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 […]
Digital Health September 4, 2025
Justifying Healthcare AI Valuations September 4, 2025
A stellar report from Flare Capital Partners suggests that there’s some surprisingly sound justifications for the sky-high valuations we’re seeing with healthcare AI companies. Numbers talk. The report – based on an analysis of 4,500 digital health VC rounds and an exec survey – found that a record 58% of deals involved AI companies in […]
Artificial Intelligence August 28, 2025
MIT Report Crosses the GenAI Divide August 28, 2025
It only takes one look at the key findings from MIT’s GenAI Divide report to see why it made such a big splash this week: 95% of GenAI deployments fail. MIT knows how to grab headlines. The paper – based on interviews with 150 enterprise execs, a survey of 350 employees, and an analysis of […]
Startups August 25, 2025
Medallion Lands $43M and Unveils First National Credentialing Clearinghouse August 25, 2025
Medallion keeps building its case to be the go-to platform for provider network management after locking in another $43M and unveiling the industry’s first national credentialing clearinghouse, CredAlliance. Less friction, more healthcare. Providers have to jump through countless operational and compliance hoops before they can start caring for patients, and Medallion specializes in AI-powered hoop […]
Artificial Intelligence August 21, 2025
Healthcare’s Sci-Fi Future at Epic UGM August 21, 2025
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and Epic just lit up its sci-fi themed User Group Meeting with enough futuristic new solutions to prove last week’s rumors true – and then some. The future is now. This year’s event gave us a look at over 160 AI projects currently under development at Epic, including a three-product […]
Artificial Intelligence August 18, 2025
Is AI Robbing Physicians of Their Skill? August 18, 2025
A study in The Lancet threw some refreshingly cold water on the AI hype train after finding that healthcare’s shiny new models might be de-skilling physicians. Here’s the setup. Researchers tracked four Polish health centers that gave their gastroenterologists AI to help spot polyps during colonoscopies before yanking it away after three months. Sounds familiar. […]
Artificial Intelligence August 14, 2025
AI Spotlight on Epic, Abridge, and Oracle August 14, 2025
Epic, Abridge, and Oracle just gave us a year’s worth of blockbuster AI announcements in three days, and at least one of them was more than speculation and old news. ‘Twas the week before UGM, and the rumor-mill has been overheating with reports that Epic might finally launch its own EHR-native scribe at its upcoming […]
Artificial Intelligence August 11, 2025
Doximity Ramps Up AI With Pathway Acquisition August 11, 2025
Doximity is setting out to prove that it’s more than “LinkedIn for doctors” after snapping up clinical reference AI startup Pathway for $63M. Clinical workflows are the new social media… or at least that’s the plot of Doximity’s growth story. Enter Pathway. The Montreal-based startup’s AI helps physicians answer questions at the bedside using information […]
Artificial Intelligence August 7, 2025
The Generalist-Specialist Paradox of Medical AI August 7, 2025
Technological advances have ushered in an era where many AI models outperform specialists on specific tasks, but AI still lags far behind experts in less controlled settings. That’s the Generalist-Specialist Paradox of Medical AI laid out in a recent NEJM AI editorial, which paints a picture of a world where AI might soon start redrawing […]
Startups August 4, 2025
Ambience Healthcare Joins Unicorn Club With Series C Raise August 4, 2025
Another week, another ambient AI mega-round – this time from none other than Ambience Healthcare and its massive $243M Series C. Welcome to the unicorn club. The round vaulted Ambience’s valuation to $1.25B, making it the second-highest valued startup in the ambient arena behind Abridge, which was valued at an eye-popping $5.3B during its recent […]
Digital Health July 31, 2025
Make Health Tech Great Again July 31, 2025
CMS just wrapped its Make Health Tech Great Again event at the White House, and it unveiled an ambitious new strategy to modernize how healthcare data is exchanged. This time is different. We’ve heard similar promises before, but the administration plans to “stop theoretical debates and start delivering real results” by taking a two-pronged approach. […]
Startups July 28, 2025
Fortuna Closes Series A to Modernize Medicaid Access July 28, 2025
It never hurts to be at the right place at the right time, and Medicaid navigation platform Fortuna Health just landed $18M of Series A funding in the wake of one of the biggest shakeups the safety net coverage program has ever seen. Medicaid is complicated. Each of the 56 Medicaid programs in the U.S. […]
Artificial Intelligence July 24, 2025
OpenAI Delivers Largest-Ever Study of Clinical AI July 24, 2025
Hot on the heels of launching its HealthBench medical AI benchmark, OpenAI just delivered results from the largest-ever study of clinical AI in actual practice – and let’s just say the future’s looking bright. 40,000 visits, 106 clinicians, 15 clinics. OpenAI went big to get real-world data, equipping Kenya-based primary and urgent care provider Penda […]
Wearables July 21, 2025
FDA Sparks Wellness Feature Debate With Warning Letter to Whoop July 21, 2025
The FDA fired off a warning letter to wearable company Whoop for promoting its blood pressure feature without getting clearance, which quickly reignited the debate on whether wellness claims should be regulated as medical devices. Whoop’s wristbands pack a punch. The just-released WHOOP MG tracks everything from sleep and heart strain to AFib and Blood […]
Startups July 17, 2025
OpenEvidence Locks in $210M Series B in Second Raise of the Year July 17, 2025
OpenEvidence might just be the hottest startup in healthcare after locking in another $210M of Series B funding and tripling its valuation to a whopping $3.5B. Déjà vu. If that sounds familiar, it’s probably because OpenEvidence first joined the unicorn club just five short months ago when it notched a $1B valuation through its $75M […]
Digital Health July 14, 2025
Samsung Leans In On Healthcare With Xealth Acquisition July 14, 2025
It was already shaping up to be a great year for digital health exits, and Samsung just kicked things up another notch by acquiring tech integration platform Xealth. Xealth was the first spin out from Providence’s Digital Innovation Group back in 2017. The platform integrates 70+ partner solutions for everything from RPM to patient engagement […]