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A health-focused startup founded by Spotify Co-founder Daniel Ek plans to open its first U.S. location as soon as this spring if it gets regulatory approval, Bloomberg reported Thursday (April 2). Neko Health offers full-body health ...

CVS Health plans to open about 20 smaller, pharmacy-only locations across the United States this year after opening its first one late last year. The company opened its first pharmacy-only CVS ...

Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the two companies that dominate the global market for GLP-1 weight loss and diabetes drugs, are each deploying artificial intelligence (AI) across different stages of ...

Pharmaceutical titan Eli Lilly wants to bring medications developed with AI to market. To that end, the company has struck a $2.75 billion deal, announced Sunday (March 29), with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine. The companies ...

Miami-based, GLP-1-focused digital healthcare startup eMed is now a $2 billion-plus company. The company announced that valuation Thursday (March 26) as it completed a $200 million Series A funding round. Led by ...

Adonis, an artificial intelligence (AI) orchestration platform for healthcare revenue cycle management, has raised $40 million. The Series C round, announced Wednesday (March 25), brings Adonis’ total funding to more than ...

Amazon expanded its Health AI agent from the One Medical app to Amazon.com and the Amazon mobile app, and Perplexity launched Perplexity Health, a suite of personal health data connectors. The ...

The Prompt Economy is a tug of war lately, with both sides invested in a successful outcome for agentic technology. Pulling on one side are the security-minded tech executives insisting ...

Robots are coming to hospitals, but they are not there to replace surgeons. Instead, they observe, coordinate and carry loads, tasks that consume large amounts of clinical staff time and ...

Healthcare CFOs today are walking a tightening wire. System and network margins are under structural pressures, policy risk is rising across the industry and clouding long-term planning, all while the ...

Healthcare costs are hitting the youngest adults hardest, turning even routine care into a budget decision for Americans who, on paper, should need the least medical attention. That was the central ...

Can artificial intelligence (AI) make more accurate diagnoses than doctors? Microsoft reports its AI has begun to do just that as it moves into complex healthcare decisions. Last summer, Microsoft said ...

Young consumers in the United States are doing more than ever to stay afloat, but new data shows that effort alone is no longer restoring their sense of control. “Generations Under ...

Artificial intelligence is moving into the financial mechanics of healthcare payments, and the stakes are measured in billions. Hospitals are deploying the technology to maximize reimbursement, while insurers use their ...

Microsoft is continuing its push into the healthcare field with its new Copilot Health offering. The service is a separate space within the company’s Copilot artificial intelligence tool that can make ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has reportedly found itself being used by both parties in a nationwide healthcare dispute. One one side, Reuters reported Thursday (March 12), are healthcare systems turning to AI ...

Amazon began rolling out an agentic artificial intelligence health assistant in the United States on Tuesday (March 10). The company is now offering access to Health AI to customers on Amazon.com ...

Agentic AI is starting to look less like a future promise in healthcare and more like a practical answer to a familiar problem: too much staff time spent on paperwork, ...

Retail used to compete primarily on assortment, price and convenience. Increasingly, it competes on infrastructure and positioning. In a consumer environment defined by uncertainty driven by persistent inflation pressures, cautious spending ...

AWS has launched an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) solution designed to automate administrative tasks for healthcare providers. The new Amazon Connect Health handles patient verification, scheduling, medical histories, documentation and coding, the company ...

Critical infrastructure such as financial services, energy and healthcare is most likely to be targeted by Iranian cyberattacks, CSO reported Wednesday (March 4). While such attacks have not materialized so far ...

The prescription experience has started to resemble other parts of digital commerce: shoppers want clear pricing, fewer handoffs and a quicker path from decision to fulfillment. That push toward self-service framed ...

Alipay’s artificial intelligence payment and health apps each have more than 100 million users, according to a Monday (Feb. 23) press release. AI adoption rose during the 2026 Chinese New Year, ...

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Michigan Medicine’s Dr. Marschall Runge Twelve months ago, Marschall Runge wasn’t a skeptic, exactly. But he wasn’t a true believer, either. He thought generative AI would ...

Across robotics, media production, healthcare administration, compliance and small-business front desks, startups raised capital by promising measurable output: robots on factory floors, video assets in production pipelines and prior authorizations ...

Drug development has grown too expensive and too slow to rely on manual workflows, as the cost of bringing a single therapy to market climbs into the billions and approval ...

Ant Group plans to offer artificial intelligence-powered health services to most of China’s 1.4 billion people within three years, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Feb. 10). The company, whose operations include digital payments ...

Amazon is enhancing its health-related offerings by expanding the geographic range of its same-day prescription delivery service and by launching a beta feature that helps patients understand their lab results. Amazon ...

Apple Inc. is scaling back plans for an AI-based health coach, a retreat that underscores the difficulty of turning health tracking into a paid service. The shift matters for Apple’s ...

From virtual doctor visits to scheduling apps and health trackers, consumers are steadily integrating technology into how they manage healthcare. However, adoption is unfolding unevenly across age groups, creating what the ...

Lotus Health AI raised $35 million in a Series A funding round to increase the availability of its “AI doctor” that provides free, round-the-clock primary care. Together with a seed round, this ...

Health insurance company Humana launched Agent Assist, a new artificial intelligence-driven support tool developed with Google Cloud, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 3) press release. The tool is designed to help ...

Medical providers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to address claims denials, one of the most persistent and costly problems in healthcare in the United States. Denials delay reimbursement, force staff ...

Amazon and Walmart are battling on two of the largest, most habitual spending categories in the U.S. economy: grocery and healthcare. The two largest retailers in the U.S. are rethinking the ...

Digital healthcare is expanding fast, but the people most eager for it are also the ones most likely to get stuck when it’s time to pay. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Clicks, ...

HealthTech startup Tandem Technology achieved a valuation of $1 billion, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Jan. 26). The company, which aims to use artificial intelligence to ease the process of writing and ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is seeking proposals for a multiyear initiative to spur the development and approval of agentic ...

Medical schools and teaching hospitals in the U.K. and U.S. are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated patients to train future doctors. The move trains students in communication, diagnosis and clinical reasoning, ...

The modern storefront is no longer a place; it’s a moment. Major retail leaders haven’t waited for shoppers to come knocking on their brick-and-mortar doors for over a decade, and ...

The Walmart Health Research Institute (WHRI) plans to open four research sites this spring, saying they will make it easier for people to participate in clinical trials. WHRI will launch the research sites ...

Amazon has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for its One Medical app. The agentic AI tool, announced Wednesday (Jan. 21), is designed to help with things like answering health questions, ...

Medical-focused artificial intelligence (AI) startup OpenEvidence has reportedly raised $250 million in new funding. The round values the company—dubbed the “ChatGPT for doctors”—at $12 billion, company officials told CNBC Wednesday (Jan. ...

Healthcare’s digital transformation is no longer defined by whether patients will use virtual tools, but by how well the rest of the system keeps up when the visit ends and ...

Innovation in U.S. healthcare is often narrated as a story of disruption. Think: bold startups, cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and innovative technology. But that narrative, while appealing, obscures a more accurate ...

AI-driven longevity is redefining aging, with longer, healthier lives fueling more spending later in life. The result: inheritance happens later and looks very different.