Author: Healthcare Propulsion Staff

Ayble Health secured a $16 million oversubscribed series A funding round to accelerate its expansion into artificial intelligence-driven precision digestive and autoimmune healthcare. Neon led the funding round, with participation from Unum Ventures, Upfront Ventures, M13, Cleveland Clinic Ventures, DigiTx, Accomplice and several individual investors.  “I’ve been tracking the GI space closely for years, and what Ayble has built is different,” said Kimmy Scotti, Neon founding and managing partner, in a statement. “Having invested early in top digital health companies, I’ve seen what it takes to build a category-defining company in healthcare. Ayble has spent years building the clinical evidence…

The Trump administration is rapidly expanding its 10-year ACCESS Model, a value-based payment program that reimburses digital health companies based on patient outcomes rather than services delivered. Just two months after kicking off the program—called the Advancing Chronic Care with Effective Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) Model—the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending it to more conditions. CMS announced on Tuesday new ACCESS tracks for heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), substance use disorders and nicotine dependence, along with extended support for bone, joint and mobility conditions. The new condition tracks will start in spring 2027. The expansion…

Modern health benefits platform Thatch banked $108 million in series C funding, boosting its valuation to $1 billion. Investors in this funding round included the General Partnership, Index Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Avid Ventures, Quiet Capital, SemperVirens and QuantumLight. Executives note new strategic investors include Eli Lilly and Company, ADP Ventures and Paychex. “Healthcare is nearly a fifth of the American economy, operating for decades without its most important participant at the table,” said Chris Ellis, Thatch CEO and co-founder, in the announcement. “We’re putting the consumer back at the center, one employer at a time.”…

FANCY MENTAL HEALTH CARE TRACKER UNDERWHELMS KEY LAWMAKER: Early this year, WW wrote about frustrations with the Oregon Behavioral Health Coordination Center—a data project to centrally coordinate mental health and addiction treatment statewide that, millions of dollars in, has coordinated little actual care (“Command and Control,” Jan. 28). Though the Oregon Health Authority moved to force residential treatment providers to send it their real-time bed capacity data early this year, a recent hearing before lawmakers showed providers consulted the center to place patients extremely rarely. The data center reported that in August, for example, its staff coordinated three placements, one…

There are a lot of disparate systems in healthcare that don’t always talk to each other. That can make navigating specialties like behavioral health particularly challenging for patients. One company believes both payers and providers share responsibility for helping patients navigate to services. Bamboo Health offers a platform that ingests data from traditionally siloed sources to give stakeholders real-time visibility into how patients are moving through the healthcare system so they can act at the appropriate time. Senior Writer Anastassia Gliadkovskaya talks to Vatsala Kapur, Bamboo’s SVP of market access, policy and partnerships, about the outcomes the company is seeing…

The Clarksville Police Department and Centerstone are recipients of a Behavioral Health Mobile Crisis Team Partnerships Grant. CLARKSVILLE, TN – The Clarksville Police Department (CPD) and Centerstone nonprofit behavioral health organization are new recipients of a Behavioral Health Mobile Crisis Team Partnerships Grant, competitively awarded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The grant amounts to $750,000 annually, over four years. Clarksville has been awarded one of 17 such grants, nationally, and is the only location in Tennessee to receive it. The purpose of this program is to establish new, or enhance existing, mobile crisis teams that serve…

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has thanked party leaders for their support following the death of his father, Roy, on Monday.All opposition leaders sent condolences to him as he cancelled engagements earlier this week.Burnham had previously spoken about the fact his dad did not know he had become prime minister, due to his advanced Alzheimer’s.Posting on social media, he thanked, external “everyone who has shared a kind message about my dad, particularly the leaders of the other parties”.Burnham added: “My family and I have been helped though this difficult time by people’s warmth and compassion. It means a great deal to…

Linda Crawford started coming to the classes in St Ouen’s Parish Hall nine months ago.She said: “I want to keep as fit as I possibly can… I thought it was sitting down so it wouldn’t be very strenuous, but it is very strenuous.”Because my body feels it’s moved a lot, my mind feels calm as well.”It’s made an enormous difference for people on all kinds of levels, with all kinds of perhaps physical restrictions on how they can move.” Source Link

Researchers at City of Hope®, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the country, led the development of a new, investigational blood test that could detect pancreatic cancer at its earliest stages, when the disease is more treatable and potentially curable. One reason pancreatic cancer remains so deadly is because it’s usually discovered late, after it has spread. A large, international study, published in Nature Medicine today, found that this liquid biopsy, called PANXEON, was highly sensitive in detecting stage 1 and 2 pancreatic cancer and had a low rate of false positives. The…

Less than a second. That’s how long it takes for an emerging AI tool to detect signs of endometriosis through one simple scan. It’s a much faster process than the current seven-year wait for surgery and less invasive. The AI tool, called EndoFusion, is a recent development from IMAGENDO, an ongoing collaborative study led by Adelaide University researchers. In this latest study, they found the framework was able to accurately identify two major indicators of advanced endometriosis in pelvic scans, producing the results in just 18 milliseconds. Researchers say it is a significant development, as MRI and ultrasound imaging are…