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Kyndryl announces agreement to purchase Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC, to accelerate AI-led modernization
Kyndryl, a provider of mission‑critical enterprise technology services, announced its intent to acquire Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC, an enterprise IT services provider for hospitals and health systems. The acquisition will enable Kyndryl to more effectively address growing customer demand for its AI‑led business modernization across healthcare providers and payors by leveraging Healthcare IT Leaders’ healthcare consulting and application managed services expertise.
Luma and PCC Partner to Bring Patient-Centered, AI-Enabled Communications to 300+ Pediatric Practices
Physician’s Computer Company (PCC), the eight-time Best in KLAS pediatric electronic health record, and Luma Health, the Operational AI platform for healthcare, announced their partnership to bring Luma’s communications to 300+ independent pediatric practices and 1,400+ pediatricians across the United States.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Hinge Health to Acquire Cylinder Health to Expand into Integrated GI Care
Hinge Health, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cylinder Health, Inc, a leader in virtual-first digestive healthcare, for $105 million in cash consideration. With this acquisition, Hinge Health intends to launch an integrated Gastrointestinal (GI) Care Program to complement its existing Musculoskeletal (MSK) and Migraine Care Programs.
Ascend Learning Acquires TAMS to Strengthen Faculty Operations at Nursing Schools
Ascend Learning, a healthcare and learning technology company, announced the acquisition of Teaching Assignment Management System (TAMS), a cloud-based platform built at Duke University to help manage teaching assignments and workload. Since its inception, TAMS has grown into a trusted faculty workload and teaching assignment platform now used by over 70 colleges and universities, including Johns Hopkins, Texas A&M, Marquette University, and numerous leading nursing schools and health sciences programs across the country. The acquisition deepens Ascend Learning’s continued investment in technologies that help institutions strengthen their programs, support faculty, and prepare the next generation of healthcare professionals.
Included Health Signs Agreement to Acquire Firefly Health; Companies to Combine to Deliver Clinically-Integrated Health Plan Alternative at Scale
Included Health, a new kind of healthcare company delivering personalized all-in-one healthcare to millions of people nationwide, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Firefly Health, a clinically-integrated health plan and advanced primary care company that has demonstrated 15%+ in total cost of care savings while delivering 90% member satisfaction and proven results across preventive care, chronic disease management, and complex care. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of calendar year 2026, subject to customary regulatory review.
CHG Healthcare Acquires KREWE Anesthesia to Expand CRNA Staffing to Meet Rising Client Needs
CHG Healthcare, the nation’s leading physician workforce experts, announced it has acquired KREWE Anesthesia, a staffing firm specializing in certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) staffing. The acquisition strengthens CHG’s ability to meet growing client demand for CRNA staffing and managed anesthesia services.
Novo Nordisk selects AWS as strategic partner to accelerate drug discovery with AI
Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare company, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a strategic partnership to accelerate drug discovery and modernize operations through AI and cloud technologies. The agreement establishes AWS as Novo Nordisk’s preferred cloud provider and strategic AI partner, bringing together Novo Nordisk’s deep therapeutic expertise across serious chronic diseases with AWS’s cloud and AI services, secure infrastructure, and purpose-built life sciences technologies.
iRhythm to Acquire VitalConnect, Expanding Its Cardiac Monitoring Platform Across Ambulatory, Inpatient and Hospital-to-Home Care
iRhythm Holdings, a digital health care company focused on creating trusted solutions that detect, predict and prevent disease, announced that it and its wholly owned subsidiary, iRhythm Technologies, Inc., have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vital Connect, Inc., a privately held leader in wearable biosensor technology and ambulatory cardiac monitoring.
EnableComp Acquires Helix Advisory, Advancing Zero Balance Review Technology in Its Complex Revenue Recovery Platform
EnableComp®, a provider of technology-driven complex revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions, announced its acquisition of Helix Advisory, a Cincinnati-based revenue recovery firm whose technology identifies underpayments that traditional rules-based audit systems are structurally unable to catch.
Providence Equity Partners to Acquire Majority Stake in CheckedUp, Accelerating the Next Phase of Growth for Leading Specialty Point-of-Care Engagement Platform
Providence Equity Partners L.L.C., a specialist private equity firm focused on media, communications and education, announced that it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in CheckedUp, a specialty point-of-care education and engagement platform connecting patients, healthcare providers and life sciences companies within the clinical environment.
Contract Announcements
Amae Health Partners with Google Health Enterprise to Bring Wearable Data Integration to the Treatment of Complex Mental Health Conditions
Amae Health, a destination for the treatment of complex mental health conditions, announced a collaboration with Google Health Enterprise to integrate wearable-derived data into its precision psychiatry care model. Building on Amae’s established clinical partnerships with leading academic medical centers like Cedars-Sinai, Mass General Brigham, and New York-Presbyterian, this collaboration positions Amae at the center of a new ecosystem designed to shift psychiatric care.
Springer Nature and OpenEvidence Announce Agreement to Maximise Exposure of Trusted Findings On OpenEvidence Platform
Springer Nature and OpenEvidence announced a subscription agreement that brings peer-reviewed content from Springer Nature into OpenEvidence, where physicians can retrieve and cite it during patient care. This agreement took effect August 4 and forms part of Springer Nature’s community led ARC3 framework.
