Morning Headlines 2/26/26

Baba raises $6.5M Seed led by General Catalyst

Baba, which offers Medicare beneficiaries tech-enabled patient advocacy and care navigation services, raises $6.5 million in seed funding.

CMS announces library of digital health apps for Medicare beneficiaries 

CMS develops a Medicare App Library to help beneficiaries access apps focused on eliminating manual check-in, conversational AI assistance, and diabetes and obesity management.

QC Capital Announces Strategic Investment in My Pediatric Doctor to Expand Nationwide 24/7 Pediatric Urgent Care Telehealth Access

Online urgent care provider My Pediatric Doctor secures funding from QC Capital Group.

Oura launches a proprietary AI model focused on women’s health

Smart ring-maker Oura develops an AI model that its Oura Advisor chatbot will use to offer wearers customized insights about women’s health.

Morning Headlines 2/25/26

SEC ends Veradigm (MDRX) investigation without recommending enforcement action

The SEC concludes its investigation of Veradigm with no enforcement action recommended.

HealthStream Announces Fourth Quarter & Full-Year 2025 Results

HealthStream announces Q4 results: revenue up 7.4%, adjusted EPS $0.18 versus $0.16, beating expectations for both.

Coral Care Raises $13M to Tackle the Pediatric Therapy Shortage

Coral Care, a wraparound services and software company for pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapists, raises $13 million.

Healthcare Access Performance Leader BlockIt Rebrands as Alluvium Healthcare

BlockIt, which offers a health system access and capacity performance system, renames itself Alluvium Healthcare.

Morning Headlines 2/24/26

Ignite the Future of Health Data Usability

ASTP/ONC launches the EHIgnite Challenge to discover novel ways to transform electronic health information into usable insights for providers and patients.

IU Health files lawsuit against firm hit by 2024 ransomware attack

Indiana University Health files a lawsuit against Change Healthcare for its failure to prevent a 2024 ransomware attack that IU Health claims cost it $66 million and prevented it from processing payments in a timely manner.

Bobby Ghoshal Appointed as CEO of Experity in Planned Leadership Transition

Urgent care technology vendor Experity promotes Bobby Ghoshal to CEO.

Morning Headlines 2/23/26

RevSpring Acquires TrustCommerce, Expanding Integrated Payments and Delivering End-to-End Payment Visibility Across Healthcare

Healthcare payment solutions vendor RevSpring acquires TrustCommerce, an integrated payment platform vendor.

Waystar Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Results, Provides 2026 Guidance

Waystar reports Q4 results: revenue up 24%, EPS $0.10 versus $0.11, beating revenue expectations but falling short on earnings.

FDA taps AI executive to lead digital health center

The FDA names former Annalise.ai Chief Medical Officer Rick Abramson, MD director of its Digital Health Center of Excellence, which provides input on the FDA’s regulatory review of digital health technology.

UMMC clinics statewide remain closed after cyber attack

University of Mississippi Medical Center officials enlist the help of several federal agencies as they communicate with hackers behind Thursday’s ransomware attack.

Morning Headlines 2/20/26

UMMC suspends some services after cyberattack

University of Mississippi Medical Center closes all of its clinics following a Thursday cyberattack that kept users out of Epic and other systems.

Exa Capital Acquires Clinical Workforce Management Platform StaffReady

Investment firm Exa Capital acquires clinical workforce management software vendor StaffReady.

Hims & Hers Announces Agreement to Acquire Eucalyptus, Accelerating Its Vision to Become the Leading Global Consumer Health Platform

Hims & Hers will acquire Australia-based online clinic operator Eucalyptus for $1.15 billion.

Morning Headlines 2/19/26

Rainfall Health Announces $15M Series A Investment to Support Hospitals Impacted by New CMS Revenue Opportunity

Rainfall Health, which offers AI-powered healthcare compliance and reimbursement solutions, raises $15 million in Series A funding.

Garland cancels telehealth contract after community pushback

The City of Garland, TX cancels its contract with Dallas-based telemedicine provider MD Health Pathways after several residents complain of the need to opt out of the city program’s automatic enrollment.

