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A Reading Guide to Chinese Biotech — A curated primer for understanding China's fast-growing biotech sector and its key players.

OpenMed — An open collection of medical-domain AI models for tasks like clinical NLP and diagnosis support.

State of Clinical AI Report 2026 — An industry report tracking adoption, trust, and outcomes of AI deployed in clinical settings.

Mayo Clinic AI helps specialists detect pancreatic cancer up to 3 years before diagnosis in landmark validation study — Mayo Clinic AI detects pancreatic cancer up to 3 years before diagnosis in landmark validation study. Learn more.

AI to Help Assess Clinical Quality: Example (potential) Darth Vecdor Use Case + Configs — Darth Vecdor is open source, freely available software to create knowledge bases using LLMs (like ChatGPT). With some trepidation, I share a set of example Darth Vedor configurations that may facilitate clinical quality measurment and improvement in healthcare.

HIMSS 2026 Recap and Major Announcements — HIMSS annoucements.

Datasets — Open Health Data Hub

AWS launches Amazon Connect Health to reduce administrative burden in health care

Large Language Models in Oncology: Navigating Promise and Prudence in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape | JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics

Review of Large Language Models for Patient and Caregiver Support in Cancer Care Delivery - PubMed

Redesign Spark | Redesign Health — Incubator from Redesign Health.

Researchers argue the next major cancer breakthrough lies in prevention—tracking genetic mutations, pre-cancerous lesions, and clonal cell groups to enable early interventional strategies before tumors form.

A landmark Nature study advances rare disease differential diagnosis by leveraging AI and genomic data to identify novel disease associations and improve diagnostic accuracy for understudied conditions.

Hims & Hers Health announces a $1.15 billion acquisition of Eucalyptus, an Australian telehealth startup, signaling aggressive expansion into international digital health markets and prescription services.

Isomorphic Labs unveils its Drug Design Engine, a breakthrough AI platform that goes beyond AlphaFold to accelerate drug discovery and molecular design.

CB Insights publishes comprehensive State of Digital Health 2025 report analyzing trends and investment patterns

Bessemer Venture Partners releases State of Health AI 2026 report exploring AI adoption in healthcare

Healthcare AI adoption analysis and why the technology is becoming increasingly viable in clinical settings

Posts - Community - Remo Health Consider making a community like this for care management.

Ambience Healthcare AI Scribe Platform has 50 customers

Lume Health We should just have Standard Time

Comparing OpenAI Health with a bespoke flow by Josh Mandel on youtube

Medical AI intelligence test

Caregiving Moonshot - Caregiving moonshot

HealthIT Deregulation Innovation

Over 300,000 Individuals Impacted by Vitas Hospice Data Breach

How It Works v2 HealthCare replacement.

Why Am I Paying $40,000 for the Birth of My Child? Super true story

AI Healthcare Vision

Trilliant Health Delivers on the Promise of Hospital Price Transparency Regulation: Easily Accessible Data chatbot

Trilliant Health Delivers on the Promise of Hospital Price Transparency Regulation: Easily Accessible Data chatbot

Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us―and How AI Could Save Lives: Blease, Charlotte: 9780300247145: Amazon.com: Books

TELOS like Life advise

How AI is already playing a role at the country's largest for-profit hospital chain HCA is partnering with Google to overhaul the 400,000 weekly nurse shift handoffs by using AI to synthesize charts and reduce one of nursing’s riskiest workflows. It is also working with GE Healthcare on an FDA-submitted model that reads fetal heart monitoring strips in labor and delivery.

Marketplaces in the Age of AI good example is counsel -- get free info before talking to a doctor.

Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore? (church.substack.com)

Grieving family uses AI chatbot to cut hospital bill from $195,000 to $33,000 — family says Claude highlighted duplicative charges, improper coding, and other violations

Obamacare enrollees get first look at 2026 prices as premiums soar | CNN Politics

Associate of Applied Science - Cancer Registry Management

Digital Health 50: The most promising digital health startups of 2025 - CB Insights Research More than 12,000 healthcare leaders gathered in Las Vegas for HLTH 2025, where AI and automation took center stage again, but this year’s focus was on how “agents” are beginning to take action across workflows vs just assisting with them. covered by Healthcareaiguy

Digital Health 50: The most promising digital health startups of 2025 - CB Insights Research More than 12,000 healthcare leaders gathered in Las Vegas for HLTH 2025, where AI and automation took center stage again, but this year’s focus was on how “agents” are beginning to take action across workflows vs just assisting with them. covered by Healthcareaiguy

Concierge Care for all: What would it look like? – The Health Care Blog Use this to implement an open source agent for concierge care.

