Health AI Weekly Roundup (30th June - 14th July)

CliniComp (US): received FDA 510(k) clearance for its PACS Viewer as a Medical Image Management and Processing System, unifying diagnostic imaging, its enterprise EHR and native AI in a single platform. [Link]

Presage Technologies (US): earned FDA 510(k) clearance for SmartSpectra, a contactless SDK that measures heart and breathing rate from a phone camera, and is offering the cleared technology free to health systems and educators. [Link]

iHealthScreen (US): received FDA 510(k) clearance for iPredict-DR, autonomous AI software that detects more-than-mild diabetic retinopathy in adults with diabetes not previously diagnosed.. [Link]

The Ethics of Listening Walls (npj Digital Medicine): argued that ambient clinical AI scribes strain patient autonomy and consent, and set out governance principles for continuous "listening wall" recording in the clinic. [Link]

Data Governance for AI-Enabled Healthcare in LMICs (Journal of Medicine and Health Research): mapped the data-governance gaps limiting safe AI adoption across low- and middle-income countries, where preventable disease burden is high and infrastructure is scarce. [Link]

AI Agents in Clinical Practice: An Evidence Map (npj Digital Medicine): synthesised evidence on agentic AI across diagnostics, management and operations, finding early real-world deployments concentrated in administrative workflows. [Link]

Health System Learning Enables Generalist Neuroimaging Models (Nature Medicine): trained a generalist neuroimaging model on private health-system MRI and CT data, showing that learning from clinical data beyond public datasets improves performance. [Link]

Large Language Models Are Powerful EHR Encoders (npj Digital Medicine): showed that general-purpose LLMs can encode raw electronic health records for clinical prediction, rivalling specialised EHR foundation models. [Link]

Vega Health & Baptist Health (US): partnered to bring Vega's actionable AI to Baptist Health's hospital-at-home programme, setting the foundation for a long-term collaboration. [Link]

Pearl Health (US): raised $110 million, combining a $50 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz with a $60 million credit facility from Trinity Capital, to scale its AI-driven value-based-care platform for Medicare. [Link]

Octozi (US): raised $3 million in seed funding led by Surface Ventures for its agentic AI platform automating clinical-trial data operations, reporting a six-fold throughput gain and reviewer error rates falling from 54.7% to 8.5%. [Link]

OpenLoop (US): acquired Hey Revia, a Y Combinator-backed voice-AI platform automating prior authorisations, insurance verification and pharmacy coordination, folding it into its Launchpad telehealth infrastructure. [Link]

Experity (US): acquired Exdion Healthcare, an AI-driven revenue-cycle software company, to automate the chart-to-cash lifecycle for urgent-care operators. [Link]

ONTO Health (US): acquired LEVY Health, a clinical-decision-support company for reproductive medicine, to expand AI-enabled fertility care across the US and the Gulf. [Link]

IKS Health (US): completed its $557 million acquisition of TruBridge, an EHR and revenue-cycle vendor for rural and community hospitals, adding LLM capabilities to its care-enablement platform. [Link]