Digital Health June 12, 2025
Catching the Right Wave in Digital Health June 12, 2025
The ocean of digital health innovation seems to have a wave of new trends breaking every year, which is why Rock Health teamed up with LG NOVA to give enterprises a framework for “discerning promising currents from passing swells.” Riding the wrong hype cycle can strain health systems’ limited resources with costly implementations or investment […]
Artificial Intelligence June 9, 2025
OpenEvidence Partners With JAMA Ahead of Next Raise June 9, 2025
“The fastest-growing platform for doctors in history” continues to step on the gas, and OpenEvidence is reportedly on the verge of notching a $3B valuation after inking a deal to bring JAMA Network journals to its AI medical search engine. The multi-year content agreement will make full-text articles from the American Medical Association’s JAMA, JAMA […]
Telehealth June 5, 2025
Text Nudges Show Potential in Primary Care June 5, 2025
Even the simplest text messages can help patients get more out of their primary care visits, at least according to new research published in NEJM Evidence. The study out of Ascension health system – “A Digital Care Plan Nudge to Improve Primary Care Outcomes” – spanned 76 primary care practices and 29,000+ patients. The results […]
Artificial Intelligence June 2, 2025
Epic Announces Launchpad to Fast-Track GenAI Deployment June 2, 2025
Epic is looking to accelerate generative AI adoption with the surprise unveiling of Launchpad, a new program designed to help provider orgs “move from idea to operational gains in a matter of days.” Launchpad’s grand unveiling included little more than a LinkedIn post, but Epic AI Director Sean McGunigal told Fierce Healthcare that the program […]
Telehealth May 29, 2025
PHTI Gives High Marks to Virtual Mental Health Solutions May 29, 2025
Virtual mental health solutions were the latest segment to fall under the piercing gaze of the Peterson Health Technology Institute, and in typical PHTI fashion the reviews were mixed. The evaluation incorporated over 5,000 articles, input from clinical advisors, and interviews with depressed or anxious patients to evaluate three kinds of mental health solutions on […]
Digital Health May 22, 2025
SmarterDx, Thoughtful.ai, and Access Healthcare Form Smarter Technologies May 22, 2025
New Mountain Capital just hit us with one of the biggest blockbuster mergers of the year, combining portfolio companies SmarterDx, Thoughtful.ai, and Access Healthcare into a new RCM powerhouse dubbed Smarter Technologies. Payors and providers are at war over every dollar, and Smarter is leveling the battlefield by arming health systems with a comprehensive revenue […]
Startups May 19, 2025
Cohere Raises $90M for AI Prior Authorizations May 19, 2025
Cohere Health just locked in $90M of Series C funding to keep doing what it does best, offloading painful prior authorization processes from humans to AI. Cohere works with health plans and risk-bearing providers to automate prior auth workflows and accelerate time to care… or at least quicker denials. As an early mover in the […]
Artificial Intelligence May 15, 2025
OpenAI Dives Into Healthcare With HealthBench May 15, 2025
OpenAI is officially setting its sights on healthcare with the launch of HealthBench, a new benchmark for evaluating AI performance in realistic medical scenarios. HealthBench marks the first time the ChatGPT developer has taken a direct step into the industry without a partner to hold its hand. Here’s how current frontier models stacked up in […]
Startups May 12, 2025
Chronic Care Startup Omada Files for IPO May 12, 2025
The IPO winter might finally be over after chronic care startup Omada Health filed to go public just a few short weeks after Hinge broke the ice. The digital health darling is best known for its virtual diabetes management programs, but has grown into a comprehensive offering for hypertension, MSK (courtesy of its 2020 Physera […]
Artificial Intelligence May 8, 2025
More Reasoning, More Hallucinations for LLMs May 8, 2025
Better reasoning apparently doesn’t prevent LLMs from spewing out false facts. Independent testing from AI firm Vectara showed that the latest advanced reasoning models from OpenAI and DeepSeek hallucinate even more than previous models. OpenAI positions o3 as its most powerful model because it’s a “reasoning” model that takes more time to “think” and work […]
Startups May 8, 2025
Carta Healthcare Closes $18.25M for Data Abstraction AI May 8, 2025
Manual clinical data abstraction is a prime target for AI automation, and Carta Healthcare is looking to hit the center of the bullseye after raising $18.25M of Series B1 funding. Carta’s data abstraction platform leverages AI and a team of expert abstractors to automate the collection of clinical data and surface actionable insights. Although AI’s […]
Telehealth May 5, 2025
Teladoc Adds In-Network Therapy With Uplift Acquisition May 5, 2025
Teladoc wrapped up a bumpy Q1 with the acquisition of virtual therapy provider Uplift, a move that it hopes will help turnaround its persistently problematic BetterHelp segment. UpLift provides virtual therapy, psychiatry, and medication management services – all crucially covered by most major commercial payors, as well as Medicare and Medicaid. The $30M acquisition shores […]
Digital Health May 1, 2025
CB Insights State of Digital Health Q1 2025 May 1, 2025
CB Insights put out its State of Digital Health report for the first quarter, and it looks like it’ll take more than a stock market nosedive to stop the health tech rebound. Although some of the themes might sound familiar to those that keep up with Rock Health’s analysis – primarily more funding directed toward […]
Artificial Intelligence April 28, 2025
AI Can Help Doctors Change Their Minds April 28, 2025
A recent study out of Stanford explored whether doctors would revise their medical decisions in light of new AI-generated information, finding that docs are more than willing to change their minds despite being just as vulnerable to cognitive biases as the rest of us. Here’s the set up published in Nature Communications Medicine: The initial […]
Value-Based Care April 28, 2025
PointClickCare SUMMIT 2025 Recap and Major Announcements April 28, 2025
PointClickCare SUMMIT 2025 is officially a wrap, and we’re back from Vegas with a roundup of the biggest highlights and announcements from the show. The market-leading senior care EHR’s 12th annual SUMMIT brought together over 2,000 of the industry’s top professionals to connect, learn, and advance care together. PointClickCare CEO Dave Wessinger kicked things off […]
Artificial Intelligence April 24, 2025
The Healthcare AI Adoption Index April 24, 2025
Bessemer Venture Partners’ market reports are always some of the best in the business, but its recent Healthcare AI Adoption Index might just be its finest work yet. The Healthcare AI Adoption Index is based on survey data from 400+ execs across Payors, Providers, and Pharma – breaking down how buyers are approaching GenAI applications, […]
Remote Care April 21, 2025
Peterson Center on Healthcare Takes Aim at Remote Patient Monitoring April 21, 2025
The Peterson Center on Healthcare is back with another report that doesn’t mince words when it comes to remote patient monitoring: “RPM reimbursement in Medicare is misaligned with the clinical value of these tools.” The report synthesized Peterson’s past evaluations of diabetes, hypertension, and musculoskeletal solutions, which encompassed the trio of conditions associated with the […]
Startups April 17, 2025
hellocare.ai Growth Round Fuels Smart Hospital Transformation April 17, 2025
The shift from point solutions to platform approaches has been one of the defining trends of the past few years, and hellocare.ai is positioning itself to capitalize on the transition with $47M of growth funding from prominent health system backers. hellocare.ai’s unified virtual care platform transforms any hospital room into a connected care environment, enabling […]
Artificial Intelligence April 14, 2025
K Health’s AI Clinical Recommendations Rival Doctors in Real-World Setting April 14, 2025
Real-world comparisons of AI recommendations and doctors’ clinical decisions have been few and far between, but a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine gave us a great look at how performance stacks up with actual patients. The early verdict? AI came out on top, but that doesn’t mean doctors should pack their bags […]
