Artificial Intelligence March 9, 2026
Amazon Health Connect Sends AI to the Back Office March 9, 2026
If the competition for the back office was already hot, it’s a certified wildfire after last week’s debut of Amazon Health Connect. Amazon is pitching Amazon Connect Health as a purpose-built agentic AI solution for the administrative work that gets in the way of care. That’s definitely not fun to read for all the companies […]
Payors March 5, 2026
Anterior Closes $40M to Take AI to the Largest Plans in the Country March 5, 2026
The AI race between payors and providers is healthcare’s Kentucky Derby, and Anterior just closed $40M to help turn the dark horses into the frontrunners. Anterior uses AI to ease the back-office burden on health plans. It started with a laser focus on prior authorizations, translating huge amounts of unstructured data into the information that’s […]
Artificial Intelligence March 2, 2026
PHTI Breaks Down Barriers to Clinical AI March 2, 2026
PHTI’s new Clinical AI report delivered exactly what we’ve come to expect from their research: top tier industry analysis through the lens of actual stakeholders. They assembled the A Team for this one. The report was built from an in-person workshop that PHTI convened with senior industry leaders – from health systems and health plans […]
Digital Health February 26, 2026
ViVE 2026 Recap and Major Announcements February 26, 2026
Not even our second generational snowstorm of the year could stop ViVE Los Angeles from bringing the heat. Agentic AI was the theme of the show, but it’s clear that category lines are only going to keep getting blurrier as agents break down the barriers to entry. It felt like every startup had just finished […]
Artificial Intelligence February 23, 2026
LLMs Still Struggle With Medical Misinformation February 23, 2026
The Lancet Digital Health just published one of the largest-ever stress tests on medical misinformation in LLMs, and it looks like most models still struggle to separate fact from fiction. Here’s the setup. Researchers probed 20 LLMs with over 3M prompts containing medical information from three different sources: social media posts, simulated clinical vignettes, or […]
Digital Health February 19, 2026
ACCESS Might Be InACCESSible February 19, 2026
The wait for CMS’ new ACCESS model payment rates is finally over, but the debate over whether or not they’re financially viable is just getting started. Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions. ACCESS was designed to move more Medicare beneficiaries away from fee-for-service toward outcomes-driven models. That goal might be hard to reach. Here […]
Artificial Intelligence February 17, 2026
The Patient You Lost Before They Ever Walked In February 17, 2026
Thousands of patients are referred for procedures but vanish into the void because no one called them back within 48 hours. By Shani Fargun, VP Healthcare at StackAISponsored by StackAI While the headlines at major cardiology conferences focus on AI that can read angiograms or predict arrhythmias, a quieter, unsexy revolution is happening in the […]
Startups February 12, 2026
Garner Raises $118M and Becomes Care Navigation Unicorn February 12, 2026
This year’s been good for the unicorns, and care navigation startup Garner just became the latest member of the herd after closing $118M of Series D funding at a $1.35B valuation. Show us the incentives and we’ll show you the outcomes. Garner’s proprietary provider-ranking engine helps patients find the best doctors for their needs, then […]
Digital Health February 9, 2026
Will Oracle Offload Cerner to Fund Datacenters? February 9, 2026
The rumor mill was working overtime last week after a TD Cowen research note claimed that Oracle will have to offload Oracle Health – formerly known as Cerner – to fund its AI datacenter commitments. It’s a tale of the times. A research note isn’t an official announcement, but the EHR market could be heading […]
Artificial Intelligence February 5, 2026
Epic Shakes Up Scribe Market With AI Charting February 5, 2026
The wait is over. Epic’s scribe has arrived, and it’s packing a lot more than ambient notes. “AI Charting” goes beyond transcriptions. The fully built-in feature not only listens during patient visits and drafts notes, it also queues up orders based on the conversation. Distribution is king. Over 40% of U.S. hospitals are on Epic, […]
Telehealth February 2, 2026
Wheel Reveals How Patients Actually Engage With Virtual Care February 2, 2026
Wheel just published its third annual Virtual Care Horizons report, and it was overflowing with great data on where telehealth is scaling – and which models are built to last. Virtual care is all grown up. Adoption has stabilized, competition has intensified, and success is no longer driven by first visits. It’s driven by continuity. […]
Artificial Intelligence January 29, 2026
Bessemer Venture Partners State of Health AI January 29, 2026
Bessemer Venture Partners’ always-stellar State of Healthcare AI report did a great job explaining why we (probably) aren’t in a bubble even though the health AI rocket has hit escape velocity. AI is more than hype. BVP points to signals from the private markets to make its case. M&A activity is surging. Global health tech […]
Artificial Intelligence January 26, 2026
AI Spots Early Cognitive Decline in Clinical Notes January 26, 2026
Early disease detection is entering the AI era, and a new study in npj Digital Medicine shows that autonomous agents can now flag cognitive decline using nothing but clinical notes. Cognitive decline is difficult to detect. It remains significantly underdiagnosed in routine care, and traditional screening usually requires a dedicated clinician and tests that can […]
Artificial Intelligence January 22, 2026
ARISE Maps the State of Clinical AI January 22, 2026
There have probably been hundreds of reports on the medical AI landscape, but there’s only been one State of Clinical AI from the rockstar team at ARISE. The AI opus delivers the most complete review we’ve seen of a field that’s moving faster than its evaluation practices. It looked at the most influential clinical AI […]
Artificial Intelligence January 15, 2026
Anthropic and OpenAI Set Sights on Providers January 15, 2026
Digital health has some fresh competition. Less than a week after OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, Anthropic crashed the party with the grand debut of Claude for Healthcare. Player 2 has entered the fight. Anthropic’s headlining feature for consumers is identical to ChatGPT Health – the answers are grounded in the patient’s own medical history. Claude […]
Artificial Intelligence January 12, 2026
Foundation Models Can Compromise Patient Privacy January 12, 2026
Foundation models trained on EHR data hold massive potential for clinical applications, but a new study out of MIT shows that they might have just as much potential to violate patient privacy. Generalized knowledge makes better predictions. EHR foundation models normally draw on a collection of de-identified patient records to produce their outputs. Therein lies […]
Artificial Intelligence January 8, 2026
OpenAI Jumps Into Healthcare Arena With ChatGPT Health January 8, 2026
If OpenAI wasn’t already a major healthcare player, the launch of ChatGPT Health definitely just made it one. It’s the gamechanger everyone saw coming. OpenAI even teed up the launch with a report showing that 40M people are already using ChatGPT for healthcare advice on a daily basis. ChatGPT Health is about to take that […]
Digital Health January 5, 2026
Crystal Ball Compilation: Digital Health in 2026 January 5, 2026
Welcome back to the first Digital Health Wire of 2026! The healthcare industry doesn’t take any days off, but we hope our readers managed to catch a break over the holidays to recharge for the big things to come in the new year. The past few weeks have had plenty of fortune tellers predicting what […]
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 […]