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Can portable devices bring diagnostics to patients no specialist ever sees?

AI medical imaging

Oct 6, 2026

Can portable devices bring diagnostics to patients no specialist ever sees?

Oxalis Imaging and N23 Health bring testing closer to rural communities in low-income countries, where diagnosis often comes late

Jamile Racanicci

A ‘YOLO move’ and a flight to Kansas: How Abridge landed its first customer

The First Customer

Sep 17, 2026

A ‘YOLO move’ and a flight to Kansas: How Abridge landed its first customer

Abridge founder and CEO Shiv Rao closed the deal by hopping on a flight — and removing as much risk as possible from saying ‘yes’

AI in healthcare

Sep 15, 2026

The doctor’s AI will see you now

Abridge, WellSky and their rivals are touting AI tools to listen in on doctor visits, but implementing them isn’t so simple — even if doctors want them

Sage Lazzaro

‘We started building AI for rural locations, not for the cities’

AI in healthcare

Sep 1, 2026

‘We started building AI for rural locations, not for the cities’

Arkangel AI reads unstructured medical records to catch disease early, built by a co-founder who lost three family members to late diagnoses

Why die when you’ve got AI? The startups racing to outrun aging

AI in healthcare

Aug 13, 2026

Why die when you’ve got AI? The startups racing to outrun aging

You(th) and AVARA are putting smartphones and wearables to work to help us live longer and healthier lives

Tim Smith

Agentic AI

Aug 4, 2026

Where ‘agentic’ has to earn its keep

Nucleo's founders came out of Stanford and Apple to automate cancer diagnostics. What they built has an agent inside it, and a fence around it.

AI in healthcare

Jul 21, 2026

Every surgery now has a replay button

VitVio brought ambient computer vision from grocery stores into the OR. Its founder had to convince clinicians that the software is not there to spy on them