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Navina, K Health, and What Happened to the Unicorns?
March 27, 2025
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“In healthcare, we must become more consumer-focused. And to do that, we have to disrupt ourselves… We can’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s solutions. We have to find new ways to do things.”
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Hartford HealthCare President and CEO Jeffrey Flaks
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As the number of providers transitioning to value-based care continues to grow, the need for timely clinical intelligence is climbing right alongside it, and Navina just landed $55M in Series C funding to become the definitive source for AI-driven insights.
Navina’s AI clinical intelligence platform aggregates data from a wide range of sources like the EHR and medical claims to equip clinicians with real-time recommendations for improving care quality and financial outcomes.
- The copilot supports decision-making from the back office to the bedside, delivering insights directly within existing workflows at the point of care. This article does a good job laying out some of Navina’s levers for driving success in VBC.
- By surfacing relevant patient information in an accessible format, Navina aims to not only improve diagnostic accuracy and care gap closure, but also to reduce burnout and administrative burdens.
Some of providers’ biggest barriers to VBC adoption are the overwhelming amounts of disparate data sources and the documentation requirements needed to produce results. It turns out that offloading these pain points is a solid strategy.
- Navina has quickly grown to serve over 10k medical professionals delivering care to 3M patients across 1,300 clinics, and was just named #1 Best in KLAS for Clinician Digital Workflow.
- It’s also racking up a lengthy partner roster of big names in the VBC-enablement arena, including both Agilon and Privia Health.
Navina is now setting its sights on larger provider orgs and health systems, as well as expansion into new markets across specialty care, payors, and pharmaceuticals.
- The fresh funds were also earmarked for the 2025 flavor of the year – AI platform enhancements – and it sounds like ambient scribing is first up on the docket.
The Takeaway
Providers are increasingly getting compensated for the quality of the care they deliver rather than the volume of services they provide, but fragmented data and inefficient manual workflows have been holding back the transition. Navina now has another $55M to connect the dots to VBC success for any organization looking to make the leap.
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Transform Value-Based Outcomes With Navina
Navina’s AI copilot brings clinical intelligence directly to care teams, turning fragmented data into a concise patient profile with actionable insights to transform value-based outcomes. Designed for and loved by physicians, Navina’s Best in KLAS AI reduces missed diagnoses, improves quality metrics and risk adjustment accuracy, and alleviates the administrative burden—allowing providers to focus on what matters most: their patients. Learn more.
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The First 30 Days: What to Expect With AI
Implementing AI documentation tools promises significant benefits, but how do you ensure a smooth transition? Playback Health has you covered with this comprehensive 30-day roadmap outlining what to expect, industry best practices, and its own proven implementation approach.
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- What Happened to the Unicorns? Business was booming during the pandemic, but Halle Tecco’s analysis of digital health startups that hit a $1B+ valuation from 2020 to 2022 showed that not all of them have kept the momentum going. Of the 65 newly minted unicorns, 89% are still operating today, and only a third of those have managed to raise additional capital in the years since. One went public (SomaLogic, although Hinge is on its way), four were acquired (Carebridge, TruePill, MindMaze, ClassPass – two word mashups are clearly the key to M&A), and two have since shut down (RIP Forward and Olive AI).
- K Health + Hartford HealthCare: K Health is teaming up with Hartford HealthCare to reimagine primary care access using clinical AI. Hartford is debuting a new HHC 24/7 virtual care platform powered by K Health’s AI Agent architecture, which takes patients through a personalized MedicalChat intake before giving clinicians a synthesis of relevant information at the point of care. HHC 24/7 will provide patients with on-demand appointments for a range of acute, chronic, and preventative care needs – all fully integrated within the broader Hartford HealthCare ecosystem.
- Physician Sentiment Up But Fragile: The 2025 athenahealth Physician Sentiment Survey showed that system-level stressors are threatening to offset the recent rise in clinical morale. Starting with the good news, the share of physicians considering leaving the profession on a weekly basis dropped to 28% (from 36% last year), and two-thirds look forward to work at least once a week. On the other hand, only 29% of physicians are optimistic about the future of U.S. healthcare (a far slide from 48% in 2022), and over half are worried about the financial health of their organization.
