Morning Headlines 6/23/25

Insurers Pledge to Ease Controversial Prior Approvals for Medical Care

Major US health insurers pledge to improve prior authorization practices, noting that they are aiming for 80% real-time decisions by 2027.

NM Vintage Fund Invests in Electronic Caregiver to Strengthen Expansion of Leading Virtual Care Ecosystem

New Mexico Vintage Fund invests in New Mexico-based Electronic Caregiver, which specializes in virtual care and remote patient monitoring technologies.

Enhancing the provider search experience through Smart Choice

UnitedHealthcare announces AI-powered provider search for members.

Morning Headlines 6/20/25

Commure Raises $200 Million in Growth Financing from General Catalyst’s CVF to Accelerate AI-Powered RCM Platform

Commure raises $200 million in growth financing to advance its RCM, ambient documentation, and practice management tools.

Hoppr Secures $31.5M Series A to Scale AI Infrastructure for Medical Imaging

Hoppr, which offers a platform for developing medical AI imaging applications, raises $31.5 million in a Series A funding round.

Overland Park digital health startup closes $2.5M seed round with local, national investors

AI healthcare copilot developer CarePilot raises $2.5 million in seed funding.

Morning Headlines 6/19/25

Healthcare referrals are where patients get lost. Tennr raises $101M to bring the visibility our system desperately needs

Referral optimization company Tennr raises $101 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total raised to $160 million.

Vestar Capital puts Quest Analytics up for sale

Vestar Capital reportedly prepares to sell Quest Analytics, which offers management solutions for provider networks.

Huron to Acquire Revenue Cycle Consulting Firm Eclipse Insights

Professional services firm Huron acquires revenue cycle consulting business Eclipse Insights.

RevelAi Health Secures $3.1 Million Seed Funding to Scale Artificial Intelligence Care Coordination for Musculoskeletal Health

AI-powered musculoskeletal care software startup RevelAi raises $3.1 million in seed funding.

Morning Headlines 6/18/25

Nabla Raises $70M Series C to Deliver Agentic AI to the Heart of Clinical Workflows, Bringing Total Funding to $120M

Ambient scribe technology vendor Nabla raises $70 million in a Series C funding round, increasing its total to $120 million.

Glytec Secures $36 Million Growth Investment to Accelerate AI-Powered Diabetes Technology Platform Innovation

Diabetes management software vendor Glytec announces $36 million in new funding.

Sword Health nabs $40M at $4B valuation, pushes IPO plans to at least 2028

Sword Health, a digital health startup specializing in virtual physical therapy, pelvic healthcare, and mental healthcare, raises $40 million.

Morning Headlines 6/17/25

Parkview launches Upvia Health to empower independent hospitals and physicians with trusted management solutions

Parkview Health (IN) launches Upvia Health, a management services company focused on independent hospitals and provider groups.

Cosentus Expands National Reach with Strategic Acquisition of Utah based Alta Management Solutions

Ambulatory health IT company Cosentus Holdings acquires practice consulting and RCM vendor Alta Management Solutions.

Infusion Pump Recall: Zyno Medical Removes Certain Z-800 Series Infusion Pumps due to Software Issue

The FDA issues its most serious level of recall on select Zyno Medical Z-800 infusion pumps, citing software that has not undergone verification or validation testing.

Morning Headlines 6/16/25

Amazon reorganizes health-care business in latest bid to crack multitrillion-dollar market

Amazon restructures its healthcare business into six groups in an effort to streamline its business after several executive departures.

23andMe Reaches Agreement for Sale of Business to TTAM Research Institute Following Final Round of Bidding in Court-Approved Sale Process

23andMe co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki regains control of the bankrupt company as her newly formed non-profit acquires its assets for $305 million, outbidding Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in a court-ordered final round.

Congress Eyes EHR Overhaul with VA Regulatory Plan

Draft legislation would increase Congressional control over the VA’s Oracle Health project by mandating regular reporting of project status.

