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 […]
Artificial Intelligence November 3, 2025
Incorporating Human Factors Into AI Research November 3, 2025
The majority of AI research centers on model performance, but a new paper in JAMIA poses five questions to guide the discussion around how physicians actually interact with AI during diagnosis. A little reframing goes a long way. As the clinical scope of AI expands alongside its capabilities, the interface between the models and doctors […]
Artificial Intelligence October 30, 2025
Menlo Ventures: The State of AI in Healthcare October 30, 2025
Of all the AI market overviews that have hit the wire recently, none have generated more buzz than Menlo Venture’s State of AI in Healthcare. One look at the report and it’s easy to see why. First things first. Here’s a couple high-level callouts before we zoom in on the details: Providers accelerate, payors deliberate. […]
Remote Care October 27, 2025
Brook Lands $28M for AI-Driven Remote Care October 27, 2025
Brook.ai just closed $28M of Series B funding to help extend care beyond clinic walls using its signature blend of remote care teams and AI. Chronic conditions require care continuity. Brook delivers that at scale by combining remote monitoring with in-house care teams and always-on support, plus an AI assistant that ties it all together. […]
Digital Health October 23, 2025
HLTH 2025 Recap and Major Announcements October 23, 2025
Hard to believe that was already Digital Health Wire’s fourth trip to HLTH – a few more flights out to Vegas and we might be getting close to “legacy media” status. The more the conversations change, the more they stay the same. Last year’s “Be Bold” theme and LLM mania gave way to tales from […]
Digital Health October 20, 2025
2025 State of Digital Health Purchasing October 20, 2025
What better way to kick off HLTH week than with a new survey from the Peterson Health Technology Institute showing that healthcare decision-makers are still hungry for new solutions? PHTI’s 2025 State of Digital Health Purchasing Survey showed that health plans, employers, and health systems are all investing heavily in digital health, but spending patterns […]
Digital Health October 16, 2025
2025 Trends Shaping the Health Economy October 16, 2025
Trilliant Health just released its 2025 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report, delivering a uniquely holistic perspective on the healthcare market through the lens of supply and demand. Here’s the state of play. Health expenditures are growing faster than the rest of the economy, and they’re projected to represent 20.3% of GDP by 2033. What […]
Digital Health October 13, 2025
Bain & Company: Top Healthcare IT Priorities October 13, 2025
Payors and providers are fighting different operational battles, but they’re using the same two-letter weapon to come out on top: AI, you guessed it. A joint report from Bain & Company and KLAS found that 80% of payors and 70% of providers now have an AI strategy in place, up from just 60% last year. […]