Ambient artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare starts with a microphone in the exam room. An AI scribe records the conversation between a doctor and a patient, writes a draft note from the audio and hands it to the doctor to review before it enters the...
CVS Health says it wants to divide itself into two independent public companies. The planned separation will create two entities, company announced Wednesday (Nov. 4). The first is CVS Health, a “healthcare solutions company” made up of Aetna, CVS Caremark, CVS Specialty, Oak Street Health and Signify Health....
Vera Health raised $28.5 million in a Series A funding round to expand its artificial intelligence-powered clinical app, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 27) press release. The round brings the company’s total funding to $32 million, according to the release. Vera Health’s app...
CareCredit, a solution from consumer financing company Synchrony, has launched an enhanced and rebranded installment loan product that helps consumers plan and pay for products and elective health and wellness expenses not covered by insurance, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) press release. This CareCredit Pay...
Utah is expanding its artificial intelligence sandbox with three healthcare pilots. At the same time, regulators are developing answers to questions about patient protection, such as who bears liability when an automated system causes harm, what evidence establishes its safety and where state experimentation meets...
Independent medical practices operate like small businesses, but the financial tools available to them rarely account for how healthcare works. Physicians must manage insurance reimbursements, medical supplies and operating expenses across disconnected systems, often while running lean. Treso, a startup building a financial operating system...
Employers know exactly what their health plan costs. What they usually don’t know is what it costs them when an employee needs care and doesn’t get it because a credit check got in the way of the bill. That happens more often than most benefits...
Google has launched a women’s health partnership as it deepens its footprint in the wearable fitness-tracking space. The tech giant on Monday (Oct. 12) announced a collaboration with Flo Health, a platform used by more than 80 million women each month. “This collaboration will help...
Clara Quakenbush, a medical assistant at Hancock Health’s Sue Ann Wortman Cancer Center in Indiana, used to make 10 to 15 trips a day carrying specimens to the hospital lab, according to an October 2025 news release from autonomous delivery company Arrive AI. She spent...