April has seen a slew of executive hires, promotions and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For instance, Aledade, Humana and Zimmer Biomet named new executives. There were also layoffs at organizations including Baylor Scott & White Health Plan, Novo Nordisk and UnityPoint Health.

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In this episode, we’re joined by Meghan Doyle, CEO of Partum Health. We discuss the company’s new partnership that offers 24/7 access to doula support at University of Chicago Medicine Family Birth Center – Hyde Park.

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The first major update to HIPAA in more than a decade will eliminate the distinction between “required” and “addressable” safeguards, making key cybersecurity and physical security measures mandatory for all healthcare providers. This shift will expose gaps in hospitals’ fragmented security systems, though, according to Kumar Sokka, CEO of cybersecurity platform Acre Security.

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Health tech companies made several major funding announcements in April. Here is a list of some of the biggest funding rounds.

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Medtronic suffered a cyberattack on its corporate IT systems. The incident highlights growing cybersecurity risks in the medtech sector, with cybergangs increasingly using phishing and other human-engineering tactics to gain access to data.

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Nvidia and Hoppr are betting that healthcare AI will scale not through standalone applications, but through a new infrastructure layer that lets providers develop and deploy their own imaging models.

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Timely by DrFirst launched a tool to streamline prior authorizations and improve access to specialty medications.

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The evolution of patient-matched medical devices represents more than just innovation in manufacturing and design. It marks a shift in clinical philosophy. Instead of shaping patients to fit implants, clinicians and device developers are harnessing technology to shape treatments around the individual.

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Midstream Health is taking a bit of a different approach to healthcare AI by focusing on reducing hospitals’ costs rather than boosting their revenue. The startup uses AI to identify savings opportunities across fragmented spending data, which helps health systems like Mount Sinai and CommonSpirit quickly improve their purchasing decisions.

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The American Medical Association is urging Congress to add safeguards for AI mental health chatbots amid safety concerns, while noting their potential to expand access.

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Amperos Health’s Series A round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Uncork Capital and Neo.

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Telehealth clinic Hone Health partnered with imaging company BodySpec to give its patients access to DEXA body composition scans. The partnership seeks to help providers and patients on GLP-1s distinguish fat loss from muscle loss and better evaluate how these drugs are affecting the body.

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The AI Health Fund launched Treehub, a new residency program designed to back and build healthcare AI startups at the earliest stages, often before companies are even formed. It is supported by prominent figures in the Silicon Valley venture capital world, including Tim Draper and Anne Wojcicki.

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The challenge is determining whether wearable data is reliable enough to relieve the review burden, guide care, support reimbursement, or reassure a patient who is worried about their heart rhythm at two o’clock in the morning.

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Oscar Health launched Lucie, a marketplace aimed at making healthcare more shoppable.

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What matters just as much — if not more — is everything around that number: how customers adopt the product, how sales actually happen, and whether the company is building something that can scale inside a complex, regulated system.

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UnitedHealthcare is exempting rural providers from most prior authorization requirements.

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Care delivery doesn’t have to be binary — in-person or virtual, old model or new. It can be adaptive, team-based, and deeply human.

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A new report from Trilliant Health finds behavioral health demand has surged since 2018, but workforce shortages and access barriers continue to limit care.

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Wisp partnered with Visby Medical to expand access to Visby’s at-home sexually transmitted infection test and provide follow-up treatment through Wisp’s telehealth platform.

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CMS is rolling out its health tech ecosystem initiative with a new Medicare app library that functions like a healthcare “App Store,” aiming to make patient data more portable and accessible across vetted digital health apps.

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The difference between that last era and this one isn’t incremental. It’s categorical. Artificial intelligence isn’t optimizing the old system. It’s making the old system economically indefensible.

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Innovaccer is committing $250 million to expand its AI agent platform, which automates workflows across areas like prior authorization, revenue cycle management and population health. The move comes amid an ongoing debate over whether administrative AI tools can ultimately reduce costs for providers.

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These products have yet to offer treatment solutions designed to get users from their current health state to a desired future health state. This creates a massive, untapped opening for tools that move people from awareness to action in a clinically meaningful way, without the cost and access barriers of engaging the healthcare system or requiring a prescription.

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HeartFlow, which makes AI tools to analyze cardiac images, sued its rival Cleerly, alleging infringement on six patents. Cleerly is pushing back.

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Vida Health is partnering with ŌURA to use data from the Oura Ring to provide more continuous, personalized cardiometabolic care and improve patient outcomes.

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The Social Security Administration’s move onto the TEFCA interoperability framework is beginning to streamline disability determinations by enabling faster exchange of medical records from hospitals. Dr. David Kaelber, chief health informatics officer at MetroHealth System in Ohio, said the shift is replacing a months-long, fax-driven process with near real-time data sharing.

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Chapter’s Series E round was led by Generation Investment Management, with participation from Fifth Down Capital, 8VC, Stripes, XYZ Venture Capital, Addition, Narya Capital, Susa Ventures and Maverick Ventures.

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Luminai raised $38 million in Series B funding to scale its AI platform that automates healthcare administrative workflows. The company is working with Cleveland Clinic to expand the use of its system across high-volume processes, starting with referral management.

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Cigna Healthcare ranks highest in digital experience among commercial plans, while UPMC Health Plan ranks highest among Medicare Advantage plans, according to a new JD Power report.

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