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Good morning, AI enthusiasts —
Here’s a quick look at what we’re covering this week:
Proposed NY senate bill
AI’s impact on the healthcare labor market
Amazon’s new health AI platform
29 new tools/partnerships, 6 funding updates, new AI jobs & link-worthy content
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Highlights if you’ve only got 2 minutes…
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NY bill would ban AI medical advice
A new New York Senate bill drew a lot of attention for proposing strict limits on how AI can be used across several licensed professions. The legislation would ban AI chatbots from providing “substantive responses” related to fields like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, and engineering, and would allow users to sue chatbot companies if those systems do.
Supporters say the bill is meant to protect consumers from unregulated advice. Critics argue it risks cutting off a rapidly growing access point for information and support, especially in healthcare.
Some facts that this bill seems to ignore are that over 100M Americans already use AI for health related questions each month. At the same time, the U.S. faces a projected shortage of more than 200,000 physicians and healthcare costs continue to climb without meaningful improvements in outcomes.
In our opinion, we should be expanding access to care, not banning it. We need to nationalize legislation that allows AI to be used where it is needed most. The debate highlights a growing tension between regulating AI and expanding access to expertise, and whether states or federal policy should set the rules. (link)(linkedin)
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AI’s impact on the healthcare labor market
Anthropic just released a new report examining how AI is actually affecting the labor market. The study introduces a metric called “observed exposure,” which compares what AI could theoretically automate with what people are already using tools like Claude to do. So far, there is little evidence of mass layoffs since ChatGPT launched in 2022, but early signals are emerging. Hiring into highly exposed roles for workers aged 22 to 25 has fallen about 14%.
Exposure varies widely across jobs. Computer programmers top the list with about 75% task coverage, followed by customer service and data entry roles at roughly 67%. On the other hand, about 1/3 of the US workforce currently shows zero AI exposure, mostly in hands-on roles (cooks, bartenders, and lifeguards).
Healthcare reflects that divide. Hands-on roles like practitioners and support staff show low exposure today, but medical record specialists rank among the most exposed roles at about 67%, as AI increasingly handles documentation, data entry and coding work.
The takeaway is less about job loss and more about job redesign. In healthcare, AI is likely to absorb more of the information layer of work while clinicians remain at the center of patient care. (link)(linkedin)
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Amazon’s new health AI platform
Amazon is pushing deeper into healthcare AI with the launch of Amazon Connect Health, a new agentic system designed to handle many of the administrative tasks that slow down care. The platform acts like a 24/7 digital front desk, using natural language to manage patient verification, appointment scheduling, medical history reviews, documentation, and billing codes.
The solution is designed for health systems, providers, and health tech companies, and integrates directly with electronic health records and call center infrastructure. The goal is to remove friction on both sides of the system. Health systems report that staff can spend up to 80% of call time manually compiling data across fragmented tools. The system also supports clinicians during visits with ambient transcription, real time note drafting, and automatic after visit summaries.
In terms of the bigger picture, tech giants are racing to become the infrastructure layer for healthcare AI, likely absorbing large chunks of the administrative AI market that many startups have been building toward. (link)(linkedin)
Tools & Partnerships 🔧
Latest on business, consumer, and clinical healthcare AI tools and partnerships…
TOOLS
OpenAI releases GPT-5.4: OpenAI just rolled out GPT-5.4, the company’s new top model with major upgrades on desktop tasks, coding, reasoning, science, math, and more. The model also supports up to 1M tokens of context and improved reasoning for long, agentic tasks. (link)
FDA clears AI tool predicting delivery timing: The FDA authorized Delivery Date AI, a cloud-based model from Ultrasound AI that predicts delivery timing from ultrasound images and could help clinicians flag high-risk pregnancies earlier. (link)
Tennr adds voice AI to automate referral calls: Health AI startup Tennr launched a voice AI feature that automates routine referral-related phone calls, like benefits checks, documentation follow-up, and patient outreach. (link)
Researchers jailbreak AI prescription bot: Security researchers were able to manipulate Utah’s AI prescription refill chatbot, Doctronic, to spread vaccine misinformation, recommend methamphetamine as treatment, and triple a patient’s OxyContin dose. (link)
HHS cuts off Anthropic AI access: HHS directed employees to stop using Anthropic’s Claude after the company refused Pentagon requests to loosen safeguards on its models. ChatGPT Enterprise and Google Gemini remain approved alternatives. (link)
FDA grants breakthrough status to AI recovery chatbot: The FDA gave breakthrough designation to a chatbot from RecoveryAI that monitors patients after joint replacement surgery and escalates concerns to care teams. The move could signal how regulators plan to handle patient-facing AI tools. (link)
