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News 11/5/25
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Healthcare AI agent vendor Hippocratic AI announces $126 million in Series C funding, bringing its total raised to $404 million at a valuation of $3.5 billion.
The company, which launched in 2023, will use the investment to globally scale its software and pursue mergers and acquisitions.
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From Rude Boy: “Re: Wellsoft. After CareCloud’s acquisition of Medsphere’s assets, they declined to offer positions to key Wellsoft staff, which will effectively sunset the Wellsoft product. Whether this is CareCloud’s intent is TBD.” Unverified. Medsphere acquired the ED EHR vendor Wellsoft in early 2019, also bringing on founder and CEO John Santmann, MD as CMIO. CareCloud closed its acquisition of Medsphere in August 2025.
From AzDave: “Re: Clinisys. Laying off as we speak!” Unverified. But honestly, are there any health tech companies that aren’t laying people off? The best you can hope for is that they hold off until after New Year’s, though I can’t remember a year when at least one cluelessly desperate outfit decided that it wasn’t beneath them to ruin the holidays for its allegedly valued associates and their shocked families.
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My aged car has a CarPlay-capable touch-screen entertainment system that works with my phone only if it is connected via a standard Lightning-to-USB cable. The phone then maddeningly disconnects at the worst possible navigational moments with the slightest jostling in its drink holder home, which probably means that either the port or the car unit itself is flaky. Enter this $17 dongle that takes about 30 seconds one time to pair with the phone via Bluetooth, after which the CarPlay panel comes up every time the car is started, the phone can remain pocketed, the cable can be retired, and I don’t forget to repocket the phone from the aforesaid drink holder upon egress. The gadget might fall just shy of being a change-your-life solution, but it’s close enough for $17.
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Healthcare consulting firm Canopii Collaborative acquires Anchor Healthcare Consultants. Anchor co-founder and CEO Joe Galea will become principal of Canopii’s provider solutions segment.
Popai Health, which offers AI-powered care coordination call technology, announces $11 million in new funding.
Risk adjustment and clinical quality solutions vendor Vatica Health acquires Cozeva, which offers value-based care enablement software. Both companies are #1 rated in Best in KLAS in their respective categories.
Remote robotic surgery company Sovato closes a Series B funding round that increases its total raised to $41 million.
Virtual primary care provider LifeMD sells its majority ownership of WorkSimpli Software for $22 million in cash plus performance incentives. LifeMD paid $1.25 million for its stake in the PDF and signing solutions vendor starting in 2018.
AI clinic employee management platform vendor Planbase announces its launch and $2.1 million in funding.
HealthStream announces Q3 results: revenue up 4.6%, EPS $0.20 versus $0.19, beating expectations for both.
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Mayo Clinic announces Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights, which gives healthcare organizations access to its AI-driven clinical and operational expertise for digital solutions implementation.
Athenahealth introduces an AI-native EHR clinical encounter for AthenaOne that includes an ambient scribe and a clinical co-pilot.
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MaineHealth Patient Financial Services mistakenly sends letters to 531 living patients announcing their deaths and offering their next of kin instructions on how to settle accounts. The health system has attributed the correspondence to a software malfunction.
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Re: Car Play – GM announced they would no longer put Car Play and the Android equivalent in new cars. And this seems to be consensus with many auto makers going forward. I have a 2021 car and will never buy another car if I have to give up Car Play 9kidding not kidding?). The functionality can be seamless and very helpful. GM said they are replacing it with a suite of apps to make Car Play obsolete. We shall see! Thanks for the tip about the dongle, my husband’s car needs it!
I read that the car makers are uneasy about Apple’s intentions to integrate CarPlay deeply into the car’s computer to let it do more. I can’t say I blame them, but I can say that I have never used anything else for navigating, playing music or podcasts from Spotify, or playing audio from YouTube videos. Maybe it won’t be hard to replicate the functionality of CarPlay to gain control their own AV destiny, but the auto industry’s track record of rolling out software and keeping it from becoming obsolete isn’t good. Plus they will need Apple’s approval to connect to iPhones, so I’m not sure they have the upper hand.
Oh GM; why do you do stupid s**t like this?? We’re getting ready to buy a new car (which will definitely be GM – long story). I only use CarPlay with Waze when we’re on a trip away from home, maybe ten or 12 times a year, but I really, really depend on it. Seriously doubt that the GM-equivalent app will be free and as functional as Waze. Guess I’ll just run it off my phone and forget integration with the car.
The rolling adoption and then abandonment of car software by car manufacturers, eventually led to a different tech idea. They started offering smartphone links, with the idea being that it was the smartphone providing all the software, the computing ability, everything dynamic. The only thing the car provides was hardware (speakers, a screen, etc.).
Mapping system? On the phone. Traffic updates? On the phone. Music player? On the phone. Games or movies for passengers? On the phone.
Whatever happened to this idea? I ask because the dongle idea seems like it treads a middle road, with functionality divided between the phone and the car.
I love my dongle (hm…that sounds odd!). Inexpensive, simple setup, seamless functionality. But you still need to plug in your phone if it needs charging while you drive.
I also love my dongle! CarPlay has been a game changer for me and the first time I had a rental car that didn’t require wires I was hooked. But I can’t justify getting a new car so felt stuck with wires. I’m so grateful I complained to a friend about this one day who told me about the dongles! Now I can use CarPlay all the time without wires and I didn’t have to buy a new car.
I have a similar device to give my 2018 car wireless CarPlay. It’s great for trips around town and I don’t have to take my phone out of my pocket. The only gripe I have is there is significant lag when pushing any buttons on the steering wheel (eg. skip forward in a podcast) or on the screen for it actually taking effect. It’s almost a full second. If this one doesn’t have that lag I’d be really curious.
Anyone have any tips on getting the dongle to work? I couldn’t get it to work in my 2018 Nissan Murano or my stepdaughters 2019 Honda Accord.
All I did was plug it in, enable Bluetooth on my phone, and then connect the phone to the goofy new Bluetooth device name. That was it and I haven’t had to do a thing since. I would think it will work with any vehicle that has an infotainment system as long as it has CarPlay and you’re using an iPhone (it’s a no-go with Android).
Has anyone heard of a dongle for a 2005 BMW? (lol)