Trending News
Luma Health Announces Patient Pipeline, AI-Powered New Patient Acquisition to Turn Ad Spend Into Booked Patient Care
Luma Health announced Patient Pipeline, a new product that uses AI to connect patients shopping for care with health systems’ open capacity. Too often, new patients hit a dead end while providers sit with unbooked time. Patient Pipeline reads a health system’s real-time schedule and builds Google Ads around the open slots, then traces each booking back to the marketing effort that drove it. For the first time, marketers can see an ad click through to the care received and tie it to the associated revenue.
Mergers and Acquisitions
IKS Health Completes Acquisition of TruBridge
IKS Health, a global leader in care enablement solutions across the patient journey, announced the successful completion of its previously announced acquisition of TruBridge™, Inc. TruBridge is a prominent provider of healthcare technology including an electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management solutions for rural and community hospitals. Following the closing, TruBridge operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of IKS Health.
XRHealth Acquires Swing Therapeutics, Expanding Its Platform to Mobile Digital Therapeutics
XRHealth acquires Swing Therapeutics to expand its AI-powered digital health platform beyond XR into mobile apps, wearables, and FDA-authorized digital therapeutics for chronic pain and fibromyalgia, creating a comprehensive, reimbursable care platform.
SpinSci Acquires Dialog Health to Advance Patient Communication Across the Care Continuum
SpinSci, the agentic AI company for patient access, announced it has acquired Dialog Health, a patient communication platform trusted by Fortune 500 health systems, health plans, and ambulatory surgery centers. The acquisition expands SpinSci’s AI-powered patient access platform by adding Dialog Health’s proven patient engagement and communication capabilities, creating a more connected healthcare experience. Together, the companies will deliver a seamless patient journey—from proactive engagement and access to care through workflow automation and issue resolution—while accelerating innovation through greater scale, resources, and investment.
Contract Announcements
Boston Children’s, OpenEvidence collaborate to advance AI-powered analysis of clinical practice patterns
Boston Children’s Hospital, one of the nation’s top pediatric hospitals, and OpenEvidence, an AI-powered clinical decision support platform, announced a multi-year collaboration to examine how clinicians’ real-world use of AI tools at the point of care relates to practice patterns and delivery of care.
Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute Signs Multi-Year Extension with BioCareSD and AllyGPO for Specialty Drug Distribution and Group Purchasing
BioCareSD®, a national specialty drug distributor with nearly 50 years of experience delivering life-saving and life-changing therapies through high-touch service and a differentiated distribution model, and AllyGPO®, an innovator and next-generation specialty group purchasing organization (GPO), announced that Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute (OCSRI) has signed a multi-year extension for specialty drug distribution and group purchasing.
Venture Capitol and Funding
Bunkerhill Health Raises $55 Million to Help Health Systems Turn Their Best Ideas into Reality
Bunkerhill Health, the agentic AI platform health systems use to turn their best ideas into reality, announced the close of its Series B funding round, led by Khosla Ventures, with continued participation from Sequoia Capital, Felicis, Optum Ventures, and Y Combinator. The Series B brings Bunkerhill Health’s total funding to date, including its Seed and Series A rounds, to $55 million, reflecting growing investor conviction that agentic AI is foundational infrastructure for healthcare delivery.
Making the Cut, Milestones, Accolades, Awards and More
ZeOmega Earns Artificial Intelligence Accreditation from DirectTrust®
ZeOmega, a population health management organization, announced it has earned Artificial Intelligence (AI) Accreditation from DirectTrust®. This accreditation recognizes ZeOmega’s commitment to implementing responsible, standards-based artificial intelligence practices aligned with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF). Through a robust third-party review, DirectTrust evaluated ZeOmega’s AI governance structure, risk management processes, performance evaluation methods, and ability to ensure transparency, accountability, and ongoing oversight of AI systems.
Nordic ranked No. 1 overall by Black Book in 2026 healthcare IT consulting and advisory report
Nordic®, a global health and technology consulting company, has been ranked No. 1 overall in Black Book Market Research’s 2026 Healthcare IT Consulting & Advisory Services report for EHR Optimization, Workflow Redesign & Selective Implementation.