At an HHS event marking the initiative's first anniversary — complete with a coffin prop labeled 'RIP CLIPBOARD' — CMS unveiled eight new pledge categories to push patient data access forward without new regulation.
Fresh off a Breakthrough Device Designation, Aidoc is preparing an FDA submission for a generative AI system that interprets chest X-rays and drafts preliminary radiology reports — one of the first attempts to push report-drafting AI through the agency as a regulated device.
The new office gives the agency a dedicated home for artificial intelligence, interoperability, and digital health policy across Medicare and Medicaid — a consolidation the industry has requested for years.
Deployed inside the Fitbit app and tested on 13,917 real patients, the Gemini-based system hit 73% top-5 diagnostic accuracy versus 60% for physicians reviewing the same conversations.
The new virtual care practice model bundles chronic condition management, mental health, and primary care around a single member record — Teladoc's answer to the point-solution fatigue plaguing digital health.
University of Chicago researchers unveiled a flexible computing patch that processes cardiac data directly on the body, eliminating the cloud latency that can prove fatal in cardiac events.
The joint FDA-CMS pilot ties regulatory evaluation to real-world outcomes and Medicare coverage — and Dexcom's AI-driven Glucose Health Program is the template case.
Seventeen codes would become four. Third-party monitoring vendors would be shut out. The CY2027 proposed rule responds to OIG fraud findings — and would rewire the business model of an entire industry.
US digital health companies raised $7.4 billion across 244 deals — up $1 billion year over year — with $100M+ rounds accounting for 45% of all capital and Q2 posting the busiest M&A quarter since 2021.
The largest controlled study of ambient documentation to date — 8,581 clinicians across five academic health systems — found 16 fewer minutes of documentation time per day, with primary care saving ~25 minutes. But 'pajama time' didn't budge.
Canary Ambient analyzes more than 2,500 acoustic and linguistic features per telehealth visit to flag patterns associated with stress, depression, and cognitive decline — directly inside the Zoom App Marketplace.
February's spending law extended Medicare telehealth flexibilities through December 2027 and hospital-at-home through 2030 — ending the cliff-to-cliff era, but starting a new countdown the industry is already lobbying against.
The proposed rule adds five telehealth codes, overhauls remote monitoring billing, and floats a 'Software as a Medical Service' category — the most consequential digital health rulemaking of the year.
The industry-leading 15.5-day wear time cuts per-day cost and sensor changes for Canada's 4 million people living with diabetes — and sharpens the competitive edge against Abbott's FreeStyle Libre.
Alongside the platform launch, the telehealth infrastructure company acquired food-as-medicine startup Season Health and partnered with Happy Sleep on sleep diagnostics — a roll-up posture in full view.
The FDA-CMS pilot lets prescribers administer DTx products before clearance, with real-world data feeding both the clearance decision and Medicare coverage. Early DMHT billing shows demand — 446 patients in Q3 2025, up from 99 in Q1.
410 attacks hit healthcare organizations globally in the first half, with attackers shifting toward supply-chain and business-services targets. Median ransom demand: $310,000.
Illinois and Nevada have banned AI for behavioral healthcare; New York mandates self-harm detection and crisis routing. With 11 states enacting 20 laws and an FTC inquiry underway, a federal-vs-state showdown looms.
The updated code set gives remote patient monitoring and AI-assisted diagnostic services standing billing pathways — a reimbursement milestone that shapes what health systems can actually deploy.
The smallest Oura yet ships with background cardiovascular and breathing monitoring, GLP-1 medication insights, and virtual consults in 43 states — and July's software rollout brought key features to Gen 3 and Gen 4 rings.
HHS marked the milestone with new network oversight measures, and paired the announcement with pointed reminders about information-blocking and HIPAA security enforcement.
H.R. 9431 would prohibit healthcare facilities from charging separate facility fees for telehealth — fees that can add up to $1,000 in out-of-pocket costs for a visit that never used a facility.
With payers scrutinizing what happens after patients stop GLP-1s, Noom is giving away structured behavioral support — claiming members regain less than 2% of body weight in the year after stopping medication.
Nearly 400 hospitals are CMS-approved to deliver acute care at home. With the Medicare waiver now secure through 2030, program leaders from Mass General Brigham and Tampa General say participation will 'skyrocket.'
Most digital sleep therapeutics were validated on younger adults. A Montreal-led RCT of the eCBT+ program shows the guideline-recommended therapy works in the population that needs it most — with accessibility designed in.
Led by Khosla Ventures — with angels including Anne Wojcicki — the Stanford-founded startup packs 10 biosensors into a wrist wearable targeting perimenopause, cycle irregularity, and the gaps period-tracking apps can't reach.
The first large clinician-side dataset on consumer AI therapy use finds 39% of psychologists have seen patients self-diagnose via AI — and 36% report patients developing chatbot dependency. The APA's verdict: complement, not replacement.
FAIR Health's national tracker shows telehealth rebounding sharply from the late-2025 Medicare funding lapse — with mental health accounting for 52.1% of all telehealth claim lines, the top category in every age group.
The Series D hands Click full commercial rights to CT-155, which met its primary endpoint in the CONVOKE pivotal study. The simultaneous layoffs show how surviving DTx firms are restructuring around pharma-funded commercialization.
With 800+ employed psychiatrists, 3 million visits delivered, and in-network status covering 170 million lives, the telepsychiatry company's oversubscribed round anchors mental health's seventh straight year atop the funding charts.
SubtleHD(CT) reduces noise and improves low-contrast detectability across CT scanners from different vendors — including older machines health systems can't afford to replace.
Lyra Health's sixth annual workforce survey of 500+ HR leaders finds severe anxiety, depression, and trauma cases surging, substance use up 26%, and 98% of employers calling mental health benefits essential for talent.
The June rollout turns the watch into what Samsung calls an 'AI-powered everyday health companion' — benchmarking five overnight bio-signals against each user's personal baseline.
The discussion paper examines AI's role across all three stages of health policy-making and prescribes impact assessments, living evidence workflows, and human accountability — extending WHO's AI governance beyond the clinic.
The care navigation startup's back-to-back rounds made it the poster child for 2026's capital concentration: 2.5 million members, a claims dataset spanning 320 million patients, and clients reporting ~12% spend reduction.
The smart ring maker, last valued at $11 billion with projected 2026 revenue of $1.5 billion, joined SpaceX and OpenAI in the same week's confidential-filing pipeline.
The 2026 acute care EHR market share report shows Epic capturing every large health system decision while overall purchase activity collapsed, as capital shifts from EHR replacements to AI.
The undisclosed deal extends the telehealth infrastructure company into nutrition-based chronic care — one of 115 digital health acquisitions in a half-year defined by consolidation.