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 […]
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 […]