News 2/11/26

Top News

Patient navigation and doctor quality analytics platform vendor Garner Health raises $118 million in Series D funding that values the company at $1.35 billion.

HIStalk Announcements and Requests

HIStalk sponsors that are participating in HIMSS26: send me your details and I’ll include them in my guide to the conference. The ViVE version of the form is still live, with results so far here.

Sponsored Events and Resources

Live Webinar: February 18 (Wednesday) 2 ET. “From Blind Spots to Insights: Gaining Real-Time Visibility into Healthcare Risk.” Sponsor: CloudWave. Presenters: Jacob Wheeler, MBA, director of sales engineering, CloudWave; Mike Donahue, chief operating officer, CloudWave. Resilience starts with the ability to see clearly, across every endpoint, cloud workload, user, and clinical system. Join CloudWave’s cybersecurity leaders for an in-depth session on how real-time visibility transforms your ability to detect threats early, respond decisively, and strengthen resilience across the care ecosystem. Attendees will learn the practical steps that hospitals can take to move from reactive defense to resilient action.

Publication: HIStalk’s Guide to ViVE 2026 lists the activities of sponsors at the conference.

Contact Lorre to have your resource listed.

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Synthpop, which specializes in healthcare AI for diagnostics, fertility, and durable medical equipment workflows, announces $15 million in Series A funding.

Sales

• MultiCare Health System (WA) selects Ambience Healthcare’s AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflows.
• M Health Fairview (MN) will implement Nabla’s ambient AI assistant and dictation software.

People

Marshall Health Network (WV) promotes David Quirke to chief digital and information officer.

Agfa HealthCare names Christopher Thompson VP of sales east for North America.

Danny Gladden, MBA, MSW (Oracle Health) joins Streamline Healthcare Solutions as chief clinical officer.

AssureCare promotes Parth Shah, MBA, MRes to SVP of customer success and enterprise AI delivery.

Andy Brailo (Premier) joins R1 as chief commercial officer.

MPulse names Brian Higgins (Clarity Software Solutions) chief architect and promotes Erin Kowalow to EVP of product delivery.

Ambience Healthcare appoints Mike Valli (Symplr) chief revenue officer and chief value officer.

Announcements and Implementations

Warm Valley Health Care (WY) goes live on Oracle Health.

Government and Politics

The VA’s latest inventory of 138 active AI use cases finds that its EHR Modernization Program is looking at five separate use cases for the technology, including a clinical agent that will be integrated with its Oracle Health-based system. The department is also incorporating the technology into its suicide prevention efforts.

Rajput Kuldeep Singh, the former CEO of remote patient monitoring vendor Biofourmis, is charged in Singapore with several counts of falsifying company invoices to inflate revenue figures. He left Biofourmis in August 2023 and later founded OutcomesAI, which raised $10 million in seed funding in October 2025. Biofourmis was acquired by competitor CopilotIQ in October 2024

Sponsor Updates

• AdvancedMD offers a new case study titled “How AdvancedMD Helped Televero Behavioral Health Fortify Its Financial Health.”
• CereCore releases a new podcast titled “The Dual Perspective of a Rural CMO and CMIO.”
• Cardamom will present at Oregon HFMA’s Winter Workshop February 12 in McMinnville.
• SlicedHealth is named #3 on the UGA 2026 Bulldog 100 list.
• CloudWave will sponsor the MUSE SOCial Community Peer Group Event February 18 in Covino, CA.

Blog Posts

• Scaling Behavioral Health: What a Unified EHR Should Deliver (Netsmart)
• Physician Leader on Why Healthcare Needs Doctors at the Decision-Making Table (CereCore)
• The hidden cost of poor contract management in healthcare (Altera Digital Health)
• The healthcare data lake vs. other data storage structures (Arcadia)
• California Collaborative (Canopii Collaborative)
• 76% Critical, 20% Ready: The Massive Execution Gap Revealed at CHIME25 (Clearsense)

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