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Watch more: Autonomize Says Agentic AI Will Trim $1.5 Trillion Spent on Healthcare Administration in US Healthcare is a complex and fragmented sector that has long been weighed down by legacy ...

Telehealth has cemented itself as a standard delivery channel in U.S. healthcare, especially among young generations. However, while care has gone digital, payment systems largely have not. For providers, this growing ...

Microsoft AI said Monday (June 30) that the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) correctly diagnoses 85% of diagnostically complex cases published by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), compared to ...

China-based Ant Group has reportedly unveiled a new, AI-powered health app for smartphones. As CNBC reported Thursday (June 26), the app was made using artificial intelligence (AI) technology that Ant said ...

As other sectors accelerate into the digital age, the healthcare industry’s lingering reliance on manual payment systems is proving to be a critical bottleneck for its financial health and operational ...

Medical-focused artificial intelligence (AI) startup Abridge has reportedly raised $300 million. The funding values Abridge at $5.3 billion and will help the company develop its tool that uses AI to automate doctors’ note-taking, ...

SandboxAQ has launched a dataset designed to help researchers advance artificial intelligence (AI) models in drug discovery. The SAIR (Structurally Augmented IC50 Repository) is a detailed dataset of protein-ligand pairs with annotated experimental ...

Samsung is reportedly developing a hub for patients to share health data with their doctors. That’s according to a report Monday (June 16) from Bloomberg News, which noted that the project ...

In an era where digital convenience defines end-user expectations, healthcare remains one of the few industries still operating with a payment system that can feel pre-internet. In many industries, friction is ...

The intersection of generative AI and computational medicine is not just a convergence of buzzwords. It signals a paradigm shift in clinical research, and it could be coming in large ...

Amazon reportedly aims to boost its efforts in the healthcare field by simplifying the structure of its health business. The company is reorganizing Amazon Health Services into six units, CNBC reported Friday (June 13), ...

Biotechnology research firm Thermo Fisher Scientific is reportedly looking to sell part of its diagnostics business amid industrywide concerns about federal cutbacks in spending on research. The company’s advisers have been talking with ...

From fast food chains and eCommerce companies to banks and law firms, AI assistants are becoming integral to business operations. Think ChatGPT but for internal company use. The rise of generative ...

Patients often visit the doctor with a headache and leave with a new one. On the one hand, the digital transformation of healthcare is accelerating, with younger generations at the ...

CVS Health reportedly plans to invest $20 billion over the next 10 years to build a “tech-enabled consumer health experience” that will encompass the company, its vertically integrated businesses, and ...

Paytient secured $40 million from Trinity Capital to expand its employer- or health plan-embedded cost-smoothing solutions to new markets. The company aims to expand these solutions — which enable patients to ...

The healthcare industry, long tethered to antiquated manual payment systems, faces mounting pressure to modernize its financial operations or risk falling behind the competition and straining revenue streams. Manual payment methods ...

For fledgling FinTechs chasing their first paying customer, the toughest stretch often begins after the seed check clears. Because building a company is a long journey. From concept to funding and finally ...

Walmart added digital tools on its website and app that are designed to help select customers identify over-the-counter (OTC), food and wellness products that can be purchased with their Medicare ...

Walmart and Amazon are in a convergence war. What’s at stake is not just winning retail dollars but owning the infrastructure of daily living: shopping, healthcare, media and cloud services. Once ...

Dick’s Sporting Goods says that even amidst tariff worries, people want to be active. It’s that mindset that the athletics retailer said helped drive a 4% increase in sales, according to ...

Every day, someone dies from getting the wrong medication or improper dosages of the right one. Now, researchers at the University of Washington (UW) are working on ways to solve this ...

Monarch Money has raised $75 million in a Series B funding round to continue growing its financial wellness platform. The company will use the new capital to add to its team ...

Walmart said Thursday (May 22) that it opened its largest centralized prescription fulfillment facility and plans to add two more. The new Central Fill pharmacy location is in Frederick, Maryland, and ...

Walgreens says it is boosting its investment in robotics with its new Minnesota-based micro-fulfillment center. The center, announced Tuesday (May 20), is based in the town of Brooklyn Park and will ...

Uber reportedly plans to launch a B2B logistics service in India. The company will do so “soon” in partnership with an Indian government-backed nonprofit, the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), ...

Virtual physical therapy company Hinge Health says it is ready to go public. The startup announced Tuesday (May 13) that it is launching its initial public offering (IPO), intending to raise up to $437 million. ...

In the ever-escalating war for talent, employee perks have become strategic weapons. From unlimited PTO to fertility benefits, employers are constantly redefining the modern benefits package to match evolving employee ...

On Tuesday (May 13), we may see what could arguably be the calm before a stormy sea of inflation driven by volatile tariffs. The Consumer Price Index inflation reading from the ...

It is often a heart-stopping moment for patients when they hear their doctor’s prognosis that they have cancer. For late-stage cancers, especially, the question that often arises is, “How long do ...

Lori’s Gifts, one of the nation’s largest operators of hospital gift shops, rolled out fully automated, checkout-free stores as the next step of its expansion into the healthcare retail market. Called ...

Health technology platform Kouper has emerged from stealth after raising $10 million. The company announced the new financing — from investors including General Catalyst, 25Madison and CVS Health Ventures — Thursday (May ...

The promise of payments that clear in seconds rather than days has moved from a bright idea to a strategic imperative for banks of all sizes. Yet as real-time payments rails ...

Much of the white space opportunity in healthcare innovation can be found reshaping how small and mid-sized healthcare practices engage with patients. Healthcare’s front office is often where patient friction ...

UnitedHealth Group is reportedly increasing its use of artificial intelligence across its business. The company has 1,000 AI applications in production, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday (May 5). It uses ...

This week brings fresh news on the digital payments front, with Visa, Mastercard and PayPal unveiling their agentic commerce programs. Their moves represent a significant shift to the payments landscape, ...

Healthcare firms are aggressively increasing their investments in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), viewing it not merely as a technological upgrade but as a strategic imperative poised to deliver significant returns. ...

Connecticut-based healthcare provider Yale New Haven Health System reported a data breach that affected more than 5.5 million patients. The data breach involved a “hacking/IT incident” affecting its network server, according to breach report posted ...

UPS plans to strengthen its global offerings in complex healthcare logistics by acquiring Andlauer Healthcare Group (AHG), a Canada-based supply chain management company focused on solutions for the healthcare sector. UPS ...

Johnson & Johnson reportedly found that 10% to 15% of artificial intelligence use cases deliver 80% of the value. The medicine and MedTech company determined that after encouraging employees to experiment ...

UnitedHealth Group is downgrading its 2025 revenue forecast because of issues with its Medicare business. Speaking during a conference call Thursday (April 17) discussing first-quarter earnings, CEO Andrew Witty said the ...

UnitedHealthcare is reportedly working to overhaul its customer service following the murder of its CEO. When Brian Thompson was shot and killed on the streets of Manhattan last year on his ...

Inefficiency in healthcare is more than just inconvenient. It can often be expensive. Yet in today’s world, where tap-to-pay is routine at coffee shops and digital identities help authenticate purchases in ...

Amazon has reportedly experimented with using its delivery drivers as emergency responders. The tech giant outfitted delivery vans in Europe with defibrillators to see whether those drivers could provide faster aid to ...

Two major health care providers — Highmark Health and Hackensack Meridian Health — are betting big on the technology to transform care delivery, reduce burnout and reimagine patient experiences. During a ...