Mercy nurses cut documentation time 85% with Epic’s AI: Mercy Health nurses reduced documentation time by 85% using Epic’s AI note-generation tool, Art, embedded within the EHR. (link)
Sword expands Bloom AI women’s health platform: Sword Health expanded its Bloom program with AI care agent Phoenix to deliver integrated support across fertility, pelvic health, mental health, and menopause. (link)
Agentic AI boosts radiology follow-up detection: A Parkland study found an AI agent analyzing radiology notes identified follow-up needs with 99% sensitivity versus 16% using traditional macro workflows. (link)
Luma updates Operational AI platform: Luma Health expanded its Operational AI system to coordinate agents across patient access, engagement, intake, and revenue cycle workflows. (link)
Qventus launches care gap and coding automation: Qventus introduced a suite that identifies under-documented conditions like malnutrition in real time during hospital stays. (link)
Azara adds AI-powered Smart Summary: Azara Healthcare launched Smart Summary, an AI feature surfacing care gap insights and quality metrics within its population health tools. (link)
Mayo Clinic Platform supports research beyond EHRs: A study in npj Health Systems found the Mayo Clinic Platform enables stronger cohort identification, real-world evidence generation, and AI model development compared with traditional EHR datasets. (link)
Fabric launches Evo virtual care benefit: Fabric unveiled Evo, a virtual care platform combining urgent care, therapy, medication management, and weight loss services into one asynchronous experience. (link)
Seqster launches 1-Click DataLake for trials: Seqster introduced a tool that aggregates clinical data sources to accelerate clinical trial design, recruitment, and evidence generation. (link)
Canvas releases Plugin Assistant for AI development: Canvas Medical launched Plugin Assistant, allowing teams to build EHR integrations and AI agents without coding using Claude-powered tooling. (link)
PARTNERSHIPS
CVS Health + Google Cloud: CVS Health and Google Cloud are launching an AI-native healthcare engagement platform, Health100, designed to improve consumer navigation and digital care experiences. (link)
Wolters Kluwer + Microsoft: Wolters Kluwer integrated UpToDate clinical intelligence into Microsoft productivity tools, bringing evidence-based guidance directly into clinician workflows. (link)
Optum + Microsoft: Optum partnered with Microsoft to to apply AI and cloud tools to its AI-powered claims platform and improve healthcare payment and administrative workflows. (link)
Salesforce + HealthEx + Verily + Viz.ai: Salesforce partnered with HealthEx, Verily, and Viz.ai to develop healthcare AI agents for clinical, operational, and patient engagement workflows. (link)
Autonomize AI + ServiceNow: Autonomize AI partnered with ServiceNow to develop AI-driven solutions for health plans, targeting claims processing, fraud detection, care management, and utilization management workflows. (link)
Tempus + Merck: Tempus and Merck entered a multi-year collaboration using AI and clinical data to accelerate drug discovery and development. (link)
OpenEvidence + Wiley: OpenEvidence partnered with Wiley to integrate trusted medical research content into its clinician AI platform. (link)
Anthropic Claude + ClinicalTrials.gov: Claude added an integration with ClinicalTrials.gov to help users search and analyze clinical trial information. (link)
Vera Health + American College of Emergency Physicians: Vera partnered with ACEP to integrate emergency medicine guidelines into its clinician AI search and decision support platform. (link)
Artisight + Epic: Artisight integrated Epic MyChart Bedside TV with its smart hospital platform, turning in-room TVs into Epic-connected hubs for inpatient engagement and care coordination. (link)
Overlake Medical Center + Hyro: Overlake deployed Hyro’s AI agents to automate patient access workflows, including scheduling, routing, and care navigation. (link)
Labcorp + PathAI: Labcorp expanded its collaboration with PathAI to deploy the AISight Dx platform across its pathology lab network. (link)
Wayne General Hospital + Eko Health: Wayne General deployed Eko’s SENSORA AI cardiac screening system to help frontline clinicians detect heart disease earlier without on-site cardiologists. (link)
Deal Desk 💰
Spotlight on latest capital raises, M&A, and investments…
FUNDING
Science Corporation, a neural engineering company focused on restoring and extending life, raised $230M in Series C financing. Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, IQT, and others participated. (link)
Sage, an NYC-based care platform for senior living and skilled nursing, raised $65M in Series C funding. Goldman Sachs Alternatives led, joined by insiders IVP and Goldcrest. (link)
UnityAI, a Nashville, Tenn.-based developer of scheduling agents for health-care practices, raised $8.5M in Series A funding. Third Prime led. (link)
Eight Sleep, a sleep tech company, raised a strategic investment at a $1.5B valuation from Tether Investments. (link)
MERGERS & ACQUISTIONS
Universal Health Services + Talkspace: Universal Health Services agreed to acquire virtual behavioral health platform Talkspace for about $835M, expanding its telehealth and outpatient mental health services nationwide. (link)
MyFitnessPal + Cal AI: MyFitnessPal acquired AI calorie tracking app Cal AI, integrating its photo-based calorie estimation with MyFitnessPal’s nutrition database of 20 million foods. (link)
as of 3/9/26
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