Cigna partners with OpenAI to give oncology nurses an AI patient-data tool
The Cigna Group announced a partnership with OpenAI to build AI into clinical workflows at Cigna Healthcare and its Accredo Specialty Pharmacy, starting with cancer care.
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The Cigna Group announced a partnership with OpenAI to build AI into clinical workflows at Cigna Healthcare and its Accredo Specialty Pharmacy, starting with cancer care.
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The Cigna Group announced a partnership with OpenAI to build AI into clinical workflows at Cigna Healthcare and its Accredo Specialty Pharmacy, starting with cancer care.
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Precision Neuroscience closed an oversubscribed $250 million Series D led by Pershing Square, the Ackman Oxman Institute and an undisclosed life-sciences investment fund, bringing its total…
Colorado-based Enveda raised a $311 million Series E led by Catalio Capital Management, reportedly at a $2 billion valuation.
The Department of Veterans Affairs selected Abridge under a five-year, multi-award enterprise contract with a ceiling of $775.72 million to provide ambient AI scribes.
Melbourne-based Heidi Health raised $340 million: a $100 million Series C led by Blackbird at a $900 million valuation, plus $240 million in growth investment from General Catalyst.
CMS released preliminary payment rates for the 2027 Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule on September 21, 2026, showing 1,171 of 1,947 test codes would be paid less than in 2026 under…
DeepHealth, a RadNet company, received FDA 510(k) clearance for Chest XRay, formerly ChestView.
CMS announced that its ACCESS model will add tracks for heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, substance use disorder and tobacco cessation starting in spring 2027.
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OpenEvidence released a family of medical AI search models on September 3.
In a memo to providers, UnitedHealthcare listed about 1,700 medical codes that will no longer need prior authorization for services on or after October 1, 2026.
OpenAI announced on September 1, 2026 that ChatGPT for Healthcare now connects to Epic electronic health records, letting clinicians at participating organizations pull a patient's chart…
Sword Health, a virtual physical therapy company, plans to acquire Headspace's parent company OrangeDot for cash.
The FDA's Digital Health Center of Excellence published a discussion paper on how it might regulate medical devices that use generative AI.
At its 2026 Users Group Meeting in Verona, Wisconsin, Epic introduced Agent Factory, a no-code platform for health systems to build, run and monitor AI agents that act across Epic workflows.
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CMS approved a New Technology Add-on Payment (NTAP) for Aidoc's CARE Body CT Multi-Triage.
Twelve US health systems announced a Diagnostic AI Consortium with Aidoc on August 11, 2026.
RadNet subsidiary DeepHealth received FDA 510(k) clearance on July 30, 2026 for DeepHealth Breast Ultrasound, software that automates lesion detection, characterization and reporting.
Isomorphic Labs — the Alphabet/DeepMind spinoff — is moving past selling AI tools to pharma and into developing its own drug candidates, with trials targeting oncology, cardiovascular…
Johnson & Johnson received FDA de novo authorization on July 22, 2026 for its Ottava robotic surgical system, which builds four robotic arms into the operating table.
Candid Health raised a $120 million Series D led by Sixth Street Growth, with Oak HC/FT, 8VC and Y Combinator participating, announced July 21, 2026.
Tempus AI agreed on July 20, 2026 to acquire Personalis for $16.25 per share, valuing the deal at about $1.5 billion.
CMS's proposed CY 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, released July 14, 2026, would pay for remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) only when the…
Chai Discovery, a San Francisco company founded in 2024, announced a $400 million Series C on July 14, 2026 at a $3.8 billion valuation.
NHS England announced on July 6, 2026 that it will add an AI triage tool to the NHS App.
On June 26, 2026, HHS's Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) said the number of health records exchanged through the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement…
On June 25, 2026, UpDoc publicly announced the FDA 510(k) clearance (K253281, granted in December 2025) of UpDoc V1.0.
On June 25, 2026, Aidoc said the FDA granted Breakthrough Device Designation to First Read, software that analyzes chest radiographs and writes a draft radiology report for a radiologist to…
Assort Health raised a $120 million Series C led by Menlo Ventures at a $1.2 billion valuation, announced June 24, 2026, bringing its total funding to more than $222 million.
Cadence, which runs remote monitoring programs for hypertension, diabetes and heart failure with health systems, raised a $100 million Series C led by Spark Capital at a $1.23 billion…
At the BIO 2026 convention on June 22, 2026, Insilico Medicine and South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals announced a collaboration to find drug candidates for neuroinflammatory,…
Teladoc Health and Walmart announced on May 28, 2026 that Teladoc's virtual care would be offered nationwide through Walmart's Better Care Services platform.
Oura introduced its Ring 5 on May 28, 2026, with plans to add a feature that tracks overnight blood pressure patterns and tells users when to see a doctor.
On May 13, 2026, CMS named 29 early adopters for its Electronic Prior Authorization Acceleration initiative, part of its Health Tech Ecosystem effort.
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Roche signed a definitive agreement on May 7, 2026 to acquire Boston-based PathAI for $750 million upfront plus up to $300 million in milestone payments.
