Morning Headlines 10/24/25

Healthcare company Ensemble Health has tapped JPMorgan as it eyes a $13 billion sale or IPO in 2026

The private equity owners of revenue cycle management company Ensemble Health have reportedly hired investment bankers to conduct a company sale or IPO early next year.

Epic to end program that took position in Abridge

Epic will shut down its Workshop program, which co-develops software in partnership with third party companies such as Abridge and Nuance.

Findhelp Acquires Uno Health, Creating the First Full-Stack Platform for Benefit Enrollment and Social Care Coordination

Social care technology company Findhelp acquires Uno Health, which offers a digital enrollment platform for government benefits.

Morning Headlines 10/23/25

Hyro Raises $45M Strategic Growth Round to Accelerate AI Agent Adoption in Healthcare

Healthcare AI agent vendor Hyro’s latest funding round brings its total raised to $95 million.

Samaritan and MultiCare approve affiliation to strengthen community-based care across the Pacific Northwest

MultiCare Health System (WA) will acquire Samaritan Health Services (OR) and invest in upgrading its technologies and telehealth capabilities.

Trump picks startup founder to head health research agency

HHS/NIH names Alicia Jackson, PhD, founder and CEO of menopause-focused digital health company Evernow, as head of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.

Morning Headlines 10/22/25

Ascension Sacred Heart launches telehealth program to help new and expecting mothers in Northwest Florida

Ascension Sacred Heart and Ascension St. Vincent’s launch a Telehealth Maternity Care Program with support from the Florida Department of Health.

AWS outage causes disruption to patient care across NHS sites

NHS facilities in England recover from temporary downtimes caused by Monday’s AWS outage, which also impacted numerous healthcare organizations in the US.

Optum reinvents claims and reimbursement process to eliminate complexity and administrative waste

Optum develops a multi-payer claims system that enables real-time data exchange between payers and providers for instant coverage validation and improved claims processing.

Morning Headlines 10/21/25

OpenEvidence, the ChatGPT for doctors, raises $200M at $6B valuation

OpenEvidence is reportedly planning to announce $200 million in additional funding, just three months after raising $210 million in Series B funding.

Obesity Medicine Leader Knownwell Raises $25 Million in Strategic-Led Financing

Weight management-focused hybrid primary care provider Knownwell announces $25 million in new funding.

CMS signals interest in Palantir for national provider directory project

HHS taps Palantir, Availity, Gainwell Technologies, and the Council for Affordable Healthcare to develop prototypes for a national provider directory.

DocGo Acquires Virtual Care Platform SteadyMD, Expands Telehealth Services Across All 50 States

DocGo, which offers remote patient monitoring, mobile urgent care, and medical transportation, acquires virtual care vendor SteadyMD.

Morning Headlines 10/20/25

Verily Launches a New Consumer Health App, Verily Me, at HLTH USA 2025

Verily launches a free consumer health app that lets users receive provider recommendations from their medical records from multiple sources, ask an AI companion questions about their records, analyze meal photos for nutrition, and join research studies.

Sage Care Emerges From Stealth with $20M in Funding for an AI-Powered Care Navigation System

Sage Care, which offers call triage, patient-provider matching, and scheduling tools, announces its launch and $20 million in funding.

Fourier Health Announces $8.4M Funding Round to Modernize Clinical Care Intake and Unstructured Data Processing with AI

AI clinical summary startup Fourier Health raises $8.4 million in seed funding.

Morning Headlines 10/17/25

Microsoft extends AI advancements in Dragon Copilot to nurses and partners to enhance patient care

Microsoft extends its Dragon Copilot AI clinical assistant to nurses and adds an ecosystem for third-party extensions.

Brook.ai Secures $28 Million in Series B Funding, Led by UMass Memorial Health and Morningside, to Accelerate Next Phase of Growth and Innovation in Remote Care

Remote care company Brook.ai raises $28 million in Series B funding.

Counsel Health Raises $25M to Launch Physician-Supervised AI Front Door for Healthcare

Counsel Health, an AI-powered virtual medical group, announces $25 million in Series A funding and the launch of its latest AI-based platform.

