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Here’s what we’ll be covering:
AI alone won’t fix healthcare’s productivity problem
The future of healthcare is patient to agent
The health AI earnings check-in
32 new tools/partnerships, 9 funding updates, new AI jobs & link-worthy content
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AI alone won’t fix healthcare’s productivity problem
A new McKinsey analysis puts some hard numbers behind healthcare’s productivity challenge. Over the past 20 years, labor productivity at US clinical-care organizations has fallen ~1%, while productivity across the broader services economy increased more than 55%. That is despite healthcare organizations now spending over $150B a year on IT.
McKinsey argues the real gains will come from redesigning workflows around AI. A redesigned med-surg unit using virtual nurses, ambient documentation, and different staffing models could lower labor costs by more than 20%, with some systems seeing first-year RN turnover fall over 60%. On the back office, up to 50% of administrative work may be automatable, while agentic revenue-cycle workflows could improve productivity by as much as 40%.
That is an important distinction for health AI companies. Selling another point solution probably will not move the needle enough. The bigger opportunity is becoming part of an end-to-end workflow that actually changes staffing, costs, and how work gets done. It’s a friend;y reminder that task automation matters, but a lot of the value here comes from rethinking the workflow itself. (link)(linkedin)
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The future of healthcare is patient to agent
Around 300M people ask health questions on ChatGPT each week, but most AI health interactions still end at advice. A patient can upload a lab result, understand what it means, and learn what test may come next. Then the patient still has to navigate the healthcare system themselves.
For a Healthcare AI Guy Media original, health AI founders Andrew Arruda and Josh Gray break that missing workflow into three pieces: Read, Admin, and Clinical. AI can already read records and explain results. Acting requires access to the patient’s full medical history, permission to work on their behalf, and connections into scheduling, benefits, prior auth, claims, and other administrative systems. Clinical decisions add another layer because a licensed clinician still needs to own actions like prescribing, ordering labs, and referrals.
The opportunity is connecting these pieces. If agents can securely access data, carry patient authorization, complete admin work, and hand clinical decisions to the right professional, healthcare AI moves from answering questions to actually helping patients complete their care.
This is where we think the puck is going, and it’s a future we’re excited about. (link)
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The health AI earnings check-in
Startups are often the leading indicators of where health AI is heading, how quickly adoption is moving, and which business models are starting to work. But earnings season gives us something different: financial statements. Q2 results offered some clear signals.
AI-native companies are starting to show commercial scale. Tempus, which combines genomic testing, clinical data and AI software, generated $383M in revenue, up 22% YoY, and signed roughly $200M in new Data & Applications licenses. RadNet’s DeepHealth radiology AI and software business grew Digital Health revenue 57% YoY, while ARR nearly doubled to $106M.
Provider adoption is becoming measurable. Doximity said AI Search queries grew more than 25% QoQ, while SOPHiA GENETICS, an AI-powered genomics platform, saw analysis volume rise 22% YoY, including 60% growth in the U.S. and 70% growth in liquid biopsy.
AI-enabled healthcare platforms are scaling too, even if AI’s contribution is harder to isolate. Hinge grew revenue 53% YoY, Omada roughly 44%, and Clover 56%. AI is increasingly showing up across care navigation, clinical decision support, personalization and operations, but distribution, membership growth and better unit economics are still doing much of the heavy lifting. Hinge’s $105M acquisition of Cylinder also shows how stronger digital health platforms are using their core businesses to expand into adjacent conditions.
Healthcare infrastructure may be one of the quieter AI winners. Waystar, a healthcare payments platform, grew revenue 18% while continuing to roll AltitudeAI into claims and payment workflows. IQVIA, one of the largest data and technology providers to life sciences companies, grew nearly 9% and cited increasing adoption of its AI products.
