Artificial Intelligence September 22, 2025

Innovaccer Acquires Story Health for Agentic Care Augmentation September 22, 2025

Innovaccer kicked off a shopping spree instead of chasing an IPO, and virtual specialty care platform Story Health just became the latest startup to get crossed off the acquisition list. Innovaccer’s been busy. It spent years building the technical infrastructure to make healthcare actually work, and it’s now acquiring the pieces to show what’s possible […]

Digital Health September 18, 2025

Penguin Ai Raises $30M to Arm the AI Agent War September 18, 2025

Payors and providers are in an AI arms race, and Penguin Ai just raised $30M to supply both sides with agents to outcompete each other. Penguin goes far beyond point solutions. The enterprise AI platform combines proprietary LLMs with AI tooling that both payors and providers can use to configure custom agents for their own […]

Artificial Intelligence September 15, 2025

Doctors Who Use AI Are Viewed Worse by Peers September 15, 2025

The research headline of the week belongs to a study out of Johns Hopkins University that found “doctors who use AI are viewed negatively by their peers.” Clickbait from afar, but far from clickbait. The investigation in npj Digital Medicine surfaced interesting takeaways after randomizing 276 practicing clinicians to evaluate one of three vignettes depicting […]

Digital Health September 11, 2025

Particle vs Epic: The Lawsuit Moves Forward September 11, 2025

For the first time in history, Epic will have to face antitrust claims in court after it failed to dismiss Particle Health’s allegations that the EHR giant has been wielding its monopoly power to stifle competition. Here’s the overly-simplified version. Particle combines health data from 270M+ patients’ medical records by aggregating “thousands of sources”… sources […]

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Value-Based Care September 8, 2025

CMS Reports Record MSSP Performance in 2024 September 8, 2025

CMS just dropped its 2024 performance data for the Medicare Shared Savings Program, and the debate over the program’s true effectiveness rages on despite another record year.  MSSP saved Medicare $2.4B in 2024, the eighth consecutive year of savings and the highest total since the program’s inception in 2012. Accountable care delivers. MSSP ACOs lifted […]

Digital Health September 4, 2025

Justifying Healthcare AI Valuations September 4, 2025

A stellar report from Flare Capital Partners suggests that there’s some surprisingly sound justifications for the sky-high valuations we’re seeing with healthcare AI companies. Numbers talk. The report – based on an analysis of 4,500 digital health VC rounds and an exec survey – found that a record 58% of deals involved AI companies in […]

Artificial Intelligence August 28, 2025

MIT Report Crosses the GenAI Divide August 28, 2025

It only takes one look at the key findings from MIT’s GenAI Divide report to see why it made such a big splash this week: 95% of GenAI deployments fail. MIT knows how to grab headlines. The paper – based on interviews with 150 enterprise execs, a survey of 350 employees, and an analysis of […]

Startups August 25, 2025

Medallion Lands $43M and Unveils First National Credentialing Clearinghouse August 25, 2025

Medallion keeps building its case to be the go-to platform for provider network management after locking in another $43M and unveiling the industry’s first national credentialing clearinghouse, CredAlliance. Less friction, more healthcare. Providers have to jump through countless operational and compliance hoops before they can start caring for patients, and Medallion specializes in AI-powered hoop […]

Artificial Intelligence August 21, 2025

Healthcare’s Sci-Fi Future at Epic UGM August 21, 2025

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and Epic just lit up its sci-fi themed User Group Meeting with enough futuristic new solutions to prove last week’s rumors true – and then some. The future is now. This year’s event gave us a look at over 160 AI projects currently under development at Epic, including a three-product […]

Artificial Intelligence August 18, 2025

Is AI Robbing Physicians of Their Skill?  August 18, 2025

A study in The Lancet threw some refreshingly cold water on the AI hype train after finding that healthcare’s shiny new models might be de-skilling physicians. Here’s the setup. Researchers tracked four Polish health centers that gave their gastroenterologists AI to help spot polyps during colonoscopies before yanking it away after three months. Sounds familiar. […]

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