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Microsoft Healthcare Research

Microsoft's MAI-DxO Crushes Doctors at Medical Diagnosis while Cutting Costs

Chris McKay• June 30, 2025 • 3 min read

Microsoft researchers developed an AI system that achieved 85.5% accuracy on challenging medical cases versus 20% for human physicians, while reducing estimated diagnostic costs in a controlled study.

Healthcare Venture Capital Startups

Abridge Raises $300M Series E at $5.3B Valuation

Chris McKay• June 25, 2025 • 3 min read

The Pittsburgh startup that's gunning for Microsoft's crown in AI medical note-taking just raised $300 million in Series E funding at a $5.3 billion valuation, nearly doubling its worth in just four months.

Healthcare

Microsoft’s Healthcare Agent Orchestrator Hopes to Enable Personalized Cancer Care for Everyone

Chris McKay• May 19, 2025 • 3 min read

Microsoft has launched Healthcare Agent Orchestrator, a multi-agent AI system now being used by Stanford Medicine and others to streamline complex clinical workflows like cancer care.

Google Healthcare

At The Check Up, Google Showcases AI’s Role in Drug Discovery and Health Data

Chris McKay• March 18, 2025 • 4 min read

At its annual The Check Up event, Google announced a suite of AI-driven healthcare advancements, including TxGemma—a new open AI model for drug discovery—an AI co-scientist for biomedical research, expanded medical record APIs, and new AI-powered search features for health information.

Microsoft Healthcare

Microsoft Unveils Dragon Copilot, an AI Assistant for Clinicians

Chris McKay• March 3, 2025 • 2 min read

Microsoft has introduced Dragon Copilot, an AI-powered assistant designed to help clinicians streamline documentation, automate tasks, and surface medical information, aiming to reduce administrative burdens in healthcare.

Venture Capital Startups Healthcare

OpenEvidence Raises $75M to Scale AI for Doctors, Hits $1B Valuation

Chris McKay• February 19, 2025 • 2 min read

AI-powered medical assistant OpenEvidence has raised $75 million in a Sequoia-led round, pushing its valuation to over $1 billion as it expands its AI copilot for physicians.

Venture Capital Startups Healthcare

Spotify Founder's Health Tech Startup Neko Raises $260M, Valued at $1.8 Billion

Chris McKay• January 22, 2025 • 3 min read

The Stockholm-based company, which launched its first clinic in 2023, offers comprehensive health scans that combine proprietary hardware, AI analysis, and doctor consultations.

Healthcare Venture Capital Startups

Hippocratic AI Secures $141M Series B, Launches AI Agent App Store

Chris McKay• January 9, 2025 • 2 min read

The healthtech startup has not reached a $1.64B valuation as healthcare providers embrace its safety-focused AI agents for patient communication

Healthcare Startups

Suki Expands AI Assistant Capabilities with Google Cloud Integration

Chris McKay• December 18, 2024 • 2 min read

The new patient summarization feature extracts critical information from electronic health records (EHRs) and condenses it into digestible summaries.

Healthcare Startups

AI Healthcare Startup Forward Shuts Down

Chris McKay• November 13, 2024 • 2 min read

Forward aimed to transform the healthcare industry by offering tech-heavy, subscription-based services through staffed clinics and sleek CarePod kiosks deployed in public spaces like malls and gyms.

Venture Capital Startups Healthcare

Pharos Raises $5M to Automate Hospital Quality Reporting with AI

Chris McKay• October 25, 2024 • 2 min read

Pharos's AI technology automatically pulls required data from unstructured medical records, enabling real-time quality monitoring instead of the weeks-long delays typical with manual reporting.

Microsoft Healthcare

Microsoft Announces AI Agents for Healthcare in Copilot Studio to Ease Clinical Workloads

Chris McKay• October 11, 2024 • 2 min read

These AI agents can handle a range of healthcare duties, from scheduling appointments to matching patients with clinical trials.

