A GAO report says that the VA must address several previously raised issues to support its accelerated Oracle Health rollout.
Mass General Brigham spins out AIwithCare, an AI-powered tool that matches patients to clinical trials.
Ritten Announces $35M Series B Investment Led by Five Elms Capital
Behavioral health IT vendor Ritten raises $35 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raised to $52.5 million.
Texas Files Antitrust Suit Against Epic Systems Over Health Data
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files an antitrust and consumer protection petition alleging that Epic maintains monopoly power and that the company misleads Texas children’s hospitals about its parental access rules.
HHS health IT chief hints at a new approach to EHR certification
Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and National Coordinator Thomas Keane, MD, MBA tells STAT he’s hoping his office will soon do away with 34 certification criteria for EHRs and modify seven, with an eye to regulating EHR interoperability APIs in the coming months.
OpenAI’s “State of Enterprise AI” report names healthcare as one of the fastest-growing business sectors for ChatGPT use.
Cincinnati startup HerMD secures exit months after co-founders buy back business
Virtual health and wellness clinic Joi + Blokes acquires HerMD, expanding its virtual care reach to all 50 states.
Margaret Mary Health (IN) will outsource its revenue cycle operations to Revology, laying off 55 employees in the process.
Canada’s Competition Bureau obtains a court order allowing it to move forward with its investigation of Well Health’s acquisition of Healwell, and if that acquisition has stifled competition within the AI transcription market.
Spare Tire raises $3M to save healthcare organizations from document downtime
Spare Tire, which offers on-demand access to inpatient historical data for workflow continuity during unplanned EHR downtime, raises $3 million in a Series A funding round.
Casera launches out of Pioneer Square Labs with $1 million in funding to help hospitals improve patient flow via its case manager digital agent.
Digital pediatric and neonatal patient and family engagement company AngelEye Health raises $9 million in a Series C funding round.
EQT Partners lines up $1 billion CitiusTech exit
EQT Partners hopes to sell its 40% stake in CitiusTech for $1 billion.
Palomar Health, UC Pact Outlined
A Joint Powers Authority arrangement between Palomar Health and UC San Diego Health will give Palomar clinicians access to UC’s Epic system.
Clinical trial software and services vendor Paradigm Health acquires Flatiron Health’s tech-enabled clinical research solutions.
ECU Health partners with Artisight to bring Smart Hospital technology to eastern North Carolina
ECU Health will implement Artisight’s smart hospital platform, initially focusing on telehealth services for neurology and intensive care across five hospitals.
Nova Scotia Health’s IWK Health Centre becomes the province’s first facility to go live on what will become an enterprise roll out of Oracle Health.
The FDA launches a pilot that creates a risk-based regulatory pathway for chronic disease digital health devices, giving manufacturers enforcement discretion while they gather and publish real-world performance data.
VA staff flag dangerous errors ahead of new health records expansion
Media outlets report that the VA remains on track to expand its Oracle Health EHR rollout to 13 more medical centers in 2026 despite problems reported by clinicians at all six go-live sites.
Population health management company Lightbeam Health Solutions acquires Syntax Health, which offers value-based care contracting software.
US health department unveils strategy to expand its adoption of AI technology
HHS develops a strategy to coordinate the use of AI across its divisions, enhance employee efficiency, and innovate in the areas of public health and patient care.
Artera Secures $65M Growth Investment and Reaches $100M CARR
Healthcare AI agent developer Artera raises a $65 million growth investment and expects to reach $100 million in contracted annual recurring revenue by the end of the year.
Cerbo and OptiMantra Announce Merger Under New CEO Jeff Hindman
Cerbo and OptiMantra, both vendors of EHR and practice management software for healthcare and wellness practices, merge and hire a new CEO.
People are Uploading Their Medical Records to AI Chatbots
The New York Times reports that people are downloading their medical records from provider patient portals and then uploading them to ChatGPT and other online AI tools seeking medical advice and interpretation.
ACCESS Model expands access to technology-supported care in Original Medicare
A new, 10-year CMS model called ACCESS will test whether an outcome-aligned payment approach can expand access to technology-enabled chronic care management in Original Medicare starting in July 2026.
Avandra, which is developing a federated network for medical imaging and clinical data for pharma and AI innovation, acquires DatCard Systems, which offers DICOM distribution solutions, and Sorna Corporation, whose technology supports automated medical data distribution.
Tech-enabled infusion therapy provider Uptiv Health will use new funding to enhance its digital platform, incorporate AI into its workflows, and expand into new markets.
Virtual care company MiCare Path announces new funding and the acquisition of Compwell, which offers care management and virtual assessment services.
