New York-based Prosper AI has raised $30 million in a series A financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Base10 Partners and continued support from Emergence Capital, Y Combinator and Company Ventures. The round follows six months in…
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Avoidable delays in patient care have long challenged health systems, increasing costs, straining capacity, and disrupting patient flow. Yet many organizations lack the data needed to identify their root causes. West Tennessee Healthcare, a not-for-profit system with seven hospitals serving…
UPMC Enterprises, the innovation, commercialization and venture capital arm of Pittsburgh-based UPMC, has kept up a steady drumbeat of news across its digital health portfolio. Here’s what’s new with UPMC Enterprises’ portfolio companies: 1. Abridge unveiled an AI-native “clinician intelligence…
At the Becker’s Annual Meeting, Elsevier’s ClinicalKey AI sponsored a roundtable that drew clinical and informatics leaders from health systems across the U.S. to examine a central question shaping healthcare AI adoption: Is AI earning its place in clinical decision‑making — or…
Samsung Electronics and Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital’s Diabetes Research Center are launching a clinical study to evaluate whether the Galaxy Watch8 can help adults beginning GLP-1 therapy monitor and potentially manage muscle loss. Here are four things to know about…
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San Oo has been named chief technology officer of healthcare AI startup Abridge. Mr. Oo was most recently senior vice president of engineering at AI workspace developer Notion. He previously cofounded two tech companies that were acquired by LinkedIn and…
Software developer Qualtrics has completed its $6.75 billion acquisition of patient experience company Press Ganey Forsta. The companies agreed to the deal in October to create what they call the “world’s leading experience management platform.” Qualtrics will apply its data…
Older adults are interested in using digital tools to manage their healthcare but often lack the technological wherewithal to do so, CVS Health found. Here are four things to know from CVS’ May 18 research report, which included ethnographic studies,…
A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida convicted the founder and owner of HealthSplash for his role in a scheme that prosecutors said fraudulently billed Medicare and other federal healthcare programs more than $1 billion for medically unnecessary…
Lansing-based University of Michigan Health-Sparrow plans to roll out wearable panic buttons for its home care workers. The health system had offered panic buttons from tech company Canopy to in-hospital staff but is expanding the program to hospice and other…