Issue №043 · 2026-06-26

Daily Briefing · Issue №043 · 2026-06-26

Health OS

Assort Health scores $120M series C to scale voice AI agent platform for healthcare

  • Assort Health has a large proprietary specialty dataset built on 190 million patient interactions, 62,000 care protocols and 1.6 million decision pathways.
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Physician Assistant

Locum tenens coverage becoming ‘more purposeful’ staffing strategy: Definitive Healthcare

  • Definitive Healthcare identified four key workforce trends around contingent staffing, advanced practice providers, new behavioral health delivery models and AI tech as a workforce multiplier.
Fierce Healthcare
Health OS

Patients prefer healthcare providers' AI agents to public chatbots, with human oversight non‑negotiable, surve

  • Patients are open to using AI agents to help with tasks like scheduling and billing, but they overwhelmingly prefer AI tools that live inside their doctor’s secure portal, a new Salesforce survey found.
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Health OS

Badges, bots and blind spots

  • Hospitals are under pressure to secure increasingly digital care environments without slowing clinicians down. This week on "Podnosis," Senior Writer Anastassia Gliadkovskaya talks with Imprivata Chief Medical Officer Se
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