Healthcare

Healthcare
The Check Is in the Mail and Healthcare Cannot Afford It Much Longer
June 17, 2026

Watch more: Visa Direct With Visa’s Edward Galvin Three out of four healthcare payouts still go out by check. Only 5% to 12% move in real-time, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “The Power of Now: Moving Money at the Speed of Life.” That gap,...

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Nvidia Accelerates Healthcare AI Race With Transcription Model
June 11, 2026

Nvidia and Abridge partnered to develop an artificial intelligence model focused on conversations between doctors and patients, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (June 11). The model will use Nvidia’s Nemotron open models and will be deployed exclusively in Abridge’s app that transcribes conversations between...

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OpenEvidence Brings Hands-Free Medical AI to 860,000 Clinicians
May 21, 2026

A physician’s day is a stack of interruptions: patient calls come in on personal phones, notes get typed after hours, documentation tools sit in one tab and medical references in another. Each handoff between systems costs time that high-volume clinical environments don’t have. OpenEvidence is building to close...

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60% of Healthcare Firms Use AI for Chatbots
May 21, 2026

Healthcare’s artificial intelligence story is not about replacing doctors, nurses or administrators. It’s about trying to relieve the pressure those professionals encounter on a daily basis. That is the clearest healthcare takeaway from “Financial Services Pulls Ahead in the Enterprise AI Race,” a PYMNTS Intelligence...

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Aumet Raises $12 Million for AI-Driven Pharmaceutical Procurement
May 18, 2026

Healthcare procurement startup Aumet raised $12 million in Series A funding as the company looks to expand its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered pharmaceutical supply chain platform across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and other emerging markets. The Saudi-founded company operates a B2B healthcare marketplace and...

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Moderna’s AI Could Accelerate Hantavirus Vaccine Development
May 12, 2026

Drug development has always been a slow business. A single medicine can take 10 to 15 years and cost billions before it reaches a patient. Moderna has fewer than 6,000 employees and plans to create a new product 15 times over in the next five...

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MDEnvoy Channels Jerry Maguire With Agents and AI for Doctors
May 05, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With MDEnvoy’s Dr. Michael Suk Doctors spend years mastering medicine. Nobody teaches them how to negotiate a contract. That gap is where MDEnvoy is making its case. The company is the first to combine artificial intelligence-powered analysis with dedicated human...

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UnitedHealth Spends $1.5 Billion on AI and Wants Double Back
April 21, 2026

UnitedHealth Group is processing 500 million transactions this year through Optum Real, an artificial intelligence-first claims and reimbursement platform. By year end, that number is expected to hit 2.5 billion. That volume already puts Optum Real among the highest-throughput transaction platforms in American healthcare —...

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44% of Healthcare Treasurers Lack Cash Flow Visibility as Payment Friction Persists
April 17, 2026

Payment friction isn’t a single-industry problem—it’s systemic. PYMNTS Intelligence data from “Vertical-First Payments: How Low-Code Wins in Education, Healthcare and Field Services,” produced in collaboration with Finix, reveals that legacy payment infrastructures built on manual processes and disconnected systems remain deeply embedded across high-trust sectors....