Morning Headlines 6/13/25

MRO Acquires Enterprise Clinical Data Management Platform Q-Centrix

Clinical data exchange technology vendor MRO acquires Q-Centrix, which offers an enterprise clinical data management platform.

Ellipsis Health unveils Sage, the emotionally intelligent AI Care Manager, backed by $45M from Salesforce, Khosla Ventures, and CVS Ventures

Ellipsis Health, which offers AI-powered healthcare voice agents for care management, raises $45 million in a Series A funding round.

Datavant to Acquire Ontellus to Transform Medical Record Retrieval with Tech-Enabled Health Records Retrieval and Claims Intelligence Solutions

Health data company Datavant acquires Ontellus, a medical records retrieval and claims data firm that offers its services to law offices, employers, and insurance carriers.

Autonomize AI Raises $28 Million Series A to Power Next-Generation Agentic AI for Healthcare and Life Sciences

Healthcare agentic AI company Autonomize AI announces $28 million in Series A funding.

Morning Headlines 6/12/25

Capital Rx Acquires Care Navigation Company Amino Health

Capital Rx, a pharmacy benefits management and administration company, acquires Amino Health and rebrands Amino’s health navigation platform to Judi Care.

Craneware founder rejects US takeover bid — and a £80m payday

Scotland-based hospital financial software vendor Craneware rejects an over $1 billion acquisition offer from Boston-based Bain Capital.

Central Maine Healthcare launches temporary website amid cyber breach

Central Maine Healthcare sets up a temporary website as it works to recover from a May 25 cyberattack.

Morning Headlines 6/11/25

Hellocare.ai Enters into Collaboration with Mayo Clinic for AI Co-Innovation Project

Mayo Clinic will invest in and partner with Hellocare.ai, whose platform supports virtual nursing, virtual sitting, patient engagement, ambient documentation, and remote monitoring.

Guidehealth Receives $10 Million Investment from Emory Healthcare

Guidehealth will use new funding from Emory Healthcare (GA) to develop prescriptive analytics and AI-powered virtual care navigation capabilities.

‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ Launches in the US

Virtual clinic Outro launches in seven states to help patients taking antidepressants taper off their medications.

Morning Headlines 6/10/25

Virginia Mason Franciscan Health to lay off more than 100 employees

Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (WA) will lay off 116 employees within its Virtual Health Services division and outsource those jobs to a different region.

Kettering Health’s online patient portal, MyChart, back up

In Ohio, Kettering Health restores its patient portal, and most of its phone and laboratory systems and imaging equipment after a ransomware attack three weeks ago.

Salvo Health Reaches 700 GI Physician Partners Signed, 14% of all GI Independent GI Providers in the US, and Adds $4M in Investment to Scale Deployments of its Hybrid GI Care Platform Across the US

Salvo Health, which offers a digital digestive and metabolic care platform, announces $4 million in funding.

Morning Headlines 6/9/25

Omada Health IPO signals healthier market, avoids ‘down-round’ trend

Omada Health’s stock market debut earns it a valuation of $1 billion, a figure unchanged since its last funding round in 2022.

NJ company is laying off 142 workers this month due to large hospital closing in PA

RCM business Med-Metrix lays off 142 staff working at The Crozer Chester Medical Center (PA), which has had to close due to the bankruptcy of parent company Prospect Medical Holdings.

NextGen Healthcare Welcomes Madison Dearborn Partners as New Investment Partner and Announces Planned Leadership Succession

Private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners acquires an unstated significant ownership position in NextGen Healthcare, which was taken private in 2023 by PE firm Thoma Bravo.

Software company XiFin lays off 87 employees in Austin

San Diego-based RCM and workflow automation vendor XiFin lays off 87 employees at its office in Austin, TX,

Morning Headlines 6/6/25

OhioHealth Southeastern Medical Center Launches eICU Program

OhioHealth Southeastern Medical Center launches an electronic ICU program that enables OhioHealth staff at the health system’s central monitoring center to remotely monitor patients and communicate with bedside staff.

