Healthcare AI News 7/16/25

News

AdventHealth Shawnee Mission sues Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, accusing the insurer of withholding $2 million in payments by using Apixio AI chart review technology to flag “clinically invalid” diagnoses.

Mayo Clinic radiology department chair Matthew Callstrom, MD, PhD says that the organization is building AI into its fabric and has brought 97 AI applications live. He told attendees of his keynote at its AI Summit:

A lot of what clinicians do is they serve Epic. The future of healthcare — and it’s not very far away — we actually use technology in a different way. We push it into the background, we enable and empower our physicians and caregivers so that they actually have the information that they need in a way that is most effective.

Hippocratic AI and Sheba Medical Center will collaborate to integrate generative AI into clinical operations to improve patient care, focusing initially on conversational AI for patient communication and support.

Business

AI-powered medical search and clinical decision support company OpenEvidence raises $210 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $3.5 billion.

Five-month-old AI startup Thinking Machines, which was founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, raises $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation despite having neither products nor revenue.

Research

Researchers at Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian develop a highly accurate AI tool that analyzes ECGs to identify patients who should undergo more expensive ultrasound screening for structural heart disease.

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