Inside Inbound Health’s sudden shutdown
Hospital-at-home company Inbound Health, which was spun out of Allina Health three years ago, shuts down amidst regulatory uncertainty.
Aledade Secures $500 Million Credit Facility from Ares to Support Growth
Value-based primary care management company Aledade announces a $500 million credit facility to support its continued growth.
LA-based medical billing company to relocate HQ to CT, add 150 jobs; gets tax rebate deal
Gebbs Healthcare Solutions will relocate its headquarters to Connecticut and hire 150 additional employees over the next seven years.
Best Buy (BBY) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Best Buy blames Medicaid and Medicare Advantage payments for exiting Best Buy Health with a $192 million impairment charge.
Accelerating Science with Human+AI Review
NEJM AI tests a fast-track manuscript review process that involves both AI and humans.
RI Doctor Claims AI Medical Firm Fired Him After Raising Concerns About FDA and HIPAA Compliance
A Brown University Health doctor sues Sully.AI, claiming that the company failed to pay him and terminated him for warning about making unsupported claims about HIPAA and FDA compliance.
NSW’ $969m single digital patient record at risk of cost overruns
An auditor’s report finds that New South Wales left key costs out of its $650 million USD Epic project.
Hospitals to move away from paper records to new digital systems
New Zealand’s health minister announces a 10-year investment plan to convert the 65% of hospitals that use paper records to digital systems.
Medical software provider Well Health under investigation by Competition Bureau
Canada’s competition bureau is investigating whether recent acquisitions by Well Health Technologies have reduced competition in the AI transcription market.
The White House launches the Genesis Mission, a national effort to use AI to transform scientific research.
Geisinger Health, Nuance reach $5M settlement over data breach
Geisinger Health and Nuance propose to pay $5 million to settle a class action lawsuit that stems from a 1 million person data breach by a Nuance employee who had been fired two days earlier.
Catalyzing Health AI by Fixing Payment Systems
The authors argue that misaligned payment models are the primary barrier to broad healthcare AI adoption, suggesting that CPT adoption bottlenecks be resolved, integration overhead addressed, and pricing models aligned with AI cost structures.
Exclusive: DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ with eight months left on its charter
Reuters reports that DOGE disbanded eight months ahead of its scheduled end, also noting that Acting DOGE Administrator and former health tech executive Amy Gleason is now an advisor to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The company pushed its doctors to perform surgeries, also altering its EHR to bill Medicare for the higher-paying procedure and to generate false supporting documentation.
Researchers find that all smartwatches except for Google’s Fitbit do a good job of detecting atrial fibrillation.
Memorial Sloan Kettering posts $62M loss as Epic system costs mount
The health system has spent $169 million, which it says was a planned expense, implementing Epic in the first three quarters of the year.
Eli Lilly Reaches $1 Trillion in Value, Buoyed by Demand for Its Weight Loss Drugs
The drug maker becomes the first healthcare company to be valued at $1 trillion.
GE HealthCare to acquire Intelerad, advancing cloud-enabled enterprise imaging across care settings
GE HealthCare will acquire medical imaging software vendor Intelerad for $2.3 billion.
Powered by AI, VA is improving Veteran care experience
The VA is piloting new ambient AI scribe technology at 10 medical centers and plans to expand implementation to all medical centers in 2026.
Function, which offers lab test memberships, raises $298 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $2.5 billion.
Arbiter launches with $52 million to offer AI solutions that automate administrative healthcare tasks like appointment scheduling and follow-up and referrals.
A federal jury convicts the founder and CEO and clinical president of Done for their roles in a scheme to illegally distribute Adderall over the Internet, and to conspire to commit healthcare fraud through the submission of false reimbursement claims.
FamilyWell Health, which helps providers embed its virtual mental healthcare services for women into their practices, announces $8 million in Series A funding.
Post-acute care coordination software company WellBeam raises $10 million in Series A funding.
Nexus Venture Partners Leads $4.3M Seed Funding in Healthcare AI Startup Ember
Ember, an AI-powered denial prevention software startup, announces $4.3 million in seed funding.
US jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634 million in smartwatch patent case
A federal jury orders Apple to pay Masimo $634 million for violating the company’s blood oxygen reading patents in Apple Watch’s workout mode and heart rate notification feature.
MRO Accelerates Clinical Research Innovation with the Acquisition of Clinetic
MRO acquires Clinetic, which uses EHR data to help providers and life sciences companies find, screen, and enroll patients for clinical trials.
HHS eyes AI to support caregivers in multimillion-dollar competition
HHS launches the $2 million Caregiver Artificial Intelligence Prize Competition to discover AI-based solutions focused on supporting professional and personal caregivers.
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