- Click Series C: Click Therapeutics announced a strategic Series C investment from Dassault Systèmes in a press release that left the total funding amount up to the imagination. The round also establishes a partnership to extend Click’s digital therapeutics beyond clinical trials to Dassault Systèmes’ customer base of 2,300 life sciences orgs. Click currently only has one DTx on the market, its FDA-cleared Rejoyn solution for major depressive disorder that it co-developed with Otsuka.
- Patients Prefer Continuity Over Convenience: New research in Annals of Family Medicine suggests that many patients would rather wait to see their own primary care provider than a new clinician who’s available sooner. Despite the flood of new on-demand care options, more than half of the 2,500 respondents said they’d prefer to only see their PCP for an annual checkup (53%), chronic condition follow-up (55%), or mental health check-in (57%). A majority of patients also said they’d wait 3 to 4 weeks to see their PCP for issues requiring a sensitive examination (68%) or a new concern about a chronic condition (61%).
- Notable Teams Up With CityMD: Notable is teaming up with CityMD to help the urgent care provider streamline operations at 180+ locations with AI-driven automation. CityMD will be leveraging Notable’s AI Platform and Intelligent Agents to support use cases including scheduling, messaging, intake, and payments. The partnership follows hot on the heels of Notable’s Flow Builder enhancements at HIMSS, which added new AI workflow creation tools and visualizations for data flowing through the automations.
- AI Still Needs Trust-Building: A pair of papers out of the University of Minnesota looked into the public perception of AI in healthcare, which still isn’t great. The first paper analyzed national survey data from summer 2023, and while that’s a long time on the AI development scale, most respondents didn’t trust their health system to use AI responsibly (66%) or make sure AI wouldn’t harm them (58%). The second analysis of the same data found that few U.S. adults expect AI to improve access to care (30%), help their relationship with doctors (20%), or increase affordability (19%).
- Glooko Adds Abbott FreeStyle Libre: Digital diabetes management company Glooko now integrates with one of the most widely adopted continuous glucose monitors on the market, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre. The integration allows Glooko’s 4.5M users to connect FreeStyle Libre CGM data with health metrics like insulin usage, diet, and exercise. The news follows in the wake of Glooko landing $100M of Series F funding and a new CEO to steer its next arc of growth.
- Residency Matching Results: Over 47k applicants participated in this year’s National Resident Matching Program, and 38k lucky candidates were successfully matched to a postgraduate position (up 4.7% from last year). Primary care ticked up to a 93.5% fill rate, and pediatrics rebounded to fill 95.3% of positions after dropping to 91.8% in 2024. Emergency medicine also saw a resurgence, growing 2.4 percentage points to a 97.9% fill rate despite offering “a score of additional positions.”
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Carle Health Goes All-In on Nabla
Nabla is rolling out at Carle Health after a successful pilot saw a majority of participating clinicians slash their documentation time by over an hour. The full case study has everything you need to know about how Nabla’s customization features, Epic integration, and ease of use are bringing joy back to medicine for Carle’s clinicians.
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- BPM Pro 2 – Unparalleled Reliability: BPM Pro 2 increases data reliability with two new features that ensure patients are taking their reading properly and prompting them to rest and retake it if their first reading was abnormally high.
- New Abridge AI Infrastructure Powers Clinically Useful and Billable Notes: The new Abridge Contextual Reasoning Engine is a leap forward in AI architecture that enables clinically useful and billable notes at the point of care. Health systems are plagued by incomplete notes that delay billing processes. Generating comprehensive, billable notes that support appropriate claims at the point of care creates administrative efficiencies, reducing costs and freeing doctors to focus more on patient care. Learn more.
- Top Systems Scale Primary Care With K Health: Leading health systems are turning to K Health’s AI-driven primary care solution to give their patients access to high-quality care with wait times measured in hours, not months. Find out why K Health is the only clinical AI company partnering with top systems to scale fully integrated primary care experiences.
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