Applications of AI in healthcare, including medical diagnostics, drug discovery, patient care solutions, and biotechnology research.
Nomad Health announced its transition from a healthcare staffing agency to a software platform company, offering its AI operating system to staffing firms. The company also appointed Tommy Hickey, formerly of Epic Systems, as CEO.
United Imaging Intelligence has released uAI NEXUS MedVLM, an open source medical video large language model built on more than half a million video-instruction pairs. The model outperforms leading general AI systems on clinical video tasks and introduces a new benchmark for evaluation.
Insilico Medicine has announced ISM0387, the first preclinical drug candidate discovered in the UAE using generative AI, developed in collaboration with the Emirates Drug Establishment and supported by Abu Dhabi institutions.
Physician and entrepreneur Dr. Gerald Onuoha has introduced FutureDrx, a healthcare workforce intelligence platform that uses AI to match clinicians with facilities based on specialty and personal preference, aiming to reduce hiring times and improve alignment across the healthcare sector.
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have introduced Cheese3D, an AI-powered system that captures and analyzes subtle mouse facial movements in 3D to study the connection between facial expression and brain activity.
Conscientia Health has launched a virtual primary care service that integrates mental and physical health care using AI tools. The platform serves over 15,000 patients across all 50 states and includes features for preventive care, chronic condition management, and same-day visits.
Cantata Health Solutions unveiled new AI tools at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing 2026 Conference, including the Ask Arize assistant and a partnership with Clinically AI to streamline documentation and compliance for behavioral health providers.
Proteotype Diagnostics has been selected as an industrial beneficiary in the EU-funded HER-CARE Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network, joining leading European cancer research institutions to advance early detection and personalized treatment strategies for hereditary and early-stage breast cancer.
Neurava has received a $4 million NIH Blueprint MedTech Optimizer award to create a quantitative algorithm for assessing and forecasting SUDEP risk in epilepsy patients.
OZMOSI and Planview have announced a partnership to connect structured clinical data with AI portfolio planning, enabling pharmaceutical teams to make faster and more informed R&D decisions.
InVita Healthcare Technologies and Gulf Coast Blood have introduced new capabilities in HemaConnect 2.5 to streamline donor recruitment and scheduling for cell and gene therapy programs.
SamaCare has introduced Medical Benefit Prior Authorization Benchmarks, a dataset that provides quarterly insights into approval rates and time to therapy for specialty medications across medical practices.
Independent Emergency Physicians has made a strategic investment in ConsensioHealth to expand its revenue cycle management platform for emergency medicine. The investment will help scale technology, enhance analytics, and increase transparency for physician groups.
Avenda Health announced that its Unfold AI platform is now included in Medicare Physician Fee Schedules across several Western and Mountain West states, expanding access to AI-guided prostate cancer care in physician office settings.
Heidi, an AI care partner for clinicians, has officially launched in South Africa following organic adoption by over 15,000 clinicians. The platform, which automates clinical documentation and administrative tasks, integrates with local systems and supports offline use in low-connectivity areas.
10x Science has raised $4.8 million in seed funding led by Initialized Capital to develop AI that performs molecular-level protein characterization, aiming to accelerate drug development and expand partnerships across the life sciences.
A peer-reviewed study published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth found that Brook.ai’s AI-supported continuous care model improved hypertension control by 26 percent compared to traditional remote patient monitoring.
Courier Health has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from Norwest and Work-Bench, to enhance its AI-powered patient experience platform for the life sciences industry.
Ada Health and CUF conducted a real-world study published in NEJM AI showing that three in five patients changed their care decisions after using Ada’s symptom assessment tool, doubling the rate of clinically appropriate care.
Amperos Health has raised $16 million in Series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners as it launches its AI platform for automating healthcare claim denial management and revenue recovery.
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