PwC and Zyter Collaborate to Help Healthcare Organizations Transform Total Cost of Care and Improve Measurable Outcomes
PwC and Zyter announced a collaboration designed to help healthcare payers and providers transform total cost of care programs, improve health outcomes, and reduce avoidable cost of care. The collaboration combines PwC’s experience in healthcare transformation, analytics, operations, and program execution with Zyter|TruCare’s Vertical AI Execution Platform, agentic AI orchestration, and clinical services to help clients move beyond technology modernization into governed, measurable execution across utilization management, care management, appeals and grievances, and related clinical workflows.
Medbridge and Patient360 Partner to Help Practices Protect Medicare Reimbursement
Medbridge, a digital health platform for clinician education, home exercise programs, patient-reported outcomes, and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM), announced a strategic partnership with Patient360, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR), to deliver Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting directly from the patient-reported outcomes captured in the Medbridge platform. Practices that submit accurate reports can more effectively protect Medicare revenue while also building an outcomes record that positions payer contracts and referrals for upcoming CMS innovation models.
OSF HealthCare expands use of RapidAI among all hospitals
OSF HealthCare, a not-for-profit health system serving communities across Illinois and Michigan, and technology vendor RapidAI, a global leader in enterprise clinical AI, announced the expansion of the Rapid Enterprise™ Platform to all 18 hospitals in the OSF Ministry.
Curative, Wondr Health Team Up for Weight and Metabolic Health Support
Curative Insurance Company announced a partnership with weight management company Wondr Health to expand weight and metabolic health support for its members.
WellSky® and Richmond University Medical Center Partnership Accelerates Authorization Turnaround 55 – 60%, Streamlining Care Transitions
Through an expanded partnership with WellSky, Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC) has accelerated authorization turnaround times by 55 – 60% and achieved a 95% first submission approval rate within 60 days of implementation, demonstrating how integrated authorization management and physician advisory services can help patients move more quickly to the appropriate next level of care. The collaboration builds on RUMC’s existing use of WellSky CarePort solutions and supports RUMC’s growing authorization workload by reducing manual effort and helping care teams coordinate patient transitions.
Intermountain Health Brings Perimeter’s Claire™ to the Operating Room, a Landmark in Breast Cancer Surgery Using AI
Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, Inc., a commercial-stage medical technology company, announced that Intermountain Health, the largest nonprofit health system in the Mountain West region, has become the first health system in the U.S. to commercially deploy Perimeter’s Claire OCT System™, the only FDA-approved imaging device that uses AI during breast cancer surgery to help surgeons see microscopic tissue structures – where cancer can be difficult to detect – in real-time, for margin assessment. The stakes are significant: about one in five patients needs follow-up breast cancer surgeries because cancer wasn’t detected in the operating room the first time.
Limbic Becomes First AI-Led Mental Healthcare Company Selected for FDA TEMPO
Limbic is the first AI-led mental healthcare company selected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Technology-Enabled Meaningful Patient Outcomes (TEMPO) pilot. Through the pilot, Limbic will introduce Unpacked, a clinician-supervised AI-led mental health service for eligible Medicare beneficiaries with clinically significant depression or anxiety. The service will deliver cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) through scheduled telephone conversations with an AI voice agent, overseen by licensed clinicians supervising each patient’s care from beginning to end.
NewVue Partners with Strategic Radiology to Bring Unified Workflow Orchestration to Independent Private Practices
NewVue, a provider of cloud-native software that unifies how radiologists work while improving practice efficiency, announced a partnership with Strategic Radiology, a coalition of 50 independent, radiologist-owned practices representing over 2,500 radiologists nationwide. Through the agreement, Strategic Radiology member practices gain preferred access to NewVue’s platform through the coalition’s group purchasing program, along with expanded educational opportunities for their teams.
Venture Capitol and Funding
HealthSnap Secures $25 Million Growth Financing to Accelerate AI-Powered Virtual Care Management Leadership
HealthSnap, the pioneer and category leader in AI-powered virtual care management, announced it has secured a $25 million senior secured growth financing facility led by Eastward Capital Partners, LLC. The new facility strengthens the company’s balance sheet, refinances existing debt, and provides significant additional capital to accelerate artificial intelligence innovation, expand commercial operations, and scale deployment of its Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM) platform across the nation’s leading health systems.
Making the Cut, Milestones, Accolades, Awards and More
BioCare Earns Fourth Consecutive Inc. 5000 Recognition as New Model for Independent Specialty Drug Distribution Gains Momentum
BioCare, a national specialty pharmaceutical distributor comprised of BioCareSD and LogiCare3PL, announced that Inc. Magazine has named the company to the 2026 Inc. 5000, its annual list recognizing the fastest-growing private companies in America. With decades of experience, BioCare delivers life-saving and life-changing therapies through high-touch service and a differentiated distribution model.
ChronicCareIQ Named to Inc. 5000 for Third Consecutive Year
ChronicCareIQ, the most highly rated care management software by doctors and patients on Google Play and the Apple App store, has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies for the third consecutive year.