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
New Study in Sub-Saharan Africa Demonstrates Specialist-Level Heart Failure Detection Using Eko’s AI-Enabled Stethoscope
Eko Health, a company in AI-powered cardiac and pulmonary disease detection, and the G-ACT Foundation announced results from the DAMSUN-HF (Detection and Management of Heart Failure with SENSORA in Underserved Nations – Heart Failure) study. This groundbreaking, prospective validation demonstrated that AI-enabled digital auscultation can identify heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) at the point of care in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Get Well and RhythmX AI Combine to Form GW RhythmX Ushering Next Generation of Precision Care
Get Well and RhythmX AI, both part of SymphonyAI Group, announced their combination into a single company: a powerhouse union that brings together advanced AI innovation with deep healthcare expertise to form the industry’s leading AI-native company dedicated to revolutionizing care delivery and patient engagement and improving financial performance for health systems.
RapidAI and Health Holdings Company Partner to Bring Deep Clinical AI To Saudi Arabia
RapidAI, the pioneer of Deep Clinical AI and global leader in intelligent imaging and workflow integration, announced a strategic partnership and co-development with Saudi Health Holdings Company (HHC), the largest healthcare provider in the Middle East. Through this collaboration, RapidAI will serve as HHC’s enterprise provider of deep clinical AI across its 20 health clusters network of hospitals and clinics, supporting multiple disease states in neurology, cardiology, vascular, oncology, orthopedic, and beyond.
Popai Health Raises $11M to Transform Care Coordination with Voice AI
Popai Health, the Patient Conversation Intelligence company that transforms patient conversations into action, announced that it has raised $11 million in funding led by Team8, NEA and additional strategic investors. The funding will strengthen Popai’s go-to-market efforts, drive faster adoption across health systems, medical groups, health plans, and ACOs, and enable the team to scale with increasing market demand.
Lucem Health Named Rising Star Winner for AI in Health Operations at 7th Annual Digital Health Hub Awards @ HLTH
Lucem Health™, a pioneer in AI-powered early disease detection, announced it has been named Winner of Rising Star for AI in Health Operations at the 7th Annual Digital Health Hub Awards @ HLTH. This recognition highlights Lucem Health’s momentum in helping providers surface patients earlier and streamline care operations.
Yosi Health Joins ModMed® synapSYS Marketplace to Expand Digital Front-Door Access for Healthcare Practices
Yosi Health, a provider of AI-powered digital front door automation solutions, announced it has joined Modernizing Medicine’s synapSYS Marketplace as a connected digital front-door vendor. The integration enables ModMed® clients to offer patients streamlined online scheduling, pre-visit digital intake, real-time insurance eligibility checks, and AI-powered voice automation – all designed to reduce administrative burden, improve point-of-care readiness, and enhance the patient experience.
Martlet.ai Launches RADV Audit Readiness Platform to Help Health Plans Prepare for CMS Audit Expansion
Martlet.ai, a healthcare AI company spun out of John Snow Labs, announced the launch of its Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) Audit Readiness Platform, a new solution that helps Medicare Advantage Organizations and healthcare payers prepare for CMS’s expanded Risk Adjustment Data Validation audits in 2025.
FDB Announces First MCP Server for AI Clinical Decision Support and Other Medication Workflow Automation
FDB (First Databank, Inc.), a provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise medication decisions, announced availability for pilot integrations of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, a new technology designed to support AI and agentic applications in healthcare – such as prescription automation, ambient listening enablement, pre-processing pharmacy order verification, and medication reconciliation – to free up time for clinicians to focus on patient care.
Brook.ai Secures $28 Million in Series B Funding, Led by UMass Memorial Health and Morningside, to Accelerate Next Phase of Growth and Innovation in Remote Care
Brook.ai is making remote care an integral part of U.S. healthcare, extending continuity of care outside the traditional practice setting and delivering measurable improvements in patient outcomes. The company’s success has prompted new investment led by UMass Memorial Health and Morningside, accelerating Brook’s national expansion through a $28 million Series B to further its equitable, accessible care model.
Pacific AI Becomes a Certified Assurance Resource Provider with the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI)
Pacific AI, the healthcare AI governance company, announced it has become a certified Assurance Resource Provider (ARP) with the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), an industry-led coalition committed to developing industry best practices and frameworks to further innovation, safety, and security for health AI. This recognition underscores Pacific AI’s commitment to advancing responsible, transparent, and effective use of AI in healthcare.
Penguin Ai Announces Strategic Partnership with UPMC Enterprises to Advance Health Care AI Innovation
Penguin Ai, a health care artificial intelligence company, announced a strategic data partnership with UPMC Enterprises, the innovation and commercialization arm of health care provider and insurer UPMC, to accelerate the advancement of cutting-edge AI models specifically designed for the health care industry.
Lindus Health Partners with Yendou to Streamline Site Engagement and Accelerate Clinical Trial Feasibility
Lindus Health, the “anti-CRO” running radically faster, more reliable clinical trials, has announced a partnership with Yendou, an AI powered site engagement and management platform. This collaboration streamlines site outreach and data management for stronger and more efficient site dynamics using an automated and scalable all-in-one site platform with site database, automated feasibility workflows, and survey build features.
