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Ardent Health Announces $50 Million Share Repurchase Program Authorization
Ardent Health, a prominent healthcare provider serving mid-sized urban communities across the United States, announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase program of up to $50 million.
Altera Digital Health Launches Sunrise Thread AI Scribe
Altera Digital Health, a global health IT leader, announced the general availability of Sunrise Thread AI, a native ambient scribe and documentation assistant that captures patient-provider conversations in real time and automatically generates a structured summary of the visit directly in the Sunrise electronic health record (EHR). This latest AI-powered advancement in the Sunrise platform is designed to strengthen human connection in care delivery, reduce manual data entry and improve documentation accuracy.
Johnson & Johnson to Acquire Halda Therapeutics for Cancer Treatment
Johnson & Johnson announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Halda Therapeutics OpCo, Inc. a clinical-stage biotechnology company with a proprietary Regulated Induced Proximity TArgeting Chimera (RIPTAC) platform to develop oral, targeted therapies for multiple types of solid tumors, including prostate cancer, for $3.05 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close within the next few months, subject to antitrust clearance and other customary closing conditions.
Henry Ford Health Partners with Nomi Health
Nomi Health announced a strategic partnership with Henry Ford Health, one of the Midwest’s largest and most trusted health systems, to eliminate out-of-pocket healthcare costs for consumers while lowering costs for employers. The partnership marks a significant expansion of the direct contracting model.
Owkin Launches Europe’s First Pan-European Biology AI Platform
At the Franco-German Summit on Digital Sovereignty in Berlin, Owkin, in collaboration with Gustave Roussy in France and Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center in Germany, announced the creation of the first pan-European agentic infrastructure designed to make biological data AI-ready and advance biological superintelligence. This initiative represents a key milestone for European digital sovereignty in health, aiming to deliver open, reusable, and immediately actionable outputs for researchers, clinicians, and innovators across the continent.
Fujifilm Sonosite Launches AI-Powered PIV Assist for IVs
FUJIFILM Sonosite, Inc., a global leader in point-of-care ultrasound solutions, has unveiled PIV Assist, a new AI-powered feature designed to support clinicians in planning peripheral intravenous access procedures. The feature will be compatible with Sonosite LX, PX, and ST ultrasound systems, aiming to make IV placement safer and more efficient.
Voio Emerges From Stealth to Build Frontier AI for Healthcare
Voio, an AI-focused healthcare lab, emerged from stealth with $8.6 million in seed funding from Laude Ventures and The House Fund. The company’s primary goal is to develop a unified reading platform that assists radiologists in interpreting scans across all modalities. Voio is spun out of research labs at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco. The founding team has also introduced Pillar-0, an open-source AI model capable of analyzing medical images to detect hundreds of conditions from CT and MRI scans with exceptional accuracy. The initial version of Pillar-0 has demonstrated a 10 to 17 percent improvement in accuracy compared with leading AI models from Google, Microsoft, and Alibaba.
IKS Health Appoints New Chief Marketing and Chief Legal and Compliance Officers
IKS Health, a global leader in care enablement solutions that support clinicians, staff, and patients throughout the care journey, announced the appointment of Kathryn Weismantel as Chief Marketing Officer and Christi Braun as Chief Legal and Compliance Officer.
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