Ambient AI might be healthcare’s first measurable wave of artificial intelligence productivity. Rather than replacing clinicians, ambient AI systems passively listen to patient encounters and automatically generate structured notes inside the electronic health record. By targeting one of medicine’s most persistent operational burdens, administrative overload,...
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 platform Alipay as well as lending, wealth management and insurance technology, sees AI-powered healthcare...
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 PYMNTS Intelligence report “Clicks, Care & Copays—How Each Generation Navigates Digital Healthcare” described as...
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, Care & Copays—How Each Generation Navigates Digital Healthcare” found a widening expectations gap across...
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 getting prescriptions, is raising $100 million in a funding round, according to the report,...
Johnson & Johnson’s MedTech segment saw its worldwide operational sales grow 5.4% year over year in 2025, reaching about $33.8 billion, the company said in a Wednesday (Jan. 21) earnings release. The segment slightly outpaced the healthcare solution provider’s other segment, Innovative Medicine, whose worldwide...
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. 21). OpenEvidence, founded in 2022, offers a chatbot for doctors, with AI models trained...
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 the bill arrives. That was the central tension running through PYMNTS Intelligence’s June Generational Pulse...
Healthcare procurement is dull by design. Buy what’s needed, stock a little extra, pay the bills later, repeat. Cost control meant negotiating harder with suppliers, not rethinking the system itself. It isn’t glamorous, but it works and was designed for continuity. After all, if supplies...