Artificial Intelligence
December 18, 2025
8VC’s Vision for Healthcare AI in America December 18, 2025
8VC just dropped its Vision for Healthcare AI in America, and it’s the best roadmap we’ve seen for removing the barriers between AI and its potential to transform medicine. Great cakes have three layers, maybe four. Before 8VC shared its recipe for how AI can help fix things, it laid out the four main ingredients […]
Digital Health
December 15, 2025
Rock Health: Innovation at the Turn of 2026 December 15, 2025
Rock Health is wrapping up the year in style by updating its Innovation Maturity Curve with the hottest trends of 2025 and sharing its predictions for what lies ahead. The curve uses three major data points to plot innovation: The pace is picking up. Here’s a look at the categories that defined the year: Longevity […]
Patient Engagement
December 11, 2025
Artera Raises $65M and Hits Nine-Figure CARR December 11, 2025
Patient communications still feel stuck in the Dark Ages, which is why Artera.io just raised $65M to flip on the AI-powered floodlights. We need to work on communication. Healthcare’s “communication crisis” can be traced back to a couple distinct challenges. One part engagement, one part infrastructure. Artera tackles these issues the only way any self-respecting […]
Artificial Intelligence
December 8, 2025
AI Scribes Aren’t Productivity Tools, Yet December 8, 2025
The first randomized controlled trials for ambient AI have finally arrived, and NEJM AI just gave us the strongest evidence yet that scribes deliver… minimal time savings. The first study was a mixed bag. UCLA researchers assigned 238 physicians across 14 specialties to one of two scribes – Microsoft DAX and Nabla – or usual […]
Payors
December 4, 2025
Curative Hits Unicorn Status With Series B Raise December 4, 2025
Few COVID testing companies made it past the pandemic. Even fewer pivoted to a new model and found success. Only one became a payor with a unicorn horn. Curative. Curative is reimagining health benefits, without OOP costs. It also landed $150M of Series B funding and a $1.3B valuation from investors that seem confident it […]
Telehealth
December 1, 2025
The ATA Makes the Case for Telehealth December 1, 2025
The American Telemedicine Association just teamed up with nine major U.S. health systems to deliver one of the most comprehensive looks at Medicare telehealth utilization to date, and the numbers look good for virtual care. The analysis of 1.67M Medicare beneficiaries from 2019 to 2023 found that telehealth is primarily a substitute for in-person care, […]
Startups
November 24, 2025
Function Lands $298M for Medical Intelligence November 24, 2025
The face of the health membership movement is now worth $2.5B after Function landed $298M of Series B funding to prove that subscription care is here to stay. Function is building an “operating system for human health.” The OS “fuses AI with medical expertise to empower 8 billion people to take control of their health […]
Digital Health
November 20, 2025
TrumpRx and the GLP-1 Land Grab November 20, 2025
It’s a bad day to be a pharma middleman. The White House announced the launch of TrumpRx in 2026, kicking off a wave of cost reductions on some of the most popular drugs in the world. TrumpRx looks exactly like it sounds. Here’s the website. It gets better. TrumpRx was part of a broader initiative […]
Digital Health
November 17, 2025
U.S. Healthcare is an “Abominable Creature” November 17, 2025
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this chart from industry consultant Andrew Tsang might be worth a million. America’s healthcare system is “An Abominable Creature.” That’s also the title of Tsang’s stellar blog post that meticulously maps out every dollar that flows through it. The charts don’t just map spending, they map […]
Remote Care
November 13, 2025
Remote Monitoring Boosts Revenue, Access November 13, 2025
Remote patient monitoring was in the crosshairs last week after UnitedHealthcare axed its coverage, but a well-timed study in Health Affairs suggests that the cuts are bad news for practices – and their patients. Practice makes perfect. Although many studies have looked into how RPM affects patients, this might be the first study to quantify […]
Startups
November 10, 2025
Fabric Continues Acquisition Spree With UCM November 10, 2025
Fabric is back at it again with its fifth acquisition in less than three years, picking up telehealth provider UCM Digital Health to round out its virtual care portfolio. Here’s a look at Fabric’s M&A journey since launching in 2023 to tackle capacity constraints: End-to-end platforms are built brick-by-brick. Fabric got its start by bringing […]
Startups
November 6, 2025
Hippocratic Closes Series C to Fuel Patient-Facing Agents November 6, 2025
Rising tides lift all boats, and the venture-backed surge in AI startups just helped boost Hippocratic AI’s valuation to $3.5B on the back of $126M in Series C funding. Do no harm. Hippocratic’s “safety-focused” AI agents perform almost any low-risk, patient-facing task under the sun. The Polaris Safety Constellation Architecture makes it all possible. Hippocratic’s […]