Avia acquires Panda Health

Digital health marketplace operator Avia acquires Panda Health, which offers digital health peer input and market intelligence services.

Morning Headlines 10/16/25

MD Integrations Raises $77 Million From Updata Partners and Denali Growth Partners to Accelerate Innovation in Telehealth; Appoints President & COO

White label telehealth platform vendor MD Integrations announces $77 million in new funding.

Imprivata Acquires Verosint to Add AI-Powered Risk Signaling to its Leading Enterprise Access Management Platform

Imprivata acquires identity threat detection and response company Verosint.

AI, Health, and Health Care Today and Tomorrow: The JAMA Summit Report on Artificial Intelligence

A JAMA summit report says that healthcare AI needs coordinated frameworks for testing, monitoring, and incentivizing safe, effective use across clinical and operational settings.

Morning Headlines 10/15/25

OutcomesAI Secures $10M Seed Financing Led by Santé Ventures to Scale AI-Enabled Nursing Care

OutcomesAI, which has developed software that combines AI voice agents with licensed nurses to handle nursing workflows, announces $10 million in seed funding.

R1 to Acquire Phare Health, a Leading AI Platform for Automating Inpatient Coding and Pre-Bill Clinical Documentation Improvement

RCM vendor R1 will acquire Phare Health, which offers AI solutions for inpatient coding and clinical documentation improvement.

WellTheory Raises $14M to Build the Category Leader in Autoimmune Care

WellTheory, which offers virtual care management services for autoimmune conditions, raises $14 million in Series A funding.

Pear Suite Secures $7.6M in Series A Funding to Power Community Health Workers Nationwide

Health and social care navigation software vendor Pear Suite secures $7.6 million in Series A funding.

Morning Headlines 10/14/25

OSF HealthCare offers another layer of monitoring for moms and babies

OSF HealthCare (IL) launches virtual monitoring in its labor and delivery units using PeriWatch Vigilance software from PeriGen.

Ouma Health Acquires Sunny Day MFM and Boston MFM, Expands Maternal-Fetal Medicine Model with Hybrid Care

Maternal health telemedicine company Ouma Health acquires Sunny Day Maternal Fetal Medicine and select assets of Boston MFM.

AGS Health Introduces Agentic Digital Workforce Solutions to Tackle Rising Claim Denials and Margin Pressures

AGS Health launches AI-powered RCM workforce solutions for tasks related to insurance eligibility verification, prior authorizations, denials management, and appeals.

Morning Headlines 10/13/25

AirStrip Secures $50 Million Growth Credit Commitment and Additional Equity Investment from OrbiMed to Accelerate Innovation and Expansion

AirStrip secures a $50 million growth credit facility from OrbiMed plus an additional equity investment, which it will use to expand its clinical surveillance, decision support, and remote monitoring solutions across health systems.

Infinx Invests in Voxology AI to Bring Conversational AI Agents to Patient Scheduling

Patient access and RCM vendor Infinx adds Voxology’s AI scheduling agents to its contact center software and invests in the company.

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Secures Land­mark Agree­ment with Cen­tral Texas Med­ical Provider to Pro­tect Parental Access to Children’s Elec­tron­ic Health Records

Austin Diagnostic Clinic (TX) restores parental access to children’s medical records under a settlement with Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office found that the clinic’s EHR was automatically revoking parental access when patients turned 12.

Morning Headlines 10/10/25

Foundation Health Secures $20M Series A to Scale AI-Powered Infrastructure for Pharmacy Operations, Care Coordination, and Direct-to-Patient Delivery

Foundation Health, which offers AI-powered telehealth, diagnostics, and digital pharmacy solutions, raises $20 million in Series A funding.

Amazon Pharmacy to launch electronic kiosks for prescriptions at One Medical locations

Amazon Pharmacy will fill prescriptions from kiosks in One Medical clinics and is talking to health systems about broader use.

HealthStream Acquires Virsys12, Expanding its Credentialing Application Solution for Payers and Health Plan Enterprises

Workforce solutions vendor HealthStream acquires Virsys12, which offers a provider data management suite.