On April 23, 2026, OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Clinicians, a version of ChatGPT for clinical work such as documentation, medical research and care questions, free to US physicians, nurse…
On April 23, 2026, IKS Health agreed to acquire TruBridge for $26.25 a share in cash, a deal Fierce Healthcare valued at $557M including debt.
On April 16, 2026, Hippocratic AI launched Nurse Co-Pilot, an AI voice assistant for inpatient nurses built with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OhioHealth and Cleveland…
On April 15, 2026, ambient scribe company Abridge announced multi-year content deals with NEJM Group and the American Medical Association's JAMA Network.
On April 10, 2026, CMS proposed a rule (CMS-0062-P) that extends its 2024 electronic prior authorization requirements to drugs.
On April 8, 2026, Epic said its customers were the first to share medical records electronically with the Social Security Administration through TEFCA, the federally backed national…
On April 1, 2026, the FDA denied a petition from Sydney-based Harrison.ai.
Mount Sinai Health System announced on March 31, 2026 that it is rolling out OpenEvidence, an AI medical search tool, inside its Epic EHR across its seven hospitals.
Eli Lilly agreed on March 29, 2026 to take an exclusive worldwide license to preclinical oral drugs designed by Insilico Medicine using generative AI.
On March 10, 2026, Amazon began offering Health AI, an agent-based health assistant built on Amazon Bedrock, on Amazon.com and in the Amazon app.
Hospital operator Universal Health Services (UHS) agreed on March 9, 2026 to acquire virtual behavioral health company Talkspace for $5.25 a share, an enterprise value of about $835 million.
Before HIMSS26, Microsoft announced on March 5, 2026 that Dragon Copilot now connects to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Imaging center operator RadNet said on March 2, 2026 that it is acquiring Paris-based Gleamer for up to €230 million in cash: €215 million upfront plus €15 million in milestones.
On February 17, 2026, Danaher agreed to buy Masimo for $180 a share in cash, an enterprise value of about $9.9 billion.
On February 13, 2026, Medtronic announced FDA clearance of Stealth AXiS for spine surgery.
On February 9, 2026, Takeda and San Diego biotech Iambic announced a multi-year deal to design small-molecule drugs with Iambic's AI models.
On February 4, 2026, Epic made AI Charting broadly available to its EHR customers.
On January 15, 2026, Boston Scientific agreed to buy Penumbra for $374 a share in cash and stock, valuing the company at about $14.5 billion.
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On January 7, 2026, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health, a separate health space inside ChatGPT where US users can connect their medical records through the health data network b.well, which…
On January 6, 2026, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced at the Consumer Electronics Show that the agency was relaxing oversight of some digital health products.
On January 6, 2026, Utah's Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy and the startup Doctronic announced a 12-month pilot, set up through the state's regulatory sandbox, in which Doctronic's…
Insilico Medicine listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 30, 2025.
On December 22, 2025, HHS's Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator (ASTP/ONC) proposed the HTI-5 rule.
The FDA qualified PathAI's AIM-MASH AI Assist through its Drug Development Tool biomarker qualification program.
On December 5, 2025, Freenome agreed to merge with Perceptive Capital Solutions Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
On December 3, 2025, Medtronic announced FDA clearance of its Hugo robotic-assisted surgery system for prostatectomy, nephrectomy and cystectomy.
On December 1, 2025, the FDA said it had deployed agentic AI tools, which can plan and carry out multi-step tasks, to all of its employees.
Abbott agreed to acquire Exact Sciences for $105 a share in cash, an equity value of about $21 billion and roughly $23 billion including debt.
GE HealthCare agreed to acquire Intelerad, a Montreal-based maker of cloud PACS, image-sharing and imaging workflow software, for $2.3 billion in cash.
Oracle Health said its new EHR, rebuilt from scratch on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure rather than on the Cerner platform, received ONC health IT certification and met DEA requirements for…
San Diego-based Iambic raised more than $100 million from investors including Sequoia, Regeneron Ventures, Illumina Ventures and Mubadala.
Stereotaxis received FDA 510(k) clearance for GenesisX, its next-generation robotic magnetic navigation system.
CMS named the six companies that will run prior authorization reviews under its WISeR (Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction) model in traditional Medicare: Cohere Health (Texas),…
Hippocratic AI raised a $126 million Series C led by Avenir Growth at a $3.5 billion valuation.
Eli Lilly said it is building, with NVIDIA, what it calls the most powerful supercomputer owned and operated by a pharmaceutical company: the first NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD built on DGX B300…
At HLTH 2025, Optum launched Optum Real, an AI-backed system that lets providers ask a payer in real time about a patient's benefits and whether a claim will be covered at the point of…
OpenEvidence, an AI medical reference tool for clinicians, raised $200 million at a $6 billion valuation in a round led by Google Ventures, with Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Blackstone,…
At HLTH 2025, Microsoft added an ambient AI capability for nurses to Dragon Copilot.
When Congress failed to pass FY2026 funding and the federal government shut down on October 1, 2025, Medicare's pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities expired with it.
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