For a patient facing a crown, a new pair of prescription lenses or an unexpected veterinary procedure, the decision to proceed can depend as much on when the bill must be paid as on how much it costs. In healthcare, breaking a large expense into...
Health and wellness providers in the United States that use Stripe will soon be able to offer CareCredit financing as part of their online checkout experience. This capability is enabled by a new integration with Stripe that embeds CareCredit into platforms that providers already use,...
Watch more: TechReg Talks With Douglas Grimm of ArentFox Schiff and Doug McCormack of Acumen Partners The conventional story about healthcare artificial intelligence is that regulation slows innovation. Reduce the regulatory burden, that argument goes, and more startups can enter the market, hospitals can adopt...
A hospital does not need a smarter artificial intelligence model. It needs one that already knows its own rules. That is the bet behind Sheba Medical Center’s new partnership with OpenAI, announced Tuesday (July 28) as the AI lab’s first international hospital deployment. Physicians, nurses,...
Digital health borrowed its growth playbook from consumer technology, landing patients fast and keeping them subscribed. In a legal complaint against Hims & Hers filed Wednesday (July 29), the Federal Trade Commission directly challenged that model. The FTC, joined by Utah and Los Angeles County...
Healthcare costs are squeezing consumer confidence from both ends of the age spectrum. Baby boomers and seniors in the United States face steep routine bills, while Generation Z reports increases in out-of-pocket expenses, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Generations Under Pressure: How Younger Consumers...
One in three U.S. pharmacies has closed between 2010 and 2021, according to UC Berkeley Public Health and USC. Pharmacy schools are graduating between 3,000 and 4,000 fewer pharmacists annually than the industry needs, Drugstore News reported. The closures have concentrated in lower-density markets where...
Utah launched the country’s first artificial intelligence (AI)-powered prescription refill program in January, partnering with startup Doctronic to let an AI chatbot renew certain chronic medications without a physician actively approving each request, PYMNTS reported. Six months later, the pilot has become a national flashpoint....
When a dental patient considers care for a procedure like a new crown or a root canal and can’t pay for it up front, it’s time to check what may be a set of financial contradictions. They may have a steady income, a clean payment...