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Healthcare-focused AI lab Voio has emerged from stealth $8.6 million in seed funding. The company announced the funding Thursday (Nov. 20), saying its initial focus is on constructing a “unified reading ...

Function Health, a startup focused on AI-centered health testing, has raised $298 million. “Function is redefining preventive healthcare by making comprehensive health insights accessible to everyone,” Redpoint Ventures, which led the ...

A surge in remote medical visits and health-tracking tools is reshaping how Americans navigate the healthcare system, yet the most striking finding in new research is not about telehealth adoption. ...

For much of its history, healthcare has presented a unique contrast in digital progress. While the sector leads in medical technology, healthcare billing and payments have frequently been slower to ...

For small business owners, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is about to become less affordable. As Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Nov. 11), small business owners and their employees, as well as ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) startups raised billions in new funding this week, with investors allocating capital to companies embedding intelligence into core business operations across enterprise infrastructure, healthcare and payments. Enterprise AI ...

For decades, oncologists have worked with fragmented information. Imaging tests, biopsy results and clinical records often sit in separate databases, making it difficult to see how one piece of data ...

Healthcare organizations are moving from pilot projects to enterprise-scale deployment of artificial intelligence as hospitals automate high-volume workflows and expand digital capacity. Along with that expansion comes the possibility of improved ...

Consumers will soon be able to pick up single-dose vials of the weight loss drug Zepbound at Walmart pharmacies and pay the same price they would pay through the manufacturer’s ...

Consumers have grown used to managing nearly every aspect of their financial lives on their phones, but convenience alone is no longer enough. Many now expect digital banking to help them ...

UnitedHealth Group says tech investments are key to its ongoing turnaround strategy. The insurer announced quarterly earnings Tuesday (Oct. 28) showing consolidated revenues of $113.2 billion, a 12% increase year over ...

An artificial intelligence system from UnitedHealth Group has reportedly sped up prior authorization requests and reduced medical claims denials “meaningfully” during testing at Minneapolis-based hospital system Allina Health. The Optum Real ...

Every major shift in technology reshapes the foundations of trust. The rise of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) systems is doing so at unprecedented scale, transferring decision-making from people to algorithms. ...

Regions Bank has introduced treasury management services designed for clients in the healthcare sector. The new services, announced Monday (Oct. 20), are designed to help those clients automate, streamline and manage ...

Google said its open-source Gemma AI model helped scientists identify a potential new biological pathway for cancer therapy, according to a release by Google. The company said the finding demonstrates ...

On the same day Philippe Aghion was named a Nobel laureate for economics Monday (Oct. 13), it’s worth revisiting a playbook he and two co-authors published in PYMNTS’ sister outlet, ...

Apple is reportedly reorganizing some of its divisions as the retirement of former Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams nears. The company will move its health and fitness divisions and place them ...

A UnitedHealth Group affiliate plans to acquire a Boston-area primary care group called Acton Medical Associates, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Oct. 9), citing a notice posted by the Massachusetts Health Policy ...

Hospitals are facing unprecedented cost pressures and persistent staffing challenges, forcing a deeper look at where automation can make a measurable impact. The American Hospital Association’s “Cost of Caring” report ...

Amazon is bringing its pharmacy service to its medical practice. The tech giant is launching Amazon Pharmacy Kiosks, which will be placed in medical offices, allowing patients to pick up prescriptions immediately following ...

Anthropic and Deloitte have partnered to build artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that include compliance features to enable their deployment in regulated industries like financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and ...

If the outpouring of thought leadership is any indication of the urgency with which companies are advancing agentic AI, we’re about to see a Q4 that will require popcorn. But ...

Unlike other sectors where results aren’t always the deciding factor, AI in healthcare scales only on proof. In cancer diagnostics, adoption depends on consistent, concrete results that doctors trust, and ...

Generation Z is often portrayed as a disruptive force, reinventing money, work and consumption. Yet PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Gen Z Decoder Ring” report suggests something more subtle, and in some ways more ...

Prescription platform GoodRx has launched a brand medication savings solution with supermarket chain Kroger. RxSmartSave, announced Wednesday (Oct. 1), is now available at Kroger pharmacies in 35 states around the country, ...

Watch more: Live Roundtable In healthcare, information and money never stop moving. Every day, medical records, claims, payments and denials flow among patients, providers and payers in a constant stream that is ...

Medicare is set to bring artificial intelligence (AI) into the core of its decision-making, testing whether algorithms can determine which treatments get covered in the nation’s largest public health program. ...

Health insurance company UnitedHealthcare has launched a digital shopping experience that enables member-direct purchase of health and wellness offerings. The new UHC Store, available in the UnitedHealthcare app and on myuhc.com, ...

Omnicare, a CVS Health subsidiary that provides pharmacy services to skilled nursing facilities, independent and assisted living communities and other segments of the long-term care market, filed for bankruptcy Monday ...

Walmart customers can now have refrigerated and reconstituted prescriptions delivered along with their groceries and other everyday items. In addition, they can purchase these cold-chain prescriptions, which include things like insulin, ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is set to launch a multimillion-dollar program this fall that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to overhaul how hospitals analyze medical imaging. Called PRIMED-AI, the initiative ...

Amazon is increasing pay and benefits for its fulfillment and transportation employees in the United States. The company is increasing the average pay for these employees to more than $23 per ...

Doctronic raised $20 million in a Series A funding round to expand its services and grow the adoption of its artificial intelligence-native platform designed to deliver healthcare. The platform uses generative ...

Oracle Health introduced tools aimed at easing administrative healthcare burdens and costs. The company’s new artificial intelligence-powered offerings are designed to simplify and lower the cost of processes such as prior ...

When Dr. Mark Truty was in college, his father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Doctors told the family the tumor appeared localized and attempted surgery. “I remember when the surgeon came ...

Predoc raised $30 million in seed and Series A funding for its artificial intelligence-powered health information management system, according to a banner on the company’s website. The company said in a ...

Sycamore Partners said Thursday (Aug. 28) that it completed its acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance and that the businesses that made up WBA are now operating as standalone companies under ...

EliseAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup focused on automating healthcare and housing systems, has raised $250 million in a Series E round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from ...

A Justice Department criminal investigation of UnitedHealth Group is reportedly broader than initially thought. Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Aug. 26), citing unnamed sources, that what was once thought to be a probe ...

Star Trek’s fictional Dr. “Bones” McCoy may have had a tricorder, but NASA astronauts could soon have something almost as futuristic and real: An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical assistant that ...

MIT researchers used generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create molecules that didn’t exist before to develop promising antibiotics candidates for MRSA, a superbug that has killed millions. MRSA, or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ...

The rise of real-time payments is revolutionizing the patient experience in healthcare, mirroring consumers’ demands for seamless digital interactions across their daily lives. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Small Business Real-Time Payments ...

California lawmakers are moving to tighten guardrails around the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare with a new bill aimed at curbing misleading representations by these systems. Assembly Bill ...

Talk of innovation in healthcare often centers on new diagnostic tools, surgical robotics or artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled patient monitoring. But across major health systems and independent providers alike, it’s the financial ...

Silicon Valley has no shortage of AI optimists when it comes to pie-in-the-sky predictions. That’s especially true in healthcare. Earlier this year, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told CBS News program “60 ...