Industry Report – December 2025

The Industry Report in reply-all shares a selection of recent news featuring UPMC Enterprises, our portfolio companies, and partnerships.

This edition includes stories about Elektra Health’s collaboration with Oscar Health to form HelloMeno, Abridge’s implementation across the UPMC system, and insights from Deepan Kamaraj in Becker’s and Healthcare IT News about our partnership with Penguin Ai.

Keep an eye on UPMC Enterprises’ News webpage for the latest industry stories.

UPMC Enterprises 

Deepan Kamaraj, Director, Analytics & Informatics, UPMC Enterprises | Becker’s Hospital Review

UPMC Enterprises partners with Penguin Ai for development of new healthcare models | Healthcare IT News

Abridge

UPMC Scales Abridge AI Platform Enterprise-Wide to 12,000 Clinicians | Abridge

At Becker’s Health IT, the sharpest thinking about AI wasn’t about tech | Becker’s Hospital Review

Arrive Health

How Optimized ePA is Changing the Game for Health Systems | Fierce Healthcare

BrainCheck  

BrainCheck Expands Normative Database to Further Support Accuracy and Consistency in Cognitive Assessment | BusinessWire

Carta Healthcare

Carta Healthcare Named to CB Insights 2025 Digital Health 50 | Carta Healthcare

Beyond Proof of Concept: Integrating Generative AI Safely into Clinical Workflows | HIT Consultant

Elektra Health 

Elektra Health and Oscar Launch HelloMeno the First-Ever Menopause Health Plan in the Individual Market | PR Newswire

Midlife, Reimagined: Meet the Founder Closing the Gap in Women’s Healthcare | Catalyst by Wellstar

2025’s Women of Influence: Jannine Versi | Fierce Healthcare

Infectious Disease Connect

Achieve Over 250% ROI While Improving Care Quality | Infectious Disease Connect

Noema Pharma

Noema Pharma Announces Phase 2a Study Results with Cendifensine in Women with Vasomotor Symptoms (Hot Flashes) Due to Menopause | Global Newswire

Optain Health

Optain Health acquires EyePACS to expand early disease detection | Fierce Healthcare

Pioneering AI research uses the eye to detect chronic disease earlier | Monash University

Penguin Ai 

LLMs Have Eaten the Internet — Now They’re Starving on Themselves | MedCity News

Pittsburgh’s UPMC embraces AI in helping doctors be more efficient | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Penguin Ai Partners with UPMC Enterprises to Advance Healthcare AI Innovation | Mobile Health Times

Rewriting The Healthcare Data Playbook For AI | Healthcare Business Today

Sudo Biosciences

Sudo Biosciences Announces Positive Phase 1 Results for Brain-Penetrant Allosteric TYK2 Inhibitor SUDO-550 | BusinessWire

SparingVision

SparingVision Doses First Patient with SPVN20 for Advanced Retinitis Pigmentosa in NYRVANA Trial | SparingVision

Ultromics

Anatomy of an AI Win: How Ultromics Won Over Cardiologists | Digital Medicine Society (DiMe)