Our monthly report on AI, ML, DL, and NLP in healthcare looks at who, what, where, and how the use of artificial intelligence is changing healthcare for the better. We will bring you some of the latest news and product information along with thought leader posts and our AI playlist of episodes from Healthcare NOW Radio.
In the News
DUOS Secures $130M Strategic Growth Investment Led by FTV Capital
DUOS, an AI-powered digital health platform for member activation and benefits execution, announced a $130 million strategic growth equity investment led by FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity firm with deep expertise in healthcare technology and services. The investment round also includes participation from Forerunner Ventures, DUOS’ earliest institutional investor, bringing the company full circle as it enters the next phase of growth. The investment will accelerate platform innovation, enhance AI capabilities and expand go-to-market operations across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and ACA marketplace plans nationwide.
Caregility and Drexel University Announce Partnership for Virtual Nursing
Caregility Corporation, a global enterprise telehealth leader dedicated to connecting care for patients and clinicians everywhere through innovative virtual care and AI-powered solutions, and Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions announced a partnership to bring the latest smart room technology and best practices into Drexel’s nursing programs to better prepare nursing students for the growing use of digital health and AI in healthcare. The programs will provide students with hands-on experience using digital health tools to simulate engaging with patients virtually. Caregility is donating equipment and use of its award-winning Caregility Connected Care™ platform to support the new programs.
Datamonk Raises $1.9M Pre-Seed to Accelerate Medical Imaging Data Migrations with Agentic AI
Datamonk, the agentic AI-powered platform automating medical imaging data migrations, announced it has raised $1.9 million in pre-seed funding to address one of healthcare IT’s biggest challenges: moving and cleaning decades of medical imaging data.
Carta Healthcare Named Finalist in 2025 A.I. Awards for Best Use of AI for Healthcare
Carta Healthcare, a provider of AI-powered clinical data abstraction solutions, has been named a finalist in the 2025 A.I. Awards program in the category of the Best Use of AI in Healthcare. Operated by the cloud computing awards body The Cloud Awards, The A.I. Awards recognize the global leaders and innovators in artificial intelligence and machine learning development. The annual contest received entries from organizations of all sizes worldwide, including North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Inovalon Launches New Data and Analytics Offering on Snowflake AI Data Cloud for Healthcare & Life Sciences
Inovalon, a provider of data and solutions empowering data-driven healthcare, announced it is now making its advanced analytics and real-world data (RWD) capabilities available on Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud for Healthcare & Life Sciences. By delivering its industry-leading primary source data to the Snowflake ecosystem, Inovalon gives payers and life sciences organizations using the platform secure access to the data they need to empower more precise, impactful decisions across healthcare.
OneCare Vermont and Heidi Partner to Reduce Administrative Burden for Primary Care Practices Across Vermont
OneCare Vermont and Heidi announced a partnership aimed at reducing administrative burden for medical practitioners and improving quality of care for patients across the rural state of Vermont. As part of the agreement, OneCare Vermont will give many of its independent provider practices across the state 12-month subscriptions to Heidi Health’s AI medical scribe. Heidi’s AI scribe automates an average of over two hours of daily administrative work, transcribing and processing clinician-patient conversations, producing clinical notes and follow-up materials so clinicians can focus on delivering quality care to their patients.
Vital Inpatient Named Finalist in The 2025 A.I. Awards for Best Use of AI-Driven Personalization
Vital Inpatient, the AI-powered patient experience solution from Vital, has been named a finalist in The 2025 A.I. Awards in the Best Use of AI-Driven Personalization category.
UnityAI Unveils Agentic AI Suite to Revolutionize Patient Engagement and Provider Operations
UnityAI, an agentic AI company transforming patient engagement and provider operations, launched its advanced agentic AI platform. Focused on ambulatory settings such as radiology, dental, physical therapy, behavioral health and other outpatient providers, the platform introduces four intelligent AI voice agents – Scheduling, Confirmation, Intake, and Follow-up – that operate across providers’ EMR systems to automate up to 90% of routine patient-scheduling tasks with precision and empathy. The platform is currently deployed in clinics nationwide and is supporting approximately 200,000 patient interactions each month.
Prosper AI raises $5M to be the default voice AI platform for healthcare’s $450B admin crisis
A third of the workforce in US hospitals and physician offices is administrative staff, a cost that tops $450 billion annually. The system depends on armies of people answering phones, calling insurers, and chasing claims. Patients wait, providers lose appointments, and teams spend almost as much on billing work as they do on care. Healthcare voice AI platform Prosper AI is changing that equation. The company announced $5 million in seed funding to accelerate its voice AI platform, which builds specialized AI agents for healthcare’s most critical front and back-office workflows. The round was led by Emergence Capital, the first backers of Salesforce, Veeva, and Doximity, with participation from Y Combinator, CRV, and Company Ventures.
