AI scribes can increase billing intensity. One multihospital system saw Level 5 visits rise 5% and Level 4 visits 7% after deploying a scribe, adding about $1,004 in monthly revenue per provider.

Prior auth is getting faster, not necessarily cheaper. Providers and payers are both automating submissions, denials, and appeals, but PHTI found no evidence yet that AI lowers average cost per claim once the tool itself is included.

The higher-value clinical use cases are still stuck. Hypertension management and mental health are two areas where AI could expand access and deliver more continuous care, but payment, liability, and licensure still get in the way.

PHTI’s proposed fix is mostly about incentives: better real-world evidence, clearer rules for coverage and liability, payment tied more closely to outcomes, and redesigning workflows instead of layering AI on top of broken ones. CMS’s new ACCESS model, with 160+ organizations, is one early example.

Zero conversations were stopped for safety reasons. Supervisors noted one hallucination across the study.

AMIE included the eventual diagnosis in its top 7 possibilities 90% of the time, and in its top 3 in 75%.

Of the PCPs who reviewed AMIE before the visit, 33 of 44 said it helped them prepare, while 25 said it may have changed their approach.

Clinical evaluators rated the conversations favorably across 87% to 100% of assessed criteria.

Biohub: $500M toward imaging, measurement technology, data generation and external research.

Department of Energy: $500M+ over five years for biological measurement, modeling, compute and national lab infrastructure.

NIH: $500M+ in federally funded datasets, repositories and other research resources.

Google DeepMind + Isomorphic Labs + Meta: another $300M toward the Virtual Biology Initiative.

Abridge launches an AI assistant inside clinical workflows: Clinicians can ask questions, surface chart context and guidelines, fill calculators, and draft referrals and handoffs for review. (link)

Teladoc adds an AI scribe and camera-based vitals to Solo: SoloScribe is available for ambient documentation, while SoloVitals’ smartphone-based heart and respiratory rate measurements remain in private preview. (link)

JAMA is launching an AI journal: JAMA AI, the network’s 14th journal, will debut in early 2027 under editor Roy Perlis, covering AI and computational technologies across healthcare. (link)

Cellino lets adults bank their immune cells for future use: Reservoir preserves cells from a blood draw for long-term storage and releases them at the participant’s direction. (link)

Happy Health reports FDA clearance for cuff-free blood pressure: The company says Happy Ring enables passive day-and-night measurements without a traditional cuff or external calibration. (link)

Elation connects primary care billing from note to payment: Automated payment posting is in beta, with new-customer access Nov. 1 and complex or disputed claims routed to staff. (link)

Tandem Health launches sovereign AI for European healthcare: Sovereign Health keeps both patient data storage and AI processing on European-owned cloud infrastructure, giving providers control over where processing occurs. (link)

Infinitus launches AI agents for pharma-provider outreach: The agents automate repetitive provider communications for pharmaceutical sales and reimbursement teams, extending the company’s automation tools into pharma engagement workflows. (link)

Gluware automates patching for connected medical devices: Developed with Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, the platform matches vulnerabilities to applicable fixes and routes remediation through hospital approval workflows. (link)

Arcadia launches 3 healthcare platforms with embedded AI: Ascent, CareJourney and LifeScience combine its data infrastructure with AI workflows for clinical performance, market intelligence and real-world evidence. (link)

Microsoft’s Quine ranks pancreatic cancer compounds over a weekend: Built with the Broad Institute, the biology research system generated predictions that subsequent lab experiments supported. (link)

Danaher builds an AI lab for antibody discovery: The facility will combine robotics and AI, targeting up to 8x faster discovery with scaled operations expected in early 2027. (link)

Oura earns medical-device quality certification for its software: ISO 13485 certification covers its quality management system, including Fertile Window software; the certification itself does not constitute FDA product clearance. (link)

Google launches $180 Fitbit Edge with AI health tracking: HealthGuardian surfaces blood pressure and insulin-resistance trends alongside heart rate alerts, with the features intended for general wellness. (link)

HHS awards $1.5M for clinical AI agents and lab interoperability: MedStar will develop patient-controlled AI workflows, while Regenstrief targets gaps in standardized laboratory data exchange. (link)

AHRQ launches a $7.95M healthcare AI challenge: The initiative will fund competitions focused on speeding clinical evidence reviews and finding better ways to use federal healthcare datasets. (link)

UW protein design institute gets 7M hours of AI compute: A Huang Foundation grant will support open-source AI tools for designing proteins and potential new medicines. (link)

Anthropic launches Haiku 5.5 for high-volume AI workloads: The small model targets summarization, classification, browser use and live support, with a focus on speed and lower cost. (link)

Meta launches Muse Wonder with persistent memory: The new model targets tasks across healthcare, law and finance, with memory designed to retain user context over time. (link)