Morning Headlines 10/9/25

New AI tool helps rural hospitals improve financial incomes

Microsoft launches a free, AI-powered claims denial navigator from its Rural Health AI Innovation Lab.

Xcellerant Ventures Invests in Mindset Medical to Advance Contactless Vital Sign Monitoring

Mindset Medical, which offers camera-based, vital sign monitoring software, secures funding from Xcellerant Ventures.

Saint Peter’s Healthcare, Atlantic Health merger plans called off

Saint Peter’s Healthcare and Atlantic Health call off their merger in New Jersey, nixing Saint Peter’s plan to transition to Atlantic Health’s Epic EHR.

Morning Headlines 10/8/25

9 Sites Going Live with New Electronic Health Record in 2026

The VA will add nine sites to its Oracle Health EHR rollout in 2026.

Attuned Intelligence Raises $13M to Transform Hospital Call Centers with Supervised AI

Health system call center technology vendor Attuned Intelligence raises $13 million in seed funding.

Savista Acquires ONCO Services, Expanding Cancer Registry Leadership and RCM Capabilities

Savista, which offers RCM outsourcing and technology, acquires the cancer registry business of Onco Services.

Healthcare IT consulting firm Healthlink Advisors joins Chartis

Healthcare advisory business Chartis acquires Healthlink Advisors.

Morning Headlines 10/7/25

Hipp Health Raises $6.2 Million in Seed Funding

Hipp Health, which offers AI software that automates clinical, administrative, and compliance workflows to behavioral healthcare practices, raises $6.2 million in seed funding.

Heidi Secures $65 Million USD in Series B Funding to Accelerate Building an AI Care Partner for Every Clinician

Australia-based healthcare AI company Heidi announces $65 million in Series B funding and a valuation of $465 million.

Qualtrics to buy healthcare tech firm Press Ganey in $6.75 billion deal, FT reports

Qualtrics, which offers customer and employee experience software, will acquire healthcare market research company Press Ganey for $6.75 billion.

Talkspace Acquires Wisdo Health to Expand AI-Powered Social Health and Peer Support Solutions

Virtual mental healthcare provider Talkspace acquires Wisdo Health, which offers an AI-powered peer support and social health app.

Morning Headlines 10/6/25

Cancer AI Alliance unveils first collaborative AI platform for cancer research

The Cancer AI Alliance, a research collaboration of four major cancer centers, launches a platform that securely centralizes anonymized data from its members to train AI models.

Collette Health Acquires Virtual Nursing Academy to Accelerate Virtual Care Implementation for Healthcare Organizations

Uniform virtual care platform vendor Collette Health acquires the Virtual Nursing Academy, which provides education for deploying virtual nursing in health systems.

Payments company Zelis Healthcare hires Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan for an early 2026 IPO

Healthcare payments company Zelis Healthcare prepares for an IPO that sources say could value the company at $17 billion.

Morning Headlines 10/3/25

Akron’s Summa Health completes $515M sale to for-profit HATCo

General Catalyst’s HATCo closes its acquisition of Summa Health and will convert it to a for-profit and use it as a living laboratory for the technology products of GC’s portfolio companies.

Trump to the health and tech giants: AI is not your ‘cartel’

HHS officials say that the administration does not support private sector vetting of AI tools in healthcare.

Koda Health Oversubscribes $7M Series A to Scale Goal-Concordant Care Nationwide

Koda Health, which offers patient decision support and advance care planning software, raises $7 million in a Series A funding round.

Morning Headlines 10/2/25

Federal Government Shuts Down as Telehealth Flexibilities Lapse

The federal government fails to extend funding for Medicare telehealth flexibilities before it shuts down, forcing providers to limit or cease some virtual care services.

VA AI strategy says early use cases will inform adoption in new EHR

The VA emphasizes in its latest AI strategy update that early use cases of AI will help to inform eventual integration of those capabilities with its EHR and other technologies.

Fortified Health Security Acquires Latitude, Expands Cybersecurity Advisory Capabilities

Fortified Health Security acquires Latitude Information Security and names Latitude CEO Mark Ferrari VP of its new risk and governance services unit.