
Stay up to date on the latest in health tech, digital health and health AI news with this weekly brief. Read below for news from the week of Oct. 5 to 9.
Partnership builds on Assort growing ophthalmology footprint, proprietary Nextech integration, and experience across hundreds of healthcare deployments to automate more patient access workflows.
Assort resolves 95% of patient interactions without staff handoff, giving practices the proof they need to bring AI agents into primary care faster.

Assort Health doesn't want its AI agents to replace doctors. It wants them to remember patients, understand healthcare's messy operational rules and help people reach the right care before they fall through the cracks.

The San Francisco Business Times profiles Assort Health as one of the city’s fastest-growing AI startups, covering its work to improve how patients access care, rapid team growth, $120 million Series C, and new headquarters at One Market Plaza.

The AI agent extracts and structures information from each referral, applies the organization's eligibility and specialty-specific criteria, and identifies missing information.
Most referral technology stops after reading a document. Referrals works each one to completion, helping organizations reduce referral leakage, get more qualified patients to the right provider, and convert 79% of referrals into scheduled appointments, while identifying a better-fit provider in 50% of cases.
Former Physician and Health System CEO Joins Assort to Help Health Systems Expand Patient Access, Make Better Use of Clinical Capacity, and Deploy AI at Enterprise Scale
Chief Revenue Officer, Vice President of Customer Success, and Senior Vice President of People join Assort Health following its $120 million Series C and accelerating customer demand to scale the most widely-used AI agents platform for the patient journey
New awards program honors the clinicians, executives, and operators redefining how patients access care, launched on the heels of Assort's $120 million Series C and its Ascend 2026 summit