Edifecs Unveils AI-Driven Population Payment Management Platform, Transforming Value-Based Payment Contract Administration
Edifecs, a Cotiviti business and pioneer in healthcare data interoperability, announced the next generation of its Population Payment Management platform powered by agentic artificial intelligence (AI). The enhanced solution delivers a practical, scalable application of AI to address some of the most persistent challenges in healthcare value-based payment (VBP) transformation.
Products
Teladoc Health Adds Workplace Safety Capability to its AI-Enabled Clarity™ Monitoring Solution for Hospitals and Health Systems
Teladoc Health, the global company in virtual care, announced the launch of a new offering to help hospitals and health systems address workplace violence. This is the latest innovation within Teladoc Health’s Clarity™ monitoring solution, which includes AI-enabled software, hardware and services that empower care teams to monitor care settings and quickly direct the right resources. The solution serves multiple use cases including virtual sitting and now virtual workplace safety intervention.
Net Health Leverages AI Support Agent with Salesforce’s Agentforce
Net Health, a trusted source for specialized software solutions that empower restorative care providers, announced that it has deployed an AI support agent to assist in handling incoming support cases, answering client questions, and gathering necessary information with Agentforce, Salesforce’s digital labor platform.
The Efficiency Group Launches AI Process Mapper 4.0 with Generative AI to Transform Process Improvement
The Efficiency Group (TEG), a trusted provider of process improvement and AI technology to government agencies and private enterprises, announced the launch of AI Process Mapper 4.0. The enhanced platform leverages Generative AI to accelerate business process creation, improvement, and documentation.
Yosi Health Launches AI Voice Agent to Power Safer, Smarter Digital Front-Door Experiences
Yosi Health, a provider of digital front door automation solutions, announced the successful launch of its new AI Voice Agent, the latest offering to its digital front-door platform that brings phone, SMS, and web chat automation to patient intake, appointment management, and post-visit communications. Built for clinics and ambulatory practices, Yosi’s AI component blends deterministic, rule-based voice automation with tightly constrained conversational AI to improve throughput, shorten hold times and preserve clinical safety.
Ambience Healthcare Becomes First Ambient AI Platform to Launch Inpatient CDI at the Point of Care, Built on OpenAI
Ambience Healthcare announced the launch of the industry’s first Inpatient ICD-10 CDI Assistant, which helps hospitalists document precise, compliant diagnoses during the patient encounter, ensuring clinical complexity is accurately captured and audit-ready from the start.
Innovaccer Launches a Social and Community Health Information Exchange for Whole-Person, Community-Centered Care
Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare AI company, announced the public launch of the Social and Community Health Information Exchange (SHIE), a unified, AI-powered platform designed to integrate fragmented data across health, housing, behavioral health, criminal justice, and social service systems. SHIE is custom-built to support county and state-level agencies by enabling coordinated, and consent-driven whole-person care through a compliance-first infrastructure.
AssistIQ Partners with Allina Health to Deploy AI Supply Capture Across 100+ ORs and Procedural Rooms
Allina Health is introducing AssistIQ’s real-time AI supply capture and insights platform across its hospitals and procedural areas. The rollout spans more than 100 operating and procedural rooms across the health care system. By ensuring every supply and implant is accurately documented at the point of use, AssistIQ provides trusted data to capture every charge – correctly – and guide smarter operational decisions.
Ochsner Health offers AI-powered technology for atrial fibrillation
The John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute is the first in Louisiana to offer artificial intelligence-powered technology for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AFib), a common heart rhythm disorder where the upper chambers of the heart beat irregularly and rapidly. This innovative software by Volta serves as the first commercially available AI companion to help physicians with real-time analysis of 3D heart maps during catheter ablation procedures, enhancing the precision of AFib treatment.
Certara Launches Libra™: AI-Powered Drug-Induced Liver Injury Prediction Tool
Certara, Inc., a global company in model-informed drug development, announced the launch of Libra™, an AI-powered tool for predicting drug-induced liver injury (DILI) to help companies improve safety predictions and optimize R&D portfolios early in drug discovery.
Biostate AI Launches K-Dense Beta, an AI Agent That Compresses Research Cycles from Years to Days; Validated with Harvard Longevity Discovery Breakthrough
Biostate AI, a company accelerating biological research through innovative AI models, announced the launch of K-Dense Beta, a comprehensive multi-agent AI research system that can compress research cycles from years to days, while eliminating hallucinations that plague generative AI models. In testing, K-Dense made a scientific breakthrough in longevity research, which will be published in a peer-reviewed journal this year.
To Read
KLAS Research Spotlight Report: Heidi Earns High Scores for Reducing Clinician Documentation Burden
Heidi, an AI-powered medical scribe platform, announced its exceptional customer satisfaction was featured in a new KLAS Research Emerging Company Spotlight report. The research, published recently, showed that Heidi received A+ ratings for “likely to recommend” and “executive involvement,” and 100% of customers surveyed reported that Heidi Health keeps all promises and they would buy the product again.
AI Events
AI at CES 2026 – CES Foundry
When: January 6-9, 2026
Where: Fontainebleau Las Vegas
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