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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.

The artificial intelligence (AI) race has moved from the laboratory to the clinic, marking a pivotal shift in how the digital economy’s most valuable data — health information — is ...

Anthropic has introduced a series of healthcare-focused integrations for its Claude AI model. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s “Claude for Healthcare” program, announced Sunday (Jan. 11), is a set of tools ...

Health and wellness providers who use Clover devices can now offer their patients CareCredit’s patient financing solution. The offering is enabled by an expanded integration of CareCredit parent company Synchrony with ...

Walmart has launched a digital destination designed to help customers access health and wellness services and products. The new Better Care Services offers access to third-party providers for urgent care and ...

Utah has launched a regulatory pilot program that allows an artificial intelligence (AI) system to renew certain routine prescriptions without a physician actively approving each refill, marking one of the ...

OpenAI has announced a dedicated experience in ChatGPT that is designed to help people understand and manage their health and wellness. The new ChatGPT Health is being made available to a ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quietly become one of the most widely used entry points into the healthcare system. According to OpenAI’s January 2026 report, “AI as a Healthcare Ally,” more ...

America’s major hospital systems are becoming a testing ground for widespread artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. That’s according to a report Monday (Jan. 5) by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which notes ...

Healthcare is not typically filed under “payments innovation.” But across 2025, PYMNTS’ reporting treated the sector less like a purely clinical domain and more like a sprawling, regulated marketplace where the ...

For younger Americans, healthcare spending is becoming less about treating illness and more about managing financial risk at a stage of life when cash flow is thin and costs are ...

Health systems are turning to artificial intelligence as rising complexity and labor pressures demand faster, more reliable decisions. They use AI to predict hospital operations, scale intelligence across networks and personalize ...

When one thinks of fast payments, manufacturing isn’t the first sector to come to mind. It’s the same for simple payments and healthcare; or not meeting their customers’ needs and ...

The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has long centered on the vision of an autonomous diagnostic engine, a machine that sees disease where human eyes fail. Yet, the ...

Watch more: Need to Know: Luma’s Aditya Bansod For all the futuristic rhetoric surrounding healthcare innovation, the reality for most Americans remains largely analog. Appointment reminders still come by phone. Insurance authorizations ...

Software platforms serving education, healthcare and field services are adopting embedded payments at a pace that signals a shift in how these industries want to transact. The new angle in PYMNTS ...

CharmHealth added artificial intelligence-driven automation and integrated payment solutions to its medical billing platform, CharmBillerPro. The additions are part of a complete redesign of the platform, which aims to help medical ...

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 ...