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It had to be said! 🎯 Epic's stranglehold on healthcare IT has stifled innovation for too long and the writing is on the wall. The consolidation myth needs to die already. We were promised efficiency and lower costs, but what we got was bloated bureaucracies that prioritize profits over patients. The data doesn't lie: smaller, agile providers consistently outperform these healthcare monopolies on both outcomes and patient satisfaction. Time for a major reset in how we think about healthcare delivery.

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Former Drawbridge Health CEO Launches Manifold Health AI at JPM to Build the First Digital Health Index Twin for Chronic Disease. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Manifold Health AI today announced its launch at JPM Healthcare Week and the GMT MedTech Symposium, unveiling a first-to-market platform that combines a novel, precision-designed blood test with an AI-driven Digital Health Index Twin to translate biological data into financial risk intelligence for healthcare infrastructure. The announcement was delivered by Manifold's Founder and CEO, Jerome Scelza. This will fundamentally change health risk management, improve health outcomes, and make healthcare affordable again. For the complete press release: https://lnkd.in/e9NsnRiT Message me if you would like to know more!

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𝗔𝗜 𝗜𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 — 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗮𝘆. 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆. Rural healthcare providers aren’t just fighting disease. They’re fighting inefficiency, documentation overload, staffing gaps, and time. At the Center for Health Systems Innovation and OLSF Ventures, we believe the next wave of transformation isn’t about adding more people. It’s about amplifying the people already there. That’s why we’re excited about the work of companies like: Ambience – Using ambient AI to instantly document and code physician-patient encounters in real time. No scribes. No dictation. Just more time for care. Lumeris – Providing value-based care platforms and physician enablement services that optimize workflow, improve patient outcomes, and reduce unnecessary costs—especially important in resource-scarce rural markets. Percipio – Delivering advanced diagnostic support through AI-driven clinical decision tools, helping rural physicians confidently manage complex cases when specialty referrals aren’t an option. These aren’t abstract ideas or future-state visions. They’re live solutions—already deployed, already making a difference. Because in rural America, workflow is survival. If we want to close the health equity gap, we need to equip providers not just with compassion, but with the tools to do more with less. #RuralHealth #HealthcareInnovation #ArtificialIntelligence #Ambience #Lumeris #Percipio #CHSI #OLSFVentures #HealthEquity #Startups #DigitalHealth #AI #WorkforceEnablement #ValueBasedCare #Leadership #PrimaryCare

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What needs to change first and foremost is healthcare finance. These insurance bizdiots consume more than half your healthcare dollar, up front. Then we need to make the big hospital systems run efficiently. Finally, we need to stop hemorrhaging 84% of healthcare expenditures on avoidable, behavior-based chronic disease. These three financial problems can be solved with education and automation. 1. Automate the health insurance industry. Provide the EMR, pay 150% of Medicare for procedures documented. 2. Provide an ERP style hospital administration system to find cash leaks and inefficiencies. 3. As the insurance company, offer double digit discounts for improved lab results. Problem solved Overview of the solution (that's in production, by the way): https://lnkd.in/eUt_HTQX

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Nice quote from one of our Partners Andrew Brackin in TechCrunch: “This was one of the biggest use cases of ChatGPT,” Andrew Brackin, a partner at Gradient who invests in health tech, told TechCrunch. “So it makes a lot of sense that they would want to build a more kind of private, secure, optimized version of ChatGPT for these healthcare questions.” https://lnkd.in/gY3TV5VD

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I’m excited to share that Angle Health, founded by former Palantir Technologies execs Tylon (Ty) W. and Anirban Gangopadhyay, has announced an oversubscribed Series B bringing total funding to nearly $200M. I’m proud to be an early investor and to have led this competitive round with the amazing team at Portage. Why we keep leaning in: - 26x revenue growth since the Series A - Serving 3,000+ employers across 44 states - 80%+ renewal rates Angle Health is rebuilding the healthcare benefits infrastructure for SMBs, who employ nearly half of America’s workforce but have historically been shut out of enterprise-grade coverage. Their AI-native platform helps predict risk and deliver better care at a sustainable cost. This is exactly the kind of product-driven, AI-native company we’re proud to support at Mighty Capital.

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Clinicians want to use AI but don’t have the bandwidth to evaluate all the different models. Meet Health Olymp, an AI tool purpose-built for clinicians. Here’s why this matters 👇 1. Health and life science experts gain instant access to frontier models for free. No procurement hoops or IT bottlenecks. Every clinician gets their own sandbox to explore. 2. Clinicians can compare models side by side and pick the one that works best for their use case. That transparency builds trust and sparks ideas for novel AI applications in care delivery, diagnostics, and research. 3. Most AI benchmarks are too generic or disconnected from clinical reality. Health Olymp brings frontline feedback into the loop, helping the industry identify models that perform reliably in real world clinical environments. Congrats to Ruslan Nazarenko and the Lumos team as they put AI model benchmarking directly into the hands of healthcare professionals. ⬇️ (link in comments)

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