as of 8/9/26
Tools & Partnerships 🔧
Latest on business, consumer, and clinical healthcare AI tools and partnerships…
TOOLS
Stanford and Arc Institute use AI to design functional synthetic viruses: Researchers used genomic models Evo 1 and Evo 2 to generate 16 viable viruses not found in nature, including some capable of attacking bacteria resistant to the natural virus, highlighting both therapeutic potential and emerging biosafety concerns. (link)
Sanctuary Health launches AI arm after two years of stealth deployments: The company has built 10 production AI systems for major healthcare organizations, including clinician RAG search and NHS telephony tools, collectively saving more than 10,000 hours of administrative work. (link)
Athelas launches agentic practice management platform for billing teams: The suite lets practices orchestrate fleets of AI agents across revenue cycle workflows, combining automated payment posting, payer-aware workflows, claim scrubbing, and AI-powered denial management. (link)
Deliverz.ai launches end-to-end AI platform for hospital logistics: The system coordinates autonomous robots and human staff across hospital campuses to automate deliveries, with the company reporting up to 4X higher throughput and 7.5X greater cost efficiency. (link)
Sutter Health becomes first to launch Epic's patient-facing AI chatbot: Emmie answers patients' health questions using the context of their own medical records, marking the first live health system deployment of Epic's new patient-facing AI assistant. (link)
Hims & Hers launches doctor-led, AI-native care experience for Hers: The rebuilt app connects weight loss members, providers, care teams, and protocol-driven AI in one continuous experience, alongside a new smart scale that automatically syncs patient progress. (link)
GE HealthCare launches AI-powered breast ultrasound and remote viewing tools: Invenia ABUS Prime uses AI to improve supplemental breast cancer screening for women with dense breasts, while ABUS StreamVue enables radiologists to review exams remotely. (link)
Sharecare launches AI health navigator AskMD nationwide: The platform combines medical records, insurance coverage, provider data, and health information to turn consumer health questions into personalized care plans and actionable next steps. (link)
OpenAI gives academic researchers free access to frontier AI models: The program will expand to as many as 100,000 researchers through 2027, providing GPT-5.6 models and 75+ life-science skills spanning genomics, protein modeling, and drug discovery. (link)
Parkview Health cuts provider scheduling build time 75% with Epic's new ERP tool: Teamwork, the first application in Epic's EpicOps suite, brings the company's software beyond clinical workflows and into workforce and ops management. (link)
CHAI releases best-practice framework for AI-powered clinical trial matching: The vendor-agnostic guidance outlines standards for fairness, safety, and governance alongside an open-source framework for evaluating how accurately AI matches patients to clinical trials. (link)
GE HealthCare brings AI-powered ultrasound to more point-of-care settings: The new portable LOGIQ e X1 and S1 systems combine AI-assisted features such as Nerveblox and MSK Go with a compact laptop-based form factor designed to streamline nerve and musculoskeletal imaging. (link)
Tempus advances AI-powered cancer diagnostics with PRISM2: The open-source multimodal pathology model combines visual slides and clinical language to tackle complex cancer diagnostic tasks and predict long-term patient outcomes. (link)
TwinSkin brings smartphone-based AI wound monitoring to frontline clinicians: The platform analyzes short smartphone videos to track wound changes over time, helping rural and underserved clinicians monitor healing and collaborate remotely with specialists. (link)
ModMed launches agentic AI platform for specialty RCM: The new platform combines specialized AI agents with human expertise to automate revenue cycle workflows, reduce denials, accelerate claims resolution, and improve financial performance across specialty medical practices. (link)
Houston Methodist studies link ambient AI to higher surgical capacity: Peer-reviewed analyses of Apella's operating room technology found a 7% increase in annual surgical cases and a 46%-point reduction in late-ending OR days, demonstrating measurable operational gains from ambient AI. (link)
AI early-warning system linked to 18% lower mortality in high-risk patients: An NEJM AI study across 11 New Jersey hospitals found RWJBarnabas Health's automated risk-tracking system was associated with fewer in-hospital deaths among high-risk patients. (link)
Daffodil Health launches AI platform for No Surprises Act disputes: The system gives payers and TPAs a centralized workflow for dispute intake, strategy recommendations, and arbitration preparation as organizations grapple with growing volumes of independent dispute resolution cases. (link)
