Consider a daughter who signs up for disease information on behalf of her father. Weeks later, he enrolls in copay assistance and asks another website for updates. To the family, this is one patient’s experience. To fragmented systems, it can look like three unrelated records, and one of them belongs to a different person. The ... Read More

What You Should Know Clinical artificial intelligence search platform Vera Health announced the closing of a $28.5 million Series A funding round led by Threshold Ventures. The financing included participation from Mantis VC and SV Angel, with existing institutional backers Y Combinator and Gradient tripling down on their initial investments, bringing total capitalization to $32M. ... Read More

What You Should Know Leading healthcare intelligence and AI infrastructure company Innovaccer announced that MDX Hawai’i has selected Innovaccer as its enterprise technology partner for population health management. MDX Hawai’i operates as the state’s premier independent practice association (IPA) and management services organization (MSO), serving for 40 years as the primary operational link between commercial/Medicare ... Read More

Hospitals are beginning to give AI systems something more consequential than the ability to generate text: permission to act. That shift is already underway. A September 2026 survey of 250 U.S. healthcare leaders found that 28% of organizations had agentic AI in production and another 44% were piloting it, while 72% reported AI tools or ... Read More

What You Should Know Global laboratory informatics provider Clinisys officially unveiled its AI Innovation Roadmap, establishing an open, governed platform strategy designed to embed artificial intelligence, analytics, and workflow automation into routine laboratory operations. The roadmap articulates a compounding evolutionary progression that advances laboratory informatics across four distinct architectural phases: from a System of Record ... Read More

What You Should Know Counsel Health officially launches its dedicated weight management program, integrating obesity pharmacotherapy with comprehensive primary care. As part of the commercial rollout, Counsel Health is collaborating with LillyDirect, the direct-to-consumer digital pharmacy initiative developed by Eli Lilly and Company. The program responds to sharp shifts in national prescribing patterns, with the ... Read More

For decades, the industry has organized itself around a single question: how do we discover more, and better, drug candidates? Target identification keeps getting smarter, molecule generation keeps getting faster, and AI has now touched nearly every stage of early discovery. Yet a molecule is only ever as good as the patients it happens to ... Read More

What You Should Know The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially released the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: ONC Deregulatory Actions to Unleash Prosperity (HTI-5) Final Rule. Directly implements the administration’s regulatory reform directives under Executive Order 14192 (Unleashing Prosperity ... Read More

The EHR is poised to evolve from its original role as a place to store patient information. The next step is for it to take a more active role in the patient care journey. As more of the journey becomes digitized, the EHR can help move work forward by connecting workflows, surfacing what needs attention, ... Read More

What You Should Know Seattle-based virtual respiratory care provider Kivo Health has raised a $10M Series A financing round led by Allumia Ventures. The round included participation from Corewell Health Ventures, Y Combinator, Heuristic Capital, and MassMutual Ventures, bringing Kivo’s total institutional funding to just over $16M. The new capital provides the company with approximately ... Read More

What You Should Know Senseonics Holdings, Inc. announced the initiation of its first-in-human clinical feasibility study evaluating Freedom, an investigational continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system. Freedom represents an evolution of the company’s commercialized Eversense 365 platform, incorporating an integrated battery and embedded Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transceiver to communicate directly with mobile devices. The system ... Read More

What You Should Know Rezilient Health announced that Lisa Ness, MBA, RD, CDE, has joined the executive leadership team as Chief Revenue Officer. Lisa Ness brings more than three decades of enterprise healthcare experience, having previously held senior commercial growth roles at QuadMed, CareATC, Proactive MD, Premise Health, and Pfizer. In her new capacity, Ness ... Read More

What You Should Know Ouma Health officially launched Ouma Connect, introducing an invitation-only partner portal built specifically for surrogacy and reproductive-services agencies. Circle Surrogacy, one of the nation’s largest and oldest surrogacy agencies with more than 30 years of operational history and over 4,000 births, serves as the flagship agency partner on the platform. The ... Read More

What You Should Know Healthcare operations and enterprise software provider symplr officially launched symplr Time and Scheduling, introducing an integrated workforce management platform that merges AI-driven scheduling with complex healthcare timekeeping. The new platform integrates predictive scheduling algorithms with complex healthcare timekeeping into a single architecture, enabling nurse managers to forecast and resolve staffing deficits ... Read More

What You Should Know Digital health and cardiovascular AI innovator Eko Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance and commercial rollout of CORE 300, an AI-enabled stethoscope designed for pediatric and adult populations. Introduces a dual-mode hardware innovation: CORE 300 is the first stethoscope to integrate traditional analog acoustic listening and advanced ... Read More