Lessons From The Medical Error That Orphaned A Cabinet Secretary – The Health Care Blog What was the real patient safety error? Is there a database of these?

The Real Time Medical Systems v. PointClickCare Casebook

One Copilot to Rule Them All Co-pilot Blocks!

Verily rolls out consumer app for free health guidance, AI agent

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Koda Health, which provides software to help patients plan for future care in case of serious illnesses or injuries, has raised $7 million in Series …

AI isn't replacing radiologists AI models like CheXNet and those from Annalise.ai or Aidoc can outperform humans on narrow imaging benchmarks, yet they still struggle in real-world hospital settings.

How Naviday Health Is Transforming Menopause Care With AI-Guided Support

AI in Healthcare

The Meteoric Growth of Special Needs Plans (SNPs)

World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2025

The Changing Face Of Healthcare: The Rise Of The Middlemen

Conversational Interoperability Takes Shape: A Read-Out from the HL7 Connectathon | LinkedIn Conversation Interoperability.

Acute Effects of Coffee Consumption on Health among Ambulatory Adults | NEJM Ask AI to summarize this Trial Design.

Glioblastoma - Edward Chang

The Billionaires Fueling the Quest for Longer Life

Epic Launches Comet: A New AI Platform to Predict Patient Health Journeys

How Often Do Health Insurers Say No to Patients? No One Knows.

Q2 2025 Healthtech VC Trends | PitchBook Top companies in 2025 VC deals so far -- Transcarent, Abridge, Function Health, Commure, United Imaging Intelligence, Tennr, Kakehashi, Cohere Health, Akido Labs, Nabla

Q2 2025 Healthtech VC Trends | PitchBook Top companies in 2025 VC deals so far -- Transcarent, Abridge, Function Health, Commure, United Imaging Intelligence, Tennr, Kakehashi, Cohere Health, Akido Labs, Nabla

Q2 2025 Healthtech VC Trends | PitchBook Top companies in 2025 VC deals so far -- Transcarent, Abridge, Function Health, Commure, United Imaging Intelligence, Tennr, Kakehashi, Cohere Health, Akido Labs, Nabla

Q2 2025 Healthtech VC Trends | PitchBook Top companies in 2025 VC deals so far -- Transcarent, Abridge, Function Health, Commure, United Imaging Intelligence, Tennr, Kakehashi, Cohere Health, Akido Labs, Nabla

Q2 2025 Healthtech VC Trends | PitchBook Top companies in 2025 VC deals so far -- Transcarent, Abridge, Function Health, Commure, United Imaging Intelligence, Tennr, Kakehashi, Cohere Health, Akido Labs, Nabla

Q2 2025 Healthtech VC Trends | PitchBook Top companies in 2025 VC deals so far -- Transcarent, Abridge, Function Health, Commure, United Imaging Intelligence, Tennr, Kakehashi, Cohere Health, Akido Labs, Nabla

Q2 2025 Healthtech VC Trends | PitchBook Top companies in 2025 VC deals so far -- Transcarent, Abridge, Function Health, Commure, United Imaging Intelligence, Tennr, Kakehashi, Cohere Health, Akido Labs, Nabla

Q2 2025 Healthtech VC Trends | PitchBook Top companies in 2025 VC deals so far -- Transcarent, Abridge, Function Health, Commure, United Imaging Intelligence, Tennr, Kakehashi, Cohere Health, Akido Labs, Nabla

Q2 2025 Healthtech VC Trends | PitchBook Top companies in 2025 VC deals so far -- Transcarent, Abridge, Function Health, Commure, United Imaging Intelligence, Tennr, Kakehashi, Cohere Health, Akido Labs, Nabla

Q2 2025 Healthtech VC Trends | PitchBook Top companies in 2025 VC deals so far -- Transcarent, Abridge, Function Health, Commure, United Imaging Intelligence, Tennr, Kakehashi, Cohere Health, Akido Labs, Nabla

Q2 2025 Healthtech VC Trends | PitchBook Top companies in 2025 VC deals so far -- Transcarent, Abridge, Function Health, Commure, United Imaging Intelligence, Tennr, Kakehashi, Cohere Health, Akido Labs, Nabla

OpenAI taps Instagram and Doximity execs to lead its next AI healthcare push

Doctors develop AI stethoscope that can detect major heart conditions in 15 seconds Neat Idea.

