Applications of AI in healthcare, including medical diagnostics, drug discovery, patient care solutions, and biotechnology research.
Optum and Alameda Alliance for Health are partnering to automate claims adjudication with agentic AI. The project will begin with claims workflows and later expand to other operations.
Mosaic Intelligence Labs raised $47 million in seed funding to develop sensing instruments, AI and robotic systems for procedures inside blood vessels.
Czech medical technology startup Kardi AI raised €5.3 million in Series A funding to expand its heart monitoring platform across Europe and Asia.
Switchpoint Bio raised $5.3 million to develop a platform that uses AI and blood based epigenomic profiling to measure biological changes during treatment.
Google Cloud launched Gemini for healthcare in preview, an agentic AI product that connects to Epic and Oracle Health records, with HCA, Northwell and Optum among its launch customers.
Oura agreed to buy AI-native primary care company Counsel Health for $625 million in cash, as its quarterly revenue grew 153% to $533 million.
In a program with New Jersey safety net hospital Bergen New Bridge, Dimer Health's clinicians and AI tools referred or scheduled 89% of patients with care gaps, the company says.
Israel's largest healthcare provider will build a voice and LLM-based system on Google Cloud for appointments, intake and triage in regional dialects, reachable by landline.
Elomia Health has acquired Earkick, adding its AI models and early access to its Mia21 memory engine to the API Elomia offers healthcare providers for wellbeing chatbots.
XpertDox is deploying its XpertCoding autonomous medical coding software at Camarena Health, a federally qualified health center with more than 20 locations in California's Central Valley.
Palantir urged a UK health minister to consider adding GP records to the NHS federated data platform, despite their exclusion from its current £330 million contract.
OpenEvidence will integrate clinical guidance and journal content from the American College of Physicians into its decision support platform for doctors.
Radiology patient information was processed with AI tools between 10 and 20 June against the medical school's policies; the research has been suspended.
In the 530-patient PARAMOUNT trial presented at AHA 2026, care guided by Cleerly's AI plaque analysis beat usual care with a win ratio of 2.00.
The University of Exeter will lead a six year project that combines AI, brain imaging, genetics, blood biomarkers and cognitive tests to support earlier dementia detection.
Three cancer research teams will test AURORA, an agentic AI system that analyzes evidence, proposes hypotheses and suggests experiments. Human researchers will retain control over scientific decisions and evaluate its recommendations in laboratory studies.
Siggy raised $6 million in pre seed funding for a mental health service that collects patient histories and tracks progress between appointments.
Paris based Granit raised $6 million to expand its AI agents for healthcare billing and insurance administration across Europe.
Isomorphic Labs is discussing a $5 billion funding round at a $50 billion valuation as it prepares to begin its first clinical trials.
GE HealthCare led the Series B financing, which will support Laza Medical's AI and robotics based imaging system for cardiac procedures.
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