Microsoft Healthcare

Microsoft Adds 3 New Multimodal Medical Imaging AI Models to Azure

Chris McKay• October 10, 2024 • 2 min read

These models, developed in collaboration with partners like Providence Healthcare and digital pathology company, Paige.ai, offer a range of functionalities to enhance medical imaging processes.

Google Healthcare

Google’s HeAR Model Now Available via Cloud API for Health Research

Chris McKay• August 20, 2024 • 2 min read

Researchers have found that HeAR outperforms other models across a wide range of tasks, demonstrating superior ability to capture meaningful patterns in health-related acoustic data.

Healthcare

AliveCor Launches Kardia 12L: A Handheld, AI-Powered Pocket ECG that Detects Heart Attacks

Chris McKay• June 26, 2024 • 1 min read

This AI can identify 35 cardiac determinations, including 14 arrhythmias and 21 morphologies, with acute myocardial infarction and various forms of cardiac ischemia.

Google Healthcare

Med-Gemini: Advancing Medical AI with Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Chris McKay• May 1, 2024 • 3 min read

Med-Gemini sets a new state-of-the-art of 91.1% in MedQA-USMLE and outperforms GPT-4 models by an average relative margin of 44.5% on 7 multimodal benchmarks including NEJM Image Challenges.

Venture Capital Startups Healthcare

Fabric Announces $60M Series A to Tackle Healthcare Capacity Crisis

Chris McKay• February 25, 2024 • 2 min read

The startup has reportedly grown from zero to 8 figures in annual recurring revenue since emerging from stealth mode.

Healthcare AI Ethics AI Safety

CMS Bans Medicare Advantage Insurers From Using AI to Deny Care

Chris McKay• February 8, 2024 • 2 min read

CMS worries that AI could perpetuate discrimination or fail to account for unique patient needs.

Healthcare

AI is Making Mental Health Care More Accessible and Engaging

Chris McKay• February 6, 2024 • 2 min read

These innovations promise a more inclusive, effective, and patient-centered approach to mental health care, especially for those in underrepresented communities.

Venture Capital Startups Healthcare

Ambience Healthcare Secures $70M as Investors Bet on AI to Transform Healthcare Workflows

Chris McKay• February 6, 2024 • 2 min read

A key ingredient in Ambience’s early success is custom-tailoring its AI to support the unique needs of specialties from oncology to pediatrics. This ensures clinical nuance is accounted for instead of a one-size-fits-all model that may fail to resonate.

Amazon Healthcare

Amazon Bets on AI to Enhance Pharmacy Experience

Chris McKay• January 24, 2024 • 2 min read

Powered by multiple, pre-trained models from Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMake, the company believes AI can help set a new industry standard for convenience and accessibility.

Google Research Healthcare

Google Shares Research Progress on AI that Converses, Reasons and Diagnoses Like Your Doctor

Chris McKay• January 12, 2024 • 2 min read

AMIE demonstrated stronger diagnostic accuracy and outperformed doctors on most metrics of consultation quality in both diagnostic accuracy and clinical communication.

Venture Capital Startups Healthcare

Nabla Secures $24 Million in Series B Funding to Accelerate Healthcare Copilot Rollout

Chris McKay• January 5, 2024 • 2 min read

Their Copilot platform is integrated with major Electronic Health Records systems like Epic and Nextgen, and already handles over 3 million consultations annually in three languages.

Google Healthcare

Google Introduces MedLM, A New Family of AI Models for the Healthcare Industry

Chris McKay• December 13, 2023 • 2 min read

These models, a larger one for complex tasks and a medium model suitable for scaling across tasks, are designed to handle diverse applications from summarizing conversations to navigating medication databases.

NVIDIA Healthcare

NVIDIA Launches MONAI to Streamline Medical Imaging AI Development

Chris McKay• November 27, 2023 • 2 min read

MONAI is comprehensive suite of enterprise-grade containers, AI models, and cloud APIs based on the open-source Project MONAI.