Cleveland Clinic teaching artificial intelligence to read brain waves and detect seizures in seconds

Cleveland Clinic pilots an AI tool developed with startup Piramidal to detect seizures from 24-hour ICU EEGs, monitoring 120 patients daily whose studies would otherwise each require about two hours of technician review.

Morning Headlines 2/18/26

Danaher to buy Masimo in $9.9 billion deal in diagnostics push

Drug and diagnostics company Danaher will acquire Masimo, a leading vendor of blood oxygen monitoring technology, for $9.9 billion.

Workforce reduction at Baystate Health aims to drive efficiency

Baystate Health (MA) cuts 117 corporate positions and decides to outsource management of its clinical assets to TriMedX.

Pivot Point Consulting Emerges as a Unified Healthcare IT Powerhouse Following Its Acquisition by Innovative Consulting Group

Innovative Consulting Group acquires Pivot Point Consulting.

Morning Headlines 2/17/26

Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, Clinical Note Helps UK Doctors Spend More Time on Patient Care

Oracle Health makes its Clinical Note AI agent available to providers in the UK after a successful pilot program with several NHS facilities.

Medesto Ends the Maze

Drug, therapy, and remote patient monitoring company Perigon Health 360 spins out Medesto Health, which offers an intelligent patient engagement and care coordination platform.

Amazon One Medical Introduces Health Insights to Help Patients Better Understand Their Lab Results

Amazon One Medical offers members AI-powered insights into their lab results via the One Medical app.

Morning Headlines 2/16/26

Medicaid Provider Spending

HHS’s DOGE team posts a freely downloadable database of aggregated provider-level Medicaid claims data.

MUSC Board of Trustees advances major strategic initiatives to strengthen cancer care, innovation and resiliency

Medical University of South Carolina will establish an AI Center for Health Innovation and Informatics, which will lead MUSC’s AI strategy, governance, innovation incubation, and workforce development.

Harbor Health Acquires Rippl, Expanding Expert Dementia Support for Patients and Caregivers

Harbor Health, a Texas-based provider and insurance company, acquires tech-enabled dementia care company Rippl.

Morning Headlines 2/13/26

HealthMark Group Expands Digital Access to Medical Imaging with Acquisition of Purview

Health data exchange vendor HealthMark Group acquires Purview, which offers a cloud-based medical imaging sharing solution.

Tampa General Hospital opens new Innovation Center in Ybor City to expand healthcare initiatives

Tampa General Hospital opens a 32,000 square-foot innovation center that will house its innovation, IT, analytics, and venture capital teams; and the Tampa headquarters of vendor partner Palantir.

Atlas Oncology Partners Raises $28M Series A to Scale Value-Based Oncology Care

Tech-enabled, value-based oncology care company Atlas Oncology Partners announces $28 million in Series A funding.

Talkiatry Raises Oversubscribed $210M Series D to Expand Nation’s Largest Full-Stack Psychiatry Provider

Virtual psychiatry group Talkiatry announces $210 million in Series D funding, bringing its total raised to $457 million.

Morning Headlines 2/12/26

Voxira AI Agent Developer Secai Raises $6.2M Series A to Scale Healthcare Automation

Healthcare AI company Secai will use new Series A funding to expand its Voxira and NoteGen solutions across Canada and the United States.

Telehealth stocks pressured as Amazon Pharmacy expands prescription delivery

Shares of Teladoc and Doximity dip on the news that Amazon will expand its its same-day prescription delivery service to 4,500 cities by the end of this year.

TEFCA, America’s National Interoperability Network, Reaches Nearly 500 Million Health Records Exchanged as HHS Leverages Technology and AI to Lower Costs and Reduce Burden

ASTP/ONC announces at its annual meeting that 500 million health records have been exchanged through TEFCA, an exponentially significant jump from the 10 million exchanged as of January 2025.

Morning Headlines 2/11/26

Garner Health Raises $118 Million to Close the Healthcare Quality and Cost Gap; Reaches $1.35 Billion Valuation

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.

