Applications of AI in healthcare, including medical diagnostics, drug discovery, patient care solutions, and biotechnology research.
Radiologists will be able to read images, check prior studies and draft and finalise AI-generated reports in one workspace instead of switching between applications.
KINSYN combines medical records, biomarkers and wearable data, with proprietary AI to help physicians make individual recommendations, including prescriptions and supplements.
Health systems on Azure can pull outside clinical records into Fabric and OneLake through Kno2 and use them in agents built with Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio.
In a survey of 500 US adults commissioned by Penguin Ai, 69% said they would be more upset if AI made or recommended a denial, but 87% would back AI that speeds approvals.
Paris-based Orakl Oncology raised a $34 million Series A led by Norrsken VC and Singular for AI that tests cancer drugs on lab-grown virtual patients.
US health insurer software provider Elligint Health is acquiring Laguna Health, whose AI records and assesses care management calls, in a deal reported at tens of millions of dollars.
Biomatter raised $18 million in an oversubscribed Series A round to expand its computational enzyme design platform and build a facility in Vilnius.
BioMap announced 11 collaborations covering drug research, agricultural breeding, biological modeling and international expansion.
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.
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