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News 1/21/26
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Chicago-based Zarminali Pediatrics raises $110 million in a Series A funding round led by Healthier Capital. The practice, which has locations in nine states and Washington, DC, will use the investment to expand its specialty care offerings and to begin offering telemedicine services around the clock throughout the week.
Healthier Capital CEO Amir Rubin, former CEO of Amazon One Medical, will join Zarminali’s board.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
AnswersNow, a provider of virtual autism therapy, raises $40 million in Series B funding.
Home-based care provider DispatchHealth sells its portable X-ray and ultrasound business unit to portable diagnostics services company TridentCare. The sale comes eight months after DispatchHealth’s acquisition of Medically Home, which resulted in restructuring and layoffs.
Announcements and Implementations
Southlake Orthopaedics (AL) implements Ankr Health’s VCX AI platform, which includes scribe and scheduler agents.
Bloom Healthcare begins using Sunoh.ai’s ambient listening technology for clinical documentation.
Amazon adds its recently developed Health AI assistant to the One Medical app, giving One Medical primary care patients access to personalized advice based on their One Medical records, lab results, and medication history. The assistant can also can also book appointments and manage prescriptions Chats with the AI tool are, however, not incorporated into the patient’s One Medical record. Amazon acquired One Medical’s chain of clinics in 2023 for $4 billion.
Greenway Health develops an Agentic AI Factory to fast track the safe and secure development of AI agents for its EHR solutions.
Meditech announces GA of Expanse Outpatient Therapy.
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The State of Colorado launches the EHealth Solutions Challenge to identify, vet, and pilot innovative technologies that can improve the secure sharing of health data between agencies, organizations, and jurisdictions across the state. Promising entries may receive up to $50,000 in seed funding. Applications are due February 18.
Grocery store chain Meijer begins offering customers access to virtual care from WellSync through its website and pharmacy app.
ECRI deems healthcare AI chatbots the top health technology hazard for 2026, pointing out that they “are programmed to sound confident and to always provide an answer to satisfy the user, even when the answer isn’t reliable.”
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