AstraZeneca + insitro: AstraZeneca partnered with insitro on AI-enabled drug discovery for liver disease and cardiomyopathies, with $40M upfront and up to approximately $1.46B in potential milestones. (link)

University of Texas System + Abridge: The University of Texas System expanded Abridge across its enterprise, bringing AI-powered clinical documentation to a health system handling nearly 11.7M outpatient visits annually. (link)

UMass Memorial + Microsoft + Accenture: UMass Memorial partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to unify EHR data on Azure and deploy AI-powered clinical and operational workflows across the health system. (link)

Northwestern Medicine + OpenEvidence: Northwestern Medicine partnered with OpenEvidence to embed cited clinical answers directly into EHR workflows, with single sign-on access for physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. (link)

Johns Hopkins Medicine + OpenEvidence: Johns Hopkins partnered with OpenEvidence to develop clinical AI tools combining patient history with medical evidence and create education for clinicians practicing with AI. (link)

Verily + ARPA-H: ARPA-H selected Verily to build the shared data platform for its CIRCLE program, supporting AI research into immune responses and interventions for critically ill patients. (link)

Tempus + Moderna + Merck: Tempus partnered with Moderna and Merck to provide sample collection and sequencing supporting the potential commercialization of personalized cancer therapy intismeran autogene. (link)

Nextech + Assort Health + EliseAI: Nextech partnered with Assort Health and EliseAI to integrate agentic AI for scheduling, intake, communications, and follow-up into specialty care workflows. (link)

Banner Health + ElevenLabs: Banner Health deployed ElevenLabs voice AI agents to handle patient calls and appointment scheduling, escalating conversations to human teams when needed. (link)

Intermountain Health + Microsoft: Intermountain Health deployed Microsoft’s SmartImpression to help radiologists draft report impressions for review, with roughly 75% adoption as the system transitions to PowerScribe One. (link)

Mayo Clinic + Microsoft: Mayo Clinic and Microsoft worked with nurses to identify and develop five clinical AI agent concepts from more than 450 submissions, spanning paperwork automation and patient guidance. (link)

University Hospitals + ESO: University Hospitals expanded its partnership with ESO to add outcomes feedback and prearrival predictions across an EMS network connecting 21 hospitals and 300+ agencies. (link)

Silna + Forus: Silna partnered with Forus to automate insurance workflows, including benefits verification across more than 1,000 payers. (link)

Ensemble + Penelope Health: Ensemble partnered with Penelope Health to bring real-time payer policies into revenue cycle workflows, identifying coverage and documentation requirements before care begins. (link)

Commure + Compassus: Compassus expanded Commure’s AI referral automation across 79 programs in 19 states, processing 500,000+ annualized referrals and cutting referral decision times by 64%. (link)

Novo Nordisk + Databricks: Novo Nordisk built its FounData platform on Databricks to unify development data and AI workflows, with adoption reaching more than 20% of its development organization. (link)

Verana Health + Bitfount: Verana Health partnered with Bitfount to combine AI analysis of ophthalmic imaging and EHR data to identify potentially eligible patients for clinical trials. (link)

Butterfly Network + Bridge Neurotech: Butterfly Network partnered with Bridge Neurotech to use its Ultrasound-on-Chip technology in developing a fully noninvasive brain-computer interface without an implanted device. (link)

AWS + 11 Pediatric Health Organizations: AWS awarded more than $1.8M to 11 organizations developing cloud and AI projects across rare disease, epilepsy, cancer, and treatment adherence. (link)

Suki + Wolters Kluwer: Suki partnered with Wolters Kluwer to integrate UpToDate Expert AI into its new Ask feature, letting clinicians query medical evidence directly within existing workflows. (link)

OpenEvidence handled 271M queries from 952,000+ U.S. clinicians: A JAMA study spanning 2.5 years found treatment questions outpaced diagnostic questions; OpenEvidence employees coauthored the analysis. (link)

Mental health AI pilot reports lower depression and anxiety symptoms: A single-arm preprint reported improvements among 299 adults over 10 weeks, without a control group. (link)

42% of surveyed patients used AI instead of a doctor: Cost drove the substitution in PayZen’s survey of 1,000 U.S. adults with recent surgery or hospital visits. (link)

Google’s MedGemma medical models land in Nature Medicine: The open models improved chest X-ray classification and medical image question answering compared with their base models, according to the paper. (link)

OncologyBench puts cancer AI agents through 25 multistep tests: Latch Bio’s benchmark evaluates how agents weigh evidence and make decisions across clinical and oncology research scenarios. (link)

DrugTargetWorld tests AI scientists on simulated drug discovery: The preprint uses synthetic biobanks with known causal relationships to evaluate whether agents can identify promising drug targets. (link)

