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Samsung Acquires Xealth, Commure & Canopy Make Amends, and Vytalize’s Big Milestone
July 14, 2025
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“AI is most powerful when organizations use it to redefine operations. Big organizational shifts are driven by small, incremental changes.”
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Arcadia CEO Michael Meucci
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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 into a single user interface that allows providers to manage them within their existing workflows.
- That not only allows clinicians to avoid juggling separate apps, but it also gives health systems an orchestration layer for controlling the data and painting a complete picture of their patients.
- Over 500 hospitals are already in Xealth’s network, and they’ll now be gaining access to Samsung’s connected care ecosystem when the acquisition gets finalized.
Samsung’s no newcomer to healthcare. It’s fresh off another acquisition with prenatal ultrasound startup Sonio, and has been loading up its wearables with FDA-cleared features like sleep apnea detection and irregular heart rhythm monitoring.
- It’s also developing a new health hub to let users share Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Ring data with their providers between visits, which would be a solid step toward making the data clinically useful – assuming they can get docs to use it.
- A standalone Samsung health hub sounded like a tough pitch without a way to plug into provider workflows, which happens to be exactly what Xealth brings to the table.
Samsung isn’t just acquiring an integration platform, it’s acquiring a bridge between its consumer ecosystem and actual healthcare delivery.
- Xealth CEO Mike McSherry said the move will enable “health data from wearables to fill in context that is missing to hospitals and bring more data analysis possibilities that were not available just with clinical records.”
- Decent enough reason for an acquisition, but then again so is hitting a growth ceiling and needing a Korean tech giant with deep pockets to help you keep scaling, which is the logic that McSherry gave to MedCityNews.
The Takeaway
Samsung and Xealth are keeping the M&A momentum rolling, and we’re already on pace to double 2024’s deal volume. So far this year we’ve seen an end to the IPO drought thanks to Hinge and Omada, Arcadia just got scooped up by a PE firm, and now Big Tech is coming in hot with platform plays. Who said there’s no exit in digital health?
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Why Health Systems Are Reevaluating Earlier Ambient AI Choices
A third of health systems are now implementing AI, but not all AI technologies are equivalent. Learn about why and how three health systems – UNC Health, Tanner Health, and MaineHealth – decided to reevaluate earlier ambient AI choices and ultimately choose Abridge. Read more here.
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Navina Ranks #1 Best in KLAS for Clinician Digital Workflow
KLAS ranked Navina’s AI copilot #1 for Clinician Digital Workflow in its 2025 Best in KLAS report. Navina’s AI copilot empowers the entire workflow from the exam room to the back office with a holistic solution for improving outcomes, physician satisfaction, and performance under value-based care. Discover why Navina is the market-leading clinical intelligence platform.
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- Commure and Canopy Make Amends: It looks like Commure and Canopy are setting aside their differences (and litigation) over Commure’s Strongline hospital panic button after announcing a new partnership that’ll see Canopy “assume a central role in the management and support of Commure Strongline customers going forward.” Strongline was apparently Commure’s only growing service line when it acquired Athelas back in 2023, and it can now resume marketing the product after an injunction forced it to halt sales since May.
- Vytalize Raises $55M: VBC enablement platform Vytalize Health hauled in a $55M growth round after joining the rare breed of digital health startups with profitable operations earlier this year. Vytalize operates an ACO that equips Medicare-focused primary care groups with tech and clinical staff to succeed in risk-based contracts, and the fresh funds were earmarked for acquiring companies that can help make that happen.
- Navina + Nabla: The AI power duo of Nabla and Navina are joining forces to deliver real-time support across the full clinical encounter. The integration combines Navina’s clinician copilot with Nabla’s in-visit ambient documentation, uniting historical patient records with live dialogue to surface insights for improving outcomes and financial performance. Love seeing two Digital Health Wire sponsors team up to make the magic happen.
- Less Docs Heading for the Exit: An AMA poll of 18k U.S. physicians confirmed that burnout is on the decline, with “only” 31.9% reporting that they’re interested in leaving their current jobs within the next two years. Still plenty of room for improvement, but at least the share is down from 35.7% in 2023. The specialties with the highest intent to leave were anesthesiology (40.6%), vascular surgery (40.5%), and radiology (39%).
