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 […]
Digital Health April 10, 2025
Rock Health Q1 2025 Funding Recap, Late-Stage is Back April 10, 2025
In a first quarter packed with uncertainty and policy shifts, digital health didn’t skip a beat. Rock Health’s Q1 Digital Health Market Update counted $3B in venture funding across 122 rounds (up from $2.7B in Q1 2024), and it sounds like there’s finally some optimism in the air again. Early-stage startups dominated the deal count, […]
Startups April 7, 2025
Thatch Raises Series B to Dislodge Health Coverage From Employment April 7, 2025
Help is on the way for employers grappling with rising healthcare costs after Thatch locked in $40M of Series B funding to help tailor benefits to the needs of employees. Thatch is dislodging health coverage from employment by providing individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRA) that let employees choose their own benefits. Thatch CEO Chris […]
Startups April 3, 2025
Layer Health Takes AI to Chart Review With Series A April 3, 2025
The healthcare AI momentum isn’t showing any signs of letting up, and chart review automation startup Layer Health just added another $21M to the segment’s quickly growing venture total. Layer’s AI platform leverages LLMs trained on longitudinal patient data to automate data abstraction for the medical chart reviews that underpin a wide range of clinical […]
Artificial Intelligence March 31, 2025
PHTI Delivers Mixed Reviews on Ambient Scribes March 31, 2025
The Peterson Health Technology Institute’s latest technology review is here, and it had a decidedly mixed report card for the ambient AI scribes sweeping across the industry. PHTI’s total count of ambient scribe vendors stands at over 60, but the bulk of its report focuses on the early experiences and lessons learned from the top […]
Startups March 27, 2025
Navina Lands $55M to Bring AI Insights to VBC March 27, 2025
As the number of providers transitioning to value-based care continues to grow, the need for timely clinical intelligence is climbing right alongside it, and Navina just landed $55M in Series C funding to become the definitive source for AI-driven insights. Navina’s AI clinical intelligence platform aggregates data from a wide range of sources like the […]
