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Ardent Health
Ardent Health is betting that a hospital system can stay local while its technology, purchasing and operating discipline scale nationally. Across six states, the result is a care network stretching from the emergency room to the smartphone.
RISA Labs
RISA Labs is a Palo Alto healthtech company building an AI operating system for oncology. Its platform, BOSS (Business Operating System as a Service), decomposes the paperwork-heavy work of cancer care - prior authorization, benefits verification, eligibility checks, denial management - into micro-tasks handled by a network of AI agents, digital twins, and reinforcement learners that plug into EHRs and payer portals. Founded in 2024 by IIT Kanpur alumni Kshitij Jaggi and Kumar Shivang, RISA aims to cut the days-long administrative delays that keep cancer patients waiting for treatment.
Mural Health
Mural Health is a Berwyn, Pennsylvania-based clinical research technology company whose Mural Link platform is billed as the industry's first participant management system. It combines patient payments, travel and rideshare booking, two-way messaging, and real-time experience feedback into one participant-first tool aimed at helping people enroll in and stay in clinical trials while easing the administrative burden on research sites and sponsors. Founded in 2022 by Sam Whitaker - the inventor of the original ClinCard payment technology at Greenphire - the company positions itself against legacy prepaid-card systems, notably by eliminating the inactivity fees that quietly drain participant balances.