Clinicians can ‘chat’ with medical records through new AI software, ChatEHR

Stanford Health Care (CA) pilots an internally developed AI tool dubbed ChatEHR that enables clinicians to interact with patient medical records, primarily in the form of information-gathering.

Prompt EMR Rebrands as Prompt Health to Reflect Expanded Vision and Platform

Rehab therapy software vendor Prompt EMR rebrands to Prompt Health.

Omada Health Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

Virtual chronic care management company Omada Health adjust its IPO pricing to $19 a share in hopes of raising $150 million during its stock market debut June 6.

Morning Headlines 6/5/25

Ransomware gang claims responsibility for Kettering Health hack

The Interlock ransomware group claims to have stolen data from Kettering Health (OH), which has been working to recover from the ransomware attack for over two weeks.

Epic Systems Nets $6 Million in Interest-Accrual Court Victory

A circuit judge rules that Epic is entitled to $6 million in interest on punitive damages awarded to it after winning a 2014 trade secrets case involving Tata Consultancy Services.

Hims & Hers to acquire European telehealth platform in global expansion

Days after confirming a headcount reduction, Hims & Hers Health announces it will acquire European telehealth provider Zava.

Morning Headlines 6/4/25

Net Health Acquires Limber Health

Net Health, which specializes in health IT for wound care and rehab therapy, acquires digital and in-clinic musculoskeletal care company Limber Health.

CMS Building Foundational Infrastructure for Digital Healthcare Ecosystem

CMS announces several digital health initiatives, including the development of an interoperable national provider directory, expanded availability of its Blue Button 2.0 API, and enhanced data exchange participation.

AirStrip Acquires Fifth Eye to Advance Predictive Clinical Surveillance

Clinical surveillance and decision support company AirStrip acquires clinical analytics vendor Fifth Eye.

HHS names new technology policy, health IT leader

HHS names radiologist and former ONC senior advisor Thomas Keane, MD, MBA assistant secretary for technology policy and national coordinator for health IT.

Morning Headlines 6/3/25

Over 1,000 Hospitals Connect to TEFCA with Epic Nexus

Epic announces that 1,000 hospitals and 22,000 clinics are now leveraging TEFCA data-exchange capabilities through the company’s Nexus QHIN.

Hims to cut 4% of workforce amid ban on weight-loss drug copies

Online health and wellness prescription delivery company Hims & Hers Health lays off 68 employees as it adjusts to changing market demand for popular weight-loss drugs.

FDA Launches Agency-Wide AI Tool to Optimize Performance for the American People

The FDA launches Elsa, a generative AI tool that employees will use to automate processes associated with scientific reviews and clinical protocol evaluations, among other tasks.

Morning Headlines 6/2/25

New Details: Kettering Health working on restoring phones, access to health records software

Kettering Health (OH) continues to bring systems back online and expand clinical capabilities as it recovers from last week’s cyberattack.

Wolters Kluwer acquires online healthcare courseware provider IntelliLearn

Wolters Kluwer Health acquires IntelliLearn, which offers online courseware for nursing students in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

‘Cyber incident’ disrupts Maine Covenant Health locations

Covenant Health facilities in multiple states deal with connectivity issues resulting from a cyberattack that occurred last week.

Morning Headlines 5/30/25

Kaiser Permanente network interruptions resolved

Kaiser Permanente announces that all of its technology systems are back online after dealing with a network outage most of Wednesday.

Omada Health aims to go public with market cap of up to $1.1 billion

Virtual chronic care management company Omada Health will try to raise $158 million during its IPO next week.

MDaudit and Streamline Health Announce Definitive Merger Agreement

Medical billing and compliance company MDaudit will acquire RCM vendor Streamline Health for $37.4 million.