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Healthcare Dive · September 11, 2026

ARPA-H to invest $62M to build agentic AI agent for heart care

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Autonomously providing 24/7 clinical care and decision-making for heart failure patients

ARPA-H has awarded $62.7 million to teams including Duke, Stanford, and Kaiser Permanente to build an autonomous, patient-facing AI agent and safety oversight system to treat heart failure. The initiative aims to address critical specialist shortages in rural counties by integrating 24/7 clinical AI directly into health system electronic health record workflows. For faculty across medicine, administration, and policy, this effort is pivotal as it seeks to establish the first formal FDA regulatory pathway for autonomous agentic AI in clinical care.

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