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News 1/12/26
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Virtual maternity care provider Pomelo Care announces $92 million in Series C funding, bringing its total raised to $171 million. The company, which partners with payers and employers, is expanding its services to include pediatric care and care for women beyond the post-partum period.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
VieCure announces $43 million in new funding, bringing its total raised to $113 million. The company offers oncology-focused EHR and clinical decision support software.
C3 HealthcareRx, a virtual behavioral health and medication management company, acquires chronic care management vendor Wellbox Health.
Virtual women’s precision medicine startup Xella Health raises $3.7 million in pre-seed funding. The company expects to launch its services this spring.
Announcements and Implementations
Primary care health IT vendor Elation Health enhances its Clinical Insights patient chart summary solution with Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant.
PQT Health launches its AI-enhanced Dyvine EHR for rural providers and small practices.
Walmart launches Better Care Services, a digital healthcare hub that offers users access to telehealth providers, LilyDirect for online weight loss medication, and Walmart Pharmacy for prescription delivery and pick-up. Readers (or, like me, patients) may remember that the retailer shut down its chain of Walmart Health primary care clinics in 2024 due to rising costs and declining reimbursements. The five-year experiment saw 51 clinics open in five states, and the enterprise implementation of Epic.
Virtual Nurse Rx announces GA of its virtual managed clinical teams service for practices looking to expand clinical operations.
Behavioral health IT vendor Kipu Health debuts its AI-powered Helix behavioral health operating system.
Cardiovascular Associates of America will implement Ascertain’s automated administrative workflow software across its 100 clinics in eight states.
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