Healthcare AI News 6/25/25
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Commure launches EHR-integrated voice and text assistants that use agentic AI to answer calls, schedule appointments, and handle referrals and prior authorizations.
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Ambient documentation vendor Nabla raises $70 million in a new Series C funding round, increasing its total to $120 million. The company will deploy agentic AI to expand its documentation offerings to coding, direct EHR interaction, and new capabilities for nurses.
Mandolin raises $40 million in seed and Series A funding. The company uses AI agents to manage specialty drug intake, benefits, prior authorizations, and RCM.
UMass’s medical school partners with business incubator Red Cell Partners in a two-year project to test, evaluate, and certify AI healthcare tools using real-world clinical data through the school’s Health AI Assurance Laboratory
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Gartner predicts that 40% of agentic AI projects will be scrapped by the end of 2027 due to escalating costs and questionable business value. The company calls out “agent washing,” in which companies falsely claim that their technology uses agentic AI, estimating that only 130 out of thousands of agentic AI vendors are real.
A federal judge rules that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books for AI training qualifies as fair use, rejecting claims from authors that the company infringed by scanning purchased copies to create searchable digital versions. The court found that Anthropic made no additional copies, created no derivative works, and did not redistribute any content. A separate trial over alleged use of pirated books is scheduled for December.
New parents, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, are increasingly turning to AI tools like ChatGPT for parenting advice, raising questions about overreliance on technology, information overload, and the loss of human connection in child-rearing. AI is also being used to answer child psychology questions via chatbot, track pregnancy, and to power baby monitors, cribs, and strollers.
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