Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe
Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe

Every patient discharge in a European hospital triggers a paperwork cascade. Clinical information from the stay must be converted into standardised codes, the ICD classifications and procedure codes that determine what a hospital gets paid. Someone has…

German biotech Kupando raises €10M more to take its innate immunity drug into the clinic
German biotech Kupando raises €10M more to take its innate immunity drug into the clinic

An extension to the company’s Series A brings total funding to €23 million and clears the path for the first human trial of KUP101, a dual TLR agonist targeting solid tumours and drug-resistant infections. Most immunotherapy research in oncology has co…

Fitbit improves sleep tracking and adds an AI coach that uses your medical history

Fitbit is adding medical record integration, smarter sleep tracking, and glucose insights, aiming to turn its app into a more personalized health companion with AI guidance based on real user data.
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Oxford Medical Simulation secures £5M growth financing
Oxford Medical Simulation secures £5M growth financing

The London-based healthtech company, which lets clinicians practise emergencies and difficult conversations in virtual reality, will use the capital to deepen its US footprint and accelerate AI-driven product development. Oxford Medical Simulation has …

Microsoft launches Copilot Health
Microsoft launches Copilot Health

Microsoft has launched Copilot Health, a dedicated, secure space within its Copilot AI assistant that aggregates personal health data from wearables, electronic health records, and laboratory results, then applies AI to surface what the company calls a…

Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech
Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech

The startup, founded just two months before its raise, has secured China’s largest early-stage brain-computer interface round, heavily oversubscribed. Phoenix Peng has already built one brain-computer interface company. NeuroXess, his first venture, de…

EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report
EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report

EchoPrime, published in Nature in February 2026, outperforms both task-specific AI tools and previous foundation models across 23 cardiac benchmarks, and its code, weights, and a demo are publicly available. An echocardiogram is one of the most common …

French insurtech Alan hits €5B valuation
French insurtech Alan hits €5B valuation

A decade after becoming the first new independent health insurer in France in 30 years, Alan has closed a €100M round backed by Index Ventures, Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, and World Cup winner Antoine Griezmann, and it’s not slowing down. Alan, the Paris-bas…

Amazon’s Health AI is now open to all US customers
Amazon’s Health AI is now open to all US customers

Three years after its $3.9 billion bet on One Medical, Amazon is deploying its healthcare AI assistant across its main website and shopping app, in a direct challenge to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health and Anthropic’s Claude for Healthcare. Amazon has opened i…

SpendRule raises $2M, emerges from stealth to help hospitals track spending

SpendRule, launched last summer, is an AI-powered platform that helps healthcare systems track their spending.