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 to its source transcript, preserving nurse oversight. All participants confirmed seamless Epic integration, and 83% used simulation labs to train staff. Abridge recently raised $300 million Series E, positioning it to expand beyond flowsheets.
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...
GE HealthCare Secures FDA 510(k) Clearance for Photonova Spectra Photon-Counting CT
GE HealthCare obtained FDA 510(k) clearance for Photonova Spectra, its photon‑counting CT system. The scanner uses Deep Silicon detectors with 8‑bin energy resolution, delivering simultaneous spectral and high‑definition images in a 0.23‑second rotation. NVIDIA GPU‑accelerated reconstruction handles the 50‑fold data...
PromptWell and Ellipsis Health Partner to Transform AI Patient Engagement
PromptWell and Ellipsis Health have announced a partnership that merges PromptWell’s AI‑driven timing engine with Ellipsis Health’s emotionally intelligent voice agent, Sage. The combined platform predicts the exact moment a patient is most likely to answer and then engages them...
Elpida Launches AI-Powered Marketing Compliance Platform for Healthcare Brands
Elpida, an AI‑driven marketing compliance platform for healthcare, launched today to address the growing friction of manual content reviews. The FDA’s new generative‑AI enforcement tool has spiked warning letters by 73%, highlighting the urgency for automated safeguards. Elpida’s "Live Regulatory...
LinusBio Expands Its Laser-Powered Hair Test to Help Rule Out Autism in Older Children
LinusBio has broadened its ClearStrand‑ASD hair‑based screening to children up to ten years old, extending beyond the original under‑48‑month validation. The test analyzes a single strand of hair with proprietary robotics and laser technology to detect metabolic patterns linked to...
XCath Integrates NVIDIA Isaac for Healthcare to Advance Telerobotic Endovascular Systems
XCath is integrating NVIDIA Isaac for Healthcare into its autonomous telerobotic endovascular platform, creating digital twins of the robot, treatment devices, and patient vasculature. The digital‑twin rehearsal lets surgeons practice on a patient‑specific 3‑D model before the actual mechanical thrombectomy,...
Why Health Systems Are Outsourcing Tech Support to Drive Adoption
Health systems are turning to outsourced tech support to boost patient portal adoption, as only 15%‑30% of patients currently use portal features. The primary barrier is not the technology but the lack of accessible, multilingual assistance for diverse patient populations....
Kaufman Hall January 2026 Report: Hospital Labor Expenses and Bad Debt Continue to Rise
Kaufman Hall’s January 2026 National Hospital Flash Report shows a sharp contraction in profitability, with the median operating margin falling to 2.1% from 4.9% a month earlier. Patient volumes slipped in both inpatient and outpatient settings, while labor expenses surged...
Why Verily Raised $300M to Become an Independent Precision AI Health Giant
Verily has closed a $300 million Series X Capital‑led round and re‑incorporated as Verily Health Inc., shifting Alphabet from a controlling owner to a significant minority shareholder. The funding will accelerate its AI‑native precision health platform, Verily Pre, aimed at unifying fragmented...
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...
Lantern Secures $30M to Scale Specialty Care Platform
Lantern, a specialty‑care platform, announced a $30 million growth investment led by Morgan Health and Echo Health Ventures to accelerate its expansion across employers and health plans. The company now serves more than 12 million members and partners with over 1,000 employers,...
The Cognitive Aftercare Gap: Cancer Care Is Data-Rich, but Brain Recovery Is Unmanaged
Cancer survivorship is increasingly recognized, yet cognitive impairment—often called "brain fog"—remains invisible in most oncology workflows. Studies show up to 75% of patients experience cognitive changes during treatment, with roughly 35% continuing months or years afterward. The gap stems from...
How AI Vocal Biomarkers Are Turning Speech Into a Vital Sign
AI-driven vocal biomarkers are emerging as a rapid, non‑invasive method to screen for a wide range of neurological and mental‑health conditions. Research validates their ability to identify mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s, depression, anxiety, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis and Huntington’s disease from...
Turquoise Health Secures $40M for AI-Powered Healthcare Pricing Platform
Turquoise Health announced a $40 million Series C round, led by Oak HC/FT with participation from a16z, Adams Street Partners and Yosemite. The funding will accelerate its transition from a pricing data vendor to an AI‑driven workflow and transaction operating system that...
Conduit Health Secures $17M for AI-Powered Medical Supply Platform
Conduit Health announced a $17 million Series A round led by Drive Capital, bringing its total capital to $22 million. The startup’s CareOS, an agentic AI engine trained on more than 50,000 patient interactions, automates prior‑authorization, documentation and rule‑matching for durable medical equipment...
NVIDIA and Persistent Systems Partner to Bring ‘Agentic AI’ to Drug Discovery
Persistent Systems has partnered with NVIDIA to bring Agentic AI to the healthcare and life‑sciences sector, focusing on computational drug discovery. Leveraging NVIDIA’s full AI stack—including AI Enterprise, BioNeMo, the NeMo Agent Toolkit, and NIM microservices—Persistent built GenMolVS, a generative...
Azara Healthcare Joins MEDITECH Alliance to Integrate Population Health Platform
Azara Healthcare has entered the MEDITECH Alliance, linking its Azara DRVS population‑health platform with the MEDITECH Expanse electronic health record. The integration is aimed at community and critical‑access hospitals, offering an out‑of‑the‑box data aggregation layer that combines clinical records, claims...
Transcarent Partners with Bluespine to Launch Payment Integrity Category for Self-Insured Employers
Transcarent has added a new “Payment Integrity” category to its Experience Store through a partnership with AI‑driven health‑tech firm Bluespine. The service targets the $300 billion annual loss from fraud, waste and abuse in U.S. healthcare by analyzing every medical and...
OBBBA: From Compliance Crisis to Digital Transformation Catalyst
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) introduces sweeping reforms that will reshape how Americans access and pay for health care through 2028. New mandates, such as semi‑annual Medicaid eligibility checks, force providers to adopt automation and AI to maintain...
HEARTio Secures $4.25M to Advance ECGio AI Platform for Coronary Artery Disease Detection
HEARTio announced a $4.25 million seed round backed by Intelligence Ventures, Audacious Capital, VU Venture Partners, LifeX and Bessel. The funding will finance a pivotal clinical study needed for FDA clearance of its ECGio platform, which uses deep‑learning AI to infer...
Employers Are Buying Health Insurance Blind: It’s Time to Demand Data Transparency
Employers spend billions on health insurance yet lack visibility into plan performance, such as denial rates and appeal outcomes. Premiums continue outpacing wage growth while coverage rules increasingly dictate whether care is delivered. Insurers have resisted sharing operational data, leaving...