John Snow Labs Cuts Cancer Registry Abstraction Time from Hours to Minutes, Delivering 60–100x Productivity Gains
John Snow Labs, the AI for healthcare company, announced new capabilities designed to fully automate oncology patient registries, dramatically improving accuracy, scalability, and usability for clinical teams. The announcement was made during a keynote session, “Automating the Oncology Patient Registry with Multimodal AI, Agentic Workflows, and Human Oversight,” at the Applied AI Summit, taking place October 14-16 online.
Products
athenahealth’s AI-native Clinical Encounter Transforms the EHR into a Real-Time Clinical Intelligence Partner
athenahealth, a provider of network-enabled software and services for healthcare practices and systems nationwide, introduced its AI-native clinical encounter, a reimagined experience that anticipates clinicians’ needs, surfaces relevant insights at the moment of care, and drafts documentation, orders, and diagnoses based on the clinician-patient conversation. This new AI-native experience will transform the EHR from a system of record into a collaborative assistant, reducing the cognitive load for clinicians and allowing them to focus on delivering the best possible care to their patients.
HSBlox Introduces Conversational AI
HSBlox, a technology company empowering healthcare organizations with the tools and support to deliver value-based care (VBC) programs successfully and sustainably, announced release 2.5 of its SmartBlox™ analytics solution. With release 2.5, HSBlox has introduced a conversational AI module, ChatBlox™. The module enables capabilities for users to query their data in plain English using Large Language Models (LLM).
Ambience Healthcare Launches AI-Powered “Conditions Advisor” to Support Comprehensive Inpatient Documentation and High-Quality Care
Ambience Healthcare, an AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflows, announced a significant expansion of its Inpatient Care Setting offering with an AI-powered Conditions Advisor. This new capability helps clinicians capture the full complexity of their patients’ conditions at the point of care, leading to more comprehensive care, better clinical decision-making, and improved care coordination.
WebMD Ignite Launches Pulse to Help Health Systems Thrive in an AI Efficiency-First Era
WebMD Ignite, a full-service growth partner for organizations in the healthcare industry, announced the launch of Ignite Pulse™, a precision intelligence and activation solution purpose-built to help healthcare marketers succeed in an era of AI disruption and constrained budgets. Leveraging modern performance metrics such as response curves and persuadable-lift analysis, marketers move beyond traditional ROI to guide smarter marketing investments and optimize every dollar.
Baptist Health Strengthens Statewide Stroke Care Network with RapidAI’s Deep Clinical AI
In recognition of World Stroke Day, Baptist Health, Arkansas’ most comprehensive health care organization, is highlighting how its partnership with RapidAI, the global leader in deep clinical AI and workflow integration, is helping clinicians across the state deliver faster, more connected care for stroke patients.
Wolters Kluwer introduces Ovid Synthesis Expert AI, with breakthrough capabilities that accelerate mission critical healthcare improvement initiatives
Wolters Kluwer Health announced the launch of new AI features in Ovid®Synthesis to further support nursing and quality improvement leaders, practitioners and researchers in elevating the quality, speed, and impact of their improvement work. Created with feedback from customers and industry experts and now available as an optional add-on to the Ovid Synthesis platform, Ovid Synthesis Expert AI helps organizations accelerate evidence-based practice (EBP), quality improvement (QI), and research projects by streamlining manual and rigorous project tasks.
Talkdesk upgrades Copilot with agentic AI to help human agents tackle the toughest customer challenges
Talkdesk®, Inc. announced a significant enhancement to Talkdesk Copilot, introducing new agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that allow customer service agents to request real-time assistance in highly complex situations. Unlike traditional AI assistants that provide limited, scripted guidance or limited article responses, the newly enhanced Copilot can understand multi-layered questions, synthesize information across systems, and deliver context-aware recommendations and actions — helping agents resolve issues that previously required escalation to a subject matter expert or manual research.
PointClickCare Showcases Latest AI-Driven Innovations and Reveals Bold New Brand at HLTH 2025, Cementing its Leadership at the Nexus of Acute and Post-Acute Care
PointClickCare, a health tech company helping providers deliver exceptional care, unveiled a bold new brand identity that reinforces its vision as a leader in driving transformative innovation across the entire care continuum. The company will showcase this new identity at HLTH, underscoring its deep commitment to equipping every provider with innovative AI-driven solutions that elevate care quality, streamline coordination, and strengthen patient outcomes.
emtelligent Launches Integrated Medical Language Engine
emtelligent®, a leader in clinical-grade AI, announced the launch of its next-generation Medical Language Engine— the industry’s most advanced and accurate medical AI solution, bringing together the company’s document AI, clinical data extraction, and chart review capabilities, available as an integrated offering or as modular AI capabilities to meet healthcare’s diverse needs.
Lapsi Health Unveils Keikku 2.0: World’s First FDA-Cleared Digital Stethoscope with Integrated AI Scribe
Lapsi Health, a rapidly growing health tech innovator with roots in Europe and the U.S., announced the launch of Keikku 2.0,(pronounced “KAY-koo”) a breakthrough medical tool for clinicians. Keikku 2.0 is the first FDA-cleared digital stethoscope that listens, scribes, and supports diagnostics with AI in real time.
AVIA Launches Agentic AI Collaborative with Ten Leading Health Systems
Health systems nationwide are exploring ways to harness Agentic AI to improve efficiency and strengthen high-quality care. However, more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027 due to escalating costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk controls. To address these challenges, AVIA has launched Nexus Agentic AI, a platform designed to help health systems responsibly adopt Agentic AI to reshape operations, strengthen the workforce, and improve patient access and outcomes.