Inflating Medical Costs
The Peterson Health Technology Institute’s new report warns that artificial‑intelligence tools, while easing administrative tasks for individual health systems, are inflating system‑wide costs. AI‑driven prior‑authorization bots generate more submissions and denials, creating a “bot war” that adds $40‑$50 per request...
Symplr Appoints Former Edifecs Executive Venkat Kavarthapu as CEO
symplr, a leading enterprise healthcare operations software provider, announced Venkat Kavarthapu as its new chief executive officer, effective immediately. Kavarthapu, a 25‑year health‑tech veteran, previously served as CEO of Edifecs and guided its acquisition by Cotiviti in 2025. He replaces...
The Push for Side-by-Side Prescription Pricing in EHR Workflows
The article argues that prescribing decisions now hinge on real‑time cost information, urging EHR platforms to display side‑by‑side insurance and cash pricing. A recent Buzz Health survey shows 75% of prescribers view out‑of‑pocket costs as a major barrier, while 94%...
Death by a Thousand Vendors: Solera Report Reveals The Hidden Costs of Digital Health
Solera Health’s new report, based on a survey of 106 senior benefits leaders at firms with 1,000+ employees, reveals that 90% of large employers spend over $1 million annually on digital health solutions. The hidden operational expense of managing these fragmented...
The Perioperative AI Reality Check: Why Hospital Tech Fails Without Clinician Co-Design
Hospital leaders are rushing AI‑powered perioperative tools without clinician input, leading to low adoption and wasted spend. Andrew Fisher, MD, argues that the technology already exists, but success hinges on automating non‑clinical tasks, seamless workflow integration, and co‑design with anesthesiologists,...
EBSCO Clinical Decisions Report: 80% of Clinicians Trust Evidence-Based AI Tools
EBSCO Clinical Decisions released a report showing a stark trust gap in AI‑driven clinical decision support. While 89% of clinicians believe AI‑CDS will improve outcomes, 64% of patients would rather see a doctor who does not use AI. Evidence‑based AI...
Luminai Secures $38M, Inks Enterprise AI Partnership with Cleveland Clinic
Luminai announced a $38 million Series B round led by Peak XV Partners, lifting its total capital to $60 million. Simultaneously, the company unveiled an enterprise AI deployment with the Cleveland Clinic to automate the routing of faxed referrals. By embedding hospital‑specific standard operating procedures...
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...
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...