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ALIGNMT AI Raises $6.5M to Deliver AI Governance for Healthcare

Epic Unveils Major AI Features

Hunting down my $34.94 lab test. An journey into the bowels of insurance billing – The Health Care Blog

The ROI of exercise Discussion

The ROI of exercise Discussion

Highmark Health taps Abridge to build 'real-time' prior authorization using AI

Using AI Made Doctors Worse at Spotting Cancer Without Assistance Idea of actually developing AI who's main goal is skill the humans involved.

Announcing Stedi’s $70 million Series B to build the only AI-enabled clearinghouse 70m for AI Enabled clearinghouse

AI system summarizes medical lawsuits to help doctors avoid legal pitfalls

Citizen Health Raises $30M Series A to Build AI Advocate for Every Patient | Accelerating Rare Disease Cures AI Advocate for Everyone.

If Americans want abundant primary care, health care needs a YIMBY moment

The Starfield Signal: A Shared Vision and Roadmap for AI in Primary Care | Rock Health AI In primary care.

Sina Haeri, CEO of Ouma Health, on building a new maternity model A new maternity model

Healthcare – The Ultimate Vertical Market (Part 1) | Tidemark

The Shape of Healthcare SaaS and Epic’s Strategy

Charta Health: AI-Powered Chart Review

Generative AI as Third Agent: Large Language Models and the Transformation of the Clinician-Patient Relationship

Bain Capital-backed Heartflow valued at $2.27 billion in solid Nasdaq debut

August Health: $29 Million Series B Funding Raised To Advance HER Platform

Illinois just banned AI from acting like a therapist

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July Monthly Review: OpenAI Builds a PHR?

Stanford Medicine: Virtual Scientist AI Research

Washington takes on interop (Again)

Sword Health launches new AI agents for payers, providers as it expands beyond MSK care

Enterprise innovation in action: Sutter Health’s three-lane approach to transforming care | Rock Health

Staqc: Track and Analyze Your Health Data Innovative company

Healthcare AI Guy Weekly | 8/5 Sword Health big on AI

AI in Healthcare Masterclass | Momentum

Pioneering an AI clinical copilot with Penda Health

Charta Health raises $22M for AI healthcare operations platform

Coronary Calcium Score CT Scan consult | General Medicine

Aidoc adds $150M to coffers

From residency to rocketship—how SmarterDx became a healthcare AI success story

One Biosciences raises €15 million to advance single-cell oncology platform

HL7 International to develop standards for AI, leveraging FHIR

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Pharma AI readiness: How the 50 largest companies by market cap stack up - CB Insights Research

MedGemma: Our most capable open models for health AI development

These are the 9 healthcare startups next in line to go public, according to bankers and investors

VC-Backable TAM in Healthtech: Challengers and Enablers

One Big Beautiful Bill brings changes for employee benefit plans

Carrot Fertility Launches Sprints Program Targeting Metabolic-Fertility Connections | Femtech Insider

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Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestraitor

Arine raises 30m.

using open source models for radiology

You’ve figured out a way to reduce care costs. Now, prove it to payers.

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New AI can improve non-derma’s ability to diagnose skin conditions

Nabla Raises $70M Series C to Deliver Agentic AI to the Heart of Clinical Workflows, Bringing Total Funding to $120M

Omada Health shares rise in Nasdaq debut as digital health IPO market reopens

Clinicians can ‘chat’ with medical records through new AI software, ChatEHR

AI Drug Startup Touts Promising Advance in Treating Lung Disease Insilico Medicine, has achieved a clinical first: a drug developed using artificial intelligence

Exclusive look at Nourish's new suite of AI tools for patients and providers Billion Dollar Valuation of Nourish

Generative AI for Clinical Conversations | Abridge Kaiser uses Abridge, and its an Epic shop which introduced AI launched genai

Generative AI for Clinical Conversations | Abridge Kaiser uses Abridge, and its an Epic shop which introduced AI launched genai

OpenEvidence Surfaces clinical answers from trusted research