- Group Coaching for Burnout: A UCLA study found that professional coaching for small groups of doctors reduced burnout by almost a third, nearly 3X the improvement seen with individual coaching. Researchers provided six one-hour coaching sessions to 79 internal medicine physicians, finding that group coaching led to significantly greater burnout reduction than individual coaching (30% vs. 13%). Unsurprisingly, group coaching was also far more cost effective than one-on-one sessions ($400 vs. $1,000 per doctor).
- Hippocratic Partners With KPMG: Hippocratic AI entered a strategic partnership with KPMG to have the consulting firm work with providers to identify where agentic AI can streamline operations. The press release made sure to sum it up with as much consultant lingo as possible: “KPMG is conducting broad process analyses to identify high-pressure points and upskill workforces to help best augment the workforce with AI and strategically plan for the highest impact deployment of AI across the entire care continuum.”
- Google Debuts New MedGemma Models: Google Research debuted two new models within its MedGemma collection of medical LLMs, both of which can be run on a single GPU or mobile hardware. The first is MedGemma 27B Multimodal, which complements the previously-released 27B text-only model by adding support for multimodal and longitudinal electronic health record interpretation. The second is MedSigLIP, a lightweight image and text encoder for classification, search, and related tasks.
- Rush Teams Up With Fabric: Rush Health teamed up with Fabric to launch Rush Connect and Rush Connect+, the academic system’s new platform for on-demand and subscription virtual care. Rush Connect guides patients from their first symptom to treatment through a seamless digital experience powered by Fabric’s 24/7 AI Assistant. A $19 per month Rush Connect+ subscription gives patients access to Fabric’s asynchronous-first Virtual Care platform for around-the-clock virtual urgent care nationally.
- Mandolin Series A: Mandolin landed $40M of Series A funding to give it the “firepower to wire AI labor into several thousand infusion centers, specialty pharmacies, and health systems, to support roughly one million therapy journeys every year.” The Mandolin platform automates the administrative side of specialty drugs, using AI agents to support everything from intake and prior auths to benefits and RCM.
- Common ROI Mistakes in Healthcare: Out-of-Pocket put out a helpful guide for any startups wondering when they should be building out their ROI case and clinical validation as they grow. It covers loose benchmarks by startup stage, a handful of traps to avoid, and even includes a nifty calculator comparing basic/better/best ROI models.
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Ambient AI – From Helicopter to Hospital
We know that ambient AI is a huge asset to emergency medicine, but how does that impact providers on the ground… and in the air? Join Playback Health on July 17th at 11am to explore how Playback Pro is transforming emergency care and helping providers save lives by keeping the focus on patients – not paperwork. Reserve your spot here.
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Elevate 2025: Medallion’s Virtual Conference Returns September 17
Now in its fourth year, Medallion’s annual conference is back – bringing together healthcare leaders to explore this year’s theme: Elevate the present. Reframe the future of healthcare. Hear from industry voices like Tom Lawry, author of Hacking Healthcare, UPMC Chief Medical Information Officer Robert Bart, and many more. Reserve your spot now.
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- Next Generation Ambient Technology and Agents: The ambient AI transformation is already sweeping across health systems, reducing administrative burdens and improving patient outcomes. So, what’s next? Tune into this on-demand session to learn how systems like Carle Health and Denver Health are leveraging Nabla to eliminate Pajama Time and build a future where agentic AI unlocks true workforce sustainability.
- Withings and Babyscripts Team Up on Maternal Health: Babyscripts is teaming up with Withings Health Solutions to tackle the leading cause of maternal mortality in the U.S. – hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including preeclampsia. Learn how remote patient monitoring with BPM Pro 2 is helping Baybscripts keep mothers safe through personalized support when they need it most.
- Future-Proof Your Health System with Scalable Primary Care: The reality of modern health system primary care: more patients, fewer resources, constant pressure to deliver. K Health offers a strategic advantage, with a clinical AI and Virtualist care model that provides the scalable solution you need to meet patient demand anytime, anywhere. Join the ranks of forward-thinking systems like Cedars-Sinai, Hackensack Meridian Health, and Hartford HealthCare. Explore the future of primary care with K Health.
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