Morning Headlines 8/4/25

4D Medical secures $10m strategic investment from Pro Medicus

Visage Imaging parent company Pro Medicus invests $10 million in lung function technology vendor 4DMedical.

ASTP/ONC Rule Creates Prescription Drug Cost Transparency, Eases Administrative Burden, and Speeds Access to Care

ASTP/ONC releases the HTI-4 final rule for certified EHRs, which includes updated criteria for electronic prior authorization, electronic prescribing, and real-time prescription benefit information.

Ultromics Lands $55M Series C to Tackle Undiagnosed Heart Failure at Scale

AI-enhanced heart failure detection company Ultromics raises $55 million from a group of investors that include UPMC Enterprises and UCM Ventures.

Morning Headlines 8/1/25

Axonius Acquires Medical Device Security Specialist Cynerio for More Than $100 Million to Target Healthcare Market

Cybersecurity startup Axonius acquires medical device security technology vendor Cynerio for $100 million.

JotPsych Secures $5M Seed Round from Base10 Partners, Fast-Tracking Transition to First Fully Agentic EHR

JotPsych, a developer of AI scribe software for behavioral health providers, raises $5 million in seed funding.

Sword Health Launches Intelligence, a New AI Division, to Expand Beyond Care Delivery and Transform Healthcare’s Most Critical Operational Workflows

Digital physical therapy company Sword Health launches an AI division specializing in modular AI care managers.

Waystar Reports Second Quarter 2025 Results

Waystar reports Q2 revenue of $270.7 million, beating analyst expectations for both revenue and earnings per share.

Morning Headlines 7/31/25

Blackstone Acquires Healthcare Tech Firm AGS for $1.1 Billion

Blackstone will acquire RCM vendor AGS Health for $1.1 billion.

C8 Health Raises $12M Series A for the Healthcare Industry’s First AI-Powered, Best Practices Implementation Platform

C8 Health, which specializes in delivering care standards and protocols at the point of care, announces $12 million in Series A funding.

White House, Tech Leaders Commit to Create Patient-Centric Healthcare Ecosystem

Dozens of companies pledge to support new federal data-sharing projects that include a public-private interoperability initiative and a digital health aggregation effort designed to help Medicare patients more easily track and access their own data.

Morning Headlines 7/30/25

Ambience Healthcare Announces $243 Million Series C to Scale its AI Platform for Health Systems

Ambience Healthcare, which offers AI-based clinical documentation, coding, and workflow support, raises $243 million in a Series C funding round.

Arbital Health Secures $31M Series B to Scale Infrastructure for Value-Based Care Risk Contracting

Risk-based contracting software vendor Arbital Health raises $31 million in a Series B funding round.

Clinisys Acquires Orchard Software

Lab informatics company Clinisys acquires Orchard Software, a laboratory information systems vendor, from Francisco Partners.

Teladoc Health Reports Second Quarter 2025 Results

Teladoc Health reports a 2% drop in Q2 revenue, but beats analyst expectations for revenue and earnings per share.

Morning Headlines 7/29/25

TA Invests in HealthMark Group to Support the Next Phase of Growth

HealthMark Group, which offers release-of-information services, announces new funding from private equity firm TA Associates.

Floe Health Launches to Power Intelligence at Every Patient Touchpoint

Healthcare AI startup Floe Health launches to help providers automate and manage patient engagement between visits.

Mayo Clinic deploys NVIDIA Blackwell infrastructure to drive generative AI solutions in medicine

Mayo Clinic implements advanced computing infrastructure from Nvidia to accelerate AI foundation model development for pathology, drug discovery, and precision medicine.

Morning Headlines 7/28/25

US Health, Tech Officials to Launch Data-Sharing Plan

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz will reportedly meet with tech executives Wednesday to seek vendor support for patient data sharing.

Regulatory Accelerator

The FDA releases the Regulatory Accelerator, which provides digital health innovators with resources to help bring their product to market.

