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. […]
Digital Health October 9, 2025
Rock Health Q3 Overview: Signals Out of Sync October 9, 2025
Rock Health’s always-excellent digital health market overview painted an interesting picture for Q3, with venture funding continuing to climb despite several “signals out of sync.” We’re steady on the surface. Digital health startups raised $3.5B across 107 deals in the third quarter, outpacing last year by a decent margin and bringing the year-to-date total to […]
Startups October 6, 2025
Assort Health Raises $76M for Experience Agents October 6, 2025
A good patient experience starts with a good first impression, and Assort Health just closed $76M of Series B funding to prove its AI agents can deliver exactly that. Accessing care is a painful process. The Assort OS platform delivers AI agents that can help manage patients’ needs, give staff more bandwidth for higher-level tasks, […]
Artificial Intelligence October 2, 2025
AI Learns the Natural History of Human Disease October 2, 2025
Clinical decision-making relies on understanding patients’ past health to improve their future health, an impossible task without first understanding how diseases progress over time. That’s where a new study in Nature suggests AI is ready to help. It starts with generative pretrained transformers. Researchers built a GPT, dubbed Delphi-2M, to predict the “progression and competing […]
Primary Care September 29, 2025
Optimizing Wellness Visits by Optimizing Workflows September 29, 2025
Americans aren’t getting any younger, but a pair of new studies in the Annals of Family Medicine offer a deceptively simple way for providers to stay afloat in the Silver Tsunami: optimize the workflows hiding in plain sight. In case anyone’s new here, the U.S. doesn’t have enough physicians to meet today’s patient demand, let […]
Artificial Intelligence September 25, 2025
Wolters Kluwer Jumps in the GenAI Ring With UpToDate Expert AI September 25, 2025
Right when you think Wolters Kluwer might just let everyone else have all the AI fun, it debuted UpToDate Expert AI to give the world’s most widely used clinical decision support tool a much-needed AI overhaul. Wolters Kluwer took its time with the launch. The incumbent CDS juggernaut is used by 3M doctors worldwide, so […]
Artificial Intelligence September 23, 2025
Co-Creating Confidence: Inside Amigo’s Approach to Building Trustworthy AI Agents September 23, 2025
AI moves fast, but trust moves slow. That’s why Digital Health Wire is launching a new series to spotlight the companies taking AI from promise to practice. First up: Amigo. No matter how many medical licensing exams and curated case vignettes the latest models conquer, they’ll still need to make it through the proving ground […]
Artificial Intelligence September 22, 2025
Innovaccer Acquires Story Health for Agentic Care Augmentation September 22, 2025
Innovaccer kicked off a shopping spree instead of chasing an IPO, and virtual specialty care platform Story Health just became the latest startup to get crossed off the acquisition list. Innovaccer’s been busy. It spent years building the technical infrastructure to make healthcare actually work, and it’s now acquiring the pieces to show what’s possible […]
Digital Health September 18, 2025
Penguin Ai Raises $30M to Arm the AI Agent War September 18, 2025
Payors and providers are in an AI arms race, and Penguin Ai just raised $30M to supply both sides with agents to outcompete each other. Penguin goes far beyond point solutions. The enterprise AI platform combines proprietary LLMs with AI tooling that both payors and providers can use to configure custom agents for their own […]
Artificial Intelligence September 15, 2025
Doctors Who Use AI Are Viewed Worse by Peers September 15, 2025
The research headline of the week belongs to a study out of Johns Hopkins University that found “doctors who use AI are viewed negatively by their peers.” Clickbait from afar, but far from clickbait. The investigation in npj Digital Medicine surfaced interesting takeaways after randomizing 276 practicing clinicians to evaluate one of three vignettes depicting […]
Digital Health September 11, 2025
Particle vs Epic: The Lawsuit Moves Forward September 11, 2025
For the first time in history, Epic will have to face antitrust claims in court after it failed to dismiss Particle Health’s allegations that the EHR giant has been wielding its monopoly power to stifle competition. Here’s the overly-simplified version. Particle combines health data from 270M+ patients’ medical records by aggregating “thousands of sources”… sources […]
Value-Based Care September 8, 2025
CMS Reports Record MSSP Performance in 2024 September 8, 2025
CMS just dropped its 2024 performance data for the Medicare Shared Savings Program, and the debate over the program’s true effectiveness rages on despite another record year. MSSP saved Medicare $2.4B in 2024, the eighth consecutive year of savings and the highest total since the program’s inception in 2012. Accountable care delivers. MSSP ACOs lifted […]