Flourish mental health app shows benefits in randomized trial: An NEJM AI study of roughly 500 undergraduates found the app improved mindfulness, loneliness, and resilience over six weeks, with average engagement exceeding the recommended twice-weekly usage. (link)
Goodfire launches platform to automate AI research experiments: Silico manages long-running experiments, diagnoses model failures, and performs interpretability analysis, aiming to help AI teams iterate more quickly on foundation model development. (link)
PARTNERSHIPS
Novo Nordisk + H1: Novo Nordisk partnered with H1 to develop AI-powered clinical trial workflows, with H1 also acquiring rights to Novo’s StudyHub platform. (link)
OneOncology + OpenEvidence: OneOncology partnered with OpenEvidence to embed AI-powered clinical evidence search into oncology workflows, with plans to expand into genomic data and clinical trial matching. (link)
Abridge + Kaiser Permanente: Abridge and Kaiser Permanente co-developed Care Signals to extend ambient AI beyond the visit, capturing relevant patient context before and after appointments. (link)
Health Universe + Atropos Health: Health Universe partnered with Atropos Health to embed patient-specific real-world evidence and clinical decision support directly into its AI platform and clinician workflows. (link)
NewYork-Presbyterian + Signal 1: NewYork-Presbyterian deployed Signal 1’s AI Management System to centrally govern, monitor, and assess predictive, generative, and agentic AI across the health system. (link)
Redox + Lapsi Health: Redox partnered with Lapsi Health to embed AI documentation, clinical reference, and diagnostic support tools directly into EHR workflows. (link)
SoundHound AI + MUSC Health: MUSC Health expanded SoundHound’s AI voice agents into retail and specialty pharmacy operations after the platform supported more than 2.2M patient calls. (link)
WHOOP + Natural Cycles: WHOOP partnered with Natural Cycles to integrate wearable biometrics with personalized fertility insights and hormone-free contraception. (link)
OpenEvidence + LA County Public Health: OpenEvidence partnered with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to surface local disease alerts and outbreak guidance directly within physicians’ searches. (link)
Azra AI + Blackford: Azra AI partnered with Blackford to connect imaging AI with care navigation, helping coordinate patients from detection of complex conditions through follow-up care. (link)
Clarium + Community Health Network: Community Health Network partnered with Clarium to deploy AI-powered surgical supply chain automation across its nine hospitals and identify cost-saving opportunities. (link)
OpenAI + Massive Bio: Massive Bio was named an OpenAI Select Partner, expanding its use of AI to structure clinical trial eligibility criteria and accelerate oncology patient matching. (link)
Deal Desk 💰
Spotlight on latest capital raises, M&A, and investments…
FUNDING
Pathos AI, a Chicago-based AI drug developer, is raising up to $300M in Series E funding at a ~$3B valuation. (link)
QuantHealth, an Israeli provider of clinical trial simulation software, raised $45M in Series B funding. Qumra Capital led, joined by Pitango HealthTech, Sanofi Ventures, Artofin Venture Capital Fund, Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments, GC Ventures, NewHealth Ventures, Shoni Top Ventures, and Esplanade Ventures. (link)
Dash Bio, a Boston-based pharma lab services company, raised $30M in Series A funding. Oak HC/FT led, joined by Freestyle Capital and Swift Ventures (link)
HealthSnap, an AI platform for remote patient monitoring and chronic care management, raised a $25M growth financing facility led by Eastward Capital Partners. (link)
Blaze.tech, a platform that makes AI-built healthcare software HIPAA-compliant, raised $8.5M in pre-seed funding led by Friale. (link)
SkinBit, developer of a full-body scanner for skin cancer, raised $6M in pre-seed funding from Boost VC, Cleo Capital, Manna Ventures, Profluent Capital, Logan Green, and Adam Draper. (link)
Claryx, an NYC-based hospital infection monitoring platform, raised $3.5M in pre-seed funding. Outlander led, joined by Company Ventures, Boost VC, Neon, Mana Ventures, 640 Oxford, and Precursor Ventures. (link)
M&A
Datavant + SmarterDx: Datavant is reportedly recapitalizing $2.5B in debt and plans to merge with SmarterDx, bringing the AI-powered clinical revenue integrity platform under Datavant. (link)
Hinge Health + Cylinder Health: Hinge Health agreed to acquire Cylinder Health for $105M to expand its AI-powered digital care platform into gastrointestinal health and address chronic digestive conditions. (link)
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