NEW: Akido Labs raised a $60M Series B led by Oak HC/FT to scale ScopeAI, its AI assistant that guides visits and auto-generates clinical reports. Akido’s network spans 240+ providers, 90 clinics, and 500K patients.

NEW: New Mountain Capital has launched Smarter Technologies, an AI-powered RCM platform formed by merging Access Healthcare, SmarterDx, and Thoughtful AI. It serves 200+ clients, including 60+ hospitals and 500K+ providers, managing $200B+ in revenue across 400M transactions.

⚡️Here's this week's issue! • Unicorn founders in the age of AI • New Mountain Capital launches AI RCM platform • AI for VBC healthcareaiguy.com/p/healthcare-a…

NEW: At #GoogleIO, Google unveiled MedGemma, an open multimodal model for medical text and image understanding. Built on Gemma 3, it's fine-tunable, lightweight, and designed for use in apps like radiology analysis or note summarization—on cloud or locally.

Hard not to get excited about the OpenAI <> io acquisition and the vision for the next generation of AI-enabled devices.

BREAKING: Abridge is reportedly raising hundreds of millions at a $5B valuation—just months after a $250M Series D in Feb. at $2.75B, and a $150M Series C in 24'. With scribing commoditized, Abridge and Ambience (raising at $1B) are likely moving into RCM, billing, & compliance.

Boom. And the paper is done with o1-preview… new Gemini flash model is both more intelligent and cheaper (and ofc o3 is better).

Majority of AI unicorns come from health • Abridge • Neko Health • hippocraticai • Insilico Medicine • OpenEvidence • Truveta