News Summary:
On September 17, 2026, TIME recognized Collective Health, a third-party administrator and Care Navigator, with an "Outstanding" designation on its World’s Top HealthTech Companies 2026 list. Earlier that day, TIME, in collaboration with Statista, named RXNT, a Maryland healthcare technology company, to its World’s Top HealthTech Companies 2026 list for the second consecutive year, evaluating innovative health technology and health IT firms globally. On the same date, TIME also included Canary Speech, a vocal biomarker technology company, on its World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026 list, presented with Statista Inc. Concurrently, TIME named Octagos, a remote cardiac monitoring company, to the World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026 in the AI & Data Analytics category, marking its second consecutive appearance since the list began in 2025. Additionally, TIME published a list of the top 1000 "best" companies in the world, which included 18 Massachusetts-based companies, with two ranking in the top 100.