BioinvestGPT says virtual trials predicted 5 of 6 drug outcomes: The company uses AI-generated clinical trial simulations to forecast whether experimental medicines will succeed in human studies. (link)

Human brain organoids help a computer recognize Braille: A decoder classified signals from 3 lab-grown neural clusters with 83% accuracy, compared with 61% from 1. (link)

Major healthcare groups join state oversight effort for medical AI: AHA, AMA, Anthropic and Elevance joined an FSMB workgroup developing recommendations for state medical boards overseeing clinical AI. (link)

AMA outlines a governance framework for autonomous clinical AI: Clinical authority should be earned through evidence and maintained through performance, with defined oversight, permitted actions and accountability. (link)

FDA plans new guidance for medical AI in 2027: Its agenda includes evidence recommendations for generative AI mental-health devices and updated software oversight policies; the documents remain planned. (link)

Bipartisan bill targets hacking by autonomous AI agents: The AI Agent Accountability Act would create potential civil and criminal liability when developers or operators deploy agents that illegally access computer systems. (link)

AHA pushes back on BlueCross’s $942M AI coding claim: The hospital group disputes the link between AI billing and higher coding intensity, arguing sicker, more complex patients help explain the trend. (link)

General Medicine, an AI-powered healthcare store, raised $120M in Series B funding. Andreessen Horowitz led, joined by Eli Lilly, Mercy Health, and others (link)

Suki, an AI ambient scribe for clinicians, raised $90M in Series E funding. Healthier Capital led. (link)

Abby Care, a San Francisco-based AI platform that pays family caregivers, raised $82M in Series C funding. Transformation Capital led, joined by CVS Health Ventures and others. (link)

Multiply Labs, raised $75M in Series B funding led by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong with NantWorks, with AstraZeneca, Lingotto, and Teradyne also participating. (link)

Sabi, a Palo Alto brain-AI interface maker, raised $50M in seed funding. Khosla Ventures led, joined by Accel and others. (link)

Scarlet, a London-based AI medical device certifier, raised $50M in Series B funding. Headline led, joined by Atomico and others. (link)

Healthleap, an AI clinical screening platform, raised $38M in seed and Series A funding from Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, and Hummingbird Ventures. (link)

Vitalize, an AI-native platform for health system labor and capacity, raised $31M in Series A funding. Oak HC/FT led, joined by Norwest and others. (link)

Allara, an NYC-based women's health startup, raised $30M from Index Ventures, GV, Camino Partners, Foreground, and Family Fund. (link)

WhiteLab Genomics, an AI genomic medicine company, raised $26M in Series B funding led by AVP to advance its AI-designed therapies and expand globally. (link)

Brellium, a New York-based AI clinical compliance platform, raised $23M to give providers audit-ready records. Left Lane Capital and First Round Capital led, joined by Digital Health Venture Partners. (link)

Vocca, an AI voice platform for patient calls, raised $20M in Series A funding. Norrsken VC led, joined by Heal Capital, Speedinvest, and Firstminute Capital. (link)

Iris Labs, a Flagship Pioneering company building personal AI products for psychological wellbeing, launched with an initial $20M commitment from Flagship. (link)

Confido Health, an agentic AI operating system for medical practices, raised $12.5M in Series A extension funding, following its $10M Series A. Z47 led, joined by Justin Saks, Together Fund, and Blume Ventures. (link)

Readily, a San Francisco-based AI compliance platform raised $11M in Series A funding. Define Ventures led the round. (link)

Harbor, a San Francisco-based provider of risk assessment and insurance for AI agents, raised $10M in seed funding from Base10 Partners, Abstract, 8VC, and others. (link)

Otter Health, an AI clinical quality platform, raised $8M in seed funding. Fika Ventures and Evidenced Capital co-led. (link)

Onyx Bio, a Berkeley-based company building a virtual immune system, raised $8M in seed funding. Dimension Capital led, joined by Haystack and Refactor Capital. (link)

Outro, a medication tapering platform, raised $7M in pre-seed and seed funding from Listen Ventures, Cake Ventures, LAUNCH, and others. (link)

Tenix Health, a New York-based AI financial platform for health systems, raised $4M in seed funding. Jeff Horing (Insight Partners) led, joined by Refract Ventures. (link)

Intake AI, a San Francisco-based company building AI agents for clinical trial startup and operations, raised $2.5M in seed funding. (link)

Doctolib, a French healthcare scheduling and AI platform, will receive a new stake from NVIDIA as part of its $2B European AI push. (link)

MyChart-to-ChatGPT connections jumped 7,000% at Advocate Health (link)

81% of after-hours calls to specialty practices go unanswered (link)

12 AI, digital health tools among Time's Best Inventions of 2026 (link)

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