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Healthcare AI Rules Shift Risk From Regulators to Hospitals
August 04, 2026

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...

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Hospitals Follow Banks’ Playbook for Taming Generic AI
July 30, 2026

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,...

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FTC Puts Digital Health’s Growth Playbook on Trial
July 30, 2026

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...

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Healthcare Costs Push Consumer Confidence Down 9 Points
July 30, 2026

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...

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First Fully Robotic Pharmacy Fills a Prescription in Under 60 Seconds
July 14, 2026

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...

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States Move to License AI Doctors as the FDA Steps Back
July 07, 2026

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....

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Synchrony Moves Dental Financing Beyond the Credit Score
June 23, 2026

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...

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Healthcare AI Has Left the Lab. Now Comes the Hard Part.
June 19, 2026

Artificial intelligence in healthcare has evolved past a simple test-and-learn exercise. AI tools are now embedded into clinical scheduling, drug dispensing, patient communications and diagnostic decision-making across the industry, according to an analysis authored by Alaap Shah, a member of the firm and co-chair of...

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Zelis Picks AWS to Automate Healthcare Pricing and Payments
June 18, 2026

Healthcare technology solutions provider Zelis selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider. Zelis is migrating its workloads to AWS and using AWS AI services such as generative AI platform Amazon Bedrock, AI assistant Amazon Quick, agentic engineering tool Kiro and collaborative enterprise...