Philips announces collaboration with Epic to enhance ambulatory cardiac monitoring

Philips will integrate its cardiac ambulatory monitoring and diagnostics services with Epic’s Aura diagnostics data-exchange platform.

Morning Headlines 7/25/25

ASTP/ONC Standards Bulletin 2025-2

ASTP/ONC releases USCDI v6 with new data elements that include implantable medical device UDI, portable medical orders, facility address, care plan, date of onset, and family health history.

GovCIO, a Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe Company, to Acquire SoldierPoint Digital Health, LLC

Government IT firm GovCIO acquires SoldierPoint Digital Health, which provides virtual care services to veterans through the Veterans Health Administration’s Office of Connected Care.

As ambient scribes face off, Doximity lures doctors with a free option

Doximity launches an ambient documentation solution that is free to clinicians, though not integrated with EHRs.

DHS and HHS among federal agencies hacked in Microsoft Sharepoint breach

White House officials confirm that several government agencies including HHS and its National Institutes of Health and the Department of Homeland Security have been impacted by the Microsoft Sharepoint cyberattack.

Morning Headlines 7/24/25

Waystar to Acquire Iodine Software, Accelerating the AI-Powered Transformation of Healthcare Payments

Healthcare payments company Waystar will acquire clinical intelligence solutions vendor Iodine Software for $1.25 billion.

Aidoc Secures $150M for CARE, its Healthcare Foundation Model, to Transform Clinical Decision-Making for 100 Million Patients

Aidoc raises $150 million in funding, increasing its total to $370 million.

CaringAI Launches Voice-Based Dementia Care Platform, Appoints Dr. Stephanie Ruth Young as Clinical Research Advisor

CaringAI launches to offer providers AI-powered dementia assessment, care planning, and care management solutions.

Morning Headlines 7/23/25

Senate Committee Approves FY 2026 MilCon-VA Appropriations Bill

The Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill that allocates $3.5 billion to the VA to restart its Oracle Health implementation.

Humana Accelerates Efforts to Eliminate Prior Authorization Requirements to Ensure a Faster, More Seamless Process

Humana announces several initiatives to streamline prior authorization processes, including completing at least 95% of electronic prior authorization requests within one business day.

Charta Health Raises $22 Million Series A to Rebuild the Backbone of Healthcare Operations with AI

AI-enabled chart review software vendor Charta Health raises $22 million in a Series A funding round.

Morning Headlines 7/22/25

CMS Innovation Center plans hiring spree after cuts

CMS is reportedly looking to hire 100 employees at its Innovation Center, which was established in 2010 to develop and pilot new care delivery and payment models.

TechMatter Acquires DoctorPapers to Expand Its Healthcare RCM Footprint

Health IT services and staffing company TechMatter acquires billing, coding, and virtual staffing vendor DoctorPapers.

Hackensack Meridian Health Names Dr. Joel Klein, Renowned Physician and Technology Executive, as Chief Digital Information Officer

Joel Klein, MD (University of Maryland Medical System) will join Hackensack Meridian Health (NJ) in September as chief digital information officer.

Morning Headlines 7/21/25

Humana Simplifies Access to Coverage and Care Information

Humana integrates its health plan information with Epic, which allows patients to track deductibles and access health plan resources from their provider’s MyChart.

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE

HHS gives the Department of Homeland Security’s ICE agents access to the names and addresses of 79 million Medicaid recipients that will be used to track down those who are living in the US illegally.

American Heart Association Ventures Invests in Auxira Health to Transform Cardiology Care Delivery

Virtual cardiology care delivery startup Auxira Health announces funding from the Studio Red arm of American Heart Association Ventures.

Morning Headlines 7/18/25

Senators reveal how much Lilly, Pfizer paid telehealth companies

A Senate investigation finds that direct-to-consumer telehealth platforms that are operated by drug companies steer patients toward their own drugs.

