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Applications of AI in healthcare, including medical diagnostics, drug discovery, patient care solutions, and biotechnology research.

Oct 15, 2026

Zealand Pharma signs AI obesity drug deal worth up to $1.2 billion

Zealand Pharma will use Generate:Biomedicines' generative AI platform to develop protein treatments for obesity and metabolic diseases under a deal worth up to $1.2 billion.

Oct 15, 2026

Waterdrop Says AI Cut Complex Underwriting Time by 80% in 2025

Waterdrop's 2025 ESG report says its KEYI.AI underwriting system reduced processing time for complex health insurance cases by 80% and achieved 99.8% accuracy.

Oct 15, 2026

Sunbound Acquires Richter and Raises $24 Million

Sunbound acquired Richter Healthcare Consultants and closed a $24 million Series A round led by TTV Capital. The deal adds revenue cycle, accounting and consulting services for senior care operators to Sunbound's software platform.

Oct 15, 2026

SciBase Secures First US Insurance Coverage for Nevisense

SciBase secured its first medical policy from a private US insurer covering the use of Nevisense to assess certain suspicious skin lesions.

Oct 15, 2026

SimBioSys Gets FDA Clearance for AI Breast Cancer Recurrence Tool

TumorSight Risk analyzes breast MRI, pathology and clinical data to estimate recurrence risk at five and ten years for certain patients with early stage breast cancer.

Oct 15, 2026

HIMSS27 Opens Registration for 2027 Chicago Health IT Conference

HIMSS27 will take place April 5 to 8, 2027, in Chicago, with more than 600 education sessions and over 900 exhibitors.

Oct 15, 2026

wisepatientAI Launches AI Search for Medical Records

wisepatientAI now lets patients ask questions about their medical history and receive answers based on records collected from multiple providers.

Oct 14, 2026

Colossal Unveils GenoMorph AI Platform for Dodo Genome Editing

GenoMorph identified about 2,300 regulatory DNA candidates associated with bird beak size and shape, providing targets for testing in the dodo restoration program.

Oct 14, 2026

Likang to Present AI Cancer Immunotherapy Platform in Abu Dhabi

Likang Life Sciences will present its AI based neoantigen discovery platform at the Abu Dhabi Future Health Summit 2026, held October 20 to 22.

Oct 14, 2026

INmune Bio and QCi Apply Quantum Computing to XPro Research

INmune Bio and Quantum Computing Inc. will use quantum optimization, AI and data analytics to identify potential disease indications and biomarkers for the investigational treatment XPro.

Oct 14, 2026

WeInfuse and Clarion Connect AI Agents to Infusion Workflows

WeInfuse and Clarion have partnered to connect AI agents with infusion and pharmacy data. The agents handle routine patient calls using current order, authorization and appointment information.

Oct 14, 2026

Brainomix and Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Partner on AI Lung Imaging Research

Brainomix and the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation will study how patients and caregivers understand quantitative CT results from the e-Lung imaging tool.

Oct 14, 2026

Illumina Launches BioInsight Platform for Genomic Research

Illumina launched a unified software environment that combines genomic analysis applications, AI models and curated biological data.

Oct 14, 2026

PhaseV Validates GLP-1 Adverse Event Model on Patient Data

PhaseV says its causal model predicted weight changes, adverse events and treatment dropout among patients taking GLP-1 and related incretin medications.

Oct 14, 2026

TRI adds AI risk assessment to OPRA clinical trial platform

OPRA 26.2 adds an AI agent that analyzes clinical trial protocols and drafts risk assessments for human review.

Oct 13, 2026

OpenEvidence and Johns Hopkins Partner on Medical AI and Education

OpenEvidence and Johns Hopkins Medicine will develop an AI focused medical education model and clinical tools that combine research evidence with patient histories.

Oct 13, 2026

Stryker Plans $400 Million CMR Surgical Investment

Stryker plans to invest about $400 million in CMR Surgical and become the exclusive U.S. sales agent for its Versius surgical robot portfolio.

Oct 13, 2026

Suvoda Expands Sofia to All New RTSM and eCOA Trials

Suvoda is making its Sofia AI assistant, which can take authorized system actions with an audit trail, available for all new trials using its RTSM/IRT or eCOA products.

Oct 13, 2026

HealthpointCapital Invests in Surgical Software Company Ospitek

HealthpointCapital has made a significant investment in Ospitek, which provides AI software for surgical operations and patient flow. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Oct 13, 2026

Prologue Medicines names Stephen Harrison chief scientific officer

Stephen Harrison will direct Prologue Medicines' scientific strategy and the development of its DELVE machine learning platform and drug pipeline.

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