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

Mednet Launches TrialMatch for Cancer Clinical Trial Discovery

Mednet has launched TrialMatch, an AI clinical trial discovery tool that helps oncologists find relevant cancer trials using patient profiles in natural language.

August 20, 2026

Matwings Supports GenSci148 Protein Program Cleared for China Clinical Trial

Matwings said GenSci148 Injection received clinical trial clearance in China and described its work on four AI and wet lab protein engineering cycles covering 222 variants.

August 20, 2026

MaxQ Medical Raises $31.5 Million for Prostate Care Platform

MaxQ Medical raised $31.5 million in Series A funding to grow its team and advance clinical work on a transurethral imaging and therapy system for prostate care.

August 20, 2026

Benchling Adds Chemistry Tools and Inductive Bio Models to R&D Platform

Benchling has expanded its research and development platform into chemistry with Reactions, a tool for planning one step synthesis, and predictive small molecule models from Inductive Bio.

August 20, 2026

Net Health Adds Chart Audit to Optima Unity EMR

Net Health has launched Chart Audit in Optima Unity EMR, adding compliance review using AI for rehab therapy documentation before clinician approval.

August 20, 2026

GenScript Says AI Drug Discovery Business Doubled in First Half

GenScript reported first half revenue of about US$404.2 million, up 27.3% year over year, and said its AI enabled drug discovery business doubled from a year earlier.

August 19, 2026

AssureCare Names Brian Litten EVP of Growth and Commercialization

AssureCare appointed Brian Litten as Executive Vice President of Growth and Commercialization to support work with health plans, health systems, and pharmacies.

August 19, 2026

DeepCyte Launches DeeTox Atlas for AI Toxicology

DeepCyte launched DeeTox Atlas, a single cell metabolomic reference atlas for drug toxicity mechanisms, with pharma pilots starting in the coming months.

August 19, 2026

Oracle Health Adds Coding and Dictation to Clinical AI Agent

Oracle Health has added coding, dictation, and chart review features to Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent for U.S. users.

August 19, 2026

Empatica Gets FDA Clearance for Parkinson's Monitoring Platform

Empatica received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Health Monitoring Platform for Parkinson's, which uses wearables, an app, cloud technology, and a clinician portal to track symptoms over time.

August 19, 2026

Luma Health and PCC Add AI Communications to Pediatric EHR

Luma Health and Physician's Computer Company have partnered to integrate Luma communications into PCC for more than 300 independent pediatric practices.

August 19, 2026

Ours Privacy Raises $15M for Healthcare Marketing Data Platform

Ours Privacy raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Lightbank and Health Velocity Capital. The company offers a customer data platform for healthcare marketers that is compliant with HIPAA.

August 19, 2026

SandboxAQ Makes AQPotency Available for Drug Discovery

SandboxAQ has made AQPotency generally available on Claude through Model Context Protocol. The model ranks candidate molecules for drug discovery without requiring a solved protein structure.

August 19, 2026

ADRES Launches AI Medical Claims Auditing System with Blend360

ADRES and Blend360 launched PAACME, an AI system that processes and audits medical claims in Colombia using Claude models on Amazon Bedrock.

August 19, 2026

Curavit Acquires Lindus Health CRO Assets

Curavit Clinical Research has acquired the CRO assets of Lindus Health, expanding its clinical trial operations across the U.S. and Europe.

August 19, 2026

Hopscotch Primary Care Raises $53 Million for Rural Health Care Expansion

Hopscotch Primary Care raised $53 million in Series D financing to expand its rural primary care model and scale its technology powered operations.

August 18, 2026

BPD Healthcare Introduces Violet AI Team Member

BPD Healthcare introduced Violet, an AI powered team member that connects healthcare intelligence from its ThirdBase data platform for client strategy and performance work.

August 18, 2026

PolyAI Adds Direct Epic Integration for Healthcare Contact Centers

PolyAI has added a direct integration with Epic through Connection Hub on Epic Showroom. PDS Health is using it across more than 1,100 dental and medical offices for appointment scheduling and patient support.

August 18, 2026

Sitero Releases Ash Workflows for Clinical Study Setup and Data Review

Sitero has released three Ash agentic workflows for study configuration, data management, and insights across the clinical data lifecycle.

August 18, 2026

Happy Health Raises $75 Million for Home Healthcare

Happy Health has raised $75 million for its home healthcare business. The company says its FDA cleared smart ring can diagnose sleep apnea in as few as three nights.

August 18, 2026

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