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Endpoints Health Tech Day begins
Hello from NYC! I spent yesterday running around SoHo, reminiscing about the reporting I used to do when I lived here.
Being in town has me so excited for today as we host our first-ever Health Tech Day. The free, virtual, hour-and-a-half-long portion of the event starts at 11 a.m. ET, so sign up here if you haven’t already.
We’ll be digging into: 
  • The Trump administration's impact on health tech policy, with insights from leaders at Oura, Digital Medicine Society and Oracle
  • What’s next for the digital health IPO markets, with Hinge Health CEO Daniel Perez, the first to break the IPO dry spell this year
  • … and of course, we couldn’t host a health tech day without a conversation on AI. I’ll be chatting with Abridge, Highmark Health and the Peterson Health Tech Institute about how AI is shaping the way healthcare is paid for and delivered 
It should be a fun set of conversations. Hope you can tune in! And if you've registered to join our live event and happy hour tonight at Book Club Bar, I'll see you there! 
- Lydia
Here’s what’s new
How UpToDate plans to compete in the race for doctors' AI search tools
For three decades, doc­tors used Up­To­Date as a search tool. But as OpenEv­i­dence, a start­up build­ing an AI-pow­ered ver­sion, be­came one of the hottest in health tech this year, sweep­ing up both fund­ing and users, the long­time in­cum­bent has been forced to step up and stay rel­e­vant.
Oura’s healthcare ambitions take shape as the smart ring maker vaults to a $11B valuation
To­day, health­care isn’t what’s dri­ving Oura’s busi­ness — tech­ni­cal­ly. But that’s starting to change.

Oura in October raised $900 million in a Series E round that valued the company at $11 billion. The plan is to use the funding on AI, international expansion and healthcare. In the last year, the company has said it is profitable. 
Quote of the week

“We feel an obligation to help them understand the data so they can use it for that purpose, but also to close the loop so they can share it with their provider in a meaningful way.”

Oura CMO Ricky Bloomfield
This week in health Тech
Hinge Health’s third-quarter revenue was $154 million, a 53% increase from the same time last year. The virtual physical therapy company said it’s also open to acquiring other companies. Despite raising its 2025 guidance, the company’s stock fell 15% on Wednesday. 
GoodRx reported that its quarterly pharma manufacturer solutions revenue was $43.4 million, up 54% from $43.4 million in the third quarter 2024.
OpenEvidence has announced a licensing agreement with The National Comprehensive Cancer Network. The AI-powered physician search tool startup, valued at $6 billion, previously licensed JAMA and NEJM.
A-Squared Ventures has launched a second fund of $40 million to invest in digital health startups. Its previous investments include Eleos Health and Laguna Health.
CEO of virtual digestive health care startup Cylinder Health Bill Snyder is stepping down from his role. The startup was founded in 2021 and has since raised $47 million in total funding.
New startup Tala Health has raised $100 million at a $1.2 billion valuation to build AI agents in healthcare. The startup was launched by Titan Holdings, which has stakes in other health tech companies like Forta Health.
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