Ensemble Announces Strategic Revenue Cycle Partnership with Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare

Ensemble Health Partners will take over Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare’s revenue cycle operations across its six hospitals in Tennessee.

CareCloud Launches AI-Driven, Fully Integrated Dermatology EHR to Streamline Workflows and Enhance Patient Care

CareCloud launches a dermatology EHR with AI-powered charting.

Morning Headlines 7/17/25

E Health Partners acquires Assertus to expand digital health leadership

In Puerto Rico, EHR vendor E Health Partners acquires RCM company Assertus Holdings.

CRMC confirms ransomware attack

Cookeville Regional Medical Center (TN) takes its systems offline while it investigates a ransomware attack first detected Sunday.

Can AI Detect Hidden Heart Disease?

Researchers at Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian develop a highly accurate AI tool that analyzes ECGs to identify patients who should undergo more expensive ultrasound screening for structural heart disease.

Morning Headlines 7/16/25

Abacus and Medicus IT Merge, Creating The Leading Financial Services and Healthcare-focused IT Managed Services Platform

The private equity owner of Abacus Group and Medicus IT will merge the managed services providers into a new company.

OpenEvidence, the Fastest-Growing Application for Physicians in History, Announces $210 Million Round at $3.5 Billion Valuation

AI-powered medical search and clinical decision support company OpenEvidence raises $210 million in a Series B funding round.

Sellers Dorsey Acquires DignifiHealth

Healthcare consulting firm Sellers Dorsey acquires DignifiHealth, which offers value-based care and population health data analytics.

Morning Headlines 7/15/25

FTC Takes Action Against Telemedicine Firm NextMed Over Charges It Used Misleading Prices, Fake Reviews, and Deceptive Weight Loss Claims to Sell GLP-1 Weight-Loss Programs

Online weight-loss prescription delivery company NextMed will pay $150,000 to settle FTC charges related to deceptive and false representation of its products and consumer reviews.

CMS Proposes Physician Payment Rule to Significantly Cut Spending Waste, Enhance Quality Measures, and Improve Chronic Disease Management for People with Medicare

CMS seeks comment on its 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, which, if adopted, could simplify the process of making select services available via telehealth and expand payment policies for digital mental health treatments.

Goldman Sachs Alternatives Leads EvolvedMD’s $34mm Series B Investment

EvolvedMD, which offers primary care providers tech-enabled behavioral healthcare coordination services, raises $34 million in a Series B funding round.

Morning Headlines 7/14/25

KC-area hospital sues Blue KC, says AI-powered insurance denials ignored doctors

AdventHealth Shawnee Mission sues BCBS of Kansas City, claiming that the insurer withheld $2 million in payments using Apixio’s AI chart review technology, which flagged “clinically invalid” physician diagnoses.

Duke Endowment awards $4M to Atrium, funding first rural NC virtual nursing facility

Atrium Health (NC) will use Duke Endowment grant money to implement virtual nursing capabilities at its Stanly hospital, study the effects of a recently implemented AI translation tool, and develop an app and online platform for improved communication between the health system and its virtual clinics in local schools.

Samsung to launch AI health coach beta in US by end-2025

Samsung will roll out a beta version of an AI-powered health coach chatbot in the US by the end of the year.

Morning Headlines 7/11/25

Canopy and Commure Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Staff Safety in Healthcare

Canopy Health drops its May 2025 lawsuit against Commure and will take over customer management of Commure’s Strongline Pro panic button system.

Johns Hopkins Health System Announces the Official Launch of Illustra Health

Johns Hopkins Health System (MD) makes its new Illustra Health suite of population health analytics and implementation services commercially available.

Humanoid robot startup Diligent taps Cruise executives as it looks beyond healthcare

Diligent Robotics, which sells the Moxi hospital robot, hires two executives from a robotaxi firm as it moves into other industries.