News 10/22/25

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OpenEvidence raises $200 million in Series C funding, just three months after raising $210 million. Its valuation has jumped to $6 billion.

The company has developed an AI-based clinical decision support search engine for healthcare providers.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

AI clinical summary startup Fourier Health raises $8.4 million in seed funding. Co-founder and CTO James Lloyd previously served as CTO at Redox, which he helped to launch in 2014.

DocGo, which offers remote patient monitoring, mobile urgent care, and medical transportation, acquires virtual care vendor SteadyMD.

Samsung Electronics wraps up its $115 million acquisition of Xealth, the digital health integration company that launched out of Providence Health & Services in 2017. Xealth CEO Mike McSherry will remain in that role as Samsung works to expand the Xealth team in Seattle and build out its consumer-facing health apps.

Announcements and Implementations

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (MA) uses Health Data Analytics Institute’s HealthVision platform and large language models to develop its Better Real-time Information on Documentation of Goals of care for Engagement in Serious Illness Communication protocol.

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in England implements Agfa HealthCare’s Xero Viewer imaging technology.

Hackensack Meridian Health (NJ) uses Cadence’s Proactive Care Engine as part of a new remote patient monitoring program for seniors.

Government and Politics

HHS taps Palantir, Availity, Gainwell Technologies, and the Council for Affordable Healthcare to develop prototypes for a national provider directory. The CMS-led directory project will occur in several phases over the next year.

Privacy and Security

Mayo Clinic seems to be among the hundreds of organizations impacted by Monday’s Amazon Web Services outage. Its patient portal and phone lines were down for several hours. NHS facilities in England were also impacted, with one digital health chief anonymously commenting, “I think it’s worth knowing that if NHS services are dependent on cloud providers and they go down, then it’s probably more important than losing Snapchat.”

UC San Diego’s Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity develops Project CrashCart, a “hospital IT system in a box” that hospitals can quickly set up and use during downtimes caused by ransomware attacks or other cybersecurity incidents.

Other

Developers at the UNC School of Medicine, UNC Health, and the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute develop the new Secure Health Informatics Research Environment for analytics projects that use data from UNC Health’s EHR. The SHIRE cloud-computing environment will go live November 3.

Ascension Sacred Heart and Ascension St. Vincent’s launch a Telehealth Maternity Care Program with support from the Florida Department of Health. The program offers pregnant and post-partum women dedicated patient navigators, help with referrals to wraparound services, and access to medical devices.

Sponsor Updates

• Black Book Research shares three solution areas survey respondents deem the most likely to displace incumbent health IT systems by early 2026.
• Surescripts announces a major expansion of its Touchless Prior Authorization technology, which now reaches more than 76,000 prescribers across the country.
• Praia Health, Providence, and Labcorp share outcomes from a collaboration that significantly improved lab appointment adherence, patient engagement, and operational efficiency at Providence.
• Censinet announces that Chief Commercial Officer Cambrey Ware has been named to the University of Tennessee’s Haslam Healthcare Distinguished Fellows Program.
• Clinical Architecture releases a new episode of “The Informonster Podcast” titled “Talking AI with ChatGPT.”
• Consensus Cloud Solutions will sponsor the Healthcare From the Heart Gala October 23 supporting Element Care PACE.

Blog Posts

• Agentic AI: The Future of Digital Workforces in Healthcare RCM (AGS Health)
• Revolutionize Your ePrescribing Workflow with eRx Pro (AdvancedMD)
• How to Transition from MEDITECH Legacy EHR to Expanse (CereCore)
• Keeping staffing front and center (Altera Digital Health)
• Why AI in Healthcare Is About More Than Just Chatbots (Artera)
• How Healthcare IT Helps Enterprise Practices Succeed (Bizmatics)
• Secure Our Workforce: Empowering Clinicians Against Cyber Threats (CloudWave)

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