Solace Raises $130 Million Series C to Make Healthcare Advocacy a Standard of Care in the US

Tech-enabled healthcare navigation and patient advocacy company Solace Health announces $130 million in Series C funding, bringing its total raised to $211 million.

Health Gorilla Publishes Engagement Summary Demonstrating Transparency, Integrity, and an Effective Governance Process

Data-exchange vendor Health Gorilla releases a summary of the good-faith actions it has taken to reassure stakeholders in the wake of a lawsuit brought against it by Epic, OCHIN, and several health systems.

Morning Headlines 2/10/26

Synthpop raises $15 million Series A to scale AI that makes healthcare more human

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

Ireland to begin procurement for a national electronic health record

Health Service Executive, Ireland’s health and social services provider, will begin looking at vendors for its National Electronic Health Record program.

The Sequoia Project Publishes Guidance on Standardized Privacy & Consent Approaches for State Government and Health Care Organizations

The Sequoia Project publishes “Operationalizing Automated Consent: Actionable Guidance for Health Care Providers, Payors, and Other Health Care Organizations” and “Guidance to States: Legislating Technical Standard Definitions for Existing State-Sensitive Health Data Laws.”

Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. Provides Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Results; Releases Q1 2026 and Full Year 2026 Guidance

Digital cloud fax technology vendor Consensus Cloud Solutions sees a slight uptick in Q4 revenue and a slight dip in full-year revenue.

Morning Headlines 2/9/26

Apple Is Scaling Back Plans for New AI-Based Health Coach Service

Apple is reportedly abandoning the delayed launch of a rumored virtual health coach app and will instead incorporate some of its planned features, such as gait analysis, into its Health app.

Chamber Raises $60 Million in Series A Funding to Drive the Future of Cardiology Value-Based Care

Value-based cardiology care startup Chamber announces $60 million in Series A funding.

VA’s latest AI inventory includes new suicide, EHR-focused use cases

An annual review of the VA’s use of AI finds that it is working on integrating a clinical AI agent with its new Oracle Health-based EHR, and that the technology is being incorporated into suicide prevention efforts.

Morning Headlines 2/6/26

2026 Best in KLAS Awards – Software and Services

KLAS posts its “2026 Best in KLAS: Software and Services” report with Epic, Athenahealth, Chartis, Optimum Healthcare IT, and Impact Advisors taking top honors in several respective categories.

Accenture Federal Services Selected to Support the Mission-Critical Modernization of Veteran Health Records for the Department of Veterans Affairs

The federal government awards Accenture Federal Services a multi-year contract of unspecified value to support the VA’s implementation of Oracle Health.

ASTP/ONC Announces Selection of Nationwide Pilot Programs to Improve Behavioral Health Data Exchange

ASTP/ONC chooses nine pilot sites to test behavioral and physical health integration data exchange standards.

Morning Headlines 2/5/26

Lotus Just Raised $41M

Lotus Health AI, which offers free 24×7 primary care using patient data, AI diagnostics, peer-reviewed evidence and guidelines, and clinician review, raises $41 million.

BeHuman Raises $4 Million Seed Round to Expand Equitable, AI-Driven Early Cancer Detection Nationwide

Virtual cancer screening and care coordination startup BeHuman raises $4 million in seed funding.

Salvo Health closes $8.5m for new chronic gut care model

Salvo Health, which offers a continuous care platform for gastroenterologists and their patients, raises $8.5 million in Series A funding.

Morning Headlines 2/4/26

CHC Consulting Launches Options RCM to Strengthen Rural and Community Hospital Financial Health

Community Hospital Corporation’s CHC Consulting business launches a revenue cycle services subsidiary for rural and community hospitals.

Carbon Health Implements Financial Restructuring

Tech-enabled primary care provider Carbon Health files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Louisiana Startup SleepNavigator Secures Statewide Investment to Scale Sleep Care Technology Nationally

Sleep medicine software startup SleepNavigator secures new funding from a group of investors that includes Ochsner Health.

Midi Health Surpasses $1B Valuation, Igniting a New Era for Women’s Health

Women’s virtual care company Midi Health announces $100 million in Series D funding.