Morning Headlines 10/1/25

Switchboard Health Acquires Conduce Health, Expanding AI-Enabled Specialty Care Capabilities

Specialty care coordination company Switchboard Health acquires Conduce Health, which offers AI-powered referral management and analytics software for specialty care.

HHS Doubles AI-Backed Childhood Cancer Research Funding

HHS announces additional funding for the National Cancer Institute’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, which will incorporate AI into its efforts to use EHR and claims data for research and clinical trial development.

Clearwater Receives Strategic Growth Investment from Sunstone Partners

Sunstone Partners acquires a majority stake in healthcare cybersecurity and compliance company Clearwater.

Confido Health raises $10M to expand AI voice agents beyond scheduling, transforming healthcare’s most common patient front door

Confido Health raises $10 million in a Series A round to expand its AI voice agent platform for appointment scheduling and patient access.

Smarter Technologies Acquires Pieces Technologies and Launches SmarterNotes: The First Clinical AI Solution to Unite Inpatient Documentation with Revenue Cycle Intelligence

Healthcare automation and insights company Smarter Technologies